Bratislava (airport) to Budapest

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Is plane-side at BTS Airport to AS Mlynské nivy doable in 50 min?

It might work out but it's extremely tight with checked bags.

In order to make the connection the flight will need to be exactly on time, the baggage service quite prompt and there be no other hiccups. I expect the biggest risk beyond the flight is for the bags to take more than 20 minutes to make it onto the claim. This probably depends on how many other flights are being handled at that moment.

BTS Airport is small, planes often park at gates where passengers can just walk up to the terminal and exit through baggage claim. Sometimes, though, passengers need take buses from the plane to terminal, adding a few minutes.

  • 20:40 plane doors open, passengers begin to disembark
  • 20:50 bus leaves side of plane for terminal
  • 20:55 bus arrives terminal, grab bag
  • 21:00 get in taxi
  • 21:15 arrive at bus station

Options for traveling Bratislava to Budapest at night

Busbud summarizes bus companies on this route: Eurolines, FlixBus, Korona Travel, and RegioJet. (Full disclosure: I worked there.)

Unfortunately the 21:30 FlixBus is indeed the last bus of the night on the dates I checked. RegioJet offers the first bus at 3:15 the next morning.

There are no train connections either during this time. With one adventurous exception - only running on Saturdays: take the RegioJet train from Bratislava Nove Mesto at 22:13 to Komárno arriving at 00:13. Then bikeshare, walk, or take a taxi to Komarom (Hungary) to catch train R 4819 departing 3:39 to Budapest-Deli arriving 5:09.

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The taxi ride is <15 minutes. Here's the Google Maps route. It's a bit tricky to get Gmaps route it properly, it goes bonkers with the lanes on the bridgehead but if you set it to go to the Regiojet stop, then it draws the straight lines.

Speaking of Regiojet, while there is no way to prove a negative, but here's what Regiojet has to offer:

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Googling in Hungarian doesn't get further, this is from a Hungarian site:

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these are remarkably the same buses.

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You can try, but is it worth the stress? Imagine arriving at an unfamiliar airport, waiting for your bags, and dashing to the taxi rank (wherever that is), only to miss your bus by three minutes! If I were you, I would find a hotel in Bratislava (a taxi to Budapest costs 142 Euros, according to this website).

I know that some online booking agents seem to treat Bratislava as an alternative airport to Budapest, but it really isn't. It's 200km!

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