Budapest to Auckland with China Eastern from €777 — 19% below the typical deal price of €960.
Tickets from €777 both ways — checked baggage included.
- Checked baggage: 2 × 23 kg
- Onboard meal: Hot meal
- WiFi: Paid wifi
- Cabin: 31″ pitch on A330 / 777 / A350 widebody
- Outbound — Layover in PVG: 18h 30m (Very long layover) 🌆
- Outbound — 🌆 18h 30m in Shanghai (Pudong) — Visit the Bund (52 European-architecture trading houses along the Huangpu), walk to Shanghai Tower observation deck at 546 m (632 m total — the tallest building in China), or see the French Concession (Wukang Road / Anfu Road heritage walks) (or Yu Garden + Old City (classical Ming-dynasty scholar's garden, 1559)). 45 min from PVG to the city · 240-hour visa-free transit at PVG covers stops up to 10 days (54+ nationalities, onward to a third country); EU/UK/CA/AU/NZ also have unilateral 30-day visa-free through Dec 31 2026 · EU/UK/CA/AU/NZ passports: 30-day visa-free; USA: 240-hour transit with third-country onward ticket · full layover guide →.
- Return — Layover in PVG: 20h 20m (Very long layover) 🌆
- Return — 🌆 20h 20m in Shanghai (Pudong) — Visit the Bund (52 European-architecture trading houses along the Huangpu), walk to Shanghai Tower observation deck at 546 m (632 m total — the tallest building in China), or see the French Concession (Wukang Road / Anfu Road heritage walks) (or Yu Garden + Old City (classical Ming-dynasty scholar's garden, 1559)). 45 min from PVG to the city · 240-hour visa-free transit at PVG covers stops up to 10 days (54+ nationalities, onward to a third country); EU/UK/CA/AU/NZ also have unilateral 30-day visa-free through Dec 31 2026 · EU/UK/CA/AU/NZ passports: 30-day visa-free; USA: 240-hour transit with third-country onward ticket · full layover guide →.
Both fares route through Shanghai Pudong, and both hand you a ~20-hour Shanghai layover on the way home — a full day to leave the airport and see the city before the final leg to Budapest. The real choice is the outbound:
- €777 (23 Aug) — a single stop with a big ~18-hour Shanghai layover outbound too. That is effectively two full Shanghai days, one at each end of your New Zealand trip. Slower door-to-door (about 41 hours out), but the most city time on one ticket.
- €784 (24 Aug) — a faster outbound: a short hop via Ningbo (about 3 hours there), then roughly 6 hours at Shanghai Pudong before Auckland — around 33 hours total, two stops. Less time on the ground going out (enough for a quick Maglev-in, Bund-and-back taster), but you reach Auckland sooner and still get the full ~20-hour Shanghai stop coming home.
Either way the long layover is a feature, not a delay. China’s transit visa-exemption — extended in December 2024 to a 240-hour (10-day) stay for eligible nationalities, Hungary included — lets you leave the airport when you’re transiting to a third country, which Budapest–Auckland is in both directions. Confirm the current rules and that your passport qualifies before you count on it.
From Pudong the Maglev hits 300 km/h and reaches the edge of the city in about eight minutes, where Metro Line 2 carries on downtown. With a day in hand: walk the Bund at dusk for the Pudong skyline across the Huangpu, lose an hour in the lanes and dumpling houses around Yuyuan Garden, and slow down under the plane trees of the former French Concession.
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23 Aug – 7 Sep€777✈︎ 41h 05m · 1 stopSkyscanner →
24 Aug – 7 Sep€784✈︎ 41h 05m · 1 stopSkyscanner →
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