My partner and I are staying in Budapest , District 8, Vig Street in the near future and I am now concerned because I have read that parts of this district are not safe.
Before I booked, I read the reviews and they seemed fine but just need some reassurance? Is this part of District 8 ok? The answer is it depends, what is the cross street? You'll be fine walking around as a couple, the gypsies aren't really confrontational unless you walk alone.
It's mostly older buildings in that area You'll run into prostitutes walking to Blaha since they hangout around that McDonald's, but they shouldn't bother you.
That's an area you want to avoid completely day or night. You'll be fine, together or alone. There's a lot of casual racism, very widely held, about the Roma disparagingly referred to as the Gypsies , and if you want to avoid contact with Roma you're in the wrong neighborhood not far into it, but two blocks into it.
Beyond that, it's a gritty neighborhood but a safe one. But the real question you're asking is how much violent crime or threatened violence is there against tourists in the VIIIth I mean robbery or purse-snatching or assault or rape. And the answer is, virtually none.
