Booking and Payment Terms

NDustrialStudios installation dates: Skandi: October 21, 2026 | Tiara: October 23, 2026 | MiniMe: October 25, 2026 | Atrium: November 3, 2026.

Studio Madison installation dates: New York: October 16, 2026 | Samsara: November 5, 2026.

It takes 10–12 people working for 8–10 hours to build the décor for a single room. Some elements and details take shape during installation and are put into place on site. In theory, providing photos in advance is possible, but no client has been willing to cover the cost. We hope that after all these years, you know us well enough to choose based on the description. We hope you trust us to create something beautiful again this year. You can also change rooms at any time, subject to availability.

Most rooms change over on the hour. We stagger the times for the upstairs Harvard room and Skandi, which is far from reception, so we can keep an eye on these spaces and look after you better.

Of course! You’re welcome to share them and use our décor photos to promote photo shoots you’re planning to hold at our studios. If you’d like the images in their original resolution, send us a message and we’ll share a link to the web gallery where you can download them.

Several of our trees are secured for lighting and safety reasons. They have hundreds of decorations and cannot be moved. Some trees are 4.5 metres tall, and almost all are taller or wider than a standard 2 × 1 metre doorway.

It may seem simple to move a tree within the room, but our trees have lots of decorations, most of them fragile. Please do not move them!

We’re preparing six Christmas sets. We’ve done a good job if each of you finds a favourite—if every set appealed to everyone equally, we’d probably have ended up with identical rooms! We’re delighted that so many of you return year after year. Alongside periodically updating our rooms, we also rethink and refresh the décor from time to time.

At the start of your photo shoot, you can choose any available room. If there is availability, you can also request extra time.

We look for decorations that are durable yet still special. However, nothing can replace the sparkle of glass ornaments. We order our decorations from abroad, and our rental prices do not include the cost of breakages. To make sure we can welcome you with beautiful décor next year, we unfortunately cannot simply waive these charges. Every room also has toys for children. We encourage children to play with those rather than handle the ornaments on the trees.

The answer is included in the previous question.

We understand that fragile things can break. If you cover the cost of the damage, there’s no problem. We replenish the decorations on all our trees during the season, as the lower branches would otherwise become bare by the end of the festive period. We plan for this and order extra decorations for every room.

We allowed sparklers for years, but over time they caused burn damage to several sofas and textiles. For this reason, please do not bring sparklers into the studio.

Glitter is extremely difficult to clean up and sticks to clothing, sometimes affecting bookings long after your session. Please be considerate of other guests, who may be arriving with very young babies. Do not bring loose glitter into the studio.

Artificial snow is a little easier to clean up than glitter, but our busy reception team may struggle to handle the extra cleaning. If you wish to use artificial snow, your actual photography time will be reduced by 30 minutes to allow for cleaning.

We also rent, heat and clean the studio reception area and bathrooms. One or two extra people are not a problem, but if a larger group accompanies your photo shoot, please be prepared to accommodate them in the booked room. They count towards the total number of people. When several rooms are changing over at once, reception cannot accommodate large groups waiting there.

For you to start shooting on the hour, the previous client must be packing up and leaving by 55 minutes past. Your booking is for a full 60 minutes, but please plan for 50 minutes of actual photography time. If our colleague knocks at 50 minutes past and sees that restoring the room will take more work, they may ask you to start helping with this straight away.

We know that dogs are family members for many of you, and we’re happy to welcome them too. We just ask you to respect a few rules for guests who don’t have pets. If you bring one or two small dogs (under 8 kg each), the photography time remains 50 minutes. If you bring three small dogs or a larger dog weighing over 8 kg, the actual photography time will be reduced to allow time for vacuuming and airing out the room.

Rooms can be rented in one-hour slots. If another room is available during your booking, you can use it for additional photos for HUF 5,000 per hour. For guests with a Resident Card 1.2, this option is included in the rental fee. If you know in advance that you’ll need several rooms, we recommend booking them consecutively.

As mentioned above, it takes 10–12 people a full day to decorate one room. Taking the décor down is a little quicker, but putting it all back would be just as much work. Both studios have areas without Christmas decorations: 5 of our 11 rooms will have undecorated areas during this 2.5-month period. If you prefer a non-Christmas setting, please choose one of those areas.

In previous years, excessive multiple bookings became a problem. This caused significant losses for our studios and prevented other photographers from booking the hours they genuinely needed. Advance payment means the calendar reflects real demand, allowing us to serve everyone more smoothly and comfortably.

Even bookings that do not go ahead incur the same costs: booking-system fees, Barion commissions, bank transaction fees and administration costs.

You should be able to find an available slot among our six Christmas sets if you’re flexible—for example, if you’re willing to book in October or on a weekday. If you want greater certainty, you can choose the Flexible Rate.

During this season, Christmas rooms can only be booked with advance payment. The usual rules apply to the other rooms. We can issue an invoice payable by bank transfer if payment is made before the rental, you have no outstanding balance with us, or bank transfer is an established payment method that has worked reliably with you in the past.

This is because of overbooking and reservations held until the last minute before cancellation. Within three days of a weekday booking, it is almost impossible to rent the slot to someone else.

At Studio Madison, there is a private changing cubicle near the entrance. NDustrialStudios also has one single-person changing room, which you can use if it is available. If another room is free, our staff may also let you use it to change.

Changing your booking on the same day is free, provided another time slot is available.

Within the cancellation period, it is often no longer possible to rent the room to another client. Our cancellation periods and fees are based on our booking experience over the past years. Families with young children may find the Flexible Rate particularly useful.

As mentioned, our cancellation periods and fees are calculated using average booking data. For Christmas bookings cancelled within a week of the scheduled date, it is uncertain whether the slot will be booked again. Just as we do not charge the full 100% cancellation fee when a slot remains empty, we do not refund the 50% cancellation fee when it is rebooked. Sometimes a slot may appear to have been booked again when, in fact, another client has simply changed rooms or rescheduled.

This is our sixth season since COVID began. For a year and a half, we accepted all COVID-related cancellations. By now, this illness, like influenza and other unfortunate illnesses, has become part of everyday life. For some time, like many other businesses, we have offered an optional flexible booking arrangement. For an additional fee, you can change your booking for any reason, even within the cancellation period. You can read more about it on our website. This option must always be paid for in advance.

NDustrialStudios: January 6 | Studio Madison: January 9.

Depending on demand, we may take down the decorations in Atrium and Samsara between Christmas and New Year.

No. All rooms will be returned completely to their usual appearance.

At both Studio Madison and NDustrialStudios, all rooms will return to their October appearance.