Must see hotels in Hungary

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…

Having worn many hats over the centuries – Carmelite convent, home for coal miners, mental hospital – this 15th-century monastery has now been sensitively…

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…

We love, love, love this 10-room guesthouse on a quiet street that looks onto an inner courtyard garden. Four of the rooms are upstairs in the terraced…

Wow. Our favourite boutique hotel in Szeged is a jaw-dropper. Set in a historic town house built by a wealthy goldsmith in 1859, it counts a dozen rooms,…

Located in one of the oldest buildings in Debrecen, a burgher house dating from the 1690s, the 'Old Post Office' (one of its many avatars over the…

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…

Just north of the centre, the Centrum looks a little like your grandmother’s house – if she collected Victorian bric-a-brac. Flowery odds and ends line…

This stunner of a resort hotel, right on the lake, about 1.5km from the town centre, has 43 rooms and suites in several buildings spread over 2.5 hectares…

Up to nine traditional houses that could easily double as folk museums are available for rent throughout the Old Village. Some of the whitewashed cottages…

This attractive chalet-like guesthouse about 2.5km east of the village on the road to Debrecen is surrounded by a huge garden with large sitting area and…

This delightful guesthouse, just down the road from the Tákos Calvinist church, has four large and bright bedrooms stuffed with pillows and duvets and a…

An excellent and central choice is this 13-room inn in the heart of Tokaj. Most rooms look onto a quiet köz (lane) so sleep is guaranteed. The long,…