Best of Budapest & Hungary

The editors of Condé Nast Traveller, one of the world's leading travel magazines, have again compiled a list of the world's most stunning hotels. The carefully selected 2024 Gold List includes the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace in Budapest.

    As the magazine points out, this collection of 68 resorts and hotels represents hundreds of hours of researching, scouting, and impassioned debating by its team of editors in seven cities across the globe.

    Included on the European list of 29 accommodation establishments, the magazine describes the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest as the Hungarian capital's “grandest hotel, a 1906 marvel of Secessionism (Central Europe’s take on Art Nouveau) that’s undergone an exceptional renovation: chandeliers and stained glass repaired and cleaned, mosaic tiles scrubbed, white stucco repainted.”

    It adds that the “location couldn’t be better, on the riverfront, in the heart of buzzing Pest, looking across the Danube to hilly Buda and the medieval Old Town, and right by the famous Chain Bridge. Concierge Peter Buday and his team fizz with advice and information – about where to find the best bars, and other discoveries – though the area around the hotel is seething with interest: see opulent Gundel, the famous café and restaurant that opened in 1910; the smart shops of Andrassy Avenue, a broad boulevard modelled on the Champs-Élysées; the Franz Liszt museum; and the glorious Hungarian State opera house.”