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

look at a few characteristic hotels that have either disappeared altogether or have been put to new uses.

Starting after the war, the second period was one of slow convalescence for the hotels that had survived the destruction of the war, characterised as it was by poverty and a struggle for survival. However, this was also a time of preserving architectural values. For almost twenty years after the war no hotel was built in Budapest, the first new one being opened only in the early sixties.

The third period, that of the most recent past, which began with the hotel construction activities of the eighties has not yet ended. Where the fast paced investment activity resulting in ever broadening services will take the industry is an issue to be decided in the years lying ahead of us. As is the question whether the legendary golden age of catering will return to Budapest one day.

Hotels no longer in existence

The Hotel LONDON (No. 1 Berlini tér, district VI) Corner of Nyugati tér, district VI

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(on the site of today’s Skau\ Department Store) Standing in an outlying area wedged between steam mills and a sugar refinery, the facility opened under this name when the Railway Inn, built in 1859, was reconstructed.

The Hotel London on a card posted in 1913

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