Name: Maria Hostel
Address: Maria Utca 7 1085 Budapest,Maria Utca, Budapest, Budapest, Budapest, 1085, Hungary
Rating: 6

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Hungarian National Museum

Dohany Street Synagogue

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Hungarian State Opera House

Keleti Railway Station

Elisabeth Bridge

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Maria Hostel

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The hostel is very well located and the staff is very friendly and helpful. The room was spacious and a small refrigerator was available to us. The negative points are the mattresses too hard and the absence of locker rooms. The toilets were rather clean. In short, a proper hostel and not very expensive.

Good quality price ratio

It's a hostel in the center of Budapest with a very good location and good connections. For the rest it's really bad. It's a very old, improvised former school room, with very uncomfortable mattresses on the ground, very hot in summer and cold in winter. There's no service.

Leave it alone.

I stayed at Maria Hostel for 2 nights in a private room for 2 people in July.

The good thing is the location is excellent and the staff were polite, friendly and helpful. The building is interesting and old, a real gem in the city centre harking back to old Budapest with a traditional courtyard in the centre of the building. The rooms were like student dorms and that was kinda cool, with small balconies around, kitchens, and shared showers and toilets.

There are a couple of negatives. The wifi was rather slow (but just about working) so this was a little frustrating when trying to surf the web. We paid €60 for the 2 nights, so I expected a little better here. Also, in the private rooms, the bed was only accessible via climbing a ladder, which didn’t seem to be advertised on the website. 

Overall, the stay was fine and we had no problems with noise or anything like that. I’d return if staying in Budapest.

Decent hostel in a good location

A hostel that had the good tone of still being available in the middle of Sziget festival but few other qualities. It is a student residence in the year that they turned into a hostel in the summer. Everything there is very old, old, damaged and you should not be looking at the housekeeping of the rooms at all. Common sanitary including in private rooms. Close to the center, the nice covered market and frozen baths

Let's go, but not beyond it.

The place is awful. It is a very old building, the furniture is rotten and old, dark, cozy. The only positive thing is the location. We arrived late and were given a room without light. We were replaced by the light bulb itself and yet it didn't work. We were changed rooms. There were fans and they didn't want to leave one for us. The bed was a dirty mattress on the floor, in a highway that seemed to be about to be destroyed at any moment. No minimum conditions were met.

Worse than you can imagine.

The WiFi is down sometimes and many lockers are broken. The kitchen sink gets clogged sometimes and the bed sheets might be a bit thinner than expected. Most of the hostel looks old and worn.

I don't expect every traveler to be happy here. It's not for everyone. So how come I say it might be my "favorite hostel anywhere"?:

1) The staff is remarkably friendly. So much so, it seems that the friendliness spreads as a serendipitous contagion. Plus they're honest. I mean, they won't pretend that everything is perfect, but they'll bend over backwards for you if you need something - I asked for a fan, an iron, etc.

2) The location can't be beat. It's my favorite part of the city, just down the street from the very active and popular Jesuit church called the Sacred Heart Church. You are about a three-minute walk away from the Körút (the Ring Road) and a tram and metro
station but you can easily walk to any of the major sites and see beauty all the way there and back.

3) The architecture is magical. It is authentic Budapest with a charming courtyard where guests socialize on the balconies or at the tables below. It seems many guests can't stop taking photos of it. Details such as these balconies or the 19th century stone/wrought-iron stairs take you back about a century and a half. Part of the charm is that very little seems to have been replaced with modern fixtures. Here you feel you are in Budapest, even if you stay at the hostel.

4) It's not crowded. The courtyard is spacious. The kitchen is large, functional and equipped with anything I've needed for cooking. There's plenty of room to organize yourself inside the rooms. Every room I see has enough desks and comfortable desk chairs.

5) There are desks of course because this is a student dormitory for architecture students when universities are in session. 

6) There's a kind of personal touch here that I don't believe I've seen quite like this in other hostels. It seems to me the staff even puts thought into who would like whom as roommates.

7) The security at the entrance is excellent (as you need to be buzzed in by building or hostel staff and you can arrive anytime. When I missed my flight, I returned at 2 AM and they have enough rooms and beds so I was able to get a room!

8) The guests were incredibly diverse from practically every corner of the world!

9) There are very few rules compared to other hostels, yet everyone seems to behave. The only rule in the kitchen is to clean up after yourself. There's a rule for quiet after 11 PM and the balconies are locked at midnight. It's amazing to me in retrospect that nobody misbehaved during the week and a half I stayed there. Surely appreciative guests would make sure any oddball behaves, but I don't remember seeing any oddball anyway! :) 

10) It's a hostel that is appropriate for any age group. I saw even a couple of families stay here. 

Unfortunately they'll close on August 21 I think until next summer. I won't guarantee you liked it as much as I did, but I can assure you I was not the only guest that was extremely pleased with this hostel!

Perhaps my favorite hostel anywhere

Stayed 2x nights with a friend of mine in a private 2 bed room. The building is a former student accommodation block with a central courtyard that all rooms look onto. The room itself was small enough and a bit shabby but perfect for what we wanted. The two quite comfortable beds (mattresses on a wooden base) are up a ladder on a loft above the actual 'living space' of the room which has a table, cupboards, sink and a mini fridge.

The location is fantastic, only a 15 minute walk to the centre, the staff are lovely and there's a good atmosphere. The kitchen is basic enough but has everything you need. Would definitely recommend for budget travellers and I would stay here again if I come back to Budapest

Cheap, comfortable and charming

Very rustic hostel, friendly staff but the rooms are not to say horrible and unacceptable. As for the room where I stayed with my boyfriend it was full of dust and old furniture and above all it was nothing clean..and in fact after the second day we found a cockroach in the room and we went down to the manager to change the room..this one is a little cleaner, with a double bed on the floor..but cmq not the maximum..do 2 stars just because it is in a point well connected by metro and bus..for the rest bad!

You're not coming back.

Last summer I stayed at the Maria Hostel with two of my friends for a week, I was more than satisfied with the service and the availability of the manager. She, in addition to immediately accepting our need to be able to change the room with a more rigid one, assigning us a quadruple at the same price as a triple, every day listed the different activities available giving precise instructions on roads, means and economical places where you can stop to eat. The rooms are very rustic with only the indispensable inside, while the bathrooms even if shared with the other customers of the plan are very clean and quite numerous to accommodate every urgency.

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