No, hilarious is your not bothering to read the article properly. Budapest and Bucharest are each mentioned exactly once and appropriately in context.

"A Hungarian police car stops the bus shortly before Budapest, and once again demands €200" and " Others were back in Romania only briefly because they needed to take care of paperwork in Bucharest."

The text was changed, I saw the 'Budapest' line as well.

Looks like this may have been changed, since the GP quotes the same line about Bucharest, but it says Budapest.

OK - fair enough! That's obviously what's happened. Not so hilarious after all.

It is indeed confusing. Looks like proof readers also missed it.

Bucharest and Budapest are often confused.

I know :) but I still find it amusing. In a similar vein, in most Hollywood movies Romanians are presents as thugs, but with Russian names.