Must-see hotels in Budapest

  • Aria Hotel Budapest

    Budapest

    Our favourite new hotel in Budapest, the Aria is a music-themed affair built around an old townhouse, with Jazz, Opera, Classical and Pop Wings. Each of…

  • Four Seasons Gresham Palace Hotel

    Budapest

    This one-of-a-kind luxury hotel was created out of the long-derelict art nouveau Gresham Palace (1907) and no expense was spared to piece back together…

  • Shantee House

    Budapest

    Budapest’s first hostel (then known as the Back-Pack Guesthouse), the Shantee has added two floors to its colourful suburban 'villa' in south Buda. It's…

  • Mamaison Residence Izabella

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    This fabulous conversion of a 19th-century Eclectic building has 38 apartments measuring between 45 and 97 sq metres just off swanky Andrássy út. The…

  • Lánchíd 19

    Castle District

    This award-winning boutique hostelry facing the Danube has the wow factor. Each of the 45 rooms and three ‘panoramic’ suites is different, with…

  • Kapital Inn

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    A stylishly decorated and well-run guesthouse with five luxurious rooms and a two-bed suite on the 4th floor of a beautiful 1893 building. The sleek,…

  • Brody House

    Budapest

    Offering retro chic at its hippest, this one-time residence of the prime minister when parliament sat at No 8 (today's Italian Cultural Centre) has been…

  • Hotel Palazzo Zichy

    Budapest

    Once the sumptuous 19th-century residence of the aristocrat Nándor Zichy and his family, the 'palace' has been transformed into a lovely hotel, with its…

  • Bohem Art Hotel

    Budapest

    Though some of the 60 rooms at this delightful small hotel are a little on the compact side, each one is decorated in its own individual style (the larger…

  • Hive Party Hostel

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    This enormous and very central place, with more than 50 rooms of all sizes and shapes over several levels, is for the slightly better-heeled budget…

  • Hotel Rum, a whimsical design boutique hotel in downtown Budapest

    Hotel Rum

    Budapest

    Conceived by local designers, the 40 rooms at this whimsical design hotel fall into four categories, each named after a different rum and ranging from…

  • The Pest-Buda boutique hotel and bistro

    Pest-Buda Bistro & Hotel

    Castle District

    There's a lot to love about this fantastic, 10-room boutique hotel that has opened on the site of Hungary's oldest hotel. Each room is individually…

  • Mamaison Hotel Andrassy Budapest

    Budapest

    This sleek boutique hotel features contemporary, well-appointed rooms decked out in warm shades. Plasma-screen TVs and showers are de rigueur in standard…

  • Katona Apartments

    Budapest

    Simply furnished and cleverly arranged apartments on the 1st floor of quiet old block right in the heart of Belváros. Additional twin beds pull out from…

  • Hotel Papillon

    Óbuda & Buda Hills

    This cosy hotel in Rózsadomb (Rose Hill) has a delightful back garden with a small swimming pool, and some of the 20 rooms have balconies. There are also…

  • Loft Hostel

    Budapest

    This hostel may well succeed in its loft-y aspirations to be the hottest backpacker magnet in town. Travellers end up lingering longer than expected,…

  • The Gellért Hotel is a striking example of Budapest art nouveau.

    Danubius Hotel Gellért

    Budapest

    Buda’s grande dame is a 234-room four-star hotel with loads of character. Completed in 1918, the hotel contains examples of art nouveau, notably the…

  • Pal's Hostel

    Budapest

    This is a tough nut to crack. When is a hostel not a hostel? When it’s a string of apartments spread throughout Lipótváros, for which the good folk at…

  • Gerlóczy Rooms deLux

    Budapest

    Gerlóczy hits the mark with an excellent combination of good value, decor and atmosphere. Set over four floors of an 1890s building on an attractive…

  • Prestige Hotel Budapest

    Budapest

    With its enormous chandeliers, gold and white cloud mosaics and sofas in rust-coloured crushed velvet, this hotel is almost slipping into the kitsch…

  • Full Moon Design Hostel

    Budapest

    With oversized portraits of Joplin and Hendrix in the colourful lobby and an upbeat party atmosphere, this is a hostel for the 21st century. There's a…

  • Maverick City Lodge

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    Sister to the Maverick Hostel, the more comfortable Maverick City Lodge has three floors of dorms and private rooms, decorated in a modern, warehouse…

  • Wombat's

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    Directly opposite the Király utca entrance to buzzing Gozsdu udvar, this slick and well-equipped hostel can accommodate a whopping 465 guests in its 120…

  • Continental Hotel Budapest

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    A sympathetic renovation of the glorious Hungária Fürdő (Hungaria Bath), the Continental has atmosphere and style in spades. With 272 large and…

  • Hotel Medos

    Budapest

    One of the most central cheaper hotels in Pest, the Medos (they've now dropped the final 'z') is just opposite the restaurants and bars of Liszt Ferenc…

  • Corinthia Hotel Budapest

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    The erstwhile Royal Hotel is now the very grand, 440-room five-star Corinthia. Its lobby – a double atrium with massive marble staircase – is among the…

  • Home-Made Hostel

    Budapest

    This homey, extremely welcoming hostel with 20 beds in four rooms has recycled tables hanging upside down from the ceiling and old valises under the beds…

  • Bazaar Hostel

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    This very central, colourful (including playful wall art by a local artist) and purpose-built hostel counts one private double, one four-bed, four six-bed…

  • Garibaldi Guesthouse & Apartments

    Budapest

    This welcoming guesthouse has four rooms with shared bathroom and two kitchens in a flat just around the corner from Parliament. In the same building,…

  • The Hilton Hotel on Castle Hill

    Hilton Budapest

    Castle District

    Perched above the Danube on Castle Hill, the Hilton was carefully built in and around a 14th-century church and baroque college. Its grey-hued rooms were…

  • St George Residence hotel in a 700-year-old building on Castle Hill

    St George Residence

    Castle District

    Housed in a venerable 700-year old building right in the heart of the Castle District, this somewhat over-the-top boutique hotel is all period grandeur,…

  • Casati Budapest Hotel

    Erzsébetváros & the Jewish Quarter

    The art-adorned reception area sets the tone at this classy hotel, set in a made-over 18th-century building that has tastefully retained a number of…

  • Hotel Victoria

    Castle District

    This rather elegant hotel has 27 comfortable and spacious rooms with million-dollar views of Parliament and the Danube (eg room 31). Despite its small…

  • Hotel Parlament

    Budapest

    This minimalist delight in Lipótváros has 65 beautifully designed rooms. Bonuses are the nonallergenic white pine floors, the self-service bar off the…

  • Kempinski Hotel Corvinus

    Budapest

    The public areas and suites at this large, high-end hotel remain among the classiest in town, though the standard, corporate-dull rooms are unlikely to…

  • Baroque Hostel

    Budapest

    Just across the street from City Park and a five-minute walk from Heroes' Sq, this hostel is run by travellers, for travellers. The dorms and private…

  • Art’otel Budapest

    Castle District

    The Art’otel Budapest is a minimalist establishment that would not look out of place in London or New York. But what makes this 165-room place unique is…

  • Maverick Hostel

    Budapest

    A clean, well-run hostel with 19 rooms over three floors in a splendid old building, the Maverick has a kitchen on each floor, a comfortable common room,…

  • Corvin Hotel Budapest

    Budapest

    What were once two separate hotels have come together to form a very comfortable 91-room place on a quiet street in Ferencváros. The four-star Corvin wing…

  • Mirage Medic Hotel

    Budapest

    The location couldn't be grander – mere steps from Heroes' Sq and City Park – at this hotel boasting 37 well-kitted-out rooms over three floors, plus a…

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