Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Four Seasons Gresham Palace
This magnificent 179-room hotel was created out of the long-derelict art nouveau Gresham Palace (1906) and a lot of blood, sweat and tears...
Connection Guesthouse
It’s all change at this very central gay guesthouse above a leafy courtyard that was recently stripped naked, scrubbed clean and then dressed to the nines. Pretty girl...
Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest
Essentially for business travellers on hefty expense accounts, the Kempinski offers European service, American efficiency, Hungarian charm and fusion Japanese food at the all-star Nobu...
Medosz Hotel
One of the most central cheap hotels in Pest, the Medosz is just opposite the restaurants and bars of Liszt Ferenc tér...
Art'otel Budapest, By Park Plaza
The Art’otel is a minimalist establishment that would not look out of place in London or New York...
Alfa Hotel Fiesta
This attractive boutique hotel, under the management of a small Italian hotel chain, has 112 tastefully furnished rooms and a vaulted wine-cellar restaurant just minutes from Pest’s main square.
Le Meridien Budapest
Le Meridien’s public areas and its 218 guestrooms spread over seven floors are dripping in brocade and French polished furniture – think royalty over rock star...
Corinthia Hotel Budapest
Decades in the remaking, the one-time Royal Hotel on the Big Ring Road is now a very grand 414-room, five-star hotel...
Atlas City Hotel
This enormous place spread over eight floors in less-than-salubrious district VIII has 136 standard (though comfortable) and renovated singles, doubles, triples and quads as well as 36 superior doubles, four of them with jacuzzis...
Carlton Hotel Budapest
This 95-room hotel at the foot of Castle Hill and at the end of a narrow cul-de-sac in Víziváros is a good choice if you plan to divide your time equally between Pest and Buda. Half a dozen rooms lead into a small courtyard garden.
K&K Hotel Opera
This upbeat Austrian-owned place just behind the Hungarian State Opera House has 206 rooms spread over seven floors. They’re on the smallish side and decorated in unusually cheerful colours, which raises the tenor of the whole place...
Mamaison Hotel Andrassy Budapest
This stunning five-star hotel just off leafy Andrássy út (enter from Munkácsy Mihály utca 5-7) has 70 tastefully decorated rooms (almost half of which have balconies) in a listed building...
King's Hotel
The King's is Budapest's only kosher hotel and is within easy walking distance of both the orthodox and conservative synagogues. The hotel's restaurant is lemehadrin (or glatt) kosher and supervised by the chief rabbi of Budapest...
Central Basilica Hotel
Fancy rolling out of bed and into church? This new 47-room hostelry house in a lovely classical building looks the Basilica of St Stephen square in the face and the more expensive superior rooms (eg No 105) offer unparalleled view of same...
Hotel Sissi
Named in honour of Elizabeth, the Habs-burg empress, Hungarian queen and consort of Franz Joseph much beloved by Hungarians, the Hotel Sissi is decorated in a minimalist-cum-elegant sort of style, and the 44 guestrooms spread over six floors are of ...
Novotel Szeged
This is a modern 136-room hotel near a noisy stretch of road but with good views of the river, and rooms with all the trimmings.
Hotel Normafa
This 62-room guesthouse-cum-hotel sits atop Sváb-hegy on the edge of the Buda Hills protected nature area. It has a gorgeous swimming pool, a fitness room and sauna, and a highly praised restaurant...
Mercure Budapest Museum Hotel
This hotel, although it is part of an expanding chain, is in a lovely building dating from 1890 that is interesting enough to warrant consideration...
Hilton Budapest West End
The Hilton chain's more central property adjoins the massive West End City Centre shopping mall and offers every type of facility and food and beverage outlet imaginable...
Hotel Palatinus City Center
If you're after Art Nouveau glamour, Palatinus is the place in Pécs. The amazing, marble reception has a soaring glass ceiling, and the 'ball-room' makes you want to get your most expensive frock/tux on and waltz around...
Hilton Budapest
Perched above the Danube on Castle Hill, the Hilton was built carefully in and around a 14th-century church and baroque college (though it still has its uber-preservationist detractors)...
Radisson Blu Beke Hotel, Budapest
Though it bears the stigma of being 'just another chain hotel', the 247-room Béke (or 'Peace') Hotel has several things in its favour: a very central location on the larger of Budapest's two main ring roads, a lovely Eclectic building dating from 19...