The grass is maintained and clean. Not the toilet though, where the tap has time to get dusty, and then the dust turns into mud... An elderly person always sits there and yells at you if you forget to go in with slippers on. I think the same attention should be focused on how much hand soap and toilet paper is left there. Next time I'll just take my own, but I think it could be expected as you pay an entrance fee already. It's a pain to find a parking spot there. The beach has several buffets to curb your hunger with quite good food and Balaton prices. Not the best place, but better than...
Read moreSzabadisóstó, Balatonszabadi-Sóstó, Siófok-Sóstó are all denoting the same place of the free of charge beach on the southern shore of Lake Balaton (Central Transdanubia, Hungary, European Union) located right next to the beach that is only accessible if entrance fee was paid. This free beach is sandwiched between the lake and the National Rail mainline so it is rather tiny. Yet, it still has toilet facilities (available during daytime for free of charge, throughout the summer season), a couple of restaurants and even two changing rooms/cabins on-site scattered...
Read moreVery clean area covered with grass. There is a playground, two bars, ice cream booths, toilet facilities, a lot of space to sit on the grass, even during the weekend. Since the waterfront is covered with large stones, you go down to the lake via stairs. There are stairs every 50 meters. The water was very clean, not transparent but clean with a blue-green hue with white sand at the bottom. Very nice place, for which you have to pay though. Daily tickets for a family of four will cost you around 5000 HUF. But it's free...
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