Hilton Garden Inn Hotels in Budapest

First, we were struck by the excellent location on the ‘Pest’ side of Budapest, in amongst a number of major attractions and only a 10/15 minute walk from the Danube. We were warmly welcomed. The room looked newly refurbished, was clean, a good size and was very quiet. It was on the 1st floor and had a view of a court yard. The room had a huge bed, plenty of storage, a nice walk in shower and the usual amenities including shower gel, shampoo, hair dryer, iron etc. You also get a safe and tea and coffee making facilities. There is parking but we used cabs so no need. Reception team was excellent and very helpful. They helped us get reservations at local restaurants and helped get us taxis to places we needed to go. On our last day, they stored our luggage for us too so we could go off for the day. Great bunch, all speaking excellent English and all happy to help. The hotel seemed very busy and this did impact breakfast on a daily basis. We were late down to breakfast on the first day due to a very late arrival and found the breakfast to be a little chaotic. Equally, on all 3 of our days stay, we found breakfast buffet was cold, so unless you awaited a fresh omelette or made yourself a Belgian Waffle, you were faced with cold or topped food. Some of the breakfast team were lovely and helpful but I’m afraid some would clearly rather be somewhere else and showed little interest in the state of the place with many tables covered in breakfast debris. This didn’t mar our stay but as with a lot of Hilton’s, the breakfast buffet is a nice option, but rarely executed well, particularly when the hotel is busy. So, overall, we would very much recommend this hotel. Lovely staff - maybe don’t expect too much from breakfast - superb location and the rates I secured were reasonable. We’d stay here again.