Clean, comfortable and a good location. It is located two blocks from the Elisabeth Bridge on the Buda side one block from the Danube. This makes for pleasant walks along the Danube. Relatively easy walk to Pest and the market over the Elisabeth bridge. A couple of excellent restaurants within three blocks. Breakfast is included and is quite good.

Budapest was our first stop on an Eastern European vacation and the Hotel Orion proved to be an excellent location to base our travels. My wife, 10 year old daugher and I shared a room; the hotel staff cleverly used available room space for our daughter's bed. Staff was excellent -- very friendly and helpful. They helped us with dinner and show bookings and found us a reasonable taxi rate for the drive to the train station. The location was great; as others have mentioned, you'll need some comfortable walking shows to get to the attractions of Buda and Pest. That having been said, one of our fondest memories from the trip was of a sunset while crossing the Danube back to the Orion.

Orion's an excellent base, super-efficient, clean, comfortable, good breakfast, centrally located for getting around, especially if you take good strolling shoes (it's not itself in the centre of the action, though there are a couple of restaurants and bars not far away). The building itself and interior are perhaps on the functional rather than the charming side and, come to think of it, we had two single duvets rather than a double which was irritating in a minor way, but overall there can be absolutely no complaints with Hotel Orion as a base to explore Budapest as long as you aren't looking for something plush and grandiose.

We spent four nights here in May 2011. We spent £40 per night on an Expedia special offer, including breakfast and free wifi. This was excellent value. The hotel is a small 3 star quality hotel in a quiet street in Buda. It is 15 minutes walk to the shops etc of Pest, and about the same to the historic areas of Buda. Breakfast is ok, mostly cold with cooked eggs, no fruit salad. There were quite long periods when the free wifi could not be accessed. Staff helpful. We had a very good meal at Aranyszarvas, Szarvas Ter 1, Budapest 1013, just 5 minutes up behind the hotel, nouvelle cuisine, about £60 for two including wine, when we paid the bill we immediately booked there for the following night! We went to the opera, you can book it online, about one third of the price of London.