Reasonably priced hotel in a quiet residential area a little out of town, but easy to get to and within 20 minutes or so via trolleybus (no 74) or metro (the fab line 1 from Mexicoi Utca). It's also only 10 minutes from the city park, and the Szechenyi baths, via public transport (you could walk it in 20-30, but it's a bit bleak to be honest).
Staff are friendly and helpful. They can organise a taxi transfer to/from airport terminals for 5600 HUF each way. (Though a rail link is due to be opened in 2007, according to the Budapest Sun. That's to the city, not to the hotel I guess).
They put us in one of the attic rooms on our first night, which is kind of claustrophobic as it has a skylight you can't see out of without balancing in a frankly reckless fashion on two stools upon the bed (and I'm 6ft tall), but shifted us to a much better room the next morning.
65 euro/room per night, 60 if paid in cash.
Pándorfalu u. 15;
tel/fax: 01 252 0470;
email: panzio@goldhotel.hu
www.goldhotel.hu
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