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Budapest Budget Hostel Papp László

Budapest Budget Hostel offers you a unique deal: we offer low prices without a compromise on quality – you get the best value for your money staying in our cozy and quiet place. It’s always a good idea check out our seasonal promotion offers kept up-to date on our site – your best bargain package can get even as low as €8 per person per night!

Our best value policy guarantees you a great number of advantages for a real budget price: 24-hour reception service, magnetic-chip keys that allow you a maximum freedom of coming and going, free Wi-Fi in all areas of the hostel along with several guest computers for your use (free of charge), fully equipped kitchens on all floors, a coffee machine, lockers and a safe at the reception.

The price includes the bed linen and sheets and for a very small extra fee we also provide anything else to make your stay comfortable: towels (€1), a safe private parking lot (8€/night) and printing possibility at the reception. All-inclusive laundry service (including the use of washing powder) available on the next corner.

Our reputedly friendly, helpful, up-to-date and well-informed staff is always at your service – no matter what you need we do our best to help you!

About the Hostel and Rooms

Our hostel features spacious, decent and comfortable rooms inside a beautiful, unique, more than one hundred- year-old building – once the property of the Zwack Unicum factory, a true Hungarian specialty. We also offer rooms in a nearby, more modern and better equipped building – please note however that at this area does not offer a separate reception service, nevertheless your safe magnetic-chip based key allows you entrance at any time of the day.

The Hostel is a stone’s throw away from the wonderful Danube river with a lovely promenade running along the bank, which leads right to Boráros Square, a central connection point of public transport, with the stop of the newly introduced regular boat sailing along the river presenting the view of the major sights and also stops of major tram lines (4, 6 and 2) that take you virtually any part of the city in just a few minutes.

Useful and important information about the hostel

We accept cash both in both Euros and Hungarian Forints or you can pay by credit card, too. A bank machine just round the corner is also available. Our main policy is payment at arrival, yet we are relatively flexible with the scheduling of your payment – we are committed to find you the best solution.

Please take into consideration that breakfast in-house is only offered to groups, however you’re welcome to prepare your own personal favourite breakfast in our well equipped kitchens!

Check-in is possible anytime after 15.00 and we kindly ask you to check out by 11.00. – afterwards you are welcome to use our safe luggage room at the reception area, absolutely free of charge.

Inside the hostel premises we ensure all our guests a quiet and peaceful space to relax – please take into consideration that as the hostel is in a huge building complex with numerous flats around, we are not a party hostel and have a strict policy on excessive loud activities. MindU - this does not mean isolation! There is ample space created especially for chit-chats and friendly conversations – we have common kitchens on each floor and also a sunny terrace with view over a nice peaceful green area that provide great possibilities to make friends with your fellow travellers.

Nearby possibilities to discover Budapest

Nevertheless, if you’re after a wild party, you are also in the best place: just across the river very close, the unique A38-ship, a crazy floating bar regularly offers great programs. A few streets away you find a newly built, modern concert place with various stages offering a great range of choice from electronic music to pop music with 5 different music stages to choose from, the Budapest Park. Further adventures await you at the former slaughterhouse of the city, the semi-hidden R33 that hosts studios for local bands and a surreal bar resembling the mixture of a baroque ball room and a cheap suburban working class’ pub. (For details, please ask the receptionists.)

If you are looking for cultural adventures our prestigious contemporary art museum (Ludwig Museum) is right in our backyard, next to which you’ll find the Palace of Arts, an example of great modern Hungarian architecture and also the impressive newly built Hungarian National Theatre. Some streets away you can visit the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, another artistic center of interest.

For those with a true historical interest of Hungary’s darker past – a past where specific groups were deprived of the very rights of what makes a man a man – the Holocaust Memorial Center brings a heart-striking presentation that adds a personal touch to dry facts of history, presenting personal stories of the suffering and desperate fight for survival of real families.

Location

Budapest Budget Hostel is ideally located, you can easily get to us from the main arrival points of Budapest.

From the airport:

Take bus 200E until its final destination, Kőbánya-Kispest. Take the blue metro line (M3) until the stop ’Corvin negyed’. There you can change to trams 4 or 6 (same tram stop, “Újbuda központ” or “Móricz Zsigmond körtér” direction) travel 2 stops and get off at ’Mester utca/Ferenc körút’. Go along the street ’Mester utca’ (‘utca’ means street in Hungarian). After a 5 minute walk on the right-hand side you should bump into ’Ipar utca’. Turn into this street and on the left-hand side soon you’ll see the sign ’Budapest Budget Hostel’. We have a separate bell in the middle of the big brown door – press it and wait until we open the door. J

From Train Station ’Keleti’:

Take bus 5, 7, 173, 7E, 173E and get off at ’Blaha Lujza tér’. From there take trams 4 or 6 (shared tram stop, “Újbuda központ” or “Móricz Zsigmond körtér” direction) and get off at ‘’Mester utca/Ferenc körút’. Go along the street ’Mester utca’ (‘utca’ means street in Hungarian). After a 5 minute walk on the right-hand side you should bump into ’Ipar utca’. Turn into this street and on the left-hand side soon you’ll see the sign ’Budapest Budget Hostel’. We have a separate bell in the middle of the big brown door – press it and wait until we open the door J

From Train Station ’Nyugati’:

Take trams 4 or 6 (shared tram stop, “Újbuda központ” or “Móricz Zsigmond körtér” direction) and get off at ’Mester utca/Ferenc körút’. Go along the street ’Mester utca’ (‘utca’ means street in Hungarian). After a 5 minute walk on the right-hand side you should bump into ’Ipar utca’. Turn into this street and on the left-hand side soon you’ll see the sign ’Budapest Budget Hostel’. We have a separate bell in the middle of the big brown door – press it and wait until we open the door J

Népliget Bus Station

Take the blue metro line (M3) to the direction of Újpest-Központ, until the stop ’Corvin negyed’. There you can change to trams 4 or 6 (same tram stop, “Újbuda központ” or “Móricz Zsigmond körtér” direction) travel 2 stops and get off at ’Mester utca/Ferenc körút’. Go along the street ’Mester utca’ (‘utca’ means street in Hungarian). After a 5 minute walk on the right-hand side you should bump into ’Ipar utca’. Turn into this street and on the left-hand side soon you’ll see the sign ’Budapest Budget Hostel’. We have a separate bell in the middle of the big brown door – press it and wait until we open the door.