With more and more hotels and guesthouses opening around Budapest recently, the city’s ever-growing number of tourists now have a much wider range of appealing accommodations categories to choose among, from designer hostels to world-class five-star palaces. Since opening for business in recent weeks, the Magazine Hotel at central Pest’s Szent István Square adds another fresh downtown destination for chic accommodations that offer close-up views of the Basilica outside and sophisticatedly understated interior design.

Hotels that break with traditional accommodations models are enjoying growing popularity all around the world: the characteristic interiors and spirits of these smaller and carefully designed hotels radiate a youthful and fashionable vibe. A metropolis is no longer up-to-date without boutique hotels and hostels.

Although the Magazine Hotel does not refer to itself as a boutique hotel, just one look around shows that it is definitely not a place for traditional lodgings, with only 12 rooms each bearing trendsetting interior-design concepts.
Some of the

rooms provide

direct views over St. Stephen’s Basilica, and the luckiest guests do not even have to get out of bed to enjoy the landmark

scenery. The

interior is meticulously designed: modern lines meet earth tones, natural materials, and monochrome walls. The visionary

behind the concept is Orsolya Strasser, while the image and interior design is courtesy of Gáspár Bonta, who is revered

for the interior of Léhűtő and the Loft Apartments, as well as the image of Bestia, Oggi Gozsdu , and Balatonfüred’s Matróz. The very first photos of The Magazine Hotel (above) make us envy those who

arrive here after a night out in Budapest: the urban environment and the contemporary vibe provide an appropriately modern

environment to chill within while admiring one of the city’s most impressive

historical attractions.