With only twenty four hours to spend in Szombathely we didn't want to waste time in looking for a hotel when we arrived so we took the unusual (for us) step of booking a hotel in advance. The choice was quickly whittled down. There are no commercial hostels and although the student halls all offer accommodation, the websites of all were in Hungarian only and I could not decipher whether any offered term time accommodation to tourists. Searches of booking websites suggested several hotels outside of the city, mostly the spa type that are common in the area, and only two - one a ritzy hotel housed in a former palace - came up in the city centre. The only one ...  Read the complete review