Budapest airport issues two-round tender for development of Budapest Airport Hotel

The operator of Ferihegy International Airport will expect professional companies to take part in the tender.
CEO Budapest Airport Jost Lammers said: “The Budapest Airport Hotel is one of the cornerstones of our Future development program.

I am pleased that we issued the open tender and I expect strong competition, hence this will be the first hotel on Budapest Airport site ever.

In Western-Europe the use of airport hotels is a well established model and there is a growing need for such a hotel where parking spaces are plenty and the conference facilities are great. Hungary – and especially Budapest – is a very popular conference destination. So Budapest Airport and the hotel within have a great potential.”

The winner of the tender will receive the right to develop a hotel and car park on the site of Budapest Airport and to operate it for 60 years.

The deadline for the first round of the tender expires on 24-Apr-09. Following this BA will evaluate the bids until 30 April, 2009. BA is to end the two-round tender until summer 2009. The construciton works could start late 2009.

According to BA plans Hungary’s only airport hotel will be a four-star hotel. The seven-storey high building will accommodate 250 rooms and 167 car parking lot underneath.

Guests stepping out of the hotel will find themselves right in terminal 2B. Beyond the direct passage the Budapest Airport Hotel will offer especially spacious rooms to the travellers: an average room size will be 30 square meters.

“Sky-bar” will be located on the top floor of the building where visitors will be able to enjoy great views of the runways, the planes taking off and landing, as well as the lights of the gateway. Guests will have the possibility to take a glimpse of an ever bustling airport.

(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 06-Apr-09