Day ride
A day to Szentendre
Self-guided, from Budapest
- Length8 hours
- IncludesHelmet, repair kit
- ReturnBefore 6pm
Cost for your party
Bike tour from Vienna to Budapest: prices and packages
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Short answer
A bike tour from Vienna to Budapest is sold mostly as a self-guided package, from a budget bike-hire week without hotels to 8-day tours with hotels and luggage moves.
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- Szentendre by bikeSelf-guided, 8 hours · per visitor from €28
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View - Szentendre, boat optionSelf-guided day · per visitor from €27
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View - Guided e-bike and boat6 hours · per visitor from €113
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View - Guided e-bike day8 hours · per visitor from €550
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A bike tour from Vienna to Budapest is sold as a package of hotels, luggage moves and a route. Here is what the packages cost from, what they include, and what is extra.
Editorial team, budapestebiketour.click · Updated November 8, 2026 · 7 mins to read
Summary view
- Budget packageA 5-day self-guided package with bike hire starts from EUR 189, hotels not included.1,2
- Classic 8 daysSelf-guided 8-day packages are listed from EUR 699 and EUR 879.3,4
- With hotelsOne 8-day tour with hotels and luggage transfer starts from EUR 959.5,6
- From PassauA 14-day Passau to Budapest package is listed from EUR 1259.7
- A taste in a dayA self-guided ride from Budapest to Szentendre starts from €31.
How Vienna to Budapest bike packages are priced
A bike tour from Vienna to Budapest is rarely bought as a guided group ride. The packages on the EuroVelo list for this stretch of the Danube are self-guided: an operator books your nights, moves your luggage, gives you a route and leaves the riding to you.3,4 The price depends on three things: the number of days, whether hotels are included, and whether the bike is yours or hired.
The route itself is part of EuroVelo 6, the Atlantic to Black Sea cycle route, which runs 4,700 km through 10 countries.8 The Hungarian Tourism Agency calls its Hungarian section, partly along the Danube, one of the continent's most popular bike paths.9 Between Vienna and Budapest, a cycling guide listed by EuroVelo puts the distance at 310 km.10
Operators measure the ride differently. One 8-day tour counts 320 kilometres in total, covering 40 to 70 kilometres a day on mostly flat, signposted paths.11,5 A 5-day package gives about 330 km of mostly flat terrain.2,1 Read the figures as each operator's own: they start and end in slightly different places and count side trips their own way.
Side by side
Danube bike packages to Budapest compared
| Package | Days | From | Hotels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budget, bike hire | 51 | EUR 1891 | Not included2 |
| 3-Country-Tour | 83 | EUR 6993 | Check package |
| Vienna to Budapest | 84 | EUR 8794 | Check package |
| With hotels | 85 | EUR 9595 | Included6 |
| Passau to Budapest | 147 | EUR 12597 | Check package |
| Prague to Vienna | 814 | EUR 1,05914 | Check package |
Starting prices per person from the EuroVelo package list and the operators' own pages; the final price depends on your dates and room.3
The self-guided bike tour from Vienna to Budapest
The self guided bike tour from Vienna to Budapest is the format every package on the EuroVelo list for this stretch uses. On the EuroVelo list, a Rad+Reisen 3-Country-Tour through Austria, Slovakia and Hungary runs 8 days, rated easy and flat, from EUR 699.3 A Pedalo package on the same stretch also runs 8 days, rated medium and hilly, from EUR 879.4 Open each package to see whether hotels are part of that price.
Eurobike sells its own 8-day Vienna to Budapest tour from EUR 959.5 That price covers hotels in a 4-star or a 3-star category, breakfast, a welcome briefing, luggage transfer, digital travel documents with a navigation app, and a boat ticket from Esztergom with your bike.6 It bundles more than the other packages here, and the fare reflects that.
Self-guided does not mean alone. Your luggage moves ahead each morning, a service hotline is part of the Eurobike package, and the route is planned for you.6 What it does mean is that nobody waits for you at the junctions. If you like to set your own pace, stop for coffee where you please and ride with your own party only, this is the format for you.
The budget route: bike hire without hotels
At the low end, Bike & Relax sells a self-guided 5-day journey between Budapest and Vienna from EUR 189, rated easy and flat.1 It is a different kind of package: it includes a bike or e-bike from Budapest, a train transfer with the bike, a helmet, lock and panniers, a phone holder, a toolkit and a route book, plus luggage storage in Budapest, but no accommodation.2
Bike & Relax is the same shop where the guided e-bike tour on this site begins, in the Jewish Quarter near Deák tér. If you want to ride the city one afternoon and the Danube the next week, the two can start from the same door. You book and pay for your own beds along the way, which suits riders who like to choose a guesthouse on the day.
Budget it honestly. The package price covers the bike and the logistics; add your nights, meals and drinks for each of the 5 days.1 Even so, for riders who are happy with simple rooms, it is the lowest entry point to the whole ride in our table. Compare it with the hotel packages by adding a nightly room rate to its starting fare.
Pick your package
Which Danube ride fits you
Match your hopes for the trip to a package.
If The lowest price, own beds
The 5-day budget package
If Everything arranged for me
The 8-day hotel package
If A longer river journey
Passau to Budapest
A 14-day self-guided package from EUR 1259.7
If Hills and forests too
Prague to Vienna first
If Just a taste of the Danube
A day to Szentendre
A self-guided ride from Budapest starts from €31.
Three ways in
A day, a budget week or a full package
Budget
The budget week
Bike hire, own beds
- Days5
- FromEUR 189
- HotelsNot included
Full service
The full package
Hotels and luggage moves
- Days8
- FromEUR 959
- HotelsIncluded
Extras the package price leaves out
Read the small print on the extras. Eurobike states that a tourist tax, where it is due, is not in its price.16 A printed route book costs EUR 20 per room as an option.17 Half-board dinners, a rental bike and rental bike insurance are also optional add-ons on that tour.6 Each of these is small on its own, but together they can move the total noticeably.
The ride home is the big one. The same operator runs a minibus from Budapest back to Vienna at EUR 95 per person, with an extra EUR 45 for your own bike.13 The Bike & Relax package, by contrast, builds a train transfer with the bike into its starting price.2 Check how each package gets you and the bike back to where you started before you compare totals.
The boat is another variable. Eurobike includes a Danube boat ticket from Esztergom towards Budapest, but in April, September and October, and on Mondays, the boat is probably not possible, and a train ticket is given instead.12 That changes the last day rather than the price, but it is worth knowing if the boat ride was the reason you chose the package.
Passau and Prague starts
Some riders start further west. A Passau to Budapest bike tour joins the Austrian Danube to the Hungarian one: on the EuroVelo list, Rad+Reisen sells it as a self-guided 14-day package from EUR 1259.7 A bike and boat variant from Passau, with nights on a premium boat, runs 8 days from EUR 999.18 The boat option trades some riding days for evenings on the river.
Starting in the Czech capital means two routes joined at Vienna. Eurobike sells its Prague to Vienna tour over 8 days from EUR 1,059.14 It warns that this part is challenging: about 65 to 70 km a day over varied ground, with steep climbs that need good fitness.15 The Vienna to Budapest leg is gentler, with daily distances that average 40 to 65 km on mostly flat terrain.19
If you have only a week, Vienna to Budapest is the natural choice: flat, well signposted and ending in a capital. If you have two, Passau to Budapest adds the Austrian river valleys. If you want hills and forest, the Prague start gives you that, at the cost of harder days and a bigger bill for the two packages combined.
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Cycling the Danube from Vienna to Budapest
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The cycle route leads partly along the Danube, so no wonder this is among the continent’s most popular bike paths.
Before you pay
In the price, and on top of it
Often included3
Often extra3
A day on the Danube from Budapest
Not ready for a week in the saddle? Ride the last stretch of the route as a day out from Budapest. A self-guided bike package to Szentendre starts from €31 and lends you the bike for 8 hours; a helmet, a pump and a basic repair set come with it. The bike has to be back before 6pm unless you extend the rental by 24 hours.
A similar self-guided ride starts from €29; the pick-up is the Bike & Relax shop on Madách tér, and the ride to Szentendre takes about 2 hours. A boat back takes about 1h10 and is booked separately; high water can affect availability. For company, a guided e-bike day to Szentendre returns by boat after 6 hours, with 6 riders at most.
The Hungarian Tourism Agency describes the Danube Bend ride as nearly twice the length of the 30-kilometer ride around Lake Velence, partly on bike lanes and partly on dirt road.20 A day trip to Szentendre is a fair test of whether the full package is for you: if you enjoy the riverside path and arrive with energy left, a week on the Danube will feel like a holiday.
How to choose, and when to book
Start with your budget per day, and with your starting city: a Prague to Budapest bike tour costs more and climbs more than the Vienna start. The cheapest route is the 5-day package from EUR 189 plus your own beds.1 The mid-range packages run from EUR 699 to EUR 879 for 8 days on the EuroVelo list.3,4 The fullest one, with hotels, breakfast and luggage moves included, starts from EUR 959.5,6 Set each against the nights you would pay for anyway.
Then pick the season. Packages are priced per person and change with dates, and the boat into Budapest runs only in part of the year.12 Autumn is the Hungarian Tourism Agency's favourite season, drier than spring.21 Summer days are longer, but long rides in heat are harder work, and spring can bring wet days on the dykes. Pick the dates first, then compare the packages for those exact dates.
Finally, decide how you get home. A minibus back to Vienna costs EUR 95 per person plus EUR 45 for your own bike on one tour.13 Once you arrive in Budapest, give yourself a spare afternoon: a guided e-bike tour of the city from €55 is a relaxed way to finish, with someone else leading for once.
FAQ
Fast answers to common questions.
How much is a bike tour from Vienna to Budapest?
Is there a guided bike tour from Vienna to Budapest?
Mostly self-guided.
The packages on the EuroVelo list for this stretch are self-guided; guided rides from Budapest run as day trips.3
How many days does Vienna to Budapest by bike take?
How far is Vienna to Budapest by bike?
What does a Passau to Budapest bike tour cost?
From EUR 1259.
A self-guided 14-day Passau to Budapest package is listed from EUR 1259.7
Is a Prague to Budapest bike tour hard?
The Prague part is.
The Prague to Vienna stage has steep climbs and about 65 to 70 km a day.15
Sources
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo tour package 1035 ↩
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo tour package 1035 ↩
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo tour package 805 ↩
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo tour package 987 ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo tour package 806 ↩
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo 6 Atlantic - Black Sea ↩
- Hungarian Tourism Agency (visithungary.com) · Short rides and long trips: along the Danube on two wheels ↩
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo 6: From Vienna to Budapest ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Prague - Vienna, 8 days ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Prague - Vienna, 8 days ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- EuroVelo, European Cyclists' Federation (eurovelo.com) · EuroVelo tour package 804 ↩
- Eurobike (eurobike.at), the operator's own page · Danube Cycle Path, Vienna - Budapest, 8 days ↩
- Hungarian Tourism Agency (visithungary.com) · Active Challenges in and Around Budapest ↩
- Hungarian Tourism Agency (visithungary.com) · Practical Information ↩
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