Hotels near House of Terror, Budapest

Not really a place to fill you with joy and happiness, but well worth a visit to explore some dark times for the country in the not-so-distant past. Worth checking the website for opening times though as I got caught out on my first attempt to visit because it is closed on Mondays. You can get there using public transport but it's an easy enough walk from the city centre, with some nice coffee shops on the way.

Please please please read other reviews. This is awful, a waste of time and money. Crowded and boring if you speak English. It is unorganized and claustrophobic. It makes no sense. The essay reading is real and annoying.

Everyone who comes to Budapest should visit this museum, because it depicts the history of the two regimes that marked the people of the city and the whole Hungary forever. It is a place of remembrance for the victims of the both regimes that suffered for the most of the 20th century.

With a line wrapping around the building, only one of two ticketing cashiers was available. After standing in line for an hour, we were then told to go stand in another line to leave our city backpacks at a coat check. The irony of a communism museum putting us in line after line 🙄. Staff wasn’t friendly. We expected more after reading the rave reviews. I would skip this tour if I had it to do it over again.

This was one of the most well designed museums I have ever visited. The history of the city’s occupation by Nazis and the Red Army was harrowing and fascinating. I stayed for hours and wasn’t ready to leave when it closed.

I really enjoyed visiting here. Gives a really go incite of the history of Hungary behind the iron curtain. Having visited Auchwitz last summer along with visiting here, I feel it shows how much the Eastern European countries suffered during and after WW2