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From Budapest to Tarnów: a Hungarian road to General Bem's town, the salt cathedral of Wieliczka and the Tatra, priced in zloty
In Budapest, a statue of a general on a plinth stands at the Buda end of the Margaret Bridge, in a square that bears his name: Józef Bem, born in 1794 in the Polish town of Tarnów, commander of the Hungarian revolutionary army in Transylvania in 1848 and 1849. Hungarians call him Bem apó, Father Bem, and the shared admiration has a monument in each of the two countries: Tarnów has a monument to him and memorial plaques, and groups from Hungary come to lay wreaths in his birthplace. For a Hungarian visitor, Tarnów is the first stop on a trip across the Tatra to southern Poland, where there is much else to see: the royal city of Kraków, the underground chapels of the Wieliczka salt mine, the wooden mountain villages of Zakopane and the beaches of the Baltic far to the north. As soon as the border has been crossed, one question comes up: how many Polish zloty does a forint buy? This page answers it. Use it to Convert HUF to PLN with the daily reference rates published by the European Central Bank, in which the forint and the zloty are quoted against the euro; the page combines them into a forint-zloty figure and prints its date under the result. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
A day in the old town with a castle ticket, a museum and two meals is easy to plan if you Convert HUF to PLN for each item.
Using the converter
Forints go in, zloty come out
Before the first fuel stop in Poland, Convert HUF to PLN for the amount you plan to spend and keep the figure in a note.
How it works takes one sentence: you give the page a sum in forints, and it gives back the sum in Polish zloty, plus the date of the fixing it used. Since a zloty is worth many tens of forints, the result is far smaller than the number you entered, and it is rounded to the grosz. Weekends and public holidays have no fixing of their own, so the previous working day is shown and labelled. A short table of round sums sits under the box, next to a line that traces the last month. In the opposite direction, from zloty to forints, the tool is Convert PLN to HUF.
What the figure means
Think of the published number as the fair middle of the market on a working day, with no bank's slice on top. Whatever you are quoted at a counter or in an app will be a little worse, and that shortfall, expressed in per cent, is the price of the service. A gap below one per cent is very good, two or three per cent is what banks usually charge, and anything above four is worth questioning. Use every Convert HUF to PLN here as your yardstick. Further down, merely to keep sums tidy, a made-up rate of eighty forints per zloty appears; it is no forecast and not today's price, so swap in the number from the calculator.
Day one: across the mountains to Tarnów
The road north
Tolls, vignettes and fuel change from country to country, so Convert HUF to PLN for the Polish part and add the Slovak part in euros.
From Budapest to Tarnów is about 460 kilometres, six to seven hours, via the motorway to Miskolc and Košice, then across the Slovak Tatra foothills to the Polish border at Muszyna. Both countries and Slovakia are in the Schengen area, so there are no border posts, but remember the Slovak motorway vignette. Distances are marked in kilometres, and Convert km to mi turns them into miles for drivers from other countries. Fuel is sold by the litre, and Convert L to gal relates litres to gallons.
Tarnów and General Bem
Tarnów has one of the most attractive market squares in Poland: a Renaissance town hall with an arcade, colourful townhouses and a cathedral with the tombs of the Tarnowski and Ostrogski families. A monument to Bem and a memorial plaque recall him in the old town, and visiting them is free. The town's Regional Museum has a collection of Roma culture, which is unique in Poland. A coffee on the square costs 9 to 14 zloty, a plate of pierogi 22 to 32. Convert HUF to PLN for each item, and you will find that dining here is cheaper than in Budapest.
The Hungarian trail
Visitors can follow a short trail of plaques and memorials that recall the Polish and Hungarian struggles of 1848, asking the information office for the current map. The tourist information office in the town hall hands out maps in Hungarian and offers guided walks for 100 to 200 zloty per group. Try to coordinate your visit with the commemorations in November, the month of Bem's birth, when ceremonies are held.
Day two: Kraków
The royal city
Kraków, the capital of Poland until the end of the sixteenth century, has the largest medieval market square in Europe, the Cloth Hall with its stalls of amber and woodcraft, St Mary's Church with its two unequal towers and its trumpeter who plays every hour, and the Wawel Hill with its castle and cathedral. A ticket to the castle's state rooms costs 35 to 50 zloty, the cathedral and its bell 25 to 30. Hungarians feel at home here: Queen Jadwiga, crowned in the cathedral in 1384, was the daughter of a Hungarian king. The city is a short walk from end to end, with trams and buses for longer trips, and a day pass costs about 17 zloty.
The Jewish quarter and Schindler's factory
The district of Kazimierz, once a separate town with a Jewish community, has synagogues, cemeteries, cafés and galleries, and the former factory of Oskar Schindler, now a museum on the occupation of Kraków. Entrance to the museum is 35 to 45 zloty. The area is lively in the evenings, with restaurants serving Polish and Jewish dishes. A lunch of the day costs 25 to 40 zloty.
What to eat
A plate of pierogi and a beer look cheap, but Convert HUF to PLN for the whole dinner before you decide where to stay.
Try pierogi, the Polish dumplings; żurek, a sour rye soup; obwarzanek, a ring-shaped bread sold from carts; and zapiekanka, a long toasted baguette with mushrooms and cheese, in the Plac Nowy market. A main course costs 40 to 65 zloty, a beer 12 to 18. Hungarian visitors often compare the Polish cuisine to their own and find similarities in soups, cabbage and sausage, though less paprika.
Day three: Wieliczka and Zakopane
The salt cathedral
The underground tour is a big item for a family, so Convert HUF to PLN for four tickets and add the transport.
Ten kilometres from Kraków, the Wieliczka Salt Mine has been worked since the Middle Ages and lies on the first UNESCO World Heritage list, compiled in 1978. A tourist route descends 135 metres underground through chambers carved from rock salt, with sculptures, chandeliers made of salt crystals and a chapel dedicated to Saint Kinga, decorated with reliefs carved by miners. The tour takes about two hours and costs 100 to 130 zloty for adults. Take a jacket, because the temperature stays around 14 degrees all year. Convert °C to °F gives Fahrenheit.
The Tatra and Zakopane
Cable cars are priced per person, so Convert HUF to PLN for a group of four and compare with hiking up.
From Kraków, Zakopane is two hours south by road or bus. The town is the centre of the Polish Tatra, with timber architecture in the Podhale style, a main street of shops and restaurants and a funicular to Gubałówka. Cable cars go to Kasprowy Wierch at 1,987 metres, return ticket 90 to 120 zloty. Convert m to ft converts this height to feet. The local cheese, oscypek, smoked sheep's milk cheese, is sold at stalls for 8 to 15 zloty each. A hike to Morskie Oko, a mountain lake, takes about two hours each way on a wide path.
Weather and gear
The Tatra weather changes quickly, with snow possible even in early summer. Wear sturdy boots, carry a waterproof layer and check forecasts. Poland and Hungary share the same time zone. If you plan to continue to Romania, Convert CET to EET shows the one-hour gap with Eastern European Time.
Further north: Gdańsk, Sopot and the Baltic for a Hungarian summer
Gdańsk, the amber city
A piece of amber is a lasting souvenir, but Convert HUF to PLN and compare shops before you buy.
For a Hungarian family that has seen the Tatra, the next dream is the sea, and the Polish Baltic is the closest. Gdańsk, a Hanseatic port rebuilt after the war, has a Main Town with tall gabled houses, the Neptune Fountain, the Long Market and the famous crane over the Motława river. The European Solidarity Centre, in the former shipyard where the Solidarity movement began in 1980, tells the story that led to the fall of communism in Poland, and a ticket costs about 30 zloty. Amber, the fossil resin of the Baltic, is sold in countless shops, and a pendant costs from 50 zloty to several hundred. Convert HUF to PLN for the museum and a piece of amber, and the sum shows how small a Baltic holiday souvenir can be.
Sopot and the long pier
Sopot, a few kilometres up the coast, is a seaside resort with a wooden pier that stretches 511 metres into the water, the longest of its kind in Europe. A walk along it costs a few zloty in high season. The beach is broad and sandy, and the main street, Monte Cassino, is lined with cafés and restaurants. A day on the beach with a chair and an umbrella costs about 30 to 50 zloty, an ice cream 8 to 12. The water is cool, around 18 to 20 degrees in July.
The Hel Peninsula
North of Gdańsk, the Hel Peninsula is a thin strip of sand dunes and pine woods 35 kilometres long, with the sea on both sides. Cycling paths run along it, and fishermen's villages such as Jastarnia and Jurata have small guesthouses. At the tip, the Fokarium shelters grey seals and can be visited for a few zloty. In summer, ferries from Gdańsk and Gdynia bring day trippers. A room in a guesthouse in the season costs 250 to 450 zloty.
How to get there
Gdańsk is about 1,000 kilometres from Budapest by road, a day's drive, or you can fly via Warsaw or take a direct low-cost flight from Budapest in the summer season. A train from Kraków takes about six hours. If you drive, plan an overnight stay in Kraków or Warsaw. Flights run about two hours.
Poland and Hungary at the table
Soups, dumplings and cakes
Hungarians and Poles share a taste for hearty food. Polish barszcz, a clear beetroot soup, is served with small dumplings; żurek is a sour rye soup with sausage and egg; bigos is a stew of cabbage and meats. Dumplings, pierogi, come filled with cheese and potato, meat, cabbage and mushrooms, or sweet fruit. For dessert there are cheesecake, apple pie and poppy-seed cake. Prices in a typical restaurant are 22 to 35 zloty for soup, 35 to 65 for a main dish and 15 to 25 for a dessert. Convert HUF to PLN for a three-course dinner, and note that it costs about the same as a Hungarian meal of similar quality.
Milk bars and cheap lunches
A canteen meal is the cheapest in Poland, so Convert HUF to PLN for a week of lunches and see how much you save.
A leftover from the communist era, the bar mleczny, or milk bar, is a state-subsidised canteen that serves simple Polish dishes at low prices: a plate of pierogi for 15 to 22 zloty, a bowl of soup for 7 to 12, a cutlet with potatoes and salad for 20 to 30. They have survived in many cities and are popular with students and pensioners. Queues at lunchtime are normal. Pay at the till, take the receipt to the counter and collect your meal. Cash is preferred in some.
Drinks
Poland has a vodka tradition, with flavoured varieties such as żubrówka, flavoured with bison grass, and a growing wine and craft beer scene. A shot in a bar costs 8 to 15 zloty, a glass of beer 10 to 16, a coffee 10 to 15. Tea is served in a glass. Hungarians who like pálinka will find Polish fruit spirits with similar character. Remember that the law forbids driving after drinking, with a very low limit.
Language and manners
A few words in Polish
Polish and Hungarian are not related, and Polish is a Slavic language, but a few words help: "dzień dobry" is good day, "dziękuję" is thank you, "proszę" is please, "przepraszam" is excuse me, "ile to kosztuje" is how much is it. Many young people speak English, and in tourist places signs are bilingual. Poles are warm towards Hungarians and often mention the proverb about the two brothers.
Customs and tipping
When invited to a home, bring flowers, in an odd number and not red roses for a first visit, or a box of chocolates. Take off your shoes at the door if asked. In restaurants, a tip of ten per cent is usual if service was good. In taxis, round up. Public transport tickets are validated on boarding.
Money in Poland
The zloty in brief
Poland is a member of the European Union but has not adopted the euro, and the zloty, divided into 100 groszy, is its currency. Notes are issued in denominations from 10 to 500 zloty, with portraits of Polish rulers. Cards are accepted nearly everywhere, even for small sums, and contactless payment is common. Cash is needed for a few markets and rural stalls. Decline the offer to be charged in forints at a terminal, because the rate offered is worse than your bank's.
A budget for three days
Add a reserve of ten per cent, then Convert HUF to PLN for the total and keep that figure as the limit of the trip.
Two people can manage three days on the route in southern Poland for about 1,800 to 3,000 zloty, including fuel from the border, two nights in guesthouses, meals, entries and a cable-car ride. At the invented rate of 80 forints to the zloty, that is 144,000 to 240,000 forints. Convert HUF to PLN with the real rate before planning, and add a reserve of ten per cent.
Other forint conversions
If your trip continues
Travellers who go on to the Czech Republic can use Convert HUF to CZK, those heading to the euro area Convert HUF to EUR, and those continuing to Sweden by ferry Convert HUF to SEK.
A habit worth keeping
Write down the rate and date at each exchange, and compare them later with your statement. It takes seconds.
Mistakes to avoid
Skipping the Slovak vignette
Driving on Slovak motorways without an electronic vignette brings fines. Buy it online before you start.
Planning mountains in a day
The Tatra need time and good weather. Keep a spare day in the plan.
Using an old rate
A rate from last month can be wrong by several per cent. The date shown beside the result protects you each time you Convert HUF to PLN.
In short
The only thing fetched from the network is the table of daily rates, while your amount stays in the browser and no account is needed. From the statue at Margaret Bridge to the salt chamber at Wieliczka, the routine is the same: Convert HUF to PLN, read the date and compare every offer with the number on this page.