When I was a bright eyed bushy tailed student I dreamt about working for an ethical business, in 2002 I came home from Denmark where I studied environmental studies and looked for jobs in the sector. Not much luck there. Soon I realized that I should create my own job if want to work for a vegetarian company and in 2003 with the help of a vegetarian webwizard we started budaveg.
We had a lovely time during these years met people from all the continents, all vegetarian and all super nice, didn’t have one bad experience! It was a pleasure to meet, greet and show people around, and even go out with them to the many veggie restaurants Budapest has to offer.
But times are changing, and James’s parents are getting old and need daily help so we have decided to move back to the UK and thus will be unable to run our B&B. But we hope you will!
Budaveg is for sale! Budaveg is a well established site, with two excellent domains (budaveg.com and vegetarianhungary.com) with an average 260 visitors/ over 1000 hits a day, 220 subscribers (and we get roughly a new subscriber per week). We have a a very neat multilingual wordpress powered website, in English, German, Dutch, Italian and Danish a well designed attractive logo, and an active presence on other social media: 3 films on you tube, twitter fans, 243 fans on Facebook and massive collection of quality photos on flickr.
Budaveg is extremely well linked and our SEO is brilliant, if you put “budaveg” in google we come up first, if you put “vegetarian apartment Budapest” we come first too!
It is possible to buy or rent the budaveg apartment too but basically it can be run in any decent downtown apartment and is a big fish in a little pond. While the vegetarian community is made up of a small percentage of the world’s tourists, the community is growing every day and includes individuals from all walks of life. Budaveg’s customer base includes diverse groups from vegan hunt subs to young families who appreciate the family friendliness of the flat and Budapest in general.
We would love to find buyers who could take Budaveg to the next level and continue to provide a vegetarian apartment to the veggie visitors of Budapest.
Competition: Budaveg is unique and there is no other veggie B&B or apartment in Budapest. We are also the only one providing detailed and up-to-date info on vegetarian restaurants in English which guarantees the daily traffic, and our free e-book brings us a growing number of subscribers.
Growth/Expansion: Both the vegetarian community and self catering holidays are on the increase, budaveg is exceptionally well placed in search engines and the vegetarian cyber sphere. Budaveg would be well suited to expand into an incoming tourism business, a vegetarian or organic themed hotel or offer advertising to the local vegetarian or tourism businesses. Our long term plan was to start up a boutique hotel and a retreat in the beautiful Hungarian countryside.
Support/Training: 10 hours training offered for the website, blogging, managing social media, taking and managing inquiries and general questions regarding incoming tourism. I am happy to provide support on email for 6 weeks after the takeover and we have a super friendly wordpress expert who can give advice for a very reasonable price.
Budaveg can easily be run as a part time job, or buy a mum on maternity leave, you only need a little daily attention to check emails and update the blog/facebook! Our guests have been a pleasure to be with, it is a real joy to run a veggie B&B!
We are receiving inquires every week and so far I had to turn down 4 for this year already, I really hope somebody can take over the business as soon as possible.
We are selling budaveg at almost a cost price: please call or email if you are interested and I am sure we can work out a deal that benefit us both!
Till than we will continue to blog and update the website and our Facebook page to serve the English speaking vegetarian fans of Budapest.
Thank you for staying with us and supporting a vegetarian business and family!
with much love,
Zsofi, James, Hannah, Eva and Oliver







































