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Essential Hostel Budapest

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Humble dorms & private rooms in a relaxed hostel featuring a TV lounge & a guest kitchenette. People often mention hostel, staff, good, friendly, clean, stay, nice, free, breakfast, beds,


Address

Budapest, Arany János u. 27, 1051 Hungary

Contact

+36 20 282 6246

Rating on Google Maps

4.00 (492 reviews)

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  • 4/5 Emmylou H. 4 years ago on Google
    Very good location. Right at the heart of the city and near tourist attractions. Clean. One of the ladies dorm is spacious but the other one is cramped. Stayed here twice and front desk accommodated my request each time to be at a lower bunk bed. Serves free breakfast - coffee, toast, jam, butter, and pepperoni. Wifi signal is good.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Peter Agoston (Petros The M. 1 year ago on Google • 437 reviews
    It's quiet place, the staff is really kind and friendly & helpful! Rooms are clean. Showers are better than average! Breakfast for free with Hungarian Salami or "kolbas" (chorizo) ! + coffee or tea all day. Located near the metro station "Arany J"!

  • 5/5 Liu V. 4 years ago on Google • 403 reviews
    It’s nice no bad smell and brightly. Friendly stuffs. There’re Personal locker and room key locker. I stayed here for three nights and last one night We joined the wine tasting events in the hostel. It was a great one event for traveler especially for solo traveler. We had a lot of fun and it’s free. There is a kitchen and public area. And they offer free tea and breakfast. Compare the other cheaper one I’d definitely love to stay here again.

  • 5/5 Luigi I. 3 years ago on Google • 172 reviews
    Nice hostel located in Budapest City centre. Lovely and friendly staff, rooms clean and very well heated. All facilities are good. On Wednesday the staff organizes a Hungarian wine taste. It was very interesting and funny as well. Friday is about Hungarian typical and traditional food. It worth the stay!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Marius V. 6 years ago on Google • 238 reviews
    I really enjoyed my stay here! The beds are good, but the pillows could be replaced. The staff are exceptionally friendly. The wine tasting and trivia night is free and a lot of fun. The bathrooms and showers are clean. The internet is fast and stable as well.

  • 3/5 Fabiane F. 6 years ago on Google • 4 reviews
    You get what you paid for. Location is great, you have privacy with the curtains in the bed and the staff is friendly. I forgot my charger and they lent me one for my stay. Beware the rooms are not particularly clean, specially the bathrooms and the showers, which bothered me. The breakfast is simple, but enough. Try to be early since food can get scarce by the end.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Lena P. 4 years ago on Google • 172 reviews
    Now there is a repair nearby and a drill in the morning is very pleasant

  • 4/5 Rajesh D. 6 years ago on Google • 90 reviews
    The stay was as expected and a value for money. The location served well as every facilities were easily accessible from the hostel very easily. The staffs were polite and helpful. Even if you do not have proper facilities for safekeeping of things they provide lock for a small deposit. The breakfast was very simple, yet good. Awesome for solo travelers.

  • 4/5 Mitchell P. 6 years ago on Google • 88 reviews
    The staff was very friendly and ready to help with anyone question, which is a big plus. The hostel itself was decently clean and your valuables could be kept safe in lockers. Eventhough In slept on a room with eight, the added curtains on the beds still gave a lot of privacy. Only the beds were pretty thin and uncomfortable. Therefor only 4 stars, since I was about half of my stay in it.

  • 5/5 Milena T. 3 years ago on Google • 48 reviews
    For me it is one of the best hostels I have ever been to! It is cozy and the staff is very friendly. The beds are comfortable. All perfect

  • 4/5 Piotr D. 6 years ago on Google • 41 reviews
    Location is great, staff is friendly. I really enjoyed the general design and idea of that hostel. It's much better than typical hostels. The bunk beds with curtains offer some privacy. There are some lockers to store your belongings which is nice. The bathrooms are quite clean and nice, although I would suggest putting more pegs in shower cabins to be able to hang your clothes. The minus is that the ladder to the upper bed was broken and could lead to falling down. The breakfast is included in the price, which is nice. To sum up, it's a relatively cheap hostel worth recommending, with interesting facilities and a nice vibe to it.

  • 1/5 timiburton 2 years ago on Google • 20 reviews
    Arriving to the address with a valid reservation we have realized that the hostel doesn’t exist any more….nobody answers to the phone. BUT stoy can still book on every site for it.

  • 5/5 Ulvin O. 3 years ago on Google • 17 reviews
    Love this hostel

  • 5/5 Ryan W. 6 years ago on Google • 13 reviews
    There is nothing spectacular about the hostel. It lives up to its name, and has all the essentials; but the one luxury it does have is a team that are so genuinely interested in engaging with and ensuring their guests have the best stay possible. They will go well out of their way to help, and are always willing to chat. I've stayed in many hostel's, and this one was by far my favourite, thanks purely to the team

  • 5/5 B H. 6 years ago on Google • 6 reviews
    Staff were more than just helpful and friendly. They facilitated fun events like a wine tasting and trivia quiz about the area, history, and hostel itself. Also, later facilitated a dinner of French cuisine cooked by a French guest. Best location; very centrally located, next to subway stop, while also on a relatively quiet street. Staff know everything! They make great recommendations. Good kitchen facility and nice free breakfast with coffee. Lots of little nooks to hang out in. Each bunk had a privacy curtain which was nice and enabled me to change clothes without using bathroom. Will definitely stay there next time I'm in Budapest.

  • 3/5 조은서 3 years ago on Google • 1 review
    Yeo-gwi Jin-jjae and Ju-bal-gachi, I'm going to go to the hotel, and I'm going to have a good time, and I'm going to go to the middle of the day, and I'm going to go to the middle of the day, and I'm going to go to the middle of the day, and I'm going to have a good time. An acquaintance of mine who was sleeping with me also got robbed. What's even more shocking is that the lock was locked to you, so you don't even know who was robbed. If the lodging house that stole it was based on common sense, they broke the lock, right? I'll share the lock with the centipede. I'll open it with a Matsu Turkey and take it all away. Don't even bother.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Amruta M. 5 years ago on Google • 2 reviews
    The hostel is in a good location. I stayed in a 4 bedroom dorm which was quite spacious. However, the room and the sheets were not very clean. The shower door did not close properly and there was a puddle of water all over in the bathroom. Also since there was no drain in the bathroom outside the shower cubicle, the puddle with the dirt just stayed there. After complaining, the staff cleaned it once and kept a mop in the bathroom for us to clean it. The mop was also quite dirty so it didn't really clean the floor well. Also, that is not the solution - they need to repair the shower door so that it closes well. This was an ensuite bathroom so I am sure that the common one will be worse. When I arrived, there was apparently similar problem in the common showers and there was water all over the floor. There were towels kept to soak up the water. It is good that the beds had a curtain for privacy but it looked like they hadn't been washed in several years. The staff is quite friendly and the layout of the hostel in general is quite OK. If they spend a little time in maintaining it and cleaning it, this could be great.


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