Welcome the New Year of 2026 on a wonderful Budapest Dinner Cruise on the Danube with live music. You can choose from a la carte, or buffet style dinner cruises below, most of them featuring live music. Make your New Year’s Day truly special!

Dinner Cruise Danube Budapest Legenda

Sight, lights, live music, delicious dinner! All this packed in our Budapest dinner cruise! Secure your seat on the dinner cruise now.

NYD Dinner Cruises

• 7 pm A La Carte Dinner Cruise in Budapest: Candlelit dinner cruise on Danube Legenda Boat in Budapest city on January 1. 2.5 hour cruise with waiting staff, a la carte menu, live music. The perfect romantic candlelit dinner option for couples, favorite of friends and companies – gets easily full house every week. Daily dinner cruise including Christmas Days, New Year’s Evening, New Year’s Day, Easter. From Nov to Feb the winter cruise starts at 7pm, including all January dates. 1 welcome drink is included in the 4 course dinner deal. You can also buy Pay as You Order tickets.
• 7pm New Year’s Day Dinner & Lights is a 2.5h cruise programme with 4-course served dinner and background music (4 options for the Main Course – Chicken, Fish, Pork, Vegetarian/ Vegan- and set Starter, 2 Types of Soup and Desserts).
• New Year’s Day Dinner Cruise & Piano: 2 hour cruise on the river Danube with live bar Piano music, 4-course dinner (4 options for the Main Course – Chicken, Fish, Pork, Vegetarian/ Vegan- and set Starter, 2 Types of Soup and Desserts).
• 7 pm Budapest Evening Cruise with Gypsy Music 2 hour cruise on the river Danube & all inclusive Buffet Style Dinner. Salon music is played in the background by the award winning Hungarian Gypsy trio. Daily dinner cruise except for Christmas Eve, New Year, St Stephen’s Day. Have a leisurely cruise on New Year’s Day and try several meals at the buffet tables. 1 glass of sparkling wine, 1 glass of wine and 1 bottled water included

Special Winter Cruises in Budapest

• Christmas Eve Cruise Budapest: dinner cruise with drinks and live music on December 24
• Budapest Christmas Cruises also featured on Budapest Christmas guide
• New Year Cruise Budapest: dinner, party, unlimited drinks on December 31

Dinner Cruises Budapest – Richard Blundell Photography

In the high season (May, June, July, August, September), our night Budapest river cruises get quickly full.

Note: The dinner cruise can be booked with dinner, and without dinner, with adult, and with children / student prices. The river cruises start from Euro 10 for the budget tours up to Euro 259 for VIP cruises. Learn more about the Budapest river cruises or place your booking now.
Book your dinner cruise now to avoid overbooked cruises.

Budapest Cruise at Night – the Parliament – Larry Myhre Photography

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?