REGISTRATION DAY at the Institute – 21 JULY (Sunday) – between 2 pm and 7:30 pm
Travel to Kecskemét
BY TRAIN:
In case your flight arrives at the Liszt Ferenc Repülőtér (old name: Ferihegy Airport):
You can take Bus 200E from the Airport. The bus will stop at Ferihegy Vasútállomás (Ferihegy Train Station – formerly known as Ferihegy Terminal 1), you can get off there and take the train to Kecskemét. (The final stop of the bus is Kőbánya-Kispest M – Metro station (blue line, M3) where you can also get on the train. It is a metro station and a railway station together, with a big shopping mall.)
You can find the train schedule at the web site of MÁV-START, the Hungarian railway company:
The train in Kecskemét stops only once, at the main station.
BY BUS:
Buses from Budapest to Kecskemét leave from Budapest Népliget Bus Station. It is also a metro station on the blue line (M3). Try to take an express bus (going on the M5 motorway) because it is just one hour and 10 or 20 minutes. The final destination of most of these express buses is not Kecskemét, but Szeged, Gyula or Makó, etc. Don’t forget to get off in Kecskemét 🙂
Please note: there can be metro replacement buses at some parts on the blue metro line.
There is an English version of the search for buses of the Volán – Hungarian Bus Company website.
The bus from Budapest will stop 2 times in Kecskemét. The first one is not the city centre, do not get off there. Get off at the second one, the Kecskemét Autóbusz Állomás [Bus Station].
HOW TO GET TO THE INSTITUTE once you arrived in Kecskemét:
If you have too much luggage you can take a taxi.
You will find some outside the railway station or around the bus station.
The address is Kodály Intézet – Kálvin tér 1. (not the Kodály Iskola [=school] outside the city centre).
Please note that the old monastery building of the Institute in Kéttemplom köz 1. is currently under reconstruction. Our temporary home is in Kálvin tér 1., the Old Calvinist College.
The Institute’s phone number is
–>+36-76-481-518 – from abroad or from a foreign mobile network,
–> 06-76-481-518 – from a landline from other Hungarian towns or from a Hungarian mobile phone, and
–> 481-518 if you call from a landline in Kecskemét.
You can also message us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kodaly.institute.kecskemet
It is not worth bothering with a public bus. The time you spend finding the bus and buying the ticket is enough to walk to the Institute.
It is just a 12-15 min. walk either from the railway station or the bus station.
The two stations are next to each other with a park in between.
The bus station [buszállomás in Hungarian] is right next to the Noszlopy Gáspár Park,
the railway station [vasútállomás in Hungarian] is next to the Katona József Park.
From the bus station take Nagykőrösi utca to the centre.
From the railway station you can either take Rákóczi út (as suggested on the map) or Nagykőrösi utca.
You might find this map useful as well: it shows the venues of previous Kodály Seminars and Festivals, hotels and some restaurants and other points of interest right in the centre, in walking distance: previous Kodály Seminars map.
Please bring your plug adapter (and voltage converter), if necessary, for your laptop, camera charger, etc.
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