Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, set for city centre

Top chef Wolfgang Puck on board as five-star awaits green light

A five-star Luxury Collection Hotel is slated to open in the restored Matild Palace this May, pandemic permitting, and a partnership has just been announced with noted Austrian chef Wolfgang Puck, who will oversee the entire dining operations including the latest outpost of his ...

A brief look behind the scenes of the legendary river

Keeping the Danube shipshape: how blue, and green, is it?

Much has been said about the illustrious River Danube and all its splendour in chronicles and popular culture alike. But beyond the flotillas of over-told stories, tourist puns and endless clichés, there is the less obvious managing of the extensive waterway that must take ...

Hotel never fully closed during pandemic

Suites, rooms now completely renovated at Kempinski

Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest has used the pandemic lockdown period to conclude its comprehensive room and suite refurbishment programme, finalising with the renovation of the Grand Deluxe Room category and all suites in a fresh and contemporary design. As part of the project, a ...

Nemeth: Vaccination, borders ‘not political issues’

Vaccinations and border reopenings are issues for epidemiologists to decide and are not political questions, Zsolt Nemeth, the head of parliament's foreign affairs committee, said in an interview published by Russian daily Izvestia on Tuesday.

Muller: Hungarian jab to be based on inactivated virus technology

Government announces rules to apply after 4 million inoculated

The government has published a list of new rules to enter force when the number of Hungarians inoculated against Covid-19 reaches 4 million. The statement published on the government website kormany.hu shows that the night-time curfew will start at midnight and shops will be ...

The Tisza Lake and nearby

Take a walk on the wilder side

Lake Tisza, or Tisza-tó in Hungarian, is better known as a nature conservation site rather than a holiday resort. Not that it matters, and for the likes of me, this splendid, less developed area is more the real thing, and preferable to the nowadays ...