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Fashionable Luxury in Offbeat Budapest
Article in _Other online-travelguide about New York Palace - A Boscolo Luxury from Apr 2007Overall rating:
90 out of 100
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The hotel is run by the Italian Boscolo family and is a "stylish five-star hotel palace" in the "heart of downtown Budapest" housed in a building originally built in 1894 for the New York Insurance Company. The building has undergone a "five-year reconstruction" and is now "perhaps even better" than when it was new. The lobby is a "rich avant-garde" space with a "six-story indoor atrium". All the rooms open onto "the light and airy courtyard" that reminded the writer of a "baronial palace" that was "prettier than most any museum or palace" in the city.
The hotel has an "in-house spa... and.. indoor swimming pool" which are"striking and well-equipped". He comments that the Italians are "not known for their service" and have found their match with Hungarian staff who offer "even less-attentive service" as shown by phones that ring "endlessly" and check-in staff with "inefficient laptops that no one knows how to use". Service in the restaurant is so poor he suggests it should be "deemed self-serve".
The rooms are "generously sized" and "the most stylish" of any of the luxury hotels in the city. The furnishings are "well-selected" and the marble bathrooms are "well-equipped". The rooms have views "the main street and surrounding neighborhood" and are "resistant to noise and heat". During his visit "the television never worked and mini-bar was hot" - however he couldn't complain because "the phone never worked" either.
This review is an interpretation of the above mentioned author
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