The six-storey hotel built recently at Molnár utca 35 in District V may have to be demolished after the mayor’s office discovered the building erected in the courtyard of the apartment block did not correspond to the specifications approved in the planning permition, writes Ingatlanmagazin.hu. The findings of an independent follow-up study were published on the district website and listed a number of ways in which the architect had mislead the authorities. For instance, the walls of the hotel can be reached by hand from the windows of the surrounding apartments. The Budapest Prosecutor’s Office has already been called in to halt any further work and void the construction license. That such a project should be approved in the first place is remarkable in itself and the litany of inconsistencies with the construction to date makes the affair all the more disturbing. And who would want to stay in a hotel as depressing as this anyway?
Newly built District V courtyard hotel faces wrecker’s ball
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Hey, no Hungarian would stay in a hotel in the V. district in the first place — that would be way too expensive for them.
Buy, hey, probably there are enough deep-pocketed foreign jerks visiting Hungary that wouldn’t mind staying at a windowless dump like this one and don’t know any better.
Looks like a swell place, anyhow, very definitely a product of Hungary — so why take it down? Build more like it, I say, after all, there ara a lot more apartment bulding courtyards in Budapest that need to be “developed” this way, right?
Re hotel and wrecking ball. Hey Fantron, I am one of those deep pocket foreign jerks. With your kind of attitide, no wonder tourism is down.
Signed:
Foreign jerk in Canada
I find it hard to believe you could find anything so rediculous anywhere else in the world.
Poor old Jozsi Bacsi and Marika Neni must have a wonderful view of a brick wall from their window. Did people in Molnár utca 35 not wonder what was happening when they started laying the bricks.
But judging by the planning violations, if only the residents couldn’t have touched the brick walls from their windows, everything would be fine and dandy, good to go!!
What ???!!!
Hey There, Glenn of the Canadian Tundra Jerklands.
Hey, Buddy, if you have never heard of the Gellert, Hilton, Intercontinental, Hyatt, Marriott, etc, etc brands of Budapest hotels, then in all honesty, all you really deserve is the “hotel” prison at Budapest V, Molnár utca 35. Better make your reservation for a two-week stay there before the wrecking ball is called in by the authorities, ya’ hear!?
As for me, whenever I travel, I usally try to stay in bona-fide hotels (with features such as windows looking to the outside, etc), not in such grotesque dumps as the one depicted in this wonderful article.
JD, My Friend, I am not in Europe at the moment, so if you are in BP right now, could you please arrange for our mutual friend Glenn of Canada a nice room there WITHOUT a view? Thanx! :~))