Trans Siberian Hostel
If you can snag one of the double rooms in this tiny hostel, you're assured of getting one of the capital's best bargains. While they're no longer the cheapest private rooms in central Moscow, they are still pretty cheap...
If you can snag one of the double rooms in this tiny hostel, you're assured of getting one of the capital's best bargains. While they're no longer the cheapest private rooms in central Moscow, they are still pretty cheap...
Yellow Blue Bus is all about the love ( Ya lyublyu vas means ‘I love you’ in Russian). It’s a fun and friendly place, though the informal atmosphere may be a bit lackadaisical for some...
Beds are limited at this fantastic, super-central apartment hostel. Spacious dorms are cleaned every day and friendly staff will bend over backwards to help. Entrance is from the rear of the building. Free internet and wi-fi.
This German-owned hostel receives rave reviews from several travellers, despite the very inconvenient and insalubrious location, several kilometres south of the train station; take marshrutka 12 to stop Mikrochirurgia Glaza.
This fun, funky hostel has a super location behind the Kazan Cathedral. Rainbow-coloured paint covers the walls in dorm rooms that are equipped with metal bunk beds and private lockers. Rooms sleep four to 10 people and prices vary accordingly...
The name may have been inspired by Admiral Kolchak but things are less than ship-shape here, as this newcomer was being left unstaffed for long periods when we visited and lacked the busy backpacker vibe of the others...
It's hard to find this tiny place – go into the courtyard and look for entrance number 3, where you might spot a computer-printed sign in the 3rd-floor window. Inside, there is a great, welcoming atmosphere, although the place is packed...
Occupying a renovated 19th-century flat, the 10-bed dorm here is in the best appointed room, with beautiful plaster mouldings on the walls and ceiling...
Godzillas is the biggest and most professionally run hostel in Moscow, with 90 beds spread out over four floors. The rooms come in various sizes, but they are all spacious and light-filled and painted in different colours...
The ideal location of this discreetly marked hostel – just under the archway from Dvortsovaya pl – is almost too good to be true...
Apparently Napoleon stayed in this building in 1812. Nowadays, after a four-storey climb, you'll find a friendly, up-to-date hostel...
Staff are friendly, though not exactly fluent (in English). A+ for location.
The popular Moscow-based Godzillas Hostel has expanded into the countryside, opening a big, beautiful log-cabin facility overlooking the river. Dorm rooms each have their own bathroom and balcony...
In an attractive 19th-century building, the Eurasia has 18 comfortable rooms that are modern, if not memorable (but frankly, when it comes to mini-hotels, that may be a good thing)...
This excellent place overlooks Kanal Griboyedova and has six rooms, all of which share three bathrooms and toilets. It’s not as hostel-like as it sounds though; it’s much more like staying in a large apartment with friends...
Hostel Slyudyanka is really just another homestay but is very cheap and can be booked through Hostelworld (www.hostelworld.com). Arrange for the owners to pick you up from the station (R200) as it’s tricky to find.
A pleasant place to stay offering a good range of activities. Accommodation is in two-storey cabins, cooler 2nd-floor rooms being the more expensive.
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