Corinthia Hotel Budapest

Budapest, Hungary. Located on Erzsébet körút, part of the Grand Boulevard, in the heart of Pest.

Corinthia Hotel BudapestBudapest, Hungary

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Practical information

Address: Corinthia Hotel Budapest
Erzsébet körút 43–49
1073 Budapest
Hungary
Telephone: +36 1 479 4000
Official website: www.corinthia.com
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410 rooms including 31 suites, plus 18 penthouse apartments in an adjoining building.
Brasserie & Atrium and Le Bar beneath the glass-roofed courtyards.
The restored 19th-century Grand Ballroom and the Royal Spa, a historic bathhouse built in the 1880s.
Located on Erzsébet körút, part of the Grand Boulevard, in the heart of Pest.

8 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

1886 – 1888
Architect Vilmos Freund builds the Royal Spa, with steam, wave and electric baths; hotel guests are given direct access in 1903.
30 April 1896
The French Renaissance-style Grand Hotel Royal opens on the Grand Boulevard for visitors to the Millennium Exhibition celebrating 1,000 years of Hungary.
Early years
The hotel hosts Budapest’s first film screening by the Lumière brothers; Béla Bartók often conducts in the ballroom and writers such as Gyula Krúdy make it their haunt.
1909
The first Hungarian aeroplane is exhibited in one of the hotel’s courtyards.
4 November 1956
Already damaged in the Second World War, the hotel is shelled by Soviet tanks during the Hungarian Revolution.
20 August 1961
Rebuilt with modern interiors by architect István Janáky, the Grand Hotel Royal reopens with 367 rooms.
October 1991
The aging state-run hotel closes after the end of communism.
30 April 2003
After a €100 million rebuild behind the historic façade by the Maltese Corinthia group, the largest hotel restoration in Hungary at the time, it reopens with its original ballroom restored.