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

The Palace closed down

small electric lights, and a water-filled American fireextinguishing system is on standby in case of fire.”

Equipped with the most advanced safety technology of the 1910s, the hotel became especially popular with the wealthy bourgeoisie, merchants, the gentry from the provinces and the aristocracy. Customers of the café- cum-restaurant were entertained with gypsy music.

The building sustained no serious damage in World War II, not even during the siege of Budapest. Between 1946 and 1949, it housed the offices of the reorganised Social Democratic Party.

Although the building regained its original function in 1950, it would never recover its old splendour. Since it was closed in 1989, shops and boutiques have been operating on the ground floor. Its future is now uncertain.

The Hotel RADISSON SAS BÉKE,

formerly the Hotel BRITANNIA No. 43 Teréz körút, district VI Henrik Fábri, a caterer with professional experience acquired abroad, opened his hotel called Britannia in a well-preserved apartment house built near the Western Station at the corner of Teréz körút and Szondi utca in

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