Celebrate Christmas Eve in Budapest with a festive Xmas themed Dinner Cruise with Live music. The cruise is a highlight of winter holidays spent in Budapest with sights of the UNESCO World Heritage, live entertainment, and delicious meals in an otherwise quiet evening in Budapest (Christmas Eve is traditionally a family event and most places close at 4 pm).
Christmas Dinner & Piano
Piano Cruise Dec 24
- SOLD OUT
- Limited seats Dec 25
- 3h Cruise on Danube
- 4 Course Served Dinner
- A La Carte Menu
- 6 Main Courses
- 1 Welcome Drink
- Live Piano Music
- Own Table
- Window Upgrade
- Heated Boat
- Boat: Taltos
- Dock: Central Elizabeth Bridge
Buffet Dinner & Live Music
Wine Dinner Cruise
- 6.30-9pm Cruise Programme
- Actual Cruising: 1.5h
- Buffet Dinner
- Open Bar Selection (2h)
- Live Gypsy Salon Music
- Folk Dancers
- Festive Nostalgia
- Heated Boat
- Boat: Count Szechenyi
- Own Table
- Dock: Central Chain Bridge
Folk Cruise
- 4.30 – 6.30 pm
- 2h Danube Cruise
- 4 Course Dinner
- Welcome Drink
- Live Music
- Folk Show
- Own Table
- Heated Boat
- Boat: Renata
- Central Dock 6
- 24h Cancellation
- 4 Menu Options
- Ship Bar (PAYO)
- Festive Boat
Dec 24 Sightseeing
Sightseeing Dec 24
- Dec 24: sold out
- 50 min Cruise
- Audio Guide
- Phone + Earphones needed
- Welcome Drink upgrade
- Child Free 0-5
- Student Discount
- Heated Boat
- Boat: Bakony
- Dock: Central, Chain Bridge
Dec 24 Guided Sightseeing
- 11, 12.30, 14.00
- 15.30 – SOLD OUT
- 70 min Cruise
- Audio Guide (incl. Earphones)
- Commentary in 30 Languages
- Day & Afternoon Starting Hours
- 1 Optional Drink (Wine / Beer / Juice) +
- 1 Lemonade (Fizzy Mix) for all
- Child Discount
- Student Discount
- Budapest Card discount
- Free for under 10 years
- Heated Boat
- Free WiFi
- Boat: Duna Bella
- 24h cancellation
- Dock: Central Vigado Square
Sight, lights, live music, delicious dinner! All this packed in our Budapest dinner cruise offers! Secure your seat on the dinner cruise now.
Dinner Cruises in Budapest
If you plan to take a dinner cruise on the river Danube on another night in December, please see our full range of dinner cruise programme offers:
- 7 pm A La Carte Dinner Cruise in Budapest: Candlelit dinner cruise on Danube Legenda Boat in Budapest city. 2.5 hour cruise with servers, a la carte menu, live music. The perfect romantic candlelit dinner option for couples, favourite of friends and companies. Daily dinner cruise including Christmas, New Year’s Evening, New Year’s Day, Easter. Except on Dec 24 and Aug 20. From Nov to Feb the cruise starts at 7pm.
- 7.30 pm Served Dinner Cruise with Piano Music: the cruise offers various options for the main courses (fish, beef, pork, chicken and vegetarian). The cruise leaves daily, including December 24 and 25 (normal cruises on Dec 26). Special cruises are scheduled for August 20 (Fireworks Cruise) and December 31 (New Year’s Eve Cruise). The recently built Nimrod panorama catamaran offers a great experience during the cruise.
- 7.30 pm Folk Dinner Cruise: the Ala Carte cruise program offers live entertainment and 4-Course served dinner with 5 main options to choose from. Join the Folk Cruise for evergreen piano music, operetta and live Folk Dance show after dinner.
- 7 pm Budapest Evening Cruise with Gypsy Music 2 hour programme on Danube & all inclusive Buffet Style Dinner. Salon music in background by award winning Hungarian Gypsy band. Daily dinner cruise except for Christmas Eve, New Year, St Stephen’s Day.
Picture the fairy tale riverfront of Budapest you will see during your dinner cruise: the two banks of the river Danube are spotted with brightly lit churches, the Buda Castle on the Castle Hill, the neo-Gothic turrets of the Hungarian Parliament, the palm leaved Statue of Liberty on the Gellert Hill, the cupolas of the Art Nouveau Gellert Baths, the elegant curves of the Gresham Palace (Fours Seasons Hotel) and the soaring domes of the majestic St Stephens Basilica behind them. You will be cruising in one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites with us, and one of the twinkling treasure boxes of the river Danube. Budapest night views are charmingly romantic and breathtakingly beautiful as the city illuminates at night. Besides romance, the city is full of history, and telling tales of the faded glory, traces of the communist past. So your less romantic and more intellectual side can contemplate on the history of a nation, and of human fragility. But fate is the source of true beauty, isn’t it?
Last updated Dec, 2025
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