Bagatelle Gardenhouse
Blooming lovely
Leafy Buda ’burb
Bagatelle Gardenhouse is as green-minded as it is green-fingered, with its local-is-best approach and owner-tended gardens. This Buda boutique hotel plants you on the slow-paced city fringes, where your hosts have cultivated a community with their all-day bistro Villa Bagatelle and bakery Brót. The six individually styled bedrooms are a vibrant bouquet of Hungarian artwork, literature and furnishings, rooted in Ágnes and Albrecht’s cosmopolitan passions. There are only delights down this primrose path.
Facilities
Rooms
Six.
Checkout
11am; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability, and you’ll need to give notice if you’ll be arriving after 8pm.
More Details
Rates at Bagatelle Gardenhouse include à la carte breakfast in the garden room, which also has a selection of snacks, fruit, soft drinks and coffee available all day; alcoholic drinks are available for an extra charge.
Also
Unfortunately, this bijou hotel is not suitable if you have reduced mobility.
Free Internet Access
Laundry
On-Site Restaurant
At the Hotel
Large garden and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Bang & Olufsen Bluetooth speaker, air-conditioning, free glass-bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and organic bath products.
Our Favourite Rooms
Each room at Bagatelle Gardenhouse has an individual source of inspiration, which lies close to owners Ágnes and Albrecht’s hearts: music, theatre, painting, nature. Made for bookworms, Betű (the Hungarian word for ‘letter’) has a Fritz Hansen-designed egg chair and a library-framed window seat that overlooks the garden, a view that might distract you from the translated tome you’ve plucked from the well-stocked shelves. We can’t help but sing Rapszódia’s praises: this spacious room nods to the city’s music scene with its perfect-acoustic high ceilings and curtain-red furnishings; you might also be moved to pen lyrics from the sunset-facing terrace.
Packing Tips
You won’t need reading material if you’re staying in book-adorned Betű, but an appreciation for all things cultural will serve you well at this creatively inclined retreat.
Also
The garden remains a serene spot throughout the seasons for admiring the magnolia-hued hotel.
Children
Welcome, but better suited to older kids. The hotel only has one baby cot or extra bed for an under-11, which can be added to Babér or Rapszódia for an additional charge; Rapszódia can also connect to Fülemüle. There’s a play corner in the bistro.
Gallery
Food & Drink
Top Table
By the windows or on the terrace are hard to beat on a sunny day.
Dress Code
Your standard city-break get-up, perhaps with some floral flourishes to nod to the whimsical gardens.
Hotel Restaurant
Breakfast from the hotel’s adjoining restaurant, Villa Bagatelle, is served in the greenery-gazing garden room each morning. It’s included with your stay and you can choose from options like a poached egg-topped avocado salad, full fry-up or indulgent waffles. The bright bistro is framed by sunlight-streaming windows, or enjoy all-day breakfast and seasonal lunch plates alfresco at one of the parasol-shaded tables. Day-starting pastries come from the hotel’s bakery, Brót, also just next door. Its traditional cakes and barista-made brews make this café a neighbourhood favourite, but it’s their Ardenner sourdough bread that gets the town talking.
Hotel Bar
The garden room's fridge is stocked with wine, beer and champagne, which you can help yourself to on an honesty basis; soft drinks are included with your stay. If you’d fancy a different tipple, you’re welcome to bring your own drinks and store them here, too.
Last Orders
Villa Bagatelle is open for lunch and all-day breakfast from 8am to 6pm during the week, and 8am to 5pm on weekends; Brót opens from 7am during the week, but otherwise keeps the same hours.
Planes
Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport is a 45-minute drive from the hotel; staff can arrange transfers on request and for an extra charge.
Trains
Rail routes from Vienna, Bratislava and Zagreb call at Budapest-Déli, which is a five-minute drive from the hotel.
Automobiles
There’s no need for your own wheels: public transport links, such as tram and bus stops, are a few minutes’ walk away, and taxis are easily arranged. If you choose to drive, there’s a few free parking spaces at the hotel.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
Settle into a gentler pace of city living at Bagatelle Gardenhouse, starting with a lingering bakery-sourced breakfast or garden picnic. Dip your toe into Budapest’s storied bathing culture with a soak in Rudas Thermal Bath, which also has a sauna and an archway-framed pool. From here, you can tick off your Buda bucket list: scale the breath-snatching Citadella, brush up on national history at Buda Castle and marvel at the otherworldly Fisherman’s Bastion. Over in Pest, you could catch a candlelit concert at St. Stephen’s Basilica before mooching about the restaurant-lined Jewish Quarter.
Earn or Redeem Points with World of Hyatt
This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .
