Win Budapest Comic Con VIP Tickets with Your BudapestGO Pass – Tourist Hack Alert!
Budapest just quietly dropped one of the nerdiest travel hacks of the year: by buying your regular public transport pass in the BudapestGO app this February, you can actually win VIP tickets – even an Ultra VIP weekend with hotel – to Budapest Comic Con 2026 at HUNGEXPO.
What Is Budapest Comic Con – And Why Should Tourists Care?
Budapest Comic Con is Hungary’s biggest pop-culture festival, a two–day geek paradise where movies, series, comics, anime, manga, gaming and cosplay all move in together under one very enthusiastic roof. The 2026 edition takes place on March 21–22 at HUNGEXPO, in Budapest’s 10th district, easily reachable by public transport from the city centre, so you can combine sightseeing with full–on fandom immersion.
Over the weekend you can wander through huge halls filled with merch stalls, indie comic artists, themed photo spots, gaming corners and cosplay contests that are basically walking Instagram content. International and local guests from movies, TV series and the comic world show up for Q&A panels, autograph sessions and photo ops, so there is a decent chance your Budapest city break will also include an awkwardly star-struck selfie.
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How BudapestGO Turns Your Transport Pass Into a Comic Con Ticket
BudapestGO is Budapest’s official public transport app, available in English, where you can plan your journeys in real time and buy digital tickets and passes for trams, buses, metro and even some regional trains in one place. For tourists this is already a lifesaver: no guessing which ticket machine to use, no panic at the turnstiles, and you get push notifications if there are service changes on your route.
This February, the app levels up: if you buy one of the selected passes in BudapestGO between 1–28 February 2026 and then register it on the dedicated online form by 2 March, 14:00, you automatically enter the “BudapestGO x Comic Con” prize draw. Your otherwise perfectly ordinary pass suddenly becomes a golden ticket that might just teleport you straight into the VIP zone of Budapest Comic Con – no lightspeed required.
To play along in this little real–life side quest, you need to: buy an eligible pass in the BudapestGO app within the promo period, wait a few minutes after purchase so the system recognises it, then register your details and the transaction ID on the bkk.hu/comiccon page by the deadline. One pass means one registration, but if you stock up on multiple passes, you can register each of them and multiply your chances, all with the same email address. The game is open to adults over 18, and you need to be free from any outstanding penalty with BKK at the time of the draw – basically, pay your fines like a responsible superhero and you’re good.
What You Can Win – From Day Tickets to Ultra VIP Weekend
The prize pool reads like a loot drop after a boss fight. At the top sits the Ultra VIP bundle for two, including an Ultra VIP pass pair for both days of Budapest Comic Con 2026 plus one night in a four–star hotel right next to HUNGEXPO’s exhibition grounds. The Expo Tower by Mellow Mood Hotels (previously known as Expo Congress Hotel) stands literally beside the complex, which means your morning commute to Comic Con is about as long as a dramatic cape swirl.
An Ultra VIP pass covers entry for both days, early access from 9:00, admission to the VIP zone, three combined tickets for selected actors, fast lanes for photos and autographs in the actor zone, a hefty merch discount at the official Comic Con shop, snack buffet on both days, an extra meal coupon, free cloakroom and luggage storage, plus a whole constellation of themed goodies from lanyards and wristbands to posters, fun bags, figurines and collectible items. This is the “I did Budapest Comic Con properly” package, and your BudapestGO pass is your raffle ticket to it.
Below the main prize there are multiple VIP pass pairs up for grabs, also valid for both days, with early entry, VIP zone access, fast lanes, merch discount, snacks, free cloakroom and a bundle of gifts like canvas bags, filmsy–in–the–best–way T–shirts and printed art you’ll struggle to fit into your suitcase. Then come the classic normal daily ticket pairs for Saturday and Sunday, which are still excellent wins: they give you and a friend or travel buddy full–day access to the entire event, with all the halls, stages, exhibits and cosplay madness that make the weekend unforgettable.
All prizes are transferable but not exchangeable for cash, so if you win while travelling with non–geek friends, you can become their favourite person by handing the passes over – or gently convert them to the fandom side. The draw itself takes place on 3 March 2026, and winners are both published (in partially anonymised form) on the official campaign page and contacted via the email they used during registration, with further details on how and when to collect their passes.
Why This Promo Is Perfect for Budapest Visitors
If you’re visiting Budapest in March, you probably already planned to hop on a few trams, maybe the legendary yellow M1 metro or a bus ride out to one of the baths – in other words, you were going to buy some sort of public transport ticket anyway. Using BudapestGO for that turns a practical purchase into a chance to win an entire weekend dedicated to the worlds you usually only see on your screen or in your books.
Comic Con is also a surprisingly good way to experience Hungarian culture with training wheels. Yes, it’s all about international pop culture, but you’ll be surrounded by local fans, vendors, artists and volunteers, you’ll hear Hungarian everywhere with lots of English mixed in, and you’ll pick up little bits of how Budapest people joke, queue, cosplay and generally enjoy themselves. Between panels you can still sneak out for a lángos, then be back in time for a live discussion about your favourite universe’s latest plot twist.
HUNGEXPO itself is easy to reach from central Budapest by public transport, making it simple to combine a Comic Con day with morning sightseeing or a late–night ruin bar exploration afterwards. Staying at a hotel near the venue, like the four–star property included in the Ultra VIP prize, cuts down on travel time even further – but even if you’re based in the city centre, BudapestGO will show you the fastest route with live updates, so your only real worry is whether your cosplay wig survives the metro.
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