Eger – wine tasting in the Valley of the Beautiful Women

Summary
- Getting there – trains leave every hour or so from Budapest’s Keleti station, and it’s less than a 10min taxi into the centre of Eger / the Valley of the Beautiful Women
- Accommodation – we stayed at the Hotel Senator which had a perfect location and felt like going back in time a bit. Slightly overpriced (USD100 per night) and maybe a tad basic in places, but worth it for the location and the randomness
highlights

#1 Wandering through the small, but very pretty, Valley of the Beautiful Women with its 40+ wine cellars wrapping around the central park

#2 Sampling wines (once you get over the randomness!) in the deep wine cellars carved into the Valley of The Beautiful Women

#3 Sitting for a drink in the main square of Eger and looking over the surprisingly impressive Minorite Church

#4 Walking through the cute and lively streets of Eger
Experiences nearby

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Score Detail
Background - how many times have you asked someone what a travel experience was like and the response was "amazing" or "awesome"? That response is nice to know, but it makes it hard to differentiate that experience compared to others. That is exactly what these scores are trying to do - differentiate the experience by giving a score out of 10 based on 6 categories and then giving an overall experience score
This overall experience score is calculated by: take the highest of the "Culture" or "Nature" score (1-10) + "Fun factor" (1-10) + "Avoiding the crowds" (1-10) + highest of the "Unique" or "World Famous score" (1-10). Then convert into a score out of 100
Extra detail - the logic being that I find all of the 6 individual scores important, but I don't want to mark an experience down just because it doesn't cover both "Culture" and "Nature", or because it isn't both "World Famous" and "Unique". Take the examples of Safari in The Serengeti and walking through Rome - they both appeal at opposite ends of the nature / culture spectrum, and you can have a fantastic time without needing to appeal to both sides. So, their overall scores aren't penalized for their lack of one or the other, and I've done the same for "World Famous" vs "Unique". But . . . I do think that the "Fun factor" of an experience is important, irrelevant of other factors, and so is "Avoiding the Crowds" (or where there are crowds that add to the experience). So, both of these scores are standalone