Juhász Gyula - Szántó András: Hotels - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

The Hotel Golf in the 1940s

Élet (Theatre Life) can be believed, an elegant couple from Egypt even spent a night on a straw mattress in the porter’s lodge.

In the first half-year of the hotel’s operation prime minister Pál Teleki, mayor Szendy and other notabilities visited the hotel. In response to its phenomenal custom, the hotel had to be enlarged in its second year of operation and a further 18 rooms were added. The establishment was named after the 18-hole golf course nearby, which was in use until the construction of the Pioneers’ Railway in 1948.

During World War II, the military counter-espionage centre set up its headquarters here in 1944. Having weathered the siege in relatively good condition, the building continued to function as a hotel for a few more years. In the 1950s it functioned as the Red Star Resort Hostel of the National Trade Union Council. Since then it has been reconstructed and now operates under the name Hotel Panoráma.

Pensions and boarding-houses

Some landlords, recognising the growing demands for temporary, family-style accommodation, had their three to four storey houses converted for the purpose, where suites with varying standards of amenities were arranged. It was mainly single people who stayed at pensions, where

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