Budapest, Hungary

I thought we could take an overnight train from 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. from Zagreb to Budapest. I primarily thought this because it was posted on the train service's website. We were quite surprised when we arrived at the Zagreb train station and learned there was only the 4:00 p.m. train. We then did a whirlwind tour of Zagreb in four hours and boarded the non air conditioned train to Budapest.

When we arrived in Budapest around 10:00 p.m., we were a bit hard-pressed to find a room, since we didn't think we'd be arriving in Budapest until a day later and didn't reserve anything. After stopping in three different hotels/hostels, one hostel let us use their computers to look for a room online. We used Hotwire and booked a surprise hotel for $77. It ended up being the Intercontinental right along the Danube, so we lived fancy for one night.