Ambient Hostel

Keszthely


This hostel is only a short walk north of the palace. The pros? It has basic, cheap dorms and doubles, each of which comes with its own en suite bathroom. There's little in the way of cooking facilities outside the apartments, but the colourful, modern roadside cafe is a hub for the under-30 crowd in high season. Pay extra for towels.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Keszthely attractions

1. Coach Museum

0.21 MILES

Behind Festetics Palace in a separate building is the Coach Museum, which is filled with coaches and sleighs fit for royalty. You may not know the…

2. Model Railway Museum

0.26 MILES

On the top floor of a former military building, this grin-inducing museum exhibits one of the world's largest mountain railway layouts. Trains whiz round…

3. Festetics Palace

0.3 MILES

The glimmering white, 100-room Festetics Palace was begun in 1745, and the two wings were extended out from the original building 150 years later. Some 18…

4. Marzipan Museum

0.35 MILES

Partly a museum, but also a good excuse to stop by for coffee and cake if you're visiting the castle next door. It's well worth paying the small admission…

5. Jewish Cemetery

0.36 MILES

In addition to the synagogue, evidence of the town’s Jewish community can be found at the largely forgotten Jewish cemetery, north of the palace.

6. Nostalgia Museum

0.46 MILES

This treasure trove of ordinary objects ranging from 1800s antiques to 'retro' items is fun to poke around in, and before you know it, an hour has flown…

7. Erotic Panoptikum

0.5 MILES

Full disclosure: this is an X-rated wax museum. Kind of tacky – yes. Fascinating – absolutely. The tiny subterranean space brings to 'life' lust and sex…

8. Doll Museum

0.5 MILES

This surprisingly absorbing museum showcases two floors' worth of dolls dressed in folk costumes from all parts of Hungary. On the ground floor, there's…