The Magazine Hotel & Apartments

Sorry but I have to be honest about my worst check-in experience here. I was checking in at around 9pm, which was after the reception hours (8am-8pm). Beforehand they sent me a password to open a locker that holds my room key. When I opened the designated locker, it was empty and I panicked a lot. I called the hotel's emergency phone number and luckily it worked. I was told that very unfortunately some staff had mixed up the lockers and put the room key in another locker :/ Very soon I was given the correct password and locker with great help from the staff over the phone. It is safe to say this is the worst thing that any traveler can experience in a hotel - receiving wrong information about check-in procedures, with the fear you might have nowhere to stay overnight, or have to carry around your heavy luggage in search of another hotel. I know this incident happens rarely, but it's a mistake that should not happen even for once. This bad experience aside, this hotel has an enjoyable view of the Basilica and is close to metro stations and airport bus 100E. Decorations were modern and space was adequate. Sometimes the crowd in the plaza could be noisy till late nights though. Overall I enjoyed the hotel very much despite the initial bad check-in arrangement.

We stayed the first weekend of December and booked a room with a view. Right outside our window was the Christmas market and the Cathedral....just beautiful! Staff were friendly and had great information to share about our stay, our room was clean, and the space was very quiet. This is a great place to stay if you want to be able to get around Budapest easily...we saw all the major sights on foot because we were so central.

The hotel / apartments were fantastic. Excellent location, polite, helpful and friendly staff. Would highly recommend for couples and groups. No area for complaint.

Wonderful location for access to the city. Room was nice, especially for the concert on Friday, 23/8. Front desk was very helpful even assisting with our luggage. Room was noisy with bar below us, but considering other benefits we didn’t mind. Would come back!

We had a great stay and I can’t say enough about the service. We missed one of our trains and going to show up after 8pm. The front desk left us some specific instructions on how to get into the building and hotel. Seamless. Our AC was broken and the hotel had it fixed the next day and provided us with a free dinner at a local restaurant where the food is amazing! Couldn’t say enough nice things about this hotel and its staff.

Wonderful location! No air conditioning! Left after one night because no guarantee it would be fixed. Wish we had been informed before check-in. Bare minimum of furniture and tub was extremely difficult to get into. This room would be good for young travelers with low travel expectations.

Amazing location, beautiful interiors and very friendly staff! We came here over Christmas, and the atmosphere was unbelievable! The room we stayed in was very spacious and cozy, while the hotel is in ideal location to be close to everything. Will definitely come back soon!

This hotel is right in the heart of it all! The staff was incredibly friendly and helpful, and a wealth of information about all things Budapest! We could walk to almost all of the tourist sites from here, and for those that we couldn't, an especially friendly front desk person was quick to help with explaining local transportation options.

Brilliant location for 90 pound a night and room and bathroom was lovely reception very helpful with any requests about where to eat and helped me print a tag for an onward bus journey. Only niggle was that was difficult to get into building and had no instructions but once advised and reliased was amazing. Was a little noisy at night but the location and ease of everything makes up for everything. View of a lovely church was amazing. 3 min walk to Danube and try the Borze restaurant ask for directions lovely food and service would defo stay here again for 90 pound a nights of more would expect more if that makes sense

Flat was clean, but very basic. Not even a kettle in the room. Nice location.