Four-star One MICHELIN Key Buda, Budapest
Hotel Clark
A hotel at the Buda end of the Chain Bridge, on the site of a bank Miklós Ybl built in the 1860s, with a rooftop bar looking across at Parliament.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key, 2026
- Opened
- 2018
- Guests
- Adults and children from 14
The hotel
A new house on Ybl's corner.
Miklós Ybl built the Buda Savings Bank on this corner between 1860 and 1862, and from 1864 the Lánchíd Café on its ground floor drew politicians and artists. The building was badly hit in the Second World War and later pulled down. Parts of the arcade survived, and the new hotel reuses Corinthian columns and a marble railing from it.
The hotel was built from 2016 and opened in 2018 to a concept by the architect Anthony Gall. It takes its name from the square, which honours Adam Clark, the engineer who oversaw the building of the Chain Bridge and then designed the tunnel under Castle Hill. Leo, the hotel's lion, comes from the stone lions on the bridge.
- Leo Rooftop An eighth-floor bar open all year, looking over the Danube to Parliament and back to the castle. Tables are booked ahead.
- Between bridge and funicular The Chain Bridge is outside the door and the funicular up to Castle Hill starts beside the hotel.
- Sauna at any hour A Finnish sauna and a gym on the first floor, open around the clock.
Rooms & suites
Seven categories, chosen by view.
The rooms differ by floor and view more than by size, with Art Deco touches and graphic details.
- River Danube View rooms Big windows on the Chain Bridge and the Pest skyline.
- Hill Castle View rooms Facing Buda Castle and the funicular.
- Seventh floor Terrace rooms Rooms on the top guest floor with large terraces.
Dining
Two floors of Leo.
Venues as listed by the hotel and the MICHELIN Guide. Shown for information.
- Leo Bistro Modern international On the ground floor
- Leo Rooftop Cocktails, wine and modern dishes with Hungarian notes On the eighth floor, open all year
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 2 pm, check-out by noon.
- Children Guests must be at least 14.
- Pets Allowed for a nightly surcharge.
- Rooftop Leo Rooftop tables must be reserved in advance.
Getting there
Flying to Budapest.
Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD) lies about twenty-one kilometres from the centre, on the Pest side; allow 30 to 40 minutes by car to the Buda end of the Chain Bridge, our estimate. Private jets use the General Aviation Terminal at the same airport, where customs is handled at any hour.
- Vienna 35 min
- Munich 1 h 05
- Nice 1 h 40
- London 2 h 15
- Dubai 5 h 35
Questions
What guests ask first.
- Does Hotel Clark have a MICHELIN Key?
- Yes, one Key, confirmed in the 2026 selection for Hungary.
- Can children stay at Hotel Clark?
- Only from the age of 14. The hotel does not take younger guests.
- Who was Clark?
- The square, and so the hotel, are named after Adam Clark, who oversaw the building of the Chain Bridge and later designed the tunnel under Castle Hill. The bridge itself was designed by William Tierney Clark.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Budapest?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Budapest, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Budapest
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace The Art Nouveau palace of 1906 at the Pest end of the Chain Bridge, 179 rooms, with an infinity pool in the spa on the top floor.
- Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel Twin palaces by Giergl and Korb, built in 1902 for Archduchess Maria Klotild, with Spago by Wolfgang Puck and The Duchess on the roof.
- Anantara New York Palace On Erzsébet körút, 185 rooms and suites above the New York Café, which has been open since 1894.
- Párisi Udvar Hotel A listed shopping arcade by Ferenciek tere, a hotel since 2019, with Zsolnay ceramics, Miksa Róth glass and a dome over the passage.
- Verno House A former apartment house on Október 6. utca, near Szabadság tér, with the Flava restaurant downstairs.
- Dorothea Hotel, Autograph Collection Three nineteenth- and twentieth-century buildings joined by Piero Lissoni and opened in 2023, with 216 rooms and a garden restaurant.
- W Budapest The Drechsler Palace on Andrássy út, directly opposite the Opera, now 151 rooms with penthouse suites named after swans.
- Kimpton BEM A nineteenth-century palace on the Buda side remade by Marcel Wanders, opened in 2024, with the feNNen Skybar on top.
- Kozmo Hotel Suites & Spa A protected building of 1910 that once housed a telecommunications centre, with two pools in the spa.
- Aria Hotel Budapest Next to St Stephen's Basilica, with rooms such as the Liszt Studio and the Opera Suite, live music in the garden each night and the High Note SkyBar on the roof.
- Corinthia Hotel Budapest A hotel on Erzsébet körút since 1896, whose restored Art Deco Royal Spa covers more than a thousand square metres.
- Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest Home to Nobu Budapest, and its 525-square-metre spa won Hungary's Best Hotel Spa at the 2025 World Spa Awards.
- Al Habtoor Palace, Budapest The former Adria Palace on Elizabeth Square, once The Ritz-Carlton, now run by the Al Habtoor Group.
- Áurea Ana Palace Two buildings on Akadémia utca, a neoclassical one of 1847 and one of 1894 built for the Austrian delegation, now 107 rooms with a spa of pools and saunas.
- InterContinental Budapest On the Pest river front, where some rooms look across to the Royal Palace, with Lebanese cooking at ARZ.
- Pullman Budapest The former Hard Rock Hotel in the theatre street of Terézváros, reopened by Accor in 2024 with 136 rooms and a 280-square-metre rooftop lounge.
Staying at Hotel Clark?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Budapest, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.