Budapest’s biggest open-air concert venue opens the season

On April 28 Budapest Park opens its gates for concert-goers and people craving live music. The venue, located at the bank of the Danube, next to the Rákóczi-bridge, thus, begins the season today, writes metropol.hu.

The “multicultural entertaining centre” is open for the whole summer, and has gone through quite some changes, including the expansion of the auditorium in front of the stage. Imre Rimóczi, manager and art director of Park told metropol that a new location called Sportkert (Sports garden) within the venue was established. Here the audience can watch the matches of European Football Championships and the Champions League on a 15 square metre screen.

Furthermore, the escape room, TrapFactory, is available to try out this year too, and on every first Sunday the Mizo-Pöttömkert is open for kids. Also, all of the catering containers will be located in the same area this year and, in order to shorten visitors’ waiting time, the restrooms had been put into blocks.

Károly Gerendai, chief organiser of Sziget said, as representative of Budapest Park, that they are expecting this year to be at least as successful as last year was. Then, 330 thousand people visited the venue to have some fun. The number of presales has increased by 37% which means that the visitors are getting to trust Park more and more.

The organizers put more emphasis on ensuring safety: from this year inspection of bags should be expected and also gates become installed that can detect bombs. This, though, may slow down the entering, therefore, visitors are asked to not bring bigger packages to the concerts, unless it is inevitable, in which case they should leave them at the luggage office outside the venue.