Budapest
offers lodging options for every budget.
From small hotels to hostels or rooms in private homes, going to
luxury hotels housed in recently upgraded historic buildings, until
large chain hotels with availability of apartments and suites.
The
city has more visits in the period between April and May and then in
September, or during special events, such as the Grand Prix of
Formula 1 or the Sziget
Festival
in August, a global event, which gathers in a week almost half a
million attendance for music, theatrical, cinema and multimedia
performances. In these times, to find a hotel room in Budapest can be
difficult, making it advisable to make a reservation with advance.
Budapest is divided by the Danube
River
in Buda
and Pest.
The most tourist part is certainly Pest, even if it is on the Buda
side that you can find the constituency of Tabán,
with the Var
district, the Castle
and the Citadel.
In Budapest, 4 or 5 star hotels are located in the central districts
as Belváros,
Lipótváros,
the centre of Pest,
in baroque style, where there is also the Vásárcsarnok,
a huge covered market. Other
areas with
hotels of prestige are the 6th
constituency (Terézváros), where there are the shopping streets and
the embassies; the constituency of Erzsébetváros
where there is the Jewish
quarter and an architecture which has remained intact, with alleys
and small courtyards. Újbuda
is the university district of Budapest, with pensions, 2 or 3 star
hotels and several economic lodging solutions.