This question has come up a number of times in mommy-baby group: where can one go shopping for baby in Budapest? Of course, many basic items for baby (like carseats, prams/strollers, clothes, linens, toys, carriers, diapers, bottles, etc) can be purchased at your local Tesco, Auchan or Cora. Kika and Ikea have lots of baby furniture and clever little accessories, and even smaller supermarkets like Kaiser’s will carry some baby items, many of them at surprisingly better prices than some baby stores. So it’s worth checking out your supermarket’s baby aisle when you’re doing your grocery shopping.

There are two large baby chains in Budapest (and to some extent in the rest of Hungary, too). These two are Brendon and Kenguru Gold. Each has several locations and stores of various sizes scattered all over. They sell a very wide variety of baby products, so it may be worth visiting them just to get a sense of what types of products are out there. They are, however, most decidedly not cheap.

Additionally, all of the major malls have at least one baby store, so look around the next time you visit Mammut, Árkád, WestEnd, MOM Park, Arena, Duna Plaza, Asia Center, Pólus, Europark, Lurdy Ház, Campona, etc. (Click on the links to see the list of stores at these malls.) Again, stores found in malls are usually not in the cheap category.

Of course, there are also a good number of independent, smaller stores and discount warehouses where they sell baby related items. Here are some of them broken down by district. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list.