Budapest, Hungary

Hotel Gin Budapest

Price per night from$95.75

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR82.90), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Gin’s a tonic

Setting

Pest-side story

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Budapest is known for its potent fruity pálinka liquors (or the divisive Unicum…), but boutique bed and breakfast Hotel Gin Budapest is our preferred poison from the apéritif to digestif of your time in the city. Its rooms wrap around a towering vintage spiral staircase and have smooth modern styling (shades of grey, earthy carpeting, sleek woods); and the lobby lounge dishes out free coffee by day, or (charged) Hungarian wine by the bottle later on. But if you’re gagging for a namesake nip, the super-central downtown Pest location is close to all the action. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

35.

Check–Out

11am. Earliest check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability, and a charge of €10.

More details

Smith guests get a breakfast bag with their booking.

Also

The hotel has an elevator, but it's not best suited to disabled guests.

At the hotel

Concierge, free coffee in the lobby lounge, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, Nespresso coffee machine, minibar, Smeg kettle and teas, air-conditioning and heating. Some rooms have automatic window shades.

Our favourite rooms

Rooms are all similar in style, wearing a mod-Magyar look with soft greys and warm woods. Some rooms interconnect for groups of friends or families; and, for a bit more czardas-dancing space, the Comfy has a few more square metres. Those with vertigo may want to stay on the lower floors to avoid dizzying descents to the lobby.

Packing tips

Bring swimwear for thermal dips and flat shoes for cobbled stretches.

Also

On request, the hotel can set up a pyjama party with a beauty box, popcorn, a deck of cards, eye masks and a bottle of gin (naturally); plus a breakfast bag for the morning after.

Children

While the spiral staircase might not look toddler-friendly, some rooms here interconnect or fit three guests; but you’ll have to find your own family fun in the city.

Sustainability efforts

The hotel uses LED lightbulbs and a Smart system to turn off air-con when the windows are open, has organic bath products and has cut down on single-use plastics.

Food and Drink

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Dress Code

Jim-jams at Gin; city-ready threads at Rum.

Hotel restaurant

Hotel Gin’s a head-laying sort of hotel, with no restaurant of its own. But there’s a lot of bottle on the Kecskeméti Street crawl: sister stay Hotel Rum is steps away, with a brunch-edging menu at Solid Skybar, which has treats like smoked-trout Benedict with elderflower and apple, or a muffin with bacon jam, cheddar and pork belly. Also at Hotel Rum, Salt is a starred option for Hungarian fine dining, but you'll need to book well ahead. 

Hotel bar

Despite its gluggable name, the hotel doesn’t really have a bar; but there’s a selection of Hungarian wines-by-the-bottle on sale to drink in the stylish lobby lounge or take up to your room.

Last orders

Breakfast at Hotel Rum's Solid Skybar is from 7am to 10am.

Location

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Address
Hotel Gin Budapest
Bástya utca 35
Budapest
1056
Hungary

Hotel Gin Budapest sits downtown on the Pest side of the city, practically on the doorstep of the Hungarian National Museum.

Planes

Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport is around a 30-minute drive away; hotel staff can help arrange transfers.

Trains

For interrailers, Budapest’s main Keleti train station is a 30-minute drive from the hotel. The closest Metro stop is Kálvin Tér, a few steps away, which sits on the city-crossing M3 and M4 lines.

Automobiles

Public transport and picturesque promenading spots mean you won’t need – or want – a car in Budapest. If you do drive in, you can leave your wheels at the charged Pollack Garage, which serves the museum close by.

Worth getting out of bed for

Before you tour Budapest’s grand historic monuments, unpack the past (right back to prehistory) at the Hungarian National Museum. Then head towards the Danube to reach 19th-century Market Hall, where stalls are laden with produce and local delicacies (you can book tasting tours too). Cross over to Buda to explore the Gellert Hill Cave and climb up the hill to the Citadella, pausing for breaths if the views don’t take ‘em first. Further inland is the Arboretum, and to the north lie the gloriously art nouveau Gellért Baths (the more famous, Tokay-yellow Széchenyi Baths are in northerly Pest) and Buda Castle. The Széchenyi Chain Bridge is a great sundown-watching spot (artist Matthew Barney even included it in his Cremaster series). Back in Pest there’s the grandeur of the Dohány Street Synagogue, St Stephen’s Basilica and the State Opera, and the sobering House of Terror museum, set in the former HQ of the Secret Police. On a more lighthearted note, the city’s huge Ferris Wheel is close by, and each December, the Christmas Market pitches up in this part.

Local restaurants

Mazel Tov is a greenhouse take on an artist loft – a ruin bar that’s not, well, ruined – with Med and Middle Eastern dishes (lemon-y Yemeni chicken soup; hummus and tahini bowls; soft, grill-warm shawarma). Kiosk also has a vintage-industrial lived-in look and its cool cachet has long been confirmed. Its menu updates Eastern European cuisine: käsespätzle (cheesy dumplings) with Transylvanian raclette, poultry soup with liver dumplings and goulash. And Michelin-loved MÁK has farm-sourced, multi-course feasts.

Local cafés

Café Gerbeaud is as glamorous as it was when it opened in 1858, and – though busy at times – it’s still a go-to for an obscene amount of pastries (hello, Sachertorte) and hot chocolate you could stand a spoon in. And Central Café is another elegant throwback, with a champagne bar to boot.

Local bars

‘Egészségére!’ is how you toast in Hungarian, so get some practice in because it gets harder to say after a few. With its immense creativity and Instagrammable everything, you must make a stop at ruin bar Szimpla Kert; but don’t expect to mingle with locals. You might find more of them at Füge Udvar, which has spaces for pool and foosball too. 

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 bijou-but-big-on-style bed and breakfast in central Budapest and unpacked their bottles of Tokay and Communist-kitsch flea finds, a full account of their Magyar meanderings will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotel Gin Budapest…

Budapest’s stylish new boutique (and budget-friendly) bed and breakfast is a tall drink of – well, something that looks like water, anyways. Hotel Gin Budapest might make you giddy – especially if you skip down its central spiral staircase too fast (an original that demands tilting your phone camera upwards), or help yourself to too many free coffees or (charged) bottles of Hungarian wine in the lobby lounge. Rooms show the city’s contemporary side with soft greys, mid-century woods and terrazzo tiling in bathrooms, but the hotel’s prime Pest position, downtown, means you’re surrounded by the flounciest buildings the city has, as well as sense-awakening markets and fascinating museums. 

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