Address: Koerut erzsebet 43-49 , Budapest 1073, Hungary Show on map
Decades in the remaking, the one-time Royal Hotel on the Big Ring Road is now a very grand 414-room, five-star hotel, and its lobby - a double atrium with massive marble staircase - is among the most impressive in the capital. The hotel really is 'a legend reborn'.Dating back more than a century - it was the largest and most modern hotel in the Austro-Hungarian Empire when it opened in 1896 to mark the millennium of the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian Basin - the Royal has been fully restored. The Grand Ballroom, with its tracery and scrollwork, is a work of art (though, believe it or not, most of what you'll see here is new). Guestrooms, though sombrely furnished in shades of brown, tan and deep red, are large; the best ones give on to one of the atriums. The restored Royal Spa is now as modern as tomorrow.
Dating back more than a century - it was the largest and most modern hotel in the Austro-Hungarian Empire when it opened in 1896 to mark the millennium of the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian Basin - the Royal has been fully restored. The Grand Ballroom, with its tracery and scrollwork, is a work of art (though, believe it or not, most of what you'll see here is new). Guestrooms, though sombrely furnished in shades of brown, tan and deep red, are large; the best ones give on to one of the atriums. The restored Royal Spa is now as modern as tomorrow.
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Atmosphere: Opulent and Busy
Check-in / Check-out Earliest check-in: 2:00 PM Latest check-out time: 12:00 PM
US$195.00 per night
(US$97.50per person per night)
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For a glimpse at how the city can metamorphose street by street, cross the ring road and head southwest for 10 minutes down Dob utca to Klauzál tér, the centre of Jewish Budapest. Kádár is a great place for a quick traditional lunch.
Hungarian composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály gave concerts at the Royal Hotel in March 1910, which helped launch the so-called New Hungarian School of avant-garde music.
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