Must-see hotels in 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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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

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