The Baroque palace where Empress Elisabeth — Hungary's beloved Sisi — felt most at home. Golden state rooms, her own restored apartments and a rose-scented park, an easy escape from Budapest. We arrange your dated entry so your day is planned.
Book your entryGeneral admission
€33
Full-time students (student ID at entry)
€19
Set among gentle wooded hills a short train ride northeast of Budapest, the Royal Palace of Gödöllő is the largest Baroque palace in Hungary — and, for many Hungarians, the most beloved. Its long ochre-yellow wings open in a great double horseshoe around a ceremonial forecourt, and behind them stretch formal terraces, an English landscape park and the rose gardens that Empress Elisabeth loved. Inside, more than twenty rooms have been brought back to how they looked in the 1880s, from the gilded Grand Hall to the private apartments of the empress the whole country still calls simply Sisi.
The palace was raised for the Grassalkovich family, the greatest Hungarian aristocratic dynasty of the Baroque age. Count Antal Grassalkovich I, a confidant of Empress Maria Theresa, began the mansion around 1735 to designs by the Salzburg-trained architect András Mayerhoffer, and three generations enlarged it into a court in miniature, complete with its own church, riding hall, hothouses and one of the earliest surviving palace theatres in Europe. By the time the family line ended in 1841, Gödöllő was already a byword for aristocratic splendour on a royal scale.
In 1867, as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth were crowned King and Queen of Hungary in the great Compromise that created Austria-Hungary, the nation presented them with Gödöllő as a coronation gift. Elisabeth adored it, and returned for months every year to ride, walk and escape the stiff formality of the Vienna court until the monarchy fell in 1918. The twentieth century was harsher: Regent Miklós Horthy used the palace between the wars, Soviet and Hungarian troops occupied it after 1945, and parts became an old people's home before a long restoration from the 1980s onward returned the building to life as a museum.
We are a concierge service: you choose your visit date, we arrange and secure the entry ticket on your behalf, and it arrives in your inbox ready to show at the palace. No wrestling with an unfamiliar Hungarian booking site, no guessing at ticket categories — just your ticket, in English, in your email.
We are an independent concierge and booking service for travellers visiting the Royal Palace of Gödöllő. We are not the palace, its museum administration or an official box office; we arrange your dated entry ticket on your behalf and deliver it by email for a service fee. We confirm your dated entry before your visit.
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A complete guide to booking the Royal Palace of Gödöllő — ticket tiers, our prices, what the open-admission ticket covers, the guided tours it does not, and dated concierge entry.
A practical guide to visiting Sisi's Hungarian palace — opening hours, the quietest times, how long to allow, what to see, and how to get there from Budapest.
Why Empress Elisabeth of Austria loved Hungary and her Gödöllő palace above all her other homes — the story behind the rooms you walk through today.
Entry to the permanent exhibition of the Royal Palace of Gödöllő — including Empress Elisabeth's restored apartments, the ceremonial Grand Hall and the palace state rooms — plus any temporary exhibition running inside the palace on your date. We book it for your chosen day and email it to you.
Yes. After Franz Joseph and Elisabeth were crowned King and Queen of Hungary in 1867, the nation gave them Gödöllő as a coronation gift. Elisabeth loved it above her other homes and returned for months each year to ride and walk in the park; her apartments are a centrepiece of the visit today.
No. The permanent exhibition is open-admission, so your ticket is valid across opening hours on the date you pick and you arrive whenever suits you. Only the guided tours of the Baroque Theatre and the Horthy Bunker run at fixed times.
The palace is open daily, roughly 10:00 to 18:00, with the ticket office and last admission around 17:00. Hours can be shorter on some public holidays, so we confirm your date when we arrange your ticket.
Plan on about 1.5 to 2 hours for the permanent exhibition and Sisi's apartments. If you want to add a temporary exhibition, a stroll through the park and rose garden, or a guided tour, set aside half a day.
Children under 6 enter free but must be accompanied by a paying adult. Full-time students qualify for the student ticket with a valid student card at the entrance.
The student rate is for full-time students. Bring a valid student card, as it is checked at the palace entrance. The palace does not sell a senior ticket online, so senior visitors book the adult ticket.
No. Those are seen on separate guided tours that run at set times, and they are not part of the standard museum ticket. If you would like to add one, tell us your date and we will help you arrange it.
After you book, our team arranges your dated entry and emails your ticket to you ahead of your visit. You show it at the palace on your chosen day. If we are ever unable to arrange your date, we contact you and refund in full.
Take metro line M2 to Örs vezér tere, then the HÉV suburban train (H8) toward Gödöllő and get off at Szabadság tér, right beside the palace — about 45 minutes in total. By car it is roughly 30 to 40 minutes via the M3 and M31.
Yes. The palace sits in a 26-hectare English landscape park with formal terraces and rose gardens that Elisabeth was especially fond of. Parts of the grounds are freely accessible, and they make a lovely place to walk before or after the interior.
Photography for personal use is generally allowed in most rooms, usually without flash. Some temporary exhibitions may restrict it, so follow the signs and staff guidance inside the palace.
The palace has made accessibility provisions, but it is a historic Baroque building with some stairs and older spaces. If you have specific access needs, tell us when you book and we will share the current guidance and help you plan.
Easily. Gödöllő is a classic half-day or day trip from the capital, reached in about 45 minutes on the HÉV train. Many visitors pair a morning at the palace with an afternoon back in Budapest; tell us your plans and we can help you sequence the day.
If we are ever unable to arrange your chosen date, we contact you to find an alternative or refund you in full. All sales are otherwise final, in line with the palace's own conditions.
Because we secure a dated admission for a specific day, all sales are final. We can only refund if the entry cannot be honoured because of a failure on the operator's side, not for a change of travel plans.
No. We are an independent concierge service and the prices shown are what we charge to arrange and secure your ticket. We are not the palace box office and we do not publish anyone else's counter prices.
Our concierge team assists in your language, before and during your trip, right up to your visit day. Your ticket and instructions arrive in clear English so nothing is lost in translation at the gate.