Five-star One MICHELIN Key Pest, Budapest
Kozmo Hotel Suites & Spa
A telephone exchange of 1910 in Józsefváros, turned into 84 rooms and suites around a grand staircase, with two pools in the spa below.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key, 2026
- Rooms
- 84, of which 21 are suites
- Opened
- September 2020
- From the airport
- About 30 minutes from BUD
The hotel
The telephone exchange of Józsefváros.
The building dates from 1910 and was designed by Rezső Ray. Early in the twentieth century it held what the hotel calls the largest telecommunications centre in Central and Eastern Europe. The hotel's name comes from the Hungarian word for communications. It is a protected building, and its main staircase, lined with Zsolnay tiles, is said to be the second longest in Hungary after the one in Parliament.
Spanish owners brought in the Catalan studio GCA Architects, who started work in 2017 and spent three years on the conversion, keeping the façade reliefs and the staircase. The hotel opened in September 2020, and the MICHELIN Guide gave it a Key in its 2026 Hungary selection. Inside, the rooms have stucco and herringbone parquet, and the walls carry photographs by Carlos Cánovas and frescoes by Lluís Lleó.
- Two pools The spa has one pool for swimming and one for relaxing, with a sauna, a steam room and three treatment rooms.
- The staircase Hungary's second longest, under a painted coffered ceiling, leading up to the rooms and the restaurant.
- Suites with terraces The Presidential Suite has its own terrace and covers 190 square metres; Junior Suite 42 has a terrace, a library and a fireplace.
Rooms & suites
Eighty-four rooms, twenty-one of them suites.
Rooms mix stucco ceilings and parquet floors with modern furniture; many look onto the inner courtyard.
- Rooms Superior Room From 36 to 41 square metres. Standard rooms reach 35 and Deluxe rooms 45 square metres.
- Suites Junior Suite From 47 to 70 square metres, some with a terrace.
- Largest Presidential Suite with Terrace 190 square metres, with its own terrace.
Dining
A bistro and a bar.
As described by the hotel and the MICHELIN Guide. Shown for information.
- Kozmo bistro Hungarian and international Also the breakfast room
- Lobby bar Drinks With a terrace outside
Recognition
Awards and listings.
- One MICHELIN Key 2026
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by noon.
- Children Cots are free for children under two, subject to availability. Babysitting and connecting family rooms can be arranged.
- Pets Not accepted.
Getting there
Flying to Budapest.
Budapest Ferenc Liszt International (BUD) is about half an hour away by car, and the hotel runs a private taxi transfer. Private jets use the same airport, where formalities are handled at the General Aviation Terminal.
- 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 Kozmo Hotel Suites & Spa have a MICHELIN Key?
- Yes, one Key in the 2026 Hungary selection.
- How many pools are there?
- Two, in the spa: one for swimming and one for relaxing.
- Where is the hotel?
- On Horváth Mihály tér in Józsefváros, the eighth district, on the Pest side.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Kozmo Hotel Suites & Spa?
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.