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

set up shop in the Majestic, which drove boarders away from neighbouring hotels, too.

These buildings were strangely fortunate as none of them sustained damage during the war, and yet most of them remained closed to the public. In the severe housing shortage of the period, the interior of the former pensions was converted into small flats with all modern conveniences.

Hotels bcjilt in the sixties and seventies

European Youth Centre, formerly the Hotel IFJÚSÁG (No. 1-3 Zivatar utca, district 11)

Flamenco Occidental, formerly the Hotel SPORT (No. 7 Tas vezér utca, district XI)

No new hotel was built in Budapest for nearly twenty years after the war. It was in the early sixties that the Hotel Ifjúság (Youth) on Rózsadomb and the Hotel Sport by Feneketlen tó (Bottomless Lake) were put into operation. Both buildings bear the marks of the ungainly aesthetic and functional traits characteristic of office and apartment blocks built to the same schematic design in the period throughout the country. The two hotels have undergone large-scale reconstruction in recent years. The former Hotel Ifjúság, its interior spaces converted into modern offices and auditoriums, today houses the European Youth Centre, while the Hotel Sport continues to function as a hotel under its new name Flamenco. Reconstruction work has not significantly altered the external appearance of these buildings.

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