Lake Balaton - my worst holiday ever (Lake Balaton)

Name: athena2

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Product:	Lake Balaton
Date:	05/04/01 (697 review reads)
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Advantages: Great wine

Disadvantages: Too many to list...

The area surrounding Lake Balaton in Hungary has been popular with German tourists for decades. During the Berlin Wall 'era', many families from east and west Germany, divided by the wall, travelled to the Balaton to see each other!
The southern end of the lake is famous for its hot springs and therapeutic baths which give the area a very distinctive sulphurous smell!
Having a Hungarian g-g-granmother, I was quite excited about visiting the area but I was so disappointed. I found the Hungarian people (generally) very rude and stand-offish - even the hotel staff.
Nearly every bar in town is a strip club or table-dancing club and if you go out to the more rural places you can run the risk of being (at least) verbally attacked. Add to this the fact that 5 out of 8 people I knew had their pockets/bags picked and their wallets stolen and my opinion of Hungary and the Hungarian people could not be lower.

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