Other, Review 1849, Danubius Thermal Hotel Margitszget, Other, Hungary, John from FL
Danubius Thermal Hotel Margitszget

Thanks! Sounds like an interesting way to spend your vacation ...

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Other, Review 2008, Art'Otel, Hungary, Budapest, LSKahn from USA
Art'Otel

Another recommendation is the excellent Hotel Princess Palace, situated in north-west of Hungary near to the Austrian and Slovak-Hungarian border. Very close to Vienna and Bratislava.

We flew via Austrian Airlines for a family wedding and hired a car from (and eventually back to) Vienna Airport at Schwechat, stopping in Vienna and seeing The Third Man location/park (worth seeing), driving on to Bratislava and staying in a hotel there, then onto Hungary thereafter, meeting the families at the end in the Princess Palace Hotel. All affordably, on a long weekend. The Palace made a wonderful location for a magnificent wedding, and checking out their website (you can find it if you "google" Princess Palace, Hungary) I notice for non functions or just to play golf or swim in the pool and go sauna the prices are so affordable yet you live like royalty.

The only caution is driving through Slovakia, next time I would pay extra careful attention to road signs as not all streets are sign posted, and if the language is as alien to you as it was to us, you can end up driving as we did down a one way street into a pedestrian only area or even worse, ON a tram line heading straight towards a tram! HOW we came off the road and onto the tram line we will never know but I'm sure it could have been avoided if we had followed a map which included streets with one way directions, and unfortunately, we hadn't.

But it all came good, because we booked individual hotels online before leaving and so had destinations for each country, and each hotel provided maps (albeit without the one way emphasis! - except the Bratislava hotel which did! but we had driven through a hazardous route to them by then!).... seeing the old Border buildings was one of the highlights, visible from the new ones. We certainly got a sense of what had once been, and what has now emerged. The Bratislava Tesco standing out like a multi storey Kaufhof/Karstadt (Bentalls) was progressive!

Vienna was easy to understand with a knowledge of german, as was Slovakia where people spoke german, but Hungary was impossible for us (speakers of only english, german and french) - we resorted to sign language, even with the Hungarian side of the wedding party! If anyone has any tips on how to pick out understandable Hungarian words we would be most grateful, for when the Hungarian family visit us!