Budavar Pension B&B, Szabolcs

My husband and I have lived in Budapest so we decided to spend New Years on 2007 there & meet friends. I chose Budavar Pension mainly for its location but it also seemed like a nice and cozy family-run place. This turned out to be far from true. Yes, location is great. What was our surprise though when we arrived at 7 pm and found the place locked with no one to open the accommodate us. Luckily I had a mobile phone operating in Hungary so I called the owner. While we waited for half hour out in the cold another couple arrived, also surprised to find themselves out in the snow. When the owner arrived he did not even apologize. On top he did not know which rooms we are to be accommodated so we waited for yet more time. We stayed a total of 6 days and they did not clean the room or change towels not even once! Explanation was that the maid works till 10 and since we get up later she can`t make our room. I would`ve probably forgotten all the inconvenience of the place by now if it weren`t for the "warm" good buy. We had to check out before noon but the air port shuttle was scheduled to pick us up at 12. So we asked if we can stay in the lobby & wait for 30 min. The owner suggested that we take a walk out in the cold snowy day as we would be in the way!!! Please also note that Budavar pension doesn`t take credit cards so you have to make a 50% advance payment via bank transfer and then pay the rest in cash.