travel42 Hotel Review: Kimpton BEM Budapest

Kimpton BEM Budapest travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This is one of the newer openings in the city and has already made quite a splash. Leave it to Dutch designer Marcel Wanders to transform a 19th-century Radetzky Barracks site in the old town to a cool, hipster hotel.

While it is still about 20 minutes on foot to the Parliament and more tourist-centric areas, the location is easily connected to everything via public transportation. It faces the Bem Jozsef ter public gardens, which is where the hotel takes...