Budapest, Hungary

Bagatelle Gardenhouse

Price per night from$171.59

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR166.77), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Blooming lovely

Setting

Leafy Buda ’burb

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Bagatelle Gardenhouse is as green-minded as it is green-fingered, with its local-is-best approach and owner-tended gardens. This Buda boutique hotel plants you on the slow-paced city fringes, where your hosts have cultivated a community with their all-day bistro Villa Bagatelle and bakery Brót. The six individually styled bedrooms are a vibrant bouquet of Hungarian artwork, literature and furnishings, rooted in Ágnes and Albrecht’s cosmopolitan passions. There are only delights down this primrose path.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Six.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability, and you’ll need to give notice if you’ll be arriving after 8pm.

More details

Rates at Bagatelle Gardenhouse include à la carte breakfast in the garden room, which also has a selection of snacks, fruit, soft drinks and coffee available all day; alcoholic drinks are available for an extra charge.

Also

Unfortunately, this bijou hotel is not suitable if you have reduced mobility.

At the hotel

Large garden and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Bang & Olufsen Bluetooth speaker, air-conditioning, free glass-bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and organic bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Each room at Bagatelle Gardenhouse has an individual source of inspiration, which lies close to owners Ágnes and Albrecht’s hearts: music, theatre, painting, nature. Made for bookworms, Betű (the Hungarian word for ‘letter’) has a Fritz Hansen-designed egg chair and a library-framed window seat that overlooks the garden, a view that might distract you from the translated tome you’ve plucked from the well-stocked shelves. We can’t help but sing Rapszódia’s praises: this spacious room nods to the city’s music scene with its perfect-acoustic high ceilings and curtain-red furnishings; you might also be moved to pen lyrics from the sunset-facing terrace.

Packing tips

You won’t need reading material if you’re staying in book-adorned Betű, but an appreciation for all things cultural will serve you well at this creatively inclined retreat.

Also

The garden remains a serene spot throughout the seasons for admiring the magnolia-hued hotel.

Children

Welcome, but better suited to older kids. The hotel only has one baby cot or extra bed for an under-11, which can be added to Babér or Rapszódia for an additional charge; Rapszódia can also connect to Fülemüle. There’s a play corner in the bistro.

Sustainability efforts

Bagatelle Gardenhouse is green in both senses: verdant gardens surround the hotel; single-use plastic is eschewed in favour of recyclable materials, and you’ll find glass-bottled water and organic bath products in your room. Suppliers are kept close-to-home, with furniture sourced from Hungarian designers and bread from the hotel’s artisan bakery, which partners with a local charity.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

By the windows or on the terrace are hard to beat on a sunny day.

Dress Code

Your standard city-break get-up, perhaps with some floral flourishes to nod to the whimsical gardens.

Hotel restaurant

Breakfast from the hotel’s adjoining restaurant, Villa Bagatelle, is served in the greenery-gazing garden room each morning. It’s included with your stay and you can choose from options like a poached egg-topped avocado salad, full fry-up or indulgent waffles. The bright bistro is framed by sunlight-streaming windows, or enjoy all-day breakfast and seasonal lunch plates alfresco at one of the parasol-shaded tables. Day-starting pastries come from the hotel’s bakery, Brót, also just next door. Its traditional cakes and barista-made brews make this café a neighbourhood favourite, but it’s their Ardenner sourdough bread that gets the town talking. 

Hotel bar

The garden room's fridge is stocked with wine, beer and champagne, which you can help yourself to on an honesty basis; soft drinks are included with your stay. If you’d fancy a different tipple, you’re welcome to bring your own drinks and store them here, too.

Last orders

Villa Bagatelle is open for lunch and all-day breakfast from 8am to 6pm during the week, and 8am to 5pm on weekends; Brót opens from 7am during the week, but otherwise keeps the same hours.

Location

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Address
Bagatelle Gardenhouse
Németvölgyi út 15
Budapest
1126
Hungary

Bagatelle Gardenhouse may be set in the quieter, residential fringes of the Buda side of the city, but Budapest’s top sights are within easy reach.

Planes

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport is a 45-minute drive from the hotel; staff can arrange transfers on request and for an extra charge.

Trains

Rail routes from Vienna, Bratislava and Zagreb call at Budapest-Déli, which is a five-minute drive from the hotel.

Automobiles

There’s no need for your own wheels: public transport links, such as tram and bus stops, are a few minutes’ walk away, and taxis are easily arranged. If you choose to drive, there’s a few free parking spaces at the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Settle into a gentler pace of city living at Bagatelle Gardenhouse, starting with a lingering bakery-sourced breakfast or garden picnic. Dip your toe into Budapest’s storied bathing culture with a soak in Rudas Thermal Bath, which also has a sauna and an archway-framed pool. From here, you can tick off your Buda bucket list: scale the breath-snatching Citadella, brush up on national history at Buda Castle and marvel at the otherworldly Fisherman’s Bastion. Over in Pest, you could catch a candlelit concert at St. Stephen’s Basilica before mooching about the restaurant-lined Jewish Quarter.

Local restaurants

Take your preview from the names of the courses — classy, sexy, chic — at Déryné, a decadent bistro that delivers on atmosphere, long brunches and late-night dinners. ’Hood hangout Felicita charms with fresh pasta, generously topped pizzas and carefully curated interiors. Vibrant Leroy Bistro draws diners like moths to a flame with its neon-light-crowned bar, stained glass windows and globetrotting fusion menus.

Local cafés

Antique-clad Csészényi Café and Coffee Bean Roaster is a cosy spot for monthly-changing coffee blends and rich hot chocolates. A streamlined menu of specialty brews impresses at espresso bar Kontakt.

Local bars

You’ll get a taste for local living at beerhouse Paulaner Sörház, which brews and pours light lagers and hoppy ales. At city-surveying cocktail bar Leo Rooftop Budapest, you’ll only have eyes for its sweeping river views (and perhaps, its signature tipples).

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this garden-proud hotel in Buda and unpacked their picnic blankets and bread tins, a full account of their peaceful break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Bagatelle Gardenhouse in Budapest…

The sweet aroma of freshly baked goods and garden-grown blooms fragrance Bagatelle Gardenhouse, a six-room retreat on the subdued outskirts of Buda. Owners Ágnes and Albrecht are house-proud, particularly so of their verdant grounds that backdrop unhurried breakfasts and birdsong-soundtracked picnics.

As lovely as the outdoors are, what’s on the inside counts too. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the breakfast-serving garden room, kitted out in stem greens and petal pastels, and each bedroom pays homage to Ágnes and Albrecht’s favourite pastimes. Paletta is reminiscent of an artist’s studio with its buttercup-yellow furnishings and Erzsébet Vojnich artwork; Bet?’s window seat is hugged by Hungarian-literature-lined bookshelves, and nightingale-nodding Fülemüle has a garden-surveying balcony.

And if the name Bagatelle is conjuring up baguette-related thoughts, you wouldn’t be far off: the hotel’s bakery Brót whips up buttery pastries and fluffy sourdough loaves next door, alongside breakfast-famed dining spot, Villa Bagatelle. 

When Budapest’s hustle and bustle beckons, rest assured this rose-coloured retreat is your evergreen tonic.

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