Juhász Gyula - Szántó András: Hotels - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)
The Hotel Forüm Hotels built in the eighties and nineties Hotel INTER-CONTINENTAL, formerly the Hotel FORUM No. 12-14 Apáczai Csere Jámos utca, district V Built to plans by József Finta, the hotel, named Forum at the time, was opened in 1981. Construction work was carried out at an extremely high level, even by international standards. The communal spaces are included in the lower two storeys of the hotel. The eight-floor wing of suites contains more than four hundred rooms. The dark brown metal-plated facade has a somewhat sombre effect. According to its operators, this is one of the best run hotels, and indeed its reserved elegance is highly popular with its customers. This is one of the few hotels that even the average Budapest resident dares on occasion to venture into in order to enjoy the services offered by, say, its Viennese Coffee Shop or the hotel sauna, even though these are four-star facilities. Renamed Inter-Continental in 1997, the hotel has recently been renovated. The Hotel HYATT REGENCY BUDAPEST No. 2 Roosevelt tér, district V Opened in 1982, the Átrium-Hyatt concludes, in time as well as space, the row of hotels on the Danube embankment. What stood in its place before the war were the 55
