where: <\/strong>WestEnd City Center, direct access off Metro line 3 at the Nyugati p\u00e1lyaudvar stop. you’ll see a small Telenor store at the Metro station’s mall entrance, but they were unable to give me a micro SIM for my iphone 4S and directed me to the Telenor store upstairs on the ground floor (where they also spoke MUCH better English). there is also a T-Mobile store there, perhaps other providers as well.<\/p>\n sidebar<\/strong> i arrived on a Sunday so my options were limited due to store closures. my airbnb host<\/a> (btw, love this place) suggested i go to a mall, which worked out well. just watch out for closing times: it’s normally 6 PM on Sundays for most of these stores but i managed to squeeze in a little after. as an aside, the tourist information desk at the airport seemed to hint that you could get one at the post office there (but closed on Sundays) and suggested i take a bus one stop from the airport to a mall, but i decided to press my luck in town instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n what you need:<\/strong> passport, mother’s name (apparently not just maiden name, full name), address of where you’re staying in Budapest<\/p>\n price:<\/strong> i told her i wanted 1 GB of data, which as i recall was around 2500 or 2600 HUF, so i got a 3000 HUF credit (the sales rep did everything — i didn’t choose anything except how much data i wanted).<\/p>\n (line items translated [thanks google translate] directly from the invoice):<\/p>\n activation:<\/strong> immediate card activation. the sales rep must have set up my data package while setting up my account because i didn’t do anything and almost immediately got a message confirming (i think?) it was added.<\/p>\n watch out:<\/strong> i got a set of text messages (among many) saying something about an APN (a setting for data access):<\/p>\n\n
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