# Is Újbuda a Good Area to Stay in Budapest? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/ujbuda
Every Budapest district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest.md

District XI is 33 km² of Buda. The Gellért baths and Bartók Béla út are worth booking; the rest of it is suburbs, and a hotel listed as District XI can be 10 km out.

Facts: 35 min walk to Deák Ferenc tér; 50 min to the airport; price €€; best for quiet, budget, longer stays, families; lines M4, 4, 6, 19, 47, 49.

The bookable part of District XI is a strip about a kilometre wide along the river. Szent Gellért tér has the Gellért baths and the M4, Bartók Béla út behind it has become the city's gallery-and-wine-bar street, and Liberty Bridge puts the Great Market Hall and District IX eight minutes away on foot. It is quieter and cheaper than anything at the same distance in Pest.

Beyond that strip the district keeps going for another 30 km²: Lágymányos and the technical university, then Kelenföld, Gazdagrét, Albertfalva and the panel estates and shopping centres out towards Budaörs. Wikivoyage's own hotel listings for District XI include one advertised as 10 km south of the centre.

So the district name tells you almost nothing about where you will actually be. Check the address against Szent Gellért tér or Móricz Zsigmond körtér before booking, and remember that everything east of the river is a bridge away: the walk to Deák Ferenc tér is over half an hour.

What works:
- The Gellért baths, the Rudas baths and Gellért Hill are all walkable
- Bartók Béla út is the best wine-bar and gallery street in Buda
- M4 runs from Szent Gellért tér to the centre in under 10 minutes
- Cheaper and quieter than any Pest district at the same distance
- Liberty Bridge gives you the Great Market Hall in eight minutes on foot

What does not:
- Most of the district is suburban and 30 to 60 minutes from anything
- Over half an hour on foot to Deák Ferenc tér, and a bridge in the way
- Restaurants thin out fast once you leave Bartók Béla út
- The student quarter around the technical university empties in summer
- Listings say "District XI" whether they are on the river or in Gazdagrét

Hotels in Újbuda: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D1254%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Budapest

- [Belváros-Lipótváros](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/belvaros-lipotvaros): Recommended. District V is the centre in every sense: Parliament, the Basilica, the river and all four metro lines. You pay Vienna prices for it and you eat badly if you stay on Váci utca.
- [Terézváros](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/terezvaros): Recommended. District VI runs from the Opera up Andrássy út to Heroes' Square and the Széchenyi baths. Central prices minus a third, and the M1 does the walking.
- [Erzsébetváros](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/erzsebetvaros): Mixed. District VII is the old Jewish Quarter and the ruin bar district at the same address. Two square kilometres, the best food in Budapest, and no sleep on a Saturday.
- [Józsefváros](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/jozsefvaros): Mixed. District VIII is two districts. The Palace Quarter is the prettiest quiet corner of central Pest; the streets behind Népszínház utca are the ones locals walk around at night.
- [Ferencváros](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/ferencvaros): Recommended. District IX is the Great Market Hall, Ráday utca and half the District V price. Stay inside the Grand Boulevard; the district runs a long way south of it.
- [Várkerület](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/varkerulet): Mixed. District I is Buda Castle, Fisherman's Bastion and the best view in Hungary. It is also the most expensive district, the steepest, and empty of restaurants after 21:00.
- [Angyalföld](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-budapest/angyalfold): Recommended. The southern end of District XIII, Újlipótváros, is where people who live in Budapest would stay: 1930s streets, real restaurants, the Parliament 15 minutes away. The north is not.