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

Among the fond patrons were Ady Endre and Ede Ujházy, an actor who was the hero of several anecdotes besides lending his name to a famous chicken soup. On one occasion, for example, he decided to impress his foreign colleagues dining with him by performing the role of a dying man with frightening conviction. Almost perfectly “true to life,” the shcpw nearly cost the actor his life.

Since the hotel went out of business in 1947, its building has been used by the Science Faculty of Eötvös University.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------L_-----------------------------------------------------The Grand Hotel SVÁBHEGY

No. 2 Báró Eötvös út, district Xll Physicians in the late 19th century recognised that the climate of the Sváb Hill had a curativq effect on respiratory ailments. Several villas, resort houses and Sanatoriums subsequently sprang up here. Opened in 1896, the Grand Hotel Svábhegy itself took but a year to build. The Romantic style of the building evokes t(ie atmosphere of castle hotels in Switzerland and at Tátrafüred. According to the evidence of a marble plaque, the hotel had the honour of a royal visit paid by Queen Elizabeth of Habsburg on 4 October 1896. Another royalty, Charles Habsburg (later crowned Charles IV), called on the establishment in 1914. During World War 1, (the building was occupied by the military. In 1922, the rjew owner, a share company, modernised the by then somewhat obsolete building. After World War II the hotel jwas turned into a medical sanatorium (called the Medjcal Rehabilitation Unit of the Capital City).

The Grand Hotel Svábhegy in "he 1910s