Online registration

To help us with the organization, please register even if you only come as a visitor accompanying your family or friends and do not wish to participate in the program!

The online registration period ended on 28th june 12:15pm. You can register at the course site.

If you didn't register online for meals, please register on site before 1pm to have meals from the following day.

You can pay for the course, the meals and the bus

• personally in Diamond Way Center Budapest every day from 6pm to 9pm
• by bank transfer to one of the following bank accounts
• those friends from Eastern European or oversea countries who can't transfer money easily or it costs too much can pay at the site in cash upon arrival, but registration is needed until 12th June for the discount price and for food

        Euro:
        Gyémánt Ut Buddhista Kozosseg
        1074 Budapest
        Huszar utca 7-9
        Hungary
        Unicredit Bank Zrt. 
        IBAN: HU98109180010000001740990125
        SWIFT: BACXHUHB
        
        HUF: 
        Gyémánt Út Buddhista Közösség
        Unicredit Bank Zrt.
        Számlaszám: 10918001-00000017-40990039
        

In the message field of your transfer state your registration number!

Due to technical reasons at the course site we only accept cash payments. In Becske you can not withdraw money, please bring enough cash with you! You can pay in EUR on the course for everything.

Due to technical reasons at the course site we only accept cash payments.

Prices

The course fee doesn't include meals. Check meal under Meals menu.

Full price

• course 85€ if paid until 12th June
• course 100€ if payed from 13th June
• day 20€

Discount price

• course 50€
• day 10€
• visitor course 17€
• visitor day 4 €
• age 0-14 free

Discount price available for

• age 15-18
• for retired persons with low income
• for one of the parents in a family coming with their children
• for single parents coming with their children
• for friends from overseas, Russia, Ukraine, Belarussia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan or Montenegro with low income

if they register until 12th June.

For overseas friends, for Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Kazakh and Montenegrin friends who need financial support, please chose one known coordinator from your countries and beside you registered, also this coordinator should send the list of the names of these friends in e-mail until 12 June to us: kiskovacs.miklos@gmail.com. Who is not on the list can’t get discount on the course. You can bring your fee in cash don’t need to transfer it if it is complicated.

You can pay for the course, the meals and the bus

• personally in Diamond Way Center Budapest every day from 6pm to 9pm
• by bank transfer to one of the following bank accounts
• those friends from Russia, Ukraine, Belarussia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan or Montenegro or oversea countries who can't transfer money easily or it costs too much can pay at the site in cash upon arrival, but registration is needed until 12th June for the discount price and for food

        Euro:
        Gyemant Ut Buddhista Kozosseg
        1074 Budapest
        Huszar utca 7-9
        Hungary
        Unicredit Bank Zrt. 
        IBAN: HU98109180010000001740990125
        SWIFT: BACXHUHB
        
        HUF: 
        Gyémánt Út Buddhista Közösség
        Unicredit Bank Zrt.
        Számlaszám: 10918001-00000017-40990039
        

In the message field of your transfer state your registration number!

Due to technical reasons at the course site we only accept cash payments. In Becske you can not withdraw money, please bring enough cash with you! You can pay in EUR on the course for everything.

Meals

We recommend that you register for the ‘three meals a day’ option.

You may ask for meals for the whole course or only for certain days.

Lactose and gluten-free meals are available.

The discount price for meals is available only if you pay before 12 June.

If you register but you don't pay, we can't consider your registration for food.

Three meals a day

Course

• 35€ Paid until the 12th of June
• 50€ From the 13th of June or on the site

Day

• 7€ Paid until the 12th of June
• 10€ From the 13th of June or on the site

One meal a day, only lunch

Course

• 15€ Paid until the 12th of June
• 20€ From the 13th of June or on the site

Day

• 3€ Paid until the 12th of June
• 4€ From the 13th of June or on the site

Important

If you don't register online for meals, please register on site before 1pm to have meals from the following day.

Useful Information

Money exchange

1 Euro is approximately 300 HUF (Hungarian Forint).
You get better exchange rates in Hungary.
Use the Budapest downtown offices. e/g this one: Budapest, 1073, Erzsébet krt. 15, 1073

Help in Teams

If you want to join any of our teams, which would be great due to the possible huge size of our course, please let us know in advance with your name and emailaddress + which kind of job you would like to do and we can add you to our team mailing lists. pls write to us: kiskovacs.miklos@gmail.com. Possible teams (kitchen, cafeteria, security, cleaning, car park, technical, job center, gompa, shop, dishwashing, info, massage, sound, garbage, child care, dharma shop). If you can come earlier and stay after let us know as well.

Accommodation Possibilities

• In your own tent on the course area.
• In your own caravan: you may park in a separate area behind the bathhouses (we cannot supply water and electricity).
• Pensions and other accommodation around Becske:
• www.faradtvandor.hu
• www.towellnesshotel.hu
• www.tengerszempanzio.hu
• www.tavifeszek.hu

Parking

Only in the guarded parking area opposite the Stupa. Parking fee: 4 € for the whole week or 1€/day.

No driving is allowed into the course area either by car or motorcycle because of the high number of participants. We appreciate your understanding. The speed limit in Petőfi street is 30 kph. Please respect the traffic regulations! Exit from the parking area is opposite the entrance, in the direction of Mikszáth street.

How to get there

Address: Becske, Petőfi Sándor út 47. See on the map

GPS-coordinates: N 47.918729; E 19.382093; or 47°55'7.42"N; 19°22'55.90"E

By Car

A) on motorway M3, take the exit at km-stone 39 (towards Bag, Tura, Aszód). Drive through Aszód following the direction of Balassagyarmat: Aszód, Iklad, Galgagyörk, Püspökhatvan, Acsa, Galgaguta, Nógrádkövesd, Becske.
You have to pay toll on M3 Information available here: http://toll-charge.hu/

B) on motorway M2, take exit ‘Rád, Vácduka’ (between km-stones 38 and 39) and turn towards ‘Rád’ at the crossroads, then – when driving through Acsa – turn towards Balassagyarmat, Galgaguta, Nógrádkövesd, Becske.

By Train

Timetable – MÁV (Hungarian Railways)-info: +36 40 49 49 49; http://www.mavcsoport.hu. The train leaves from ‘Keleti pályaudvar’. You need to change trains in Aszód and get off the train at Nógrádkövesd.

Shuttle service is available between the train station and the course area for 300 HUF or 1 € /ride. You can pay for this on the site.

Please send a text message to Edina +36 30 221 2383 with the following information:

• Date of arrival
• Time of arrival
• Number of persons

We will pick you up from the train station.

With our direct bus transfer

The buses are full, no further registration is possible.

Take a bus directly from the Diamond Way Buddhist Center Budapest from the main entrance at 1074 Budapest, Rózsák tere 5., to Becske and back after the course.

• Budapest-Becske: on 30th June leaving at 9:30 and 12:00
• Becske-Budapest: on 04th July, after the programme
• Bus ticket: 8 EUR / ride / person payable at registration.

Information: transfer@buddhizmusma.hu

From the Airport to the Budapest Buddhist Center

By Taxi

Go to the Taxi booth at the entrance and order a taxi to 7th district, Rózsák tere 4
A ride to the Buddhist Center costs ~22 Euro or 6500 HUF
You can pay with credit card.
More information available here: http://www.bud.hu/english/passengers/access_and_parking/by_taxi

By Public Transport

Buy 2 tickets.
Tickets for public transportation priced 350 HUF are available at the airport from BKK at its customer service points, from the post office, the newsagents (Relay) and from ticket machines at the bus stop. It is also possible to purchase a ticket from the bus driver for 450 HUF.
At the ticket machines you can pay with credit card.

• Take bus 200E to Kőbánya-Kispest (KöKi) metro terminal.
  Validate one ticket on the bus.
• Take the M3 blue metro towards Újpest Központ
  Validate one ticket at the entrance (orangew box).
• Get off at Kálvin tér. Change to the M4 green metro line in direction to Keleti pályaudvar. No need to valdate a new ticket, the previous one is also valid on this line unless you get out of the station.
• Walk to the Buddhist center. See the map here: https://goo.gl/maps/MpgmAMMGEF92
  

More information available here: http://www.bud.hu/english/passengers/access_and_parking/by_public_transportation

Check the Budapest travel planner.

Airport Shuttle Service

Costs about 15 euros.
Information available here: https://www.minibud.hu/en

Special Help With the Transportation

• If you can't make it to the bus, contact us by email transfer@buddhizmusma.hu or phone Edina: +36 (30) 221 2383 Májki: +36 (20) 9676724
• If you need transportation from Becske to the airport before the end of the course contact us during the course.

Camping in Becske, at the course site

What to bring with you

tent, plastic foil, duct tape, sleeping bag, meditation cushion, rubber boots, raincoat, flashlight, cutlery, plate, glass, tick repellent, sunscreen, basic medication.

Meals are gluten and lactose-free. If you are on a special diet, please bring food for yourself, and as we cannot provide individual food storage, please bring non-perishable food.

Please pay special attention to the following:

• Tick alert!
• Heat alert!
• Save water!
• Tap water in the course area is not drinkwater!
• Selective rubbish collection!
• Due to fire prohibitions individual fire setting and cooking is NOT ALLOWED!
• Smoking is allowed ONLY in the designated areas!
• Please do not bring dogs or other pets into the course area!

Blood donation during the course

Date: 3th July from 9am to 3pm

If you are an EU citizen and wish to donate, you may do so. You need proof of identity (passport or ID card) for this.

Further information

Child care

During the course child care is available for children between age 4 and 14. Child care is provided by professional helpers and parents. If you need child care, please register your child(ren). At registration we need your statement of consent on child care. The price is 1 EUR for half a day, and child care is adapted to the program, however we close the latest at 6pm. For families, we provide separate campsite behind the bathhouses, close to the playground.

We kindly ask parents to arrange drinking water, sun and tick protection for their child(ren) during the whole course. We would like to draw the attention of parents to pay attention to their older children and how they spend their time, in order not to harm themselves, their friends or the belongings and valuables of our friends and the community.

We appreciate your understanding.!