“Budapest....an interesting, beautiful European city.”

Budapest is a wonderful, friendly and interesting city located in central Europe. The citizens are helpful, the food is excellent and there are many,many historical places of interest. The museums are first rate. Public transportation was timely and very affordable. I would recommend anyone going to Europe to try and experience Hungary and it's beautiful capital.

“Excellent experience”

Premium Apartman House in Budapest was better than I originally expected. The building is new, staff is courteous and helpful, surrounding area is pleasant and quiet. The apàrtments are well equipped with kitchen, electrical oven with four burners, all that is necessary to cook, all equipment is new and perfectly functional. You have hard wired internet at no cost, with excellent speed. There is a supermarket (Spar) in the very same building (if it is raining you don´t even need an umbrella to go to the supermarket). Location is a little away from downtown and the tourist area but public transport is easily available and plentiful. Bus number 105 will take you to the Szcheny bridge, to the Buda castle and everything around it, to the Millenium Monument and all that is around it, etc... Tram number 14 will take you directly to the largest shopping in Budapest. Both rooms I used had a balcony to a nice square where children played.

“good place to stay”

I would say this hotel is perfect for a more independent and less fussy traveller. The room I had was great, more than enough space for myself to have a really good rest. The room was basically an apartment with everything but a washing machine supplied, the complex has a Spar Supermarket on the property so you can stock up on all the stuff you need. The room only had 2 english language channels on the TV, CNN and Euro News, so that may be a problem for some?. The centre of Budapest is a quick tram and underground ride away, perhaps an honest 20 minutes plus into Budapest but it's an easy journey aslong as you have travel passes which make life so much easier. The hotel staff spoke decent english so communication was no problem. Overall a very nice experience which you should try for yourself.

“Very good in places; some disappointments.”

We stayed to attend Sziget and it was fine, only taking 4 stops on the tram then 1 stop on the train. However, the receptionist told us on the day 1 that it was a 20 min walk so we decided do that, only to find that it was actually an hour walk in 33 deg heat on unpavemented roads so we really should have taken public transport (and we did afterwards). It was not in a particularly handy location for the touristy areas but we managed fine. We had to move rooms because we were given one without a balcony as booked. It was lovely and large for the price and the kitchen was well equipped. The beds are 2 pushed together so there is a seam down the middle. The shower looked a bit iffy but the pressure was great; it always leaked heavily though and left the bathroom flooded. The apartment was clean except for some food waste under the chairs that we discovered when we moved one of them. It was very quiet at all times and you had to hand your key in every time you left- this did not pose a problem. The staff were very polite. However, when we got back I realised I had left something- it was worth about £20 and definitely should have been identified as lost property rather than something left behind intentionally. However, on emailing they took a few days to get back to me saying that the item had not been found. I know exactly where it was so it was either thrown away or kept by the housekeeping. This put a bit of a dampener on what would have otherwise been a fine stay.