Grandio Party Hostel

Grandio Party Hostel

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4.5
#6 of 307 hostels in Budapest
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4.7
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4.0
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4.7
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4.6
You can sleep when you're dead so DON'T expect to get any here. Grandio, one of the only true party places on this earth that welcomes alcoholics, lost souls and arty people with talent but no direction and audiences, the living breathing creature that is constantly evolving, the place with a crazy cult following. On site bar, or beer sold by our staff, or the beer vending machine, or strawpedoes for breakfast.....these are all ways in which we fuel our thirsty and party hard guests (and staff). When the bar is shut, we move to the late room, the den of noise and naughtiness, with a sex bed and hammock depending on how adventurous you are. Every night our staff take you out on different activities in the city. These range from Backpackers fancy dress parties, to pub crawls, to live music nights, to karaoke nights, which take you to our personal favourite (plus some of the cheapest) bars in the city. If you feel like doing something a little different, never fear, as our staff have their finger on the pulse of the city's nightlife and are able to recommend differently nightly activities depending on your tastes. We have a live music venue in the basement, which has different acts on every night providing for all different tastes in music. Every Sunday they let us use it to showcase the talent we play host to with our own open-mic night in which we use our own instruments which include a plethora of guitars, drum kit, piano, violin, piano accordions, plus more as well as our very own sound technician! The staff have all been hand picked, which might seem a bit wild when they are walking around dressed up in dressing gowns with a beer in one hand, but this is the Grandio uniform, wear whatever makes you feel comfortable, or we got from the euro store that day. If you think you can challenge us, we'll probably rise to it, if not, we'll respect you for trying! The place itself is as wild as our staff and guests, decorated by street artists from around the world it houses a games room with table football and ping pong, the bar, a secret restaurant, which we could tell you about, but we'd have to kill you, a mix of rooms, some en-suite, with varying numbers of beds, and if you're lucky, a loo with a view. If you're not too hung over during the day we can organise daytime activities for you. The staff at Grandio are able to organise tours of the city plus other daytime activities such as paint balling or laser-tag. So the arty amongst you might appreciate the fact that all of our rooms, the outside and insides of everything are decorated by the best street artists of Budapest, and have been added to by global artists who liked what they saw and wanted to add to it. We have a band, called The Grandio Journals, which changes members every week when we practice in the open mic night, and we welcome all talent to perform here. As well as that, we are in a great location, especially if you like drinking as we are in the heart of the bar district, the only rules we have are about respect to our guests and neighbours, and other than that we want you to have a wild time, because we will be first! Please note, like the name says, this IS a party hostel, we go out every night, some people drink in the day time, there is a bar, sometimes sex, and a lot of fun. If you don't like these things, please try a calmer hostel, like Carpe Noctem Vitae. Please note: Regrettably, due to previous experience, we can no longer accept bookings for people over 40. If you have booked and are outside this age, please contact us and we will help find you alternative accommodation.
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Nagy Diofa Utca 8, Budapest Hungary
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Ryan W wrote a review Apr 2020
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Loved it here. Nice bar. Cheap drinks. Best of all. THE STAFF! So friendly, gets everyone included. Can’t wait to visit again. Not for someone who wants a quiet place to say but highly recommended for party people!
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Traveled with friends
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coleisbeingprofe2016 wrote a review Oct 2016
Berlin, Germany
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Some hostels advertise themselves as having comfortable amenities, clean facilities and a relaxing atmosphere. Others really play up their location in relation to local hotspots such as historical monuments, landmarks and museums. Maybe they talk about the endless professionalism of their staff and services.

Grandio is not one of those hostels.

Don't misunderstand me, the Grandio is not disgusting. The facilities work and are cleaned regularly. The beds are comfy, and there are lockers and strong wi-fi and all the other services you need and want in a modern day hostel. It's also located in such a powerfully good location that almost anything worth seeing in the city is within walking distance (and there's a restaurant run by Michelin Star rated chefs that makes soup and sandwiches for only a couple euros right around the corner). The staff are some of the most uniquely interesting human beings (or rough approximations thereof) and will do anything they can to help you find your way or have a good time.

It's just that that's not what the Grandio is about.

Other hostels still, advertise themselves as "Party" hostels that are "hip" and "cool" and "totally down with the kids these days, yo" (and they apparently use slang terms from the mid-90's in this example). But Grandio is not those hostels either. The Grandio says it's a party hostel, and it darn well means it. If the concept of casual-alcoholism was a place, it would be Grandio Hostel.

The only kind of people who don't like this place are the kind of people who have no idea what a proper party is really about.

People chug 80 cent bottles of wine en-masse, for breakfast, on a Tuesday (along with the staff), and are free singing out-of-tune songs half the day. They start hugging each other and drunkenly dancing by the time dinner rolls around, sometimes sooner. The people here are ready and willing to have an absolutely phenomenal time, and the hostel is ready to assist. They have a bar onsite, kitchen, a dirty party room who’s actual name I can’t even mention on this site, and many, many nightly activities. But they aren't just pub crawls (although that is an option some nights). They have boat parties, spa parties, alcoholic Olympics, jaeger trains and plenty more. Don't like the sound of those things? Well then you’re lying, of course you do. But even if you're not down with that sickness, you can just stay back at the hostel, and there's always another group of amazing people hanging around ready to find ways to have fun.

And that's because this is the kind of hostel that draws only the best sorts of people that are able to be drawn at all.

Maybe you’ll find a guy who prepares to party by eating spoonfulls of Coffee so he has the energy to dance all night (yes, “eat”). Maybe you’ll run into a girl with a voice that could bring a tear to Gods Own eye, who will then go and dance circles around you that same night. Maybe you’ll find the happiest most excitable guy in the world running around (who impossibly always manages to infect you with the same feelings of happiness before running off, yelling something about “going full Ricky”).
Perhaps you’ll find a guy who drunkenly wagers his entire nation on a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, and then loses. There could be a guy who sparkles more then most who always seems to introduce himself with an increasingly ridiculous name every time. There might be a girl who introduces you to the glorious, classic Hungarian tradition of Brodka (Breakfast Vodka), before spending most of her time making sure that everyone feels welcome and talked to. There might be a guy who is a bit quieter then most, but when he talks it always manages to have a hilarious stopping power to it. Maybe you’ll find a guy who eats leaves. Or a couple of those people. There could even be a guy who buys grapes from the store, but by the time he gets back to hostel, he has none, because he gave them all away to random people along the way. Maybe you’ll meet bearded men and fabulous women and every other sort of person you can think of.

Or maybe you’ll hang out with the staff, some of the most dedicatedly-debaucherous groove-crusaders that even the most insane depths of your own imagination would be incapable of fabricating outside of the throes of a powerful fever dream. They’re always there to have fun, and they’re always there to help. Some of them dress like dragons, and most of the others wear tights that leave less to the imagination then the slowly vanishing steam from a morning shower. But all of them are amazing.

Or maybe you’ll meet none of them. Maybe you’ll just meet your own group of impossibly awesome and inspiring people. Because at the end of the day this is the kind of place that only attracts the most coolest, the most groovifying and fantabulastic people around. You could be one of em.

Give it a try.
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Date of stay: October 2016
5.0 of 5 bubblesCleanliness
5.0 of 5 bubblesService
5.0 of 5 bubblesSleep Quality
Trip type: Traveled with friends
Room Tip: All the rooms are amazing.
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sam b wrote a review Aug 2012
Sydney, Australia
5.0 of 5 bubbles
grandio party hostel is the most awesome hostel i have ever travelled to! the staff are fantastic, and make sure all the guests have the best time of their lives! the perfect place for all travellers looking to make friends and have epic loose nights! i 100% reccomend it to all travellers looking for a great time! BEST HOSTEL IN THE WORLD!
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Date of stay: August 2012
5.0 of 5 bubblesValue
5.0 of 5 bubblesRooms
5.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
5.0 of 5 bubblesCleanliness
5.0 of 5 bubblesService
5.0 of 5 bubblesSleep Quality
Trip type: Traveled with friends
Room Tip: all rooms are fantastic!
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Glamorgano wrote a review Jun 2014
Swansea
1.0 of 5 bubbles
DO NOT STAY HERE!!! We stayed at this place to have a good time but the staff wouldn't let us!! Told us to be quiet after a little sing song. They never bothered with us unless they were taking our money. I know its a hostel but the toilets were a disgrace. You needed breathing apparatus to enter!! On our first day we got kicked out just before we were meant to leave for a pre booked event. As it goes they done us a massive favour as we managed to get into the full moon hostel which was far superior. Clean and tidy and the staff were great. No bother at all. Would highly recommend.
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Date of stay: June 2014
1.0 of 5 bubblesValue
1.0 of 5 bubblesRooms
1.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
1.0 of 5 bubblesCleanliness
1.0 of 5 bubblesService
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S_B93 wrote a review Aug 2012
Newcastle, United Kingdom
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Arrived here after having travelled all night on a train, to be told by the staff that because they have no check out time that our beds were still being slept in, left our luggage in a dodgy looking room which easily could have been broken into and went into the city, arived back early evening, couldnt find any staff they were all sitting getting drunk, were shown to our room and were told that they couldn be bothered to do the laundry so our beds hadn been made, decided to brush this off and had a look around the hostel, dont think it had ever been cleaned, half the toilets and sinks were blocked, bathroom floors were soaking and sticky, roof was covered in mould which frankly is just disgusting! were due to stay two nights bt after the first night we couldnt take anymore, beds were crawling with bugs and we awoke to find one of the staff members in bed with 2 girls. It advertises itself as a party hostel but its frankly horrifying. The staff were all nice and friendly but didnt have a clue how to run a business. Severely disappointed.
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Date of stay: August 2012
1.0 of 5 bubblesValue
1.0 of 5 bubblesRooms
3.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
1.0 of 5 bubblesCleanliness
2.0 of 5 bubblesService
1.0 of 5 bubblesSleep Quality
Trip type: Traveled with friends
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FionnN92 wrote a review Aug 2012
Belfast, United Kingdom
1.0 of 5 bubbles
We arrived and thought at first it was a quirky little place but no it is just disgusting. The front entrance has plaster falling off, metal bars covering the windows and inside was no better. The outdoor seating area was covered with trees, nice to sit in the shade as Budapest was so hot but as we walked in at 11am a group of guests who were sitting drink bottles of champagne, started shouting check-in... We were confused, the makeshift bar was not part of the hostel, we didn't know where to check-in but the more the people shouted finally a guy, obviously just out on bed, in a vest and boxer shorts came stumbling out and didn't really know what to do. We told him our booking name and he disappeared. When he came back he had our check-in details for one night although we booked for 2. He quickly told us they had no check out time so there was still people in our beds. We filled in our details, paid and were given our keys, paying a 1000 Ft key deposit, not unusual, although this was not recorded when we went to get it back. The guy told us his name was Strawberry, which I don't believe for one minute as he told us he was also Irish. He was helpful in that he told us some good sights to see and things to do and told us to come back later and our beds would be ready. We ate breakfast after just arriving on a 13 hour night train from Berlin, what a mistake, the greasy bacon and egg bap was minging and served on a dirty plate. We headed off and spent the day exploring Budapest. We arrived back around 5pm and yet again couldn't find any staff, we spotted Strawberry and asked his could he please show us our room, he was sitting drinking beer and smoking with a group of others and was reluctant to help us but showed us to our room anyway. A 10 person dorm, our beds weren't made and the mattress was crawling with bugs, he told us there washing machine was broke and they has sent the laundry to a dry cleaners and would be made up that night. We wanted to have a nap but there was no chance of getting to sleep in those beds. We decided to shower and head back into town, the showers were disgusting. Covered from floor to ceiling in mould, 3 of the 4 were block with god knows what. The sinks and toilets were just as bad with the toilet over flowing and the smell of stale urine stank out the building. On returning from town our beds were made, I don't know if it was a good thing or not but we decided to stay as we were on a budget and had already paid upfront. We had planned to go on the pub crawl organised by the hostel cause after all we were there for a good time but the group that lined up ready to go were not the kind of people we wanted to be around so we gave it a miss. There were 3 other Irish girls in our room who told us there was just the 5 of us, the other beds were empty that night. They were wrong, we woke up in the morning to a staff member in bed with a random girl, he then woke up and got into the bed opposite with another girl and was laughing at how the 12 bed staff room had at least 16 people in it... I will leave the rest up to you. We tried to shower in the morning but were told by a man who spoke little english that we couldn't as there was a problem, at least someone noticed. He climbed up his ladder and started to spray mr. muscle on the mould, god love him he will probably still be there. We decided just to leave and forget about our second night but yet again we couldn't find a staff member to return our keys to and get our deposit back when we did they had not record of us or our deposit and just handed it back anyway, they must be loosing out on a lot of money somewhere along the line. We checked into a much better, cleaner hostel with great facilities just 2 minutes walk away, as the location was the only good thing about it and for 1 euro extra a night it was totally worth it. They organised pub crawls, tours, events, as we were looking to party it was great. We both loved Budapest and will most definitely be back just not to Grandio.
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Date of stay: August 2012
1.0 of 5 bubblesValue
1.0 of 5 bubblesRooms
4.0 of 5 bubblesLocation
1.0 of 5 bubblesCleanliness
1.0 of 5 bubblesService
1.0 of 5 bubblesSleep Quality
Trip type: Traveled with friends
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EdJardGood wrote a review Jul 2012
Leeds, United Kingdom
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Visited with 3 other chaps. Had a great time on the nights out (although you don't really get a taste of a Budapest night out, they just take you out with the people from their affiliated hostels), plenty of cheap bars though and places to get pretty hammered. The staff are all pretty keen on getting you enjoying yourselves to be honest, although the other reviewers are right, they also do enjoy just getting hammered most of the time (which we thought was just amusing). I expected the rooms to be worse than they were, but in fact they were very clean. Showers were good (pressure and heat). The bar (contrary to some reviewers, seriously don't know what happened for them) was open all the time, and was very cheap. I reckon in all honesty that this place probably does get more hardcore than it did when we visited. Their motto, as you learn when you arrive, in fact only really applied to the staff while we were they. Top marks to the canadian lad who sorted us out when we arrived, told us everything we needed to know about Budapest and where to eat etc, best baths to go to. He almost certainly made our trip a lot better than it would have otherwise been.
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Date of stay: June 2012Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Ajlati wrote a review Oct 2016
1.0 of 5 bubbles
I have travelled all over the world and this would have to be the worst hostel I've ever stayed at by along way!

This so-called 'Hostel' is actually more like a filthy rubbish dump or a meth den.
You will feel like you are in a scene out of the movie trainspotting.

The so called "partying" is actually really lame and is run by the misfit shoeless junkie staff who seem to be only interested on creeping on damaged girls or even boys.

The rooms and services are Disgusting and sleeping on the street may have been a better option.
Avoid this place like he plague and I can't understand why it has any good ratings.
Would be a blessing for all future travellers if this place closed down.
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Date of stay: September 2016Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Millie W wrote a review Aug 2016
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Stayed here based on a recommendation from a friend for 2 nights but would not stay again.

I feel because its a party hostel they think that means they do not have to meet any minimum requirements for staff, cleanliness etc. All the staff seemed like they either did not want to be working if you asked them anything hostel related or they were out of it!

The bar was overpriced and tje food was naff.

The dorms were tiny and cramped and right on the main street so so loud!

There was sick on the back of the shower curtain at about 6pm after they had been "cleaned".

Our keys stopped working before the pub crawl, I went and told staff and they said we know and they will be fixed in 20mins don't worry. Got back at 4am and were locked out. When i complained the next morning it took a while for a refund to even be offered.
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Date of stay: August 2016Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Alex0610 wrote a review May 2016
Manchester, United Kingdom
2.0 of 5 bubbles
If your looking for atleast a semi hygienic holiday this place isn't for you. The beds and rooms don't get cleaned, everything is dirty and smells. It's supposed to be a 'party' hostel but in my opinion this isn't accurate. As a group of lads who are fairly rowdy we wouldn't stay here again, it's just not worth waking up in such a disgusting environment.
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Date of stay: August 2015Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Declan M wrote a tip Aug 2018
3 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"Don't stay here unless you want the party experience!"
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David P wrote a tip Apr 2018
1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"Stayed in room 1 which sleeps 10 people so I recommend that room if with a group"
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Jake T wrote a tip Dec 2017
2 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"Just go with it, you won't be sleeping much anyways cause you can sleep when you're dead."
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CNHMaxwell wrote a tip Apr 2017
Edinburgh, United Kingdom4 contributions3 helpful votes
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"If you're in a small group or on your own, go into the bigger communal rooms, which are actually cheaper."
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JDBateman wrote a tip Mar 2017
Prague, Czech Republic1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
"Every room is a good room"
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Frequently Asked Questions about Grandio Party Hostel
Which popular attractions are close to Grandio Party Hostel?
Nearby attractions include E-Exit Escape Room Budapest (0.1 miles), Nightmare in Budapest (0.07 miles), and Balta Dobálás (0.06 miles).
What food & drink options are available at Grandio Party Hostel?
Guests can enjoy a lounge during their stay.
What are some restaurants close to Grandio Party Hostel?
Conveniently located restaurants include Jardín Cocktail Bar, Vicky Barcelona, and Dehogynem Kávéműhely.
Is Grandio Party Hostel located near the city center?
Yes, it is 0.7 miles away from the center of Budapest.
Are there any historical sites close to Grandio Party Hostel?
Many travelers enjoy visiting Fisherman's Bastion (1.5 miles), Shoes on the Danube Bank (1.1 miles), and Heroes' Square (1.4 miles).
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