OnRiver Hotels - MS Cézanne

Really unique place to stay, much more memorable than a normal hotel! We paid a bit more for the bigger window'ed room, and river view, and it was worth every penny. Phenomenal view over the Danube to the beautiful Parliament building. Friendly and helpful staff with good English. Location is great for the view, not practicality of walking places - it's a bit difficult with a few busy roads to cross to get to nearest tram or metro stop. Very thin walls - could overhear next door occupant's phone call home with clarity. Noise from random Dutch radio station played throughout the boat and audible from within our room was very annoying, didn't turn off until around 11pm, and restarted at 7am. Would (& have already) recommended to friends, but turn off the awful radio/disconnect the corridor speaker outside the rooms!

We stayed 6 nights on the MS Cezanne and the accommodation was great for the money, although a lot of the facilities on the boat were not available the boat was first class, I can imagine that if the bar and restaurant was open then it would have been fantastic. The position of the boat is perfect for visiting Budapest.

We were visiting Budapest to attend the Formula 1 at the Hungaroring and thought we would treat ourselves as we had to cancel this trip last year. The room itself was small and the shower tray wasn't angled enough to let the water drain so it flooded the bathroom. Breakfast was very poor, on the last day of our visit they ran out of apple and orange juice leaving only peach juice. The hot option was a lot to be desired, Hungarians don't know what a proper sausage is but it was nice to have roasted veg with my scrambled egg and extremely fatty bacon. The most annoying thing about this hotel was the lack of bar and restaurant facilities. It would have been great to have a mull over the day in the lovely bar with a tall glass of something alcoholic! My friend asked if there was any kind of snack i.e. crisps or biscuits but she was told no. The staff were less than helpful. The hotel actually looked closed from the outside on a night. On our last day we ventured up to the top deck and it looked a lovely place to sit out. We couldn't have sat out of an evening because of the mosquitos! We were told that the lack of facilities was due to the hotel only oppening for the formula 1, having read the reviews this was a lie as someone stayed in June 21 and faced the same problems as us.