Boscolo New York Palace Hotel - Budapest

The Boscolo also has a ultra modern spa in the basement with a series of treatment rooms, saunas, steam rooms and a long and narrow lap pool. This top-class property could almost be criticised for being too luxurious.

The rooms are fabulously opulent combining immaculately restored original features with funky, modern furniture and rich coloured soft furnishings. They are all large or very large and both the rooms themselves and their state-of-the-art bathrooms are in exceptional condition.

The hotel's restaurant is absolutely magnificent - a beautifully restored example of the heady excesses of ninetheenth century decor bristling with decorative coving, sconces and gilt detailing, it is reminiscent of some of Vienna's grandest coffee houses.

The lobby adjoins the atrium of the hotel a delightfully light and airy marble-floored space.

This beautiful building has been meticulously restored to its former glory.