Unique luxury hotel in the heart of Budapest

Over the river in Pest, on the eastern banks of the Danube, visitors need only to look up to appreciate the city’s patchwork of architectural styles. These range from the recently renovated neo-Renaissance Hungarian State Opera House, with its elements of Baroque, to the House of Music Hungary, a masterpiece of contemporary architecture blending seamlessly with the surrounding landscape, as well as the Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest, once a luxury shopping arcade, now turned five-star hotel, with elements of Moorish, Arabic and Gothic design.

Párisi Udvar has one of the most extraordinary lobbies in the world, a 19th-century covered arcade that feels like a cross between a gothic cathedral and an Ottoman palace. It makes this central Budapest property a hugely atmospheric, decadent base for exploring the city. Refined Hungarian dishes are served beneath the same spectacular architecture.

Located on the east bank of the Danube, the hotel is perfect for exploring Budapest. Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest, part of the Unbound Collection by Hyatt, features a stunning Art Nouveau entrance reminiscent of 1920s Parisian galleries. It showcases metal and glass vaults, wooden columns, and mosaics, crowned by a magnificent crystal central dome.

An expression of the golden age of early-20th century Budapest in stained glass, ceramics and endlessly intricate patterns and sculptural details, the vertiginous and breath-taking atrium of the Párisi Udvar or “Parisian Court” is a masterpiece of art nouveau extravagance that was reopened to the public as a luxury hotel in 2019 after over 85,000 hours of painstaking restoration work. Rooms are a model of restrained modern elegance mixed with classical lines, where cool colours provide respite from the riot of detail of the historic building’s public areas.