Gál Éva: Margaret Island - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

the laundry, the upper restaurant and further entertainment facilities added in the 1920s and 1930s such as the Parisian Grill, the Piccadilly Bar, the Astoria kiosk, the Hungarian Csárda, the Hotel Daisy and the shops— have all disappeared. Their place is now occupied by a car park and the east wing of the Hotel Thermal.

Of all the wartime losses the most painful was the destruction of Margaret Baths. Badly damaged during

Danubius Grand Hotel Margitsziget

the war, the building stood for a long time and was meant to be reconstructed, like the similarly ruined Grand Hotel. While the latter was in fact restored, Margaret Baths were inexcusably demolished in 1958.

Parts of the Hotel Thermal (or Danubius Hotel Thermal Margitsziget as it is officially called) were built where Margaret Baths stood. The hotel uses, for therapeutic purposes, the medicinal waters of the first thermal spring discovered in 1867 and those of the artesian well drilled in 1943.

Besides the waterfall, the only extant component of the former bathing complex, which had remained intact until the beginning of the twentieth century, is the Grand Hotel (Danubius Grand Hotel Margitsziget as it is now formally called), and that in an altered shape. What is called the sanatorium wing was built to the south end of the hotel

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