Getting to the airport by public transport

Earlier this week I was catching a flight and, since I had no luggage at all, decided to try the cheapest way of getting to the airport, that is, by metro and bus. As far as I remembered, you had to take the blue metro line to the Kőbánya-Kispest terminal and then get on an ordinary city bus all the way to the airport. Although this was the hottest day of the week and I did not want to get a heat stroke, I figured that public transport would be air-conditioned. I guess this was only partially true.

Once on the blue line, I noticed that although the terminal really was Kőbánya-Kispest, for the month of August, because of construction works, the line only went until the Határ út station. Just when I was about to panic, I noticed the sign that there was a bus from the Határ út station to the airport.

Once at Határ út, finding the bus stop was easy. But the bus did not come for about 25 minutes and during this time we stood surrounded by overheated concrete and asphalt. Some older guys really looked like they were going to collapse. I did not understand, for example, the middle-aged French group with large suitcases. Why not take a cab? If they split the price, it might even be cheaper than going this way. Well, you get what you pay for -- they were beginning to look quite unwell but then the bus finally came. From there on, fortunately everything went well, it took about 20 minutes to get to Terminal 1, and another 7-8 to Terminal 2.

All in all, it took me over an hour to get the airport, which is not that bad at all. If not for the heat, it would have been perfectly OK. In the future, I am still taking a cab if I have luggage but with a small backpack public transport seems a feasible solution.