Lake Balaton, Hungary - Europe’s largest lake is reclaiming its place as one of the Europe’s watersport playgrounds.
With the building of an exclusive private Yacht Club and Marina, plus a private beach, Lake Balaton is now producing the facilities the affluent, international yachting community demands. With 592 square kilometres of water, there’s room for all and the sailing community of Europe is visiting this peaceful and stunning lake in increasing numbers every year.
BL Yacht Club is a highly exclusive and gated development being built on the south side of the largest lake in Europe. An exclusive new marina with private yacht club is also being built as part of this development.
The opportunity is there to buy one of the 153 highly specified apartments spread across 17 low-level blocks. Each apartment comes with the option of its own private yachting berth, located within the development’s spectacular marina.
The 1, 2 or 3 bedroom homes will cost from £66,000 - £207,000.
The developer is CIB Bank. They are also building on site a leisure complex with squash courts, sauna, thermal spas and golf. Fishing, sunbathing, swimming and sailing are free.
For central Europeans, this “Hungarian Sea” has long been a holiday mecca. The lake itself is 48 miles long and never more than a two or three metres deep, it warms up quickly in the sun, which makes it popular for watersports.
Lake Balaton is also in the heart of Hungary’s wine region providing excellent tours of vineyards just yards from the lake.
UK visitors are now able to follow suit with Ryanair becoming the first airline to introduce direct flights from London to Lake Balaton’s newly opened airport. Brand-new Boeing 737s make the flight in just over 2 hours, for only £70 return. Ryanair expects 40,000 passengers to fly from the UK to Balaton in 2006.
Further along the lake from the Yacht Club and Marina, there arevineyards on hills, unspoilt villages, a natural spa and a very pleasing university town, Keszthely, with a leafy, pedestrian main street lined with cafés, and somewhere along its length you’ll find a David Beckham in marzipan (in the Marzipan Museum) and a Houses of Parliament in snails (that’s Budapest’s Houses of Parliament, and many millions of snails).