Minoo House

General information

Minoo House is a little oasis in the centre of Budapest where you can come to recharge your batteries, meet new friends and get ideas and inspiration for where to go and what to do while you're visiting.

Why choose us?

Almost everything inside Minoo House is designed and made by the young and talented people of Budapest, down to the beds and the bathrooms and is almost exclusively created out of natural, and/or recycled materials.
• We try to embrace the principles of living green in an urban environment. We are home to a lot of plants, recycle everything we can, air-dry the washing when we can, and try to use non-toxic cleaning materials where possible.
• We have a cinema room decked out with original old cinema chairs (red, of course) and a projector.
• The kitchen is stocked up with herbs and spices and all the tools to make delicious meals.
• The building itself! The original house belonged to cashed-up, aristocratic horse-lovers before the communist era and the upper floor is designed to be a horse-viewing gallery- it now overlooks a leafy courtyard.
• All of the dorm rooms are designed with multi-levelled mezzanines to give everybody more privacy and eradicate the mental institution/ hospital feeling you sometimes find in hostels.
• We are not a party hostel.
• Even though the house was abandoned after communism and has suffered long periods of neglect it still has many original features like the doors and doorknobs, the windows, the wood stove in the kitchen, and the wooden and stone flooring. During the renovation, we didn’t destroy anything, restored everything we could and only built from scratch was was non-existent when we took over.
• Everybody who works at and runs Minoo House is involved in the cultural life of Budapest, and we try to collect the best info about the goings-on in the city to give all of our guests the best chance to enjoy its vibrant cultural life.
• We are happily located next door to the best coffee shop in Budapest, Lumen, and you can get great breakfasts from Mi, the bar and cafe inside our courtyard.
• We are always evolving.

We don’t think this should need saying, but just in case you were wondering...

• We have wifi. It is fast, and free.
• The hostel is very safe. We have keyless entry, security doors, personal lockers for dorm sleepers and if you are staying in a private room you keep your own key.
• We don’t have bunk beds.
• We provide freshly laundered linen and towels.
• The entire hostel is cleaned, top to bottom, thoroughly, daily.
• You can come and go as you please.

If you have any questions at all, just let us know.

If you are interesting in booking for a larger group please get in touch first. We do not accept group bookings for hens' nights, bachelor parties, schoolies weekends or similar.

9 times out of 10 the best, easiest and fastest way to contact us and to get an answer back is via email: minoohouse@gmail.com, or here on Facebook.

While during the high season (July and August) we have 24 hour reception, the rest of the year we ask you to please tell us your time of arrival, in advance, and confirm it at least 48 hours before you arrive.