Last year, nearly 2.4 million people traveled on the ships and ferries of Balaton Shipping Co. (BAHART), which is one of the best performances in the last 30 years and exceeds the 2024 traffic data by 53,000, the company told MTI on Friday. According to their information, the number of passengers choosing passenger ships on […]
Bahart, which operates ferries and pleasure craft on Lake Balaton, carried 2,326,000 passengers in the 2025 season, up 53,000 from a year earlier, the company said on Friday. Passenger numbers on car ferries rose 15,000 to 1,425,000 and fares on passenger boats climbed 38,000 to 901,000. The company explained that the number of passengers on […]
Balaton Shipping Co. (BAHART) closed this year's peak season with record numbers. The number of passengers traveling on ferries reached 1,220,000, while the number traveling on passenger boats on Lake Balaton approached 820,000, meaning that BAHART exceeded the two million passenger mark earlier this year than last year, on August 29, according to a statement […]
From September 8 to October 26, scheduled boat services on Lake Balaton will run less frequently according to the fall schedule, Balatoni Shipping Co. announced on its website. On the two main routes, Fonyód-Badacsony and Siófok-Tihany-Balatonfüred, services will run daily until September 28, and then only on Saturdays and Sundays until the end of the […]
Mol Limo's service is now available on a trial basis at Lake Balaton, Balatonfüred and Siófok. With this innovation, the car-sharing company is responding to users' growing demand for multi-day trips, Mol Limo told MTI on Thursday. During the trial period, which runs from July 10 until further notice, two types of cars – the […]
According to Visit Hungary, which handles domestic and international tourism-related sales and marketing communications for the Hungarian Tourism Agency, the heatwave that hit at the beginning of June brought a real travel fever and outstanding results, with 288,000 guests, 20% more than last year, seeking relaxation at during the long holiday weekend. The statement said […]
The Balaton Shipping Company (BAHART) is focusing on families and cyclists with its discounts and services in this year's 179th passenger shipping season, and also aims to match or even exceed last year's record traffic, the shipping company's CEO Gábor Veigl said at the company's season opening event on a catamaran sailing between Fonyód and […]
Dozens of programs – including festivals, balls, costume parades, cycling tours and car rallies – await visitors to Lake Balaton during the carnival period, the Balaton Tourism Association told MTI on Saturday. In their statement, they wrote that this year, at least thirty to forty carnival events and winter carnival balls will lure visitors to […]
One in three travellers will be relaxing on Lake Balaton on August 20. Siófok, Hajdúszoboszló, Hévíz, Eger and Szeged attract the most guests during the four-day long weekend, according to the accommodation portal Szallas.hu. Almost half of the bookings are for three nights, accounting for roughly half of the total number of nights for the […]
The four new boats of Balatoni Hajózási Zrt. (Bahart Plc.) received prestigious international recognition just a few months after they were put in operation. The new boats won the world's most prestigious design award, the RED DOT Design Award, as well as the renowned international iF Design Award. The former can be won by excellence […]
The inauguration ceremony of four new ships (two catamarans and two ferries) of Balaton Navigation Ltd (Bahart) was held in Siófok. The development, the first of such in 40 years, could give a new boost to tourism on Lake Balaton. Bahart CEO Gábor Veigl said that the new vessels meet the highest environmental standards, are […]
For the first time since the change of the political system (1988-90), four new ships have arrived on Lake Balaton, two of which have completed assembly works; after successful trials, the ferry Tihany and the catamaran Tomaj have made their first Balaton kilometers, Balaton Shipping Ltd. informed MTI in a statement on Saturday. The assembly […]
Hungarians' travel mood is unbroken, the favorable weather of the past few weeks has stimulated the booking mood, which was also reflected in the July saturation and had an impact on August bookings. Based on the latest data by the online accommodation intermediary Szallas.hu, the summer booking volume received so far is 19% below last […]
The MLS Raiffeisen Fifty-Fifty, driven by Márton Józsa, beat its own previous record – according to the official results list – with a time of 5:03:56 to win the 55th Kékszalag [‘Blue Ribbon’] Raiffeisen Grand Prix on Lake Balaton on Thursday. Fifty-Fifty, a Hungarian-designed twin-masted catamaran, broke the course record of 7 hours 13 minutes […]
The sailing season on Lake Balaton started on Saturday with the opening big boat sailing race and the wreath laying ceremony on the lake. This year, 235 people entered the race. The president of the Hungarian Sailing Federation, Csaba Haranghy, called the town of Balatonfüred the capital of Hungarian sailing in his speech before the […]
