Sleepless locals tire of Budapest party paradise

Budapest

BIGGER than Prague and some say more beautiful, Budapest's belle epoque boulevards, cafes and locals playing chess in steaming outdoor thermal spas have long attracted tourists.

But for some locals, the city's tourism sector is booming too literally. "My walls shake from music at night, it's impossible to sleep," said Dora Garai, a weary resident of the Hungarian capital's inner seventh district, these days called the "party quarter".

"In the morning, I often have to clean vomit off my car," she said, the flat where she has lived all her life a beer can's throw away from a raucous 2,000-capacity all-night bar complex.

The 32-year-old now fronts a residents' group that has held marches in protest at the situation, m…