Museum Youth Guest House

Great place that came to our rescue!
We are probably the oldest "youth hostel" guests this place has ever seen (sixty-two and seventy years old). We had been in a private home two floors above the hostel on our first visit to Budapest, about a week prior to returning, after having visited Romania in the interim. We supposedly had a room booked in the same private home when we came back. however, the landlord was not there! We waited until 9 p.m. and then went to the Museum Guest House and were greeted so warmly, and taken care of so nicely. The staff spoke English, which was a real plus. He took us to a private room several doors down from their main location. It had a small kitchen, large bathroom, and extra toilet -- heaven, after being on a train from Romania for over eleven hours! We even had a balcony where we had our morning coffee. Our host even called the airport minibus for us on the day we were leaving. Thank you so much for such a lovely place. We highly recommend it!

The staff were quite nice here, but the doubles were under renovation. So we were sent off to Museum Guest House 2. They sent us down the street to another apartment. The toilets were not very clean and the tub needed a good scrub. The double was small and fairly spartan. It wasn't very noisy, but could be a long tedious wait to use the "free" internet. Very good location.

I came here expecting to stay three nights -- I stayed for one week! This place is in such a beautiful, quiet yet central area of Budapest. It is so rare to find a hostel with character -- no bland rooms with prison-style bunks. The staff are so friendly and helpful and speak great English. The hostel attracts a really great mix of travellers from all over the globe who all have an amazing experience. Museum Guest House made my Budapest experience -- stay here!

All I can say is that this is an AMAZING hostel for its staff and its inner decoration (with a very personal touch!). I think there were two showers (and not just one) with hot and cold water. The hostel is in an apartment, which make it very cozy. I will recommend it to anyone going to Budapest!

Yes, this is a small, basic hostel with one shower. But for me, this hostel's location, its wonderful staff, and its cozy atmosphere MORE than made up for it. We had problems in Hungary with our visa for Romania, and we often couldn't tell the staff until after 1 p.m. whether we were staying another night or not. They were so good about it—very understanding. We also arrived at this hostel after the one we booked into messed up our booking. They only had one bed but, after hearing our story, they found another bed for us. I'd recommend this place. I had a wonderful time in Budapest and this hostel was part of it.

Don't stay in the dorms — the huge private rooms are almost the same price. The rooms have one bathroom between five people (rather than 30 in the dorm), large beds, a TV, kitchen, and sitting room. Basically you're in an apartment, but for the price of a hostel room. The dorms are crowded and extremely noisy. They're not worth it.

Maybe the private rooms are good, but I stayed in the dorms and it was below average. The rooms were crowded and you had to walk through other rooms to get to yours. The kitchen was small and basically in the way. They also claim to have 22 beds, but they only have one shower. The only plus was a decent location, but with the subway most everything is accessible.

Well, this isn't the greatest hostel I've stayed in however, we did get the worst room. We had to walk through one room to get to ours, across squeaky floorboards in the dark. Our beds were on the brink of collapsing, the pillows were awful, and it had one small window which barely opened, making it hot and smelly. The other 2 rooms seemed a bit more airy, so I suggest if you stay in the dorms you ask for the one way at the back of the kitchen. We got kicked out the kitchen once when the staff wanted a meeting and also had 2 extra beds jammed in our room, making it a 9 bed instead of 7. With the stinking heat it didn't make for a good night's sleep. One shower is pretty poor as well. You waste half the day waiting to get in. On the plus side, the internet is readily available in the day. It's a good location, close to most places you'd like to be. Security is no problem, but there's a distinct lack of fire safety and I wouldn't like to be in there during a blaze! I'm giving it 2 stars based on my experience in the worst room. I suggest you look elsewhere as it dampened what was otherwise a great time in Budapest.

My friend and I stayed in one of the private rooms downstairs. It was an apartment shared by another couple. It had a kitchen, living room, bathroom, and WC. Very safe. And in a really cute neighborhood that was conveniently located to everything in the center of town. I highly recommend it. Staff are very friendly, despite the miscommunications in English.

I really enjoyed Budapest, and one of the reasons was this hostel! I don't care that there was only one shower. I just feel the atmosphere is so nice and funny!

This place was ok. The beds are foam and the pillows lumpy, and there's one shower and one toilet for 28 people, which was fun. It's ok tho, it's cosy and really in the centre so three stars it is!