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Budapest Hotel (Hard Rock)

A few years back the Hard Rock Hotel opened. What is strange is for such a name brand they choose to build it in a fairly traditional area very near, but not on the tourist trail. Also surprising is that while it's nice, its not over the top. More of a boutique hotel than anything else. The location puts it sort of behind the Opera and the Operett theater with a short walk past some nice restaurants to Andrassy ut. The price for a date I checked in November is $165 to $1800 a night. I thought that was high until I checked the same date for the K&K Opera (sort of the middle of the road 4star near the Opera) which started at $145 and went up to $450 depending on the room. Boy rates are up in town. The K&K was about $115 a night for years. So the Hard Rock is $20 more and probably worth it. https://www.hardrockhotels.com/budapest/

I have found myself sitting at their patio facing O utca drinking a beer on a few occasions this trip.

There is a Hard Rock Cafe in town too, but that is on Vorsomarty ter in District V, near the river.

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We avoid all Hard Rock cafes and hotels especially in another country. Why do you like them over local hotels?

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Don't count on knowing the ownership of anything. Any assumption will probably be wrong. K+K hotels are owned by Goldman Sacs while the Hard Rock Cafe in town is owned by Polish. The Hard Rock Hotel is essentially a franchise run by the son-in-law of the Hungarian PM. I also know of a cute little local, Hungarian boutique hotel owned by Brits and another by French. They provide jobs and at worst 95% of the money goes into the local economy.

But I'm like periscope, wish it were shaped like a guitar. Then it would be really classy.

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That link won't open for me but if its about the Seminole Hard Rock shaped like a guitar.... now that's architecture at its best and most refined. Right up there with the Eiffel Tower and all that Roman stuff in Italy.

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Weren't you there yesterday? Or was it the day before?

I met a friend yesterday and told her that I was planning a Christmas markets trip in December. Her first words were: you're going to Budapest, surely.