Danubius Health Spa Resort Helia

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These hotel reviews are submitted by the guests who have stayed in Danubius Health Spa Resort Helia during their visit to Budapest. The ratings and comments reflect their individual opinions generated by their experiences at the hotel.

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Solo traveler from Hamburg, Germany
Business stay at Helia
Guest score: 6.57 average,
2011. 10. 18.
Mature couple from Malmö, Sweden
Guest score: 6.57 average,
2011. 04. 30.
Solo traveler from Brax, 31490, France
A wonderful stay in Budapest
Guest score: 8 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 8 Comfort (room) 8 Services 8 Dining 6 Location 8
+	The bedroom, clean and well furnished.
-	breakfats was rather limited
2011. 02. 16.
Otto Bleuer (Mature couple) from
Helia was and it is a great place to stay
Guest score: 8.67 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 6 Value for money 8 Comfort (room) 8 Services 10 Location 10
+	management
-	television,I was charged for pay tv,I never used
2010. 10. 17.
Young couple from Aarhus, Denmark
Guest score: 8.86 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 10 Services 8 Dining 8 Location 6
+	The price, the staff and the facilities were great!
2010. 08. 10.
Marja Luotonen from Turku, Finland
Guest score: 8 average,
2010. 05. 19.
Solo traveler from 12500 Vinaroz, Spain
Guest score: 6.86 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 4 Services 6 Dining 6 Location 10
+	cleanliness, fitness and spa areas
-	Buzzing sound from air conditioning
read more: second home - collect EuroPoints
2010. 05. 18.
Young couple from York, England
Guest score: 8 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 8 Services 8 Dining 6 Location 6
+	Access to the facilities and the frendliness of the staff. They all spoke wonderful English.
-	We found the room a it hot and were unable to cool it down with the air conditioning. Also I think there should have been a few more free channels on our tv. (not that we spent much time in our room).
read more: Relaxing break in Budapest
2010. 05. 11.
STAMATIOS STAMATIOS from LARISSA, GREECE
Guest score: 6.67 average,
2009. 12. 30.
from Prague, Czech Republic
Guest score: 6.86 average,
2009. 10. 26.
Gyorgy Katona (Mature couple) from Calvi, France
Guest score: 5.14 average, see review details hide details Staff 4 Cleanliness 4 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 4 Services 4 Dining 6 Location 8
+	The parking system and situation is very good. Fitness and wellness is not bad too.
-	Reservation and desk job is very bad, at the reception is not very cool people asking you all parsonal details like before the chute down in the iron curtain times.
read more: Mediocre week at hotel Helios
2009. 10. 12.
GEORGE CHRISTODOULIDES (Young couple) from NICOSIA , CYRPUS
great Hotel with excellent services-location
Guest score: 8.57 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 6 Services 8 Dining 10 Location 10
+	location ,services
-	not dissatisfied but most of the hotels in EU breakfast is included.
2009. 09. 03.
Young couple from Liverpool, UK
Guest score: 9.43 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 10 Services 10 Dining 6 Location 10
+	Couldn't fault the hotel for location, cleanliness, great facilities and superb staff
-	Poor range of vegetarian food
2009. 08. 24.
David Reast (Mature couple) from Nottingham, England
Guest score: 9.43 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 10 Services 10 Dining 10 Location 6
+	Very comfortable beds! Flexibility of meals - cafe or restaurant gave us what we wanted when we wanted it. Staff ALL helpful and friendly. Spa facilities - free! - excellent.
-	Location suited our needs admirably but was 2 buses to centre of town - but buses very frequent.
read more: Great Value, Great standard, Great Fun
2009. 07. 27.
Solo traveler from Koper, Slovenia
Guest score: 6.86 average, see review details hide details Staff 6 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 8 Services 6 Dining 6 Location 8
-	Usecured parking lot
2009. 06. 15.
Solo traveler from Szekesfehervar, Hungary
Budapest, I love...
Guest score: 8.86 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 8 Comfort (room) 8 Services 8 Dining 8 Location 10
+	enviromen
2009. 05. 20.
Gordan Mandic (Family with young child(ren)) from Belgrade, Serbia
Fantastic weekend in Helia Hotel
Guest score: 9.67 average,
2009. 02. 24.
Young couple from Riedseltz, FRANCE
Guest score: 6.86 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 6 Services 8 Dining 6 Location 6
+	breakfast was very good and varied, pools, saunas and fitness are nice and clean
-	to enjoy your breakfast try to be in time, about 9.30, otherwise you don't have such a varied menu....
2009. 01. 29.
Solo traveler from ,
POOR HOTEL
Guest score: 4.29 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 2 Value for money 2 Comfort (room) 2 Services 6 Dining 2 Location 6
+	Friendly Staff
-	Standards of the hotel have gone down since the last stay. The curtains have not been cleaned in a long time and smelled very bad. So bad I needed to open the window for fresh air all night. Rugs dirty and some areas of hotel needed repair Food chose was very poor, and the food in the coffee café was old not fresh.
2008. 12. 11.
Solo traveler from edgware, uk
Guest score: 9 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 8 Comfort (room) 8 Services 10 Location 10
+	staff very friendly and helpful, spawater
-	noise in room from next door during last two nights
read more: great fews days break
2008. 12. 11.
Otto Peters (Mature couple) from 58097 Hagen, Germany
Guest score: 8.86 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 10 Services 8 Dining 6 Location 10
+	View of Danube and Buda Helia is a fine hotel. One can be content with regard to everything.
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2008. 12. 11.
Jan Kujal (Solo traveler) from Prague, Czech
Guest score: 7.43 average,
2008. 11. 11.
Helene Issop (Friends) from ,
Guest score: 9.14 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 8 Comfort (room) 10 Services 10 Dining 10 Location 6
+	very nice reception
read more: Trip with friends
2008. 09. 11.
Joseph Tielemans (Mature couple) from Lichtaart, Belgium
quiet and relaxed stay in Danubius Helia
Guest score: 8.29 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 10 Services 10 Dining 8 Location 8
+	nice room with view, quiet excellent variety of breakfast
-	table of breakfast was'nt always very clean
2008. 08. 21.
Mature couple from oradea, ROMANIA
stay at Danubius
Guest score: 6.29 average, see review details hide details Staff 6 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 4 Services 6 Dining 8 Location 6
-	the room given was not what we expected!
2008. 07. 01.
Severina Morsi (Friends) from Watt, Switzerland
Great Days in Budapest
Guest score: 7.43 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 6 Services 8 Dining 8 Location 6
+	The City Budapest
-	The Wellness Spa is never like Germany, Austrian + Swiss. Das Preis- +Leistungsverhältnis stimmt nicht! It doesn't have a coffee/ restaurant outside or do site outside for trinking coffee für guests. It is a hotel for conferences.
2008. 06. 24.
Mature couple from southend on sea, essex
Riverside tranquillity in Pest
Guest score: 7.14 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 8 Services 6 Dining 6 Location 8
+	good spa facilities and nice,quite large rooms. Quiet and near the river but out of town
-	breakfast buffet patchy
2008. 06. 01.
Mature couple from Hertforshire, Great Britain
Lovely week spent at the Hotel Helia!
Guest score: 9.14 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 8 Services 8 Dining 10 Location 10
+	Food and Services That was the third time we spent a week holiday at the Helia and we wuldn't mind to do it in the future again.
-	None
2008. 05. 25.
Tibor Lukacs (Friends) from Tottenham, Canada
A place to unwind...and enjoy!
Guest score: 9.71 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 8 Comfort (room) 10 Services 10 Dining 10 Location 10
+	Food and spa were very commendable Staff was very friendly, made the guest feel special. They DO go out of their way to please the guest! Accomodations are outstanding and the location is appropriate to the downtown area. Overall : a great place to visit!
-	Nothing!
2008. 04. 15.
Solo traveler from Ljubljana, Slovenia
Guest score: 6 average,
2008. 04. 08.
Kirsten Winther (Solo traveler) from Svendborg, Denmark
Guest score: 8.4 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 8 Comfort (room) 8 Location 8
+	The servicemindedness of all staff - from front door to cafe was extremely high. They really went out of their way to be friendly.
-	no comments.
2008. 04. 03.
Jens Lilholm (Solo traveler) from Thoiry-Allemogne, France
Guest score: 9.71 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 10 Services 10 Dining 8 Location 10
+	This were my very first visit to Budapest and Hungary and I have just finished a letter to the Danish Embassy in Budapest expressing how happy and impressed I have been with the natural high service level, politeness, friendliness, honesty and great smiles of all the people I meet from I arrived until the very end of my stay and flew back to Geneva last night. I am also glad that you finally are members of the EU, where your outstanding qualities is a big assets in the Europe I so strongly believe in. You all have a bright future ahead of you. To be and to stay among the best in class one have to learn from the best. I learned a lot in Hungary. Thank you again. I am already in the middle of planning both my next business and holiday visit to your great nation.
-	Tried very hard to find one, but your successes are much more important and have over shadowed it, if any at all.
2008. 04. 03.
Family with young child(ren) from Vienna, Austria
Great Weekend in Budapest
Guest score: 10 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 10 Services 10 Dining 10 Location 10
+	Clean, kindly, confortable, atractive atmosphere.
2008. 03. 29.
Solo traveler from CH-1293 Bellevue, Switzerland
Excellent short stay
Guest score: 9.43 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 8 Services 8 Dining 10 Location 10
+	NON SMOKING FACILITIES
2008. 02. 07.
eva stentoft (Family with older child(ren)) from greve, Denmark
excellent for fitness and wellness
Guest score: 10 average,
2007. 12. 22.
Young couple from Bucharest, Romania
Guest score: 9.43 average,
2007. 10. 01.
from Linz, Austria
Guest score: 7 average,
2007. 07. 27.
Solo traveler from tirana, albania, albania
Guest score: 8.57 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 8 Services 8 Dining 8 Location 8
+	with SPA conditions
-	it was not smth for dissatisfied
read more: Nice time in Budapest
2007. 02. 11.
Solo traveler from Wien, AUSTRIA
Guest score: 6.86 average, see review details hide details Staff 6 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 8 Services 6 Dining 8 Location 6
-	spa not included in room-rates
2007. 01. 15.
Solo traveler from london, edgware, uk
Guest score: 9.33 average, see review details hide details Staff 10 Cleanliness 8 Value for money 10 Comfort (room) 8 Services 10 Location 10
+	service in thermal cure place and breakfast staff (helpful, polite..), they got me the soya milk, very nice, the cooked porridge excellent, breakfast selection is good, wholemeal bread very nice, good selection of healthy food
-	coffee for breakfast, terrible, i said the same thing last time
read more: great stay !!!!!!!!!!!
2006. 12. 16.
Family with older child(ren) from London, UK
Guest score: 6.86 average,
2006. 09. 01.
Solo traveler from edgware, united kingdom
very satisfactory stay
Guest score: 7.33 average, see review details hide details Staff 8 Cleanliness 10 Value for money 6 Comfort (room) 6 Services 8 Location 6
+	friendliness of staff
-	cannot think of anything, however, the coffee at brerakfast was poor (had a kind of burnt taste) i mentioned it to waiter also, i think the composition of thermal water should be displayed together with what it is good for, i mentioned this to a receptionist
2006. 04. 30.
Solo traveler from NICE, FRANCE
Guest score: 6.33 average,
2006. 02. 02.