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Corinthia Budapest
Budapest, Hungary · Corinthia · Core Luxury
Corinthia Budapest occupies the site of the 1896 Grand Hotel Royal, a 350-room French Renaissance-style hotel built for the city's Millennium Exhibition. Soviet tanks shelled the building during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and it closed for good in 1991 before Corinthia's Maltese owners spent 100 million euros rebuilding it behind the historic facade, reopening in 2003 as the largest hotel refurbishment in Hungarian history at the time.
- 367 rooms
- Opened 1896
- Neighborhood: Erzsébetváros
About Corinthia Budapest
- Béla Bartók frequently conducted concerts in the hotel's Royal Ballroom, and the Lumière brothers gave Budapest's first-ever public film screening there.
- The Royal Ballroom was later rebuilt as the Royal Apollo cinema; it is the only surviving portion of the original 1896 interior, restored to ballroom use in 2003.
- The adjoining Royal Spa was built in 1886-88 by architect Vilmos Freund, predating the hotel itself; it closed in 1944 and sat abandoned for decades before its 1983 rediscovery.
- In 1909, the first Hungarian-built airplane was exhibited in one of the hotel's courtyards, one of many curiosities during the Grand Hotel Royal's belle epoque heyday.
The setting
8-minute walk to shops of Andrássy Avenue. 2 km from Chain Bridge.
Amenities
- Spa
- Indoor pool
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Recommended (2026)
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