• Banking at Sziget
• Payment with Card
• Exchanging cash
• Lockers
• Lockers for valuables
• Health Care Services
• Public Transport
• Parking
• Bicycle Lockers
• Rent a Bike!
• Ship Service
• Buses
• Taxi
• Rickshaw Service
• Meeting Point
• Accomodation
• Services for Visitors living with Disabilities
• Services at the Ability Park
• Laundry Service
• annyiavilag.hu Internet Tent
• Sleeper Motel
• City Centre
• Inner Cashier
• Information
• Public Relations Office
• Telepoint
• Marriage tent
• Playhouse
• Art Tent
• Post Office
• Lost and Found
• Learn Hungarian!
• Tourinform
• Green Infopoint
• Donate Blood
• Bloodsugar Test
• Offers
• Dog Pensions
• Szigetfone
• Sziget card
• Optics
   

BANKING AT SZIGET

K&H, Sziget's Bank
K&H Bank has its own Sziget-based office where customers may use their services between 10 am and 6 pm, whereas ATM machines are available twenty-four hours a day at ten various locations of Sziget. Major services offered by K&H Bank office include exchanging money, opening an account and giving advice concerning various financial products. (The bank opens on 9th August at 12 pm.)

PAYING BY CARD

You may pay for your ticket by your bank/creditcard at any box office at the entrance.

EXCHANGING CASH

Good Change money exchange machines change money at the best rates at Sziget, the service is available twenty-four hours a day! (You can find these exchangers at the folloeing locations: at the entrance of Sziget, in the City Center, at the Boathouse, by the World Music Stage and between the CityCenter and World Music Stage.) 
Opening time: from 4 pm 6th August until 9 am 16th August.

LOCKERS

Attention! Free of charge and compulsory!
Your backpack and all other belongings can only be safe in the lockers offered by Sziget which are indicated on the maps (at the corner of the road leading to the Harbour, by the Health Care Center, at the corner of the Boathouse, in the northern area of Sziget, by Caravan Camping and in the City Center). Please do not leave anything in your tent!

In case something belonging to you got stolen, you should inform the police, located at the Boathouse, about it. Should you lose something, you can ask about it at the Information, or call the line of „lost and found objects” twenty-four hours a day, or until 15th September from 10 am to 6 pm on weekdays: +36-20-425-6066.

LOCKERS FOR VALUABLES

If you have a really important possession, you can keep it safe at the lockers for valuables, located at the Boathouse and the City Center. You should limit the usage of these lockers to your smaller, more valuable possessions!

HEALTH CARE SERVICES

You can find 3 health care service checkpoints at the site of the festival. (On the way to the Harbour, at the Main Stage, at the Northern Camping). The Main health care center is located at the corner of the road leading to the Harbour, with doctors and nurses offering proper medical care, whereas at the two smaller first aid-venues skillful nurses are available to help you.

Health care patrols are monitoring the venue of the festival continously, so you may ask for their help any time. They help you reach the health care center if needed, or they tell doctors or the ambulance to come and see you. If you do not find a health care patrol, then the members of the security crew or the workers at the information checkpoints can also help you get to the proper place where you can be taken care of. The important thing is NOT to dial 104 (the ambulance), if you need a specific medicine, you can obtain it at the pharmacy right by the Main health care center. In case you have a mental problem, feel sad or unhappy, or just need somebody to talk to, our experts are ready to listen to your problems at the SoulAmbulance. Should you have any drug-related questions, the Prevention tent provides you with proper answers.

We would like to remind you to take care of your own and also of other people's physical well-being! Do not drink too much alcohol, or drugs! Do not stay exposed to direct sunlight for too long! If the heat is on, drink plenty of water, use sun lotion and wear a hat!

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

From Batthyány tér by local railway (HÉV) go to the stop Filatorigát, and then it takes a 5 minute walk to get to Sziget.

PARKING

Since the Festival is not surrounded by an area where you may park your car, we would like to ask everybody to rely solely on the public transport (or your bike). The organizing group behind Sziget is making an effort to keep the prices of boat- and bustickets, and taxi transfers low in order to encourage you not to use your car. Cars parking in no-parking areas will be taken care of by the police! Valuables left in the car cannot be protected!

BICYCLE LOCKERS

You may approach Sziget by bike, you must place your bicyle at the lockers at the entrance where we take care of it for free until you go home! At the free locker (the usual place at the tennis court by Caravan Camping), our experts may even help with small repairs and maintanance if really needed and you kindly ask for it. Our partner in co-opertation with us is the Hungarian Bicycle Club.

RENT A BIKE!

Look for orange bikes at the entrance of Sziget! The official rent-a-bike venue of Sziget is: bike@budapestbike.hu (www.budapestbike.hu)

SHIP SERVICE: RADIO 1

Boat service on weekdays:
Day minus 1, on Monday, from 4 pm to 12 am
Day 0., on Tuesday, from 2 pm to 12 am
On Wednesday and Thursday from 2 pm to 2.30 am
On the weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) from 12 pm to 2.30 am.
on the Pest-side:
- Jászai Mari tér (north from Margit Bridge 3., pier number 8), and
- Vigadó tér, at pier 3/a (between SPOON and Columbus ships), moreover:
on the Buda-side:
- between Batthyány tér and Sziget and back, continously.
Tickets are available for 600 HUF.

BUSES

Every evening from 11:30 pm to 5 am, continously. Tickets available for 450 HUF.
Route:
From Sziget to Árpád Bridge Buda bridgehead – Nyugati Railway Station – Oktogon – Madách tér to the final station at  Móricz Zsigmond roundabout.

TAXI

Similarly to the previous years, this year you may use taxis for special-offer transfer-prices. Contact the dispatcher service at the parking lot! Should you have any questions or remarks, please get in touch with the dispatcher or call the central number day and night: +36-1- 2-111-111.

RICKSHAW SERVICE

You may get to Sziget and get home by rickshaw, if you like. It is an environment-friendly, romantic way of getting to the venue or getting home, offered by Triáker Riksa (www.riksa.hu). It's plenty of fun for sure. You may find the rickshaw-station at the entrance on the way to the local railway station (HÉV). Central numbers to order a rickshaw: +36-30- 643-2476 and +36-30-394-0285.

MEETING POINT

…so that there would be a fixed area... 
In front of the main entrance at the free area and at Sziget right next to the Information center. 

ACCOMODATION

Click Hotels on the menu for details.

SERVIVES FOR VISITORS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES

Obstacle-free toilets, shower rooms are available at more locations of Sziget, indicated on the map. In front of the Main Stage, you may find a podium only available for our handicapped visitors. Our visitors living with disabilities who have a valid daily- or weekly ticket, may use  a special bus free of charge with skillful and well-equipped helpers from 1 pm to 12 am, with the help of Veled-Érted Association. The bus from Batthyány tér leaves in every two hours from 1 pm, and stops at Flórián tér (where you may park for free). The other way round the first bus leaves at 2 pm. The last bus from Sziget leaves at 12 am. You can get more information about buses at the following number: +36-20-982-4076.
If needed and asked for in advance (tel.: +36-1-240-7968), one wheelchair is also available at the venue for those who need it. More information: +36-1-372-0650.
There are plenty of services of public utility at one place, so that it's easier for you to get ahead!

SERVICES AT THE ABILITY PARK:

- obstacle-free toilets and restrooms;
- repair and renting of wheel chairs from 12 pm to 8 pm;
- moreover, if needed and urgent, guide service for the blind and partially-sighted is available, too. The service is available 24 hours a day, but in order to make sure they can help you, you must call them 24 hours before you need the service, at the following number: +36 20 403 9917

LAUNDRY SERVICE

When camping for a week, your clothes may need to be cleaned and washed. We are offering you help with this – you can hand in your laundry at the Information center, and you can pick up your clean clothes there, too. Sziget-visitors' clothes are washed by Liliom Textilápoló Szalon at Info. At two other venues (not at Sziget though) you may even so your own laundry by using their laundromat-system. Get more information at: www.liliomszalon.hu and www.laundry.hu.

Annyiavilag.hu INTERNET-TENT

Annyiavilag.hu internet-tent may be used free of charge by visitors of Sziget festival. The internet-tent is open from 11 am to 2 am, and the maximum time you may use the service is 20 minutes.
• Guests under the influence of alcohol or drugs may not enter the tent and use the computers, and visitors abusing the rules of the festival may be asked to leave the tent.
• Visitors are required to use the computer and its accessoires properly, if they happen to harm these equipments, they will have to pay for the expenses caused by the damage.
• It is strictly forbidden to disturb other guests in the internet-tent.
• Eating, drinking and smoking in the internet-tent is forbidden.
• Services by annyiavilag.hu internet-tent can only be used if the above-described guidelines are fully accepted and rules are not violated.

MÁV-START SLEEPER MOTEL

Are you fed up with sleeping in a tent, being surrounded by annoying mosquitos and all the dust? Feel like you would give anything for a civilized, climatized sleeping place and a night of sleep? Come to us, and we will give you a great place to sleep at! Register at the territory of Caravan at the MÁV-stand and win a night at the MÁV-START sleeper Motel! Find out if you happened to win at 7.30 pm every day. The winner can check in at 8 pm and may stay until 10 am! Register, so that you can wake up with us!

Police Headquarters of Budapest
You may get your official stuff done at the CopLand (lost ID, passport, helping victims, consule cases etc.). You can even get a glimpse of the way Budapest cops are doing their job  and trying to prevent crime. You can trust us at Sziget, too! Phone: 107, 112, +36-1-443-5278

CITY CENTER

Plenty of services of public utility, so that it's easier for you to get your stuff done.

INNER CASHIER

Open non-stop. You may purchase your daily ticket here if you like.

INFORMATION

This is where you can find out everything you want to know. This is where you can get rid of your laundry and pick up your clean clothes later!

PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE

Should you have a problem, this is where they try to solve it. If you happen to have a really good idea, this is where you can share it with us! If you have any notions worth sharing, or have encountered some sort of an atrocity, come and tell the crew behind the organizing office about it!

TELEPOINT

phoneservices in the city center

Maintenance and place to buy credit for your phone!

• Buy credit for your mobile phone – Hungarian providers only!
• Charge your phone's accumulator – without having to stand there and watch
• Maintenance for mobile phones, saving data, advice
• Roaming cards to purchase
• T-Com call-cards for sale
• Instant SIM package – get yourself a Hungarian provider's SIM-card and the phone itself
• SIM cards
• Phones, accessoires for sale

Moreover, you can buy credit for your phone at the following venues:
- at the central Info,
- at the K-bridge Info.

Charging your accumulators
- at the Infopoints, with your own charger, without guarding

Now you may purchase designer, high-tech lamps for a special price (Solar, Camping, headlamps) and chargers which help you have your phone, MP3 player and other digital equipment charged faster than you would have imagined. Of course, you may also choose from a wide range of specially long-lasting batteries and accumulators.  

VIASAT3 Marriage tent

Not a minute younger than Sziget itself, still more popular than ever. The institute is old, we have gotten used to it and have grown to like it, too. The way it's being introduced this year is a bit new, though: VIASAT3 makes this most important day of your Sziget-experience truly memorable. Find your loved one, get married and we have some surprise for you in the Marriage tent and on VIASAT3, too!

PLAYHOUSE

You can kill time with giant wooden logical- and boardgames if you have nothing else to do... or simply want to test yourself and have fun.

M&M ART TENT

This is the tent where you can learn how to create cyanotypes and argentotypes, which are beautiful, old and rare photographical tricks. You may use your own photos or our negatives, and you can keep the photos in the end. You can also create monotypes, which is a special graphic method. We will help you with the print of your freshly created artwork, and after having it framed, you can bring it home. In this tent, you may even try pottery, make statues. And try other areas of art and handcraft with the herlp of the Master's students. We encourage you bring your artwork home the day you have created them, so that they would not be damaged or broken.

Come and join us, this is where you can create real art in the morning!

POST OFFICE

Hungarian Post Ltd. is having an office available for Sziget-visitors at the festival site this year, similarly to previous years. These are the services that will help you feel even more comfortable at Sziget:
exclusive stamps, envelopes, phone cards, mobile phone credit, viewcards, games are available
you can send viewcards and letters if you want
you can get special stamps just for this occasion
personal stamp-photos at the venue, give your orders here.

LOST AND FOUND OBJECTS

If you happen to find something, please hand it in at the Info, and ask about your lost object's whereabouts at the same place. If you have lost something, don't forget to ask about it and pick it up! Get more information about lost and found objects at: +36-20-425-6066. Throughout the festival, the line is avalailable day and night, afterwards until 15th September, call between 10 am and 6 pm.

LEARN HUNGARIAN!

Every day from 10 am to 10 pm, the crew of Balassi Bálint Institute help foreigners learn Hungarian. The main purpose is not to confuse 1 beer for 10 beers, or not to let go of something solely because you have no clue how to refer to it in Hungarian, or not to let love pass you by simply because you don't know how to say „I love you” in Hungarian. So,basically yiu get to learn the most important, most useful, funny words, there are no exams... just fun... 

TOURINFORM

All Sziget-visitors are welcome to visit the TOURINFORM KIOSK provided by BTH Budapest Tourism Office Nonprofit Ltd. and the Central Duna-area Regional Marketing Office of  Hungarian Tourism Ltd. You are welcome to visit the kiosk every day from 12 pm to 8 pm, where skillful informators will provide you with plenty of useful and interesting information in foreign languages. Come if you are interested in some sightseeing in Budapest and would love to explore the region's most exciting places. 

GREEN INFOPOINT

At the GreenArea InfoPoint you can get more information about the ZÖLDÖVEZET® (GreenArea) Environmental Program: their events give you a glimpse of environmental issues and programs associated with Sziget. This is where you can take part in trash-exchange actions and other games, or meet young people interested in green issues. Moreover, this is where you can get a disposable trash sack for your tent. Open from 11 am to 11 pm.

DONATE BLOOD

Donate blood and save three lives!
Hungarian Red Cross is happy to welcome anyone wanting to help at the blood transfusion camp, in front of the Boathouse! On day zero from 3 pm to 8 pm, on all other days from 11 am to 7 pm. Bring your ID, TAJ- or EU health insurance card, or any other insurance ID! On the day of blood donation – before giving blood – do not drink any alcohol (afterwards you can drink if you want to). Don't be hungry and drink plenty of alcohol-free liquid!  

BLOODSUGAR-TEST

Free bloodsugar-testing and advice at the kiosk of One Drop of Attention Foundation, opposite the Adventure-castle. On 13th August from 2 pm to 6 pm, on 14th from 2 pm to 7 pm, on 15th from 2 pm to 7 pm. Give one drop of attention to your health!

OFFERS FOR SZIGET FESTIVAL VISITORS WITH WRISTBAND

HISTORICAL THERMAL BATHS OF BUDAPEST - 15% DISCOUNT FOR VALID SZIGET TICKET (WRISTBAND) OWNERS!

Feasted the night away, your legs and head are aching… It sounds familiar, isn’t it?
Refresh yourself in historical thermal Bath of Budapest, where unique environment and medical hot thermal water awaits you in order to help you get on your feet back for the night again.

Good to know about the thermal baths:

• The medical water of Széchenyi and Rudas Baths are considered as appetite improver and aphrodisiac. Pool of Zoo is filled for example with medical thermal water of Széchenyi Bath, and hippos of Budapest are famous worldwide for their reproductiveness and long lifetime.
• Male visitors of Gellért Bath can experience what is it feels like to take rest in pool covered with legendary Zsolnay porcelain since during the latest reconstruction the male thermal part received cover made of Zsolnay porcelain completely. Female visitors are recompensed by the healing medical water itself since it is being used as ingredient by many cosmetic companies.
• The place is a popular scene of both the national and international ads and movies (E.g. Danone ad, and the movie starring Eddie Murphy: I spy were shot here).
• In Lukács Bath it is recommended to behave yourself! Innuendo this spa is a popular meeting place for intellectuals and representatives of the politics and artistdom.
• It is also interesting about Rudas Bath that none of the regular visitors in the last decades are known as labouring under cancer.

For more details on history of baths and spas, content of medical waters and their healing health-giving effects, drinking water cures and pleasure providing treatments you may read here.

Discount may not be used with others (e.g.. Budapest card, Hungary Card etc.).

HUGE GREEN CITY BEACHES IN THE MIDDLE OF A METROPOLIS

Extraordinary discounts are available for Sziget ticket owners at two close-by baths! The ticket costs only 1500 HUF (~5€) at Dagály and Római Strandfürdő baths with valid Sziget tickets (wristbands)!

Some baths have medical water pools that not only helps you to relax and sun-bath but also to regenerate.

You may find further information about (how to get there, contact, open hours, and services) here.

Discount ticket price 1500 HUF is only valid for Dagály and Római Strandfürdő baths. At other baths, spas there are a 15% discount available.

A MUSEUM ADDICT? WE HELP YOU!

Till the end of August, you can enter thosens of museums half price with your undamaged Sziget wristband.

HAVE FUN IN THE THEME PARK

Had enough of Sziget but still looking for more fun? This year you get a 20 percent discount for Budapest Amusement Park if your wristband is unscathed!

Dog  Pensions

Airport Kutya & Cica Panzió
Address: Budapest XVII. dstrc, Felsőabád str., (10 minutes from the Ferihegy 1 airport)
Telephone: +36-20/360-57-57
Open: 10-20 h
Vaccine book (valid rabies vaccination and intestinal worm checks) is required
Spoken language: angol

Berty Kutyapanzió
Address: 1214 Budapest, Barackfa str. 32.
Telephone: +36-30/500-3415, +36-1/276-5928, +36-30/337-5077
Open: 0-24 h
Vaccine book (valid rabies vaccination and intestinal worm checks) is required
Spoken language: angol, német

Gellért Kutyapanzió
Address: XI. ker. Gellért-hegy
Telephone: +36-30-429-26-20
Open: 8-23h
Vaccine book (valid rabies vaccination and intestinal worm checks) is required
Spoken language: angol

Strázsa Kutyaiskola és Panzió
Address: 1101 Népliget, Vajda Péter str. (next to the Építők Sportpálya)
Telephone: +36-20/934-0808 (Tekla Petneházy), +36-30/942-1395 (László Vaskó)
Open: 7-20 h
Vaccine book (valid rabies vaccination and intestinal worm checks) is required
Spoken language: angol

Yorki Hotel
Address: Sashalom, (5 minutes from the Örs vezér square)
Telephone: +36-70/261-77-22
Open: 0-24h
Vaccine book (valid rabies vaccination and intestinal worm checks) is required; only dogs under 10 kg are accepted.

SZIGETFONE

At the entrance of Sziget Festival you are going to receive a Vodafone voucher. You can exchange this voucher for a Szigetfone at one of the Vodafone spots.
In order to receive your Szigetfone, you need to complete a registration form. You can do this by:

• Registering online
• Fill in a registration form online.
• Bring your personal password to Sziget.
• Registering at Sziget

 Fill in a registration form at one of the Vodafone spots
 As a week-pass holder, once you have your Szigetfone, top up your balance with 2000 HUF (approximately 7 Euros)
You are now ready to start using your Szigetfone!

Do you have a day-pass? No problem! You can get a Szigetfone for 4000 HUF (approx. 14 Euros), which includes a 2000 HUF (approx. 7 Euros) worth of top-up.

For more details please click HERE!

SZIGET CARD

We are pleased to introduce the Sziget card to this year’s festival. The Sziget card was developed to make payments on the festival easier, safer and faster. We think cashless payments are a good thing – keeping all your festival money and change on a card is safer and easier than carrying cash, and transactions taking up 3 seconds makes it definitely faster too.

For more details please click HERE!

OPTICS

Full optical service at Sziget festival! At the rear market street!
Contact lenses, sunglasses, eyedrops, cleansing liquids.
There is no need to go in to the city!
Tel: +36-20-346-46-16