Most of the popular Hungarian resorts focuses around Lake Balaton. A special place among them is noisy and musical sliofok. This resort town is located on the south side of the lake. Crowds of tourists in Siofok attract well-developed beach entertainment, numerous festivals and a unique musical atmosphere. Thanks to the sandy shore and a small, quickly warming up here, family tourists and young people are enjoying their summer vacation. Rest at this resort, if desired, can pass quite fun and trigger or calmly and romantic. For both options in Siofok, there are suitable conditions: restaurants-gardens, cozy green parks, the best in the region around the clock entertainment complexes and a sixteen-thousandthsome beach bar with a full range of everything necessary for outdoor activities. But without exception, resting dayrs can use some more useful information about this resort.
Communication
With communication in Siofok, tourists rarely arise problems. Despite the fact that the official language of the country is Hungarian, at this resort from all sides, then it is possible to hear German, English and even Russian speech. Local youth speaks well in English, but the older generation understands well and is explicitly explicitly in Russian.
Personnel in hotels, restaurants and museums are obligatory owns one of the foreign languages - German or English. With special attention in the local cafes, tourists are served who making an order, in Hungarian thank the waiter. This is due to the fact that the Hungarian language is considered incredibly complex and incomprehensible to foreign travelers. And few people manage to learn even the banal words of greetings and gratitude.
Summer weather
Since Siofok is considered an ideal beach resort, then come here it is best to come here in the summer. The bathing season in this southern town of Lake Balaton usually starts from mid-June and lasts until September. The peak of the summer season falls on July-August. In addition, it is crowded in Siofok at the time of festivals and musical concerts.
Summer days in the unlawful capital of the Balaton region most often please tourists with sunny and warm weather. The air temperature rarely rises above + 27⁰c, but even when it happens, the heat is easily transferred due to the proximity of the water and a large number of greenery planted throughout the city. In summer, water on the beaches of Siofok quickly warms up to + 26⁰c.
Money
Officially pay for purchases and services in Siofok can be exclusively Hungarian Forints. In reality, dollars and euros are in reality on the market, gas stations and some stores of the resort. Here, only the course in which tourists recalculate the cost of the service will be very unprofitable. Given this during the rest in Siofok, it is better to have a couple of spare Hungarian bills in a wallet. After all, with the exchange of currency in the city it is very good. Dollars, Euro and Russian rubles to exchange are accepted in all banks of the city.
- On the Square of Freedom, there is a branch of Budapest Bank, working on weekdays from 8:00 to 18:00. Here in the house number 10 you can find the branch of the bank. Another couple of Erste Bank branches tourists will easily discover during the walk through the city. Basically, they all on Saturdays and Sundays do not work. These days, you can take advantage of street ATMs that work around the clock. Most of all in Siofok is represented by AMSTE Bank ATMs and OTP Bank. You can find them on the bus station, the city market, on Street Laslo and Freedom Square.
As for credit cards, they are accepted in restaurants, hotels and large stores of Siofok. In small grocery bears for paying purchases will be needed. In principle, you can learn about the possibility of paying the card yet at the entrance to the store. Usually there are stickers on the doors, which says which cards are taken here. Master is MasterCard and Visa.
- In Siofok, as well as, in other resorts of Hungary, in stores and shopping centers, bargaining in the purchase of purchases is inappropriate. But talking on the spa product market, you can safely bargain and, thus save up to 15-20% of the purchase price.
- During the rest in Siofok, tourists will have a little spend on tip. They are taken to give guides at this resort, hospitals, doctors, petrol station staff and waiters. Typically, the size of the tip is 10% of the lunch / dinner account or a small amount as a gratitude.
Internet and communications
The easiest and cheap way to contact Skype is Skype. It is enough to have the necessary program on your gadget (telephone or laptop) and to be at the venue of free online connections. By the way, the free Wi-Fi zone is available in almost all cafes of the resort, as well as in hotels, hotels and shopping complexes.
As for telephone communication with the house, the stationary call to Russia will cost tourists in 80 forints per minute of conversation. Make an international call will work out from a street payphone. Most often they work on cards sold in tobacco kiosks and post offices. The minimum phone card nominal is 500 forints.
In Siofok, you can purchase a tourist SIM card. Its cost together with the connection will be about 2300 forints. You can buy sim card in the travel agency of the city, which works on the area of freedom in the water tower. A minute of the outgoing call will cost 70-74 forint.
Safety
Resting in Siofok is relatively safe. The crime rate at this resort is low. The most frequent crimes related to theft of personal property and fraud in relation to tourists. Cases of theft usually happen in restaurants, nightclubs and during festivals and concerts.
During evening walks, there is a fear of people in a state of alcoholic intoxication and scammers in the form of policemen. According to the Hungarian laws of guarangus, the order may ask for tourists to prevent documents. In such a situation, travelers have the right to demand from the police to begin to show their certificates. If they refuse, then, most likely these are fraudsters who decided to earn on the embezzlement of passports. So tourists with themselves are better to have copies of documents and show vigilance even towards people in shape.