Mala Garden Design Hotel

Great hotel and restaurant on the lake. We traveled in October and while the season was over this hotel was full. The service was extraordinary and the rooms top notch. The restaurant served amazing food and there was free parking. Highly recommended

This was our third stay at Mala Garden, each time has been great and it has been getting even better. It's described as a 4 star superior, but for all the things that matter it is comfortably 5 star. We've stayed in the Penthouse once and Aura Penthouse twice and the rooms are outstanding, very well furnished, nice minibar options, spacious inside and out and with nice toiletries. For restaurants there are two - Mandara,which is Italian style and Mala Garden restaurant which is a bit of a Hungarian/Asian fusion. We've been coming to Mandara for years as the food is great and there is a lovely outdoor terrace for watching the sunset and its also by a little beach on a very shallow inlet of the Balaton, which is perfect for young kids to paddle, while parents enjoy dinner. The food in Mandara is excellent We were never so convinced with Mala Garden restaurant, but this year I have to say the food was really exceptional. Breakfast is also served in the restaurant and that has also improved substantially, with a nice buffet and some a la carte egg dishes. It goes without saying the cakes are fanastic. Outside there is a perfect deck on the lake to sunbathe on in the day with drink service and pizzas's from Mandara and as it is next to Mandara you can just move there if you fancy something else. Indoors there is also an indoor spa with a family pool and an adults only pool, so somewhere to enjoy if the weather isn't great or you need a break from the sun. Service is also very good and as other things has improved over time as well. In my view this is the best hotel in Hungary,

Travelled as a family of 5 in August 2020. Came with a view of enjoying a few days relaxation after a busy few days in Budapest and it definitely delivered. The hotel was beautiful, the food in the restaurants lovely and the staff all very approachable.

It is a perfect target location during your road trip for a few nights and getting the feeling to be at home nevertheless. Breakfast is beyond the contitnental; your intolerance is counted. Staff are attentive and kind. The room had a nice relaxing feeling. The apple crisp as gift was surprising and the bottle of water. The inner swimming pool area was clear too any time of the day.

Worth your time. The hotel is a boutique, not a chain, which is a plus. Private deck, lovely balcony, complementary half an hour foot massage. Cake to welcome. Quality breakfast. Nice experience, overall .

We spent a week here with my new husband after our wedding. We had amazing welcome and service all the way. All the cleaning, reception and wellness staff are amazing, speaking English, very helpful and nothing is a problem. They have two restaurants, one Italian themed and one international. Honestly the best food I’ve ever had in my life. Breakfast is fantastic and you’ve have a private beach where you can have drinks while you are sunbathing. All in all, it was amazing and I can only recommend this place . We will be back next year for our first wedding anniversary for sure .

This hotel was an excellent experience all round. It is clear that this a new property and the design and feeling was fantastic. The spa is a great experience, and also the restaurant provided a great breakfast. The property was in my opinion a little expensive considering we visited out of season I dread to think what high season prices might look like :-)

This must be the best hotel for miles around. We (me, my husband and 12 year old daughter) spent 3 nights here in April. A Hungarian work colleague told me Lake Balaton was a very nice place to visit and that was why I booked. We arrived into Siofok by train from Budapest and it’s a 15 minute walk from there. Now I have to admit that as we walked to the hotel along the ***** of bars, fast food joints, ice cream parlours etc (all shuttered up obviously because it was out of season) and grim-looking concrete high rise hotels, I thought that maybe I had made a terrible mistake. But then there was the Mala Garden and it was just beautiful, outside and inside. It is a boutique hotel, four stories tall with a Far East/Bali theme, right on the side of the lake. Our room was at the front of the hotel overlooking the road so didn’t have a lake view, but faced south so the balcony got the sun all day. Lovely! Our room had a separate sleeping area for our daughter so we had some privacy. Very clean and modern, bathroom had a bath as well as a shower. It had a fridge, safe and coffee machine. Beds were very comfy with plenty of pillows. Being out of season the area was very quiet so no street noise to contend with. The hotel has two small-ish pools and a spa and sauna. There are two restaurants which serve excellent food at very reasonable prices, and they have delicious cakes. Wi-Fi works well and the staff are all friendly and helpful. You can walk from the back of the hotel along the lakeside for miles, build up an appetite for the cakes! This hotel is family friendly as well as being great for couples. Definitely a fantastic place to stay if you are in the area.

We were truly blown away by this property. Large, stunning, Southeast Asian-themed rooms, friendly staff, excellent food. Each of our rooms had terraces about twice the size of anything we expected. We were only there two nights but wished we could have stayed longer.