Hotel Oktogon Haggenmacher, Budapest
Expert reviews
“Not far from a popular public transportation hub, Hotel Oktogon Haggenmacher has 121 very comfortable rooms, an excellent breakfast buffet and helpful staff.”
“Hotel Oktogon occupies an elegant building, a mansion constructed at the end of the 19th century for a rich brewing magnate. In 2022 it opened as a characterful hotel offering cheerful rooms in a good location at a reasonable price. It doesn’t have a restaurant or pool, but otherwise ticks all the key boxes – elegantly.”
What guests liked
- Top location
- Friendly staff
- Comfortable beds
- Free Wifi
All you need to know
If you’re after a place in Budapest that feels quite posh but still has a relaxed, welcoming vibe, Hotel Oktogon Haggenmacher is a solid pick. Housed in the former Haggenmacher Palace on the elegant Andrássy Avenue, it blends its rich neo-Renaissance heritage with funky, modern design.
The building itself, originally built in the 1880s, feels grand yet not intimidating: marble staircases and a beautiful courtyard give it character.
Inside, the 121 rooms are bright and fresh, decked out in cheerful colors that contrast nicely with the classical architecture.
There’s a great range from cozy economy rooms to roomy deluxe ones, and even suites with street views and comfy seating. This hotel has a gym, sauna, relaxing wellness area, and a stylish bar where you can chill in the evenings.
Oh, and the breakfast is buffet-style with plenty of options, including gluten- and lactose-free choices.
The location is a big win: you’re right on Andrássy Avenue, super close to public transport, and just a short walk from top sights like the State Opera or the House of Terror.
Guests love how friendly and helpful the staff are, and they rate the hotel really highly for its cleanliness, service, and overall vibe
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Location
Recent guest reviews
18 November 2025
Brilliant stay, surrounded by everything you need to enjoy this wonderful city
Beautiful building , extremely clean, very friendly staff , location was perfect!
Hard to fault it!
17 November 2025
Exceptional
Nice modern interior, super friendly staff in a great location
17 November 2025
A beautiful hotel sited in an old mansion home and convenient to desired sight-seeing.
We found the location to be excellent for access to restaurants, public transportation etc.
17 November 2025
Excellent value
We had a very pleasant stay at this hotel. The room was comfortable, quiet, and the bed was excellent. The ventilation worked well, which made the room feel fresh throughout our stay. You could set the room temperature you liked. The breakfast was outstanding, offering a wide and varied selection of high-quality options. We would happily stay here again.
None
16 November 2025
A perfect trip
Room and building were perfect
Nothing
16 November 2025
Exceptional
An elegant, clean, quiet hotel.
The only inconvenience was that there was no possibility of opening the window to let fresh air in. Ventilation is done through artificial ventilation.
16 November 2025
Character hotel in a great location
A smart, well run hotel in a character building (former mansion). Good breakfast. Very friendly staff. Spotlessly clean. Oktogon is in a great location at the top of Andrassy Street.
16 November 2025
It was comfortable, safe and made me feel good.
The location of the hotel is easy to reach by metro and on a busy street. The room was so beautiful with a glass rooftop. It is clean and has a coffee machine. When you ask, you can get tooth brush, slippers etc. The staff at the reception are welcoming and helpful. The historical looking of the building and cool design of the room was awesome. I like the hotel very much and feel comfortable and safe during my stay.
Nothing
14 November 2025
Very well worth the price…would use agin.
Good location close to trams and Metro.
Bedrooms very small
13 November 2025
Excellent value for money
Very polite staff. Beautiful building. Central location.
Nothing.
13 November 2025
A very enjoyable stay.
The location and access to the excellent public transport network, Everyone over 65 travels for free and it's very easy to use. The hotel was quiet and comfortable with good facilities in a great location.
A few less drunk English women!
11 November 2025
Great hotel, with great staff in a great location,
A great hotel. In a great location for all the main sites in the city. The hotel itself was a beautifully refurbished building and had a real quality feel. The staff were friendly helpful and engaging. Breakfast was superb.
nothing to mention
10 November 2025
Beautiful hotel with great staff within walking distance of many of the tourist sites.
Great location with helpful, accommodating staff. Beautifully decorated and the breakfasts were delicious.
9 November 2025
Exceptional
Everything, from the building, its cleanliness, the friendly and well disposed staff, to the new and modern furniture and spacious rooms
9 November 2025
Would stay here again
I liked the location; close to metro and tram stops. There is a Starbucks nearby and a grocery 3 blocks away. The room was comfortable with nice sheets, black out blinds, and a Nespresso machine. The bathroom drained well and the room was clean. You can also get filtered water from the ground floor restaurant. Great looking lobby.
It's carpeted and the duvets were single sized. You can definitely hear your neighbor's doors close and the morning cleanup starts at 9am so you can't sleep in.
9 November 2025
Great hotel,great location and great staff
Found on trip advisor
No onsite restaurant.
8 November 2025
Exceptional
Fantastic hotel. Very nice cleanliness. Great atmosphere. Perfect and professional staff. Great location — close to the train station and all the main sights. Excellent breakfasts. And all that for a truly unbeatable price. Highly recommended. If I travel to Budapest again, Hotel Oktogon is my clear choice. Many thanks to the staff who were accommodating in every way. We truly enjoyed our stay immensely — especially the accommodation in the suite, which is absolutely fantastic. Very quiet, with a great view of Budapest. You can truly enjoy the morning sunrises here.
8 November 2025
If you would like to stay fair price hotel then you are in correct address, location, staffs are good
clean, comfortable and have nice locations, very close to everwhere,
no parking area they have, limited breakfast varieties, please put more international vegan breakfast
8 November 2025
Great value stylish hotel with lovely staff
Great staff, lovely entrance and ambience, good location (walkable to everything or metro on doorstep). Excellent value
Only picky thing is lighting in room not great so hard to read except on bed.
8 November 2025
Exceptional
Great hotel with really good gym and sauna. Highly recommend to active dwellers. Great location
6 November 2025
This hotel exceeded our expectations on all fronts
The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. The hotel architecture was so beautiful, the breakfast was perfect - i cannot fault anything with this hotel.
everything was perfect
3 November 2025
Fabulous
Location and decor Awesome building
2 November 2025
Exceptional
Magnificent foyer, spacious rooms, friendly staff
2 November 2025
Exceptional
Comfortable room. Very clean and spacious. Great location for getting around and nice area in the evening with nice places to eat nearby. Very friendly, helpful staff. Stunning building. Delicious breakfast. Would recommend.
The level of confusion when the fire alarm went off at breakfast. Guests didn't know what to do, and there was no instruction from staff.
31 October 2025
One of the best.
Wonderful staff, great breakfast, wonderful old building.
The luggage storage set up after booking out of our room, Having to do it by ourselves. It was secure but different to many other hotels who simply tag luggage and then take it and store it for you.
30 October 2025
Great Location for Budapest
Great location and fabulous building. Exceptional staff, very clean and comfortable.
All was good... nothing to not like.
30 October 2025
Lovely hotel, few minor things that could be better
Lovely reception area. Big glass roof window on top floor. Good location.
Room wasn’t very big. No plug socket near bathroom mirror or door mirror for when drying or styling hair. Breakfast was ok
29 October 2025
Beautiful accommodation, the staff were very helpful. Couldn't ask for more
The staff were exceptional, the hotel was beautiful. Couldn't ask for more.
No complaints 😁
28 October 2025
One of the most beautiful hotels we've had the pleasure to stay at.
We have stayed in many hotels over the years all over Europe and America. This is one of the best. The hotel is located at Oktogon, a beautiful upper class part of Budapest and a brilliant location, every main attraction is within a 20 minute walk, or there are plenty of buses/trams and the metro outside the hotel. From the moment you arrive gazing at the grand architecture you are met with a lovely scent that can only be described as summer! (This is a secret combination of scents created for the hotel!). The reception area is grandeur at its finest as the hotel was built as a palace by two Hungarian families. The reception staff were very welcoming and extremely helpful for both hotel information and local attractions/restaurants. The rooms are individually coloured, green/blue/red that is accented by the fittings. Very comfortable bed, double windows and blackout blinds. The hotel can supply most forgotten items and are always happy to help. The most recommended hotel we've had the pleasure to stay at in one of the most beautiful cities!
We had to leave...
27 October 2025
A lovely weekend.
Lovely hotel in a good location. Great breakfast. Comfy beds and lovely shower.
Nothing.
26 October 2025
Great hotel, location and staff - would recommend
Staff were friendly and helpful, providing great recommendations for food when asked. Breakfast was nice and the luggage storage was excellent; so convenient
26 October 2025
Fantastic choice of hotel. Fantastic choice of hotel.
Superb location. Spotlessly clean. Excellent facilities. Wonderful staff.
N/A Liked everything.
26 October 2025
Perfect
Fantastic location, very easy access to metro, lots of restaurants and bars nearby
25 October 2025
Would return here if in Budapest
Great location Lovely room and great shower room
Nothing
24 October 2025
Very convenient and met our needs: businesslike rather than romantic but none the worse for that
Convenient location. Clean and well organised.
23 October 2025
Great experience all together. Helpful staff
Beautiful traditional building. Very helpful staff. Fairly close to everything. Metro across the street. Easy to access and understand its routes
Everything was fine
23 October 2025
Made Budapest a favorite city.
Location was great. We walked every where, looking at the beautiful architecture. Staff was very helpful with suggestions, calling for dinner reservations, answering questions before we arrived.
Breakfast was adequate, never changed over 5 mornings.
22 October 2025
Best City break
My partner and I stayed here for our anniversary and his Birthday. The staff made this stay extra special by providing us with some gifts to celebrate this and a lovely note. This hotel was the most beautiful hotel we have ever stayed in! Always very warm which was lovely after cold days exploring. Reception and bar staff were very attentive and kind to us. This hotel was very clean and a very short walk to the closest metro so easy to get around the city from this location. Hotel is around a 30 minute Uber ride from the airport and which the cost converted to under 20GBP so very affordable. We are in love with Budapest and this hotel and will be sure to return. Thank you so much for such a lovely stay😁
Nothing! It was incredible!
21 October 2025
Perfect!
Beautiful inside, clean and relaxing atmosphere.
20 October 2025
Comfortable and clean.
All is new and clean. The room was nice, on last floor, with a great panorama through roof windows.
19 October 2025
Exceptional
The location was very central , the staff friendly and helpful and the rooms were lovely and clean .
19 October 2025
Exceptional
The hotel was very nice staff are so nice and very helpful. It's the place to stay in the middle for everything.
18 October 2025
Superb central hotel
The hotel is beautiful, clean, and located centrally, high-speed free WiFi, and the staff (who speak good English) are always on hand to help with anything. The room was a good size, the large windows making the room light with far-reaching views across the city, but with black out blinds for a good night's sleep. The shower has great water pressure, even at busy times of the day - something unusual in a hotel. Lots of variety in the buffet breakfast to set you up for the day.
It was a shame there's no restaurant for evening meals in case you are too tired from exploring all day to venture back out.
17 October 2025
Excellent location and room quiet.
Location was excellent. Lovely breakfast but very busy at certain times. Room quiet and hotel handy to everything you need.
Need more tables at breakfast busy time.
16 October 2025
Clean, friendly and helpful staff, super location, comfy and quiet rooms
Everything. Beautiful entry hall, they accommodated my request to be high up and away from elevators for better sleep. Bed was comfortable, slept well, no noise. Breakfast had plenty of options including Kaiserschmarren.
16 October 2025
Fabulous
Very good location and lovely Hotel. Staff incredibly helpful. Would recommend.
16 October 2025
Fabulous! Clean, comfy, quiet, great location, beautiful building. Highly recommended.
This hotel was everything I would want from a hotel - Clean, quiet, safe, comfortable, spacious room, perfect location, great shower/water pressure. I don't need any extras, I need the basics to tick all the boxes and not disappoint. There's also saunas and gym that looked amazing but we didn't even get to try. We had a perfect stay.
Everything was great. Not much could be better. I would have liked free water bottles in the room maybe, this is something more common in other places now but certainly not an issue, and I would have liked to open the beautiful window/balcony to the inner courtyard, but maybe we didn't really try enough.
16 October 2025
Excellent
Wonderful location. Very easy to walk around Budapest and see attractions.
15 October 2025
Exceptional
The hotel itself is a beautiful building in the perfect location for tourists. This hotel offered 5 star value at a very good price.
No dislikes.
Hotel facilities
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
Food & Drink
- - Bar
- - Breakfast in the room
- - Special diet menus (on request)
- - Kid-friendly buffet
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Luggage storage
- - Concierge service
- - Lockers
- - Invoice provided
Activities
- - Sauna
- - Fitness centre
- - Massage (additional charge)
- - Beauty Services
- - Facial treatments
- - Make up services
- - Spa lounge/relaxation area
- - Fitness
- - Fitness/spa locker rooms
General
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Soundproof rooms
- - Heating
- - Allergy-free room
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Designated smoking area
- - Shuttle service (additional charge)
- - Vending machine (drinks)
- - Vending machine (snacks)
- - Airport shuttle (additional charge)
- - Shared lounge/TV area
- - Pet basket
- - Pet bowls
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Ironing service (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
Transport
- - Airport pick up (additional charge)
- - Airport drop off (additional charge)
Miscellaneous
- - Key card access
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - CCTV outside property
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Breakfast takeaway containers
- - Delivered food is securely covered

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18 November 2025
Exceptional