Four-star One MICHELIN Key Andrássy út, Budapest
W Budapest
The Drechsler Palace by Ödön Lechner, across Andrássy út from the State Opera, reopened in 2023 as 151 rooms, with a spa below ground and a speakeasy in the cellar.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key
- Rooms
- 151, including 45 suites
- Opened
- 10 July 2023
- From the airport
- 26 to 55 minutes from BUD
The hotel
Across the road from the Opera.
The Drechsler Palace was designed by Ödön Lechner and Gyula Pártos in a French Renaissance manner and has stood on Andrássy út, facing the State Opera House, for about 140 years. Over the years it held a café spilling onto the street and the Hungarian ballet institute, so that dancers trained across the road from the Opera stage.
W Hotels opened its first Hungarian hotel here on 10 July 2023. The interiors, by Bowler James Brindley and Bánáti + Hartvig, borrow from the ballet and from Hungary's chess tradition. The two top suites follow Swan Lake: the WOW Suite in white, the Extreme WOW Suite in black, with its own DJ booth and a three-tier bar.
- AWAY Spa Below ground, modelled on the Hungarian bathhouse, with an indoor pool, sauna and whirlpool.
- Society25 A speakeasy in the basement next to the spa, with eight house cocktails.
- Andrássy út The State Opera House is directly across the road, on a boulevard listed by UNESCO.
Rooms & suites
Black swan, white swan.
151 rooms, 45 of them suites, with interiors drawn from ballet and chess.
- Suites Cozy Studio and Cool Corner Suites Two of the suite types among the 45 in the building.
- White swan WOW Suite An all-white suite inspired by Swan Lake.
- Black swan Extreme WOW Suite All in black, with a private DJ booth and a triple-tiered wet bar.
Dining
Small plates and a cellar bar.
Restaurants and bars as listed by the hotel and the Budapest Business Journal. Shown for information.
- Nightingale by Beefbar Asian small plates and Beefbar meat dishes Chef Fabio Polidori
- Society25 Cocktails Speakeasy in the basement
- W Lounge Bar and lounge On the ground floor, opening onto Nightingale
Recognition
Ratings.
- One MICHELIN Key 2026
- Forbes Travel Guide Four stars, 2026
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by noon.
- Children Welcome at any age; cots on request.
- Pets Accepted, for a charge.
- Parking The hotel has no car park of its own.
Getting there
Flying to Budapest.
Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD) handles scheduled flights and private jets, and Forbes Travel Guide puts the drive at 26 to 55 minutes depending on traffic. Private passengers clear formalities at the General Aviation Terminal and are then driven to the hotel.
- Vienna 35 min
- Munich 1 h 05
- Nice 1 h 40
- London 2 h 15
- Dubai 5 h 35
Questions
What guests ask first.
- How many MICHELIN Keys does W Budapest have?
- One, in the 2026 MICHELIN selection for Hungary.
- Is W Budapest opposite the Opera?
- Yes. The Drechsler Palace stands at Andrássy út 25, directly across the road from the Hungarian State Opera House.
- Does W Budapest have parking?
- No. There is no hotel car park, so arrive by car with a driver or by taxi.
- 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.
- Hotel Clark At the Buda foot of the Chain Bridge, with the Leo Rooftop high above the river and the funicular up to the castle close by.
- 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 W Budapest?
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.