ARIA HOTEL BUDAPEST
HOTEL
If you have been following my Instagram and Facebook profile than you already know about my trip to Budapest. While I’v spend a weekend in Budapest I have stayed in a beautiful ,luxury and unique (why unique, please read the post and you will find out) Aria hotel.Hotel entrance is a stunning black and white keyboard themed carpet that takes you into the garden courtyard,where a grand piano takes centre stage. It’s no ordinary piano, consisting of more than 18,000 parts and built to create the highest possible sound quality, it was designed by Gergely Bogányi, a world renowned Hungarian pianist and is one of only two in the world. At this point you will recognise the theme of the hotel is music, every room dedicated to a musician and the entire hotel designed with this theme in mind.Hotel offers to their guests four wings and each wing is dedicated to one of four major genres of music: Classical, Opera, Contemporary, and Jazz with four different design concepts.
LOCATION
The Aria Hotel sits on a small picturesque street next to the beautiful Saint Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest’s city centre. The area around the hotel offers pedestrian streets with numerous cafes and restaurants.Just a short walk, about 250 meters you will find famous street, Andrássy Avenue, the iconic cultural boulevard of Budapest, boasting high-end shopping, dining and the Opera House.
ROOM
The Mozart suite in the Opera wing is chosen for me and Mozart aria starts playing in surround sound from the moment I step out of the elevator and I feel like I am being serenaded. Elegance and luxury await your arrival in the Opera Wing. The suite revel in Neo-Baroque furnishings modernized with streamlined forms and colors. The pairing of cool shades of gray with sensuous shades of lilac and orchid create a lush and decadent color palatte.The drama is heightened with Murano Venetian glass chandeliers, tufted velvet headboards and historical musical instrument sketches into the custom-made carpets. Room features Mozart caricature by internationally acclaimed artist Joseph Blecha to celebrate the world’s greatest musical legend. A room has a private open air balcony overlooking the magnificent Music Garden Courtyard and thanks to that I had a chance to gaze at the stars at night. The stunning marble bathroom offers a huge bath tub and shower, where you can induluge yourself in Molton Brown products.
THE FOOD
The Aria hotel offers three bars High Note Sky Bar, Satchmo Bar and Satchmo Library. The High Note SkyBar is one of the highlights of my stay at the hotel. This lushly landscaped rooftop garden is designed for dining, cocktails, and sunbathing pleasure, all while reveling in the breathtaking views of Budapest and St. Stephen’s Basilica. Definetelly a must see place! Satchmo’s Bar is a glamorous and modern bar with blue velvet walls and crystals draped from the ceiling to create the perfect combination of comfort and luxury. Satchmo Library is a great place to catch up on your reading while enjoying a delicious meal from next door bar. Hotel also offers two restaurants, The music garden and Stradivari.Stradivari restaurant is perfect place for casually sophisticated bistro-style dining where you can find classic Hungarian flavours presented in a beautiful and modern way. The Music Garden is a glass enclosed courtyard in the heart of the hotel, where breakfast and free afternoon wine and cheese reception is served.Breakfast is served in a buffet way and it offers a selection of pastries,ham and chees,vegetables, creals ,fresh and dried fruits but also a selection of hot food such as sausages and eggs. Wine and cheese reception is also served at Music Garden that offers a selection of great tasting Hungarian cheese and wine together with selection of fresh baked bread and dried furits . Reception is complimentary to guests and while you enjoy your food and wine you also enjoy live music from local musicians and mingle with other hotel guests.
THE SPA
The Harmony Spa offers a unique fusion of spa and state of the art wellness to help you relax, revitalize, re-energize and rejuvenate. There are also available musically inspired spa treatments,heated indoor swimming pool,hydroRider Aquatic Exercise Bike,jacuzzi,fitness room with cardio machines,aromatic steam room,infrared sauna and finnish sauna.
VERDICT
Aria hotel offers the ideal location to explore Budapest and it is convenient for both business and leisure travelers. It is an extraordinary hotel that offers unique musical experience, where dedicated musical director personally meets you and creates for you music itinerary and still provides you with a selection of DVD’s. A place where you feel that is perfectly exceptable to treat your room as a disco. It is the only place that I know off that you can spend the night with a music legend 🙂 so if you are a passionate music lover like me than this place for sure is a place where your music dreams will come true 🙂
ARIA HOTEL U BUDIMPEŠTI
HOTEL
Ukoliko pratite moj Facebook i Instagram profil onda ste već upoznati da sam pre mesec ipo dana posetila po prvi put predivan grad Budimpeštu. Za vreme boravka u Budimpešti boravila sam u prelepom, luksuznom i jedinstvenom hotelu Aria. Zašto jedinstven, saznaćete ukoliko budete pročitali ovaj post do kraja. Sam ulazak u hotel Aria za mene predstavlja oduševljenje, divan pod, tematski, crno –beli koji predstavlja tipke klavjature. Ukoliko pratite „put“ tipki on će vas odvesti u centralni deo hotela koji pomalo podesća na botaničku baštu jer je prepun cveća. Ono što vam prvo odvlači pažnju u ovom delu hotela jeste veliki,predivan klavir.Ovaj klavir nije sasvim običan klavir,veoma je redak.Napravljen je od 18.000 delova da bi se stvorio najviši mogući kvalitet zvuka i samo ovakva dva klavira postoje u celom svetu. Delo je svetski poznatog pijaniste, mađarskog porekla, Gergely Boganyi. U trenutku vam postaje jasno da tema i inspiracija ovog hotela je muzika. Hotel svojim gostima nudi četiri krila u kojima se nalaze sobe a svako krilo posvećeno je jednom od četiri glavna žanra muzike: klasična, opera, moderna i džez muzika. Sve sobe u hotelu različitog su koncepta i posvećene različitom muzičaru.
LOKACIJA
Aria hotel nalazi se u centru Budimpešte, neposredno uz Saint Stephen’s crkvu u maloj i slikovitoj uličici koja je deo pešačke zone. U samoj okolini hotela možete pronaći bezbrojne restorane i kafiće koji nude različite vrste hrane i pića.Na samo 250 metara od hotela nalazi se Andrassy Avenue koja je poznata po luksuznim buticima poput Louis Vuitton i kao ulica u kojoj se nalazi Opera.
SOBA
Apartman koja nosi ime „Mozart“ u krilu hotela koji se zove „Opera“ odabran je za mene od strane hotela. Elegancija i luksuz koji ovaj hotel nudi, oseća se već pri izlasku iz lifta.Dočekuje me zvuci Mocartove arije koja istog trena budi u meni romantična osećanja dok ulazim u hotelski apartman.Soba je moderna,prostrana i nameštena nameštajem sa aerodinamičnim formama i bojama u neo baroknom stilu. Uparivanje nijansi sive sa senzualnim nijansama lila i orhideja boje stvaraju dekadantnu paletu boja, korištene za dekor sobe. Sobu krase lusteri napravljeni od luksuznog venecijanskog murano stakla.Uzglavlje na velikom i udobnom krevetu dekorisano je plišom a skice muzičkih instrumenata specijalno su izrađene na tepisima koji se prostiru po celoj sobi. Dominaciju u sobi zauzima predivna Mocartova karikatura koja je remek delo međunarodno priznatog umetnika Joseph Blecha kako bi proslavila jednu od najvećih svetskih muzičkih legendi. Jednom rečju soba odiše luksuzom .Apartman poseduje zapanjujuće veliko mermerno kupatilo u kojem se nalazi velika kada i tuš kabina.U kupatilu vam je na raspolaganju luksuzna linija Molton Brown kozmetičkih proizvoda. Ono što čini ovaj apartman posebnim jeste privatna terasa sa pogledom na veličanstveno predvorje „Music Garden“.Terasa koja mi je pružila priliku da uživam u večernjim časovima uz čašu dobrog vina promatrajući zvezdano nebo.
HRANA
Aria hotel nudi svojim gostima tri bara, High Note Sky Bar, Satchmo bar i Satchmo Library. High Note Sky bar je jedan od najboljih otkrića u ovom divnom hotelu.Nalazi se na samom krovu hotela sa prelepo uređenim zelenilom koji pomalo podseća kao da se nalazite u nekom vrtu a ne u baru na vrhu zgrade hotela.U baru možete da ručate,večerate,pijete razne vrste koktela pa čak i sunčate dok uživate u prelepom pogledu na centar Budimpešte i St.Stephen crkvu.Definitivno bar koji trebate posetiti ukoliko ste u Budimpešti kako bi uživali u prelepom pogledu. Bar je otvoren i za goste koji ne odsedaju u hotelu. Drugi bar u hotelu je Satchmo bar koji je glamurozan i moderan. Bar u kojem su zidovi prekriveni plišanim tapetama na kojima vise kristalni lusteri. Bar koji odiše luksuzom ali u isto vreme i udobnošću. Treći bar je Satchmo Library, savršeno mesto za ljubitelje knjige.Zašto za ljubitelje knjige? Zato što možete da sednete i uživate čitajući knjigu uz zvuk pucketanja vatre koja se čuje iz kamina koji se nalazi u ovom baru. Hotel pored barova svojim gostima nudi i dva restorana, Music Garden i Stradivari. Stradivari je idealno mesto za ne obavezan i sofisticiran ručak u bistro stilu u njemu možete da pojedete klasične mađarske speciajlitete poslužene na moderan način.Drugi restoran je Music Garden, nalazi se u samom srcu hotela. Dok uživate u svojoj hrani imate jedinstvenu priliku da promatrate zvezdano nebo. Umesto klasičnog krova postavljen je stakleni. U restoranu se služi doručak, razne vrste peciva,voća,salati,salami i mlečnih proizvoda.Ukoliko volite hranu poput kobasica i jaja, možete je poručiti za vreme doručka.U poslepodnevnim časovima služi se poslepodnevni meni koji je besplatan za goste hotela. Ovaj meni nudi izbor lokalnih mađarskih vina,više vrsta sira, sveže pečeni hleb, suvo i sveže voće. Uz odličnu hranu i vino imate priliku da uživate u živoj muzici lokalnih muzičara,pijanista i da ćaskate sa gostima hotela.Ovakav koncept poslepodnevnog menia imala sam priliku da vidim samo u Aria hotelu a bila sam gost mnogih hotela u različitim krajevima sveta.Sve pohvale menadžmentu na ovakvoj odličnoj ideji i konceptu.
SPA CENTAR
Harmony spa centar nudi bogatu ponudu raznih tretmana za lice i telo posle kojih će te se osećati opušteno i podmlađeno. U spa centru možete pronaći i zatvoreni bazen, đakuzi, fitnes salu sa kardio mašinama, parno kupatilo,infracrvenu saunu, finsku saunu i hidro bicikl koji možete voziti u bazenu.
ZAKLJUČAK
Aria hotel je jedinstven i specifičan hotel koji nudi idealnu lokaciju za istraživanje Budimpešte i mesto u kojem imate priliku probuditi sva vaša muzička čula. Hotel u kojem imate priliku da muzički direktor hotela porazgovara sa vama kako bi saznao koju vrstu muzike volite. Da vas lično otprati do vaše sobe i za sat vremena dostavi CD sa specijalno odabranim pesmama koje baš vi volite. Jedino mesto gde vašu sobu,apartman,možete da tretirate kao disko. Mesto u kojem možete“ provesti noć „ sa muzičkom legendom. Veoma sigurno tvrdim da ovaj hotel može ispuniti sve vaše muzičke želje a i one druge. Ne propustite posetiti Aria hotel ukoliko ste u Budimpešti da bi ste se i sami uverili.
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