With the weather warming up, this might be your last chance to don your skates and draw figure eights. And, at 2pm tomorrow, Friday, you can skate for free at Budapest’s biggest alfresco rink in City Park, backdropped by beautiful Vajdahunyad Castle. It’s all part of National Ice Skating Day to honour Hungary’s first Winter Olympic victory in 2018.
Whether you amaze people with your smooth moves on ice or amuse them with epic falls, you can also celebrate National Ice Skating Day at City Park with champagne sent by Olympic sprint legend Usain Bolt. On 22 February last year, Hungary won its first ever gold medal at the Winter Olympics – and the four triumphant Hungarians posed lightning-style afterwards.
To mark this first anniversary, everyone is being offered free skating from 2pm, for precisely two hours and 22 minutes.
Between 5pm and 9pm, when regular prices apply, a party on ice will feature Hungarian skating greats. And to crown the festivities, at 7pm celebratory champagne will be popped, a gift from none other than Usain Bolt. In 2018, the Jamaican sprinter
offered a bottle of Mumm to anyone who would strike his lightning-bolt pose on the podium at the Winter Olympics. Sure enough, the victorious Hungarian quartet did the deed and, as good as his word, Bolt sent the champers. Why not throw your own shapes on the ice before they crack open the bubbly?
City Park Ice Rink District XIV. Olof Palme sétány 5
