Originally Posted by
Romanianflyer
Apart from the food another reason to chose Budapest: in my honest opinion the city is slowly getting overrun with tourists and is slowly losing a lot of its charms. The stag-party level is nowadays the equal of Prague (that city to me is actually improving somehow on this, if you visit out of summer!). Where ten years ago you could be one of the few foreigners in your average Budapest ruin pub, nowadays (certainly on the weekends) it can easily be an all-foreign crowd. It might easily get much worse.
Aside from the pub scene, how touristy does the city feel in general? Just curious. Traveling there for the first time late this summer and wanting to calibrate. People seem to have highly varying definitions of "touristy". Are we talking "touts on every corner, tour groups with flag-carrying guides, hop-on-hop-off bus" touristy, or "the backpackers are upset because the hostel prices are above $10" touristy?