Göteborgs Vandrarhem
Nifty for those desperate to get to Liseberg as early as possible, extras include a sauna and big sunny terrace. Take tram 4 to Getebergsäng.
Nifty for those desperate to get to Liseberg as early as possible, extras include a sauna and big sunny terrace. Take tram 4 to Getebergsäng.
The M/S Rygerfjord, launched in Bergen in 1950, sailed along the Norwegian coast until it was moored and converted into a floating hostel and hotel some 10 years ago. Next to it is Rygerfjord II, built as a boat hotel in Poland in 1986...
Unlike many Swedish hostels, big, friendly Slottsskogen is a cracking place for meeting other travellers. For a small extra payment there’s access to a laundry, sauna and sun bed, and the buffet breakfast (Skr55) is brilliant...
Head here, the closest hostel to Centralstationen, for clean rooms, friendly staff, free bike hire and excellent facilities, including a sauna, a laundry and a kitchen (with a free stash of pasta)...
Near T-Rådmansgatan, north of the city centre, this pleasant, informal basement hostel comes complete with a kitchen and laundry.
In a renovated 19th-century seaman’s institute (take tram 3, 9 or 11 to Stigbergstorget), this is a hostel with history...
Located in quiet Gärdet, a quick metro ride from Östermalm, Stockholm’s first ‘designer hostel’ ditches low-cost drab for smart, contemporary rooms featuring red pin chairs, fluffy sheepskins, textured rugs and designer flatscreen TVs...
Views from this hotel near the Viking Line terminal close to Fjällgatan are stunning enough that buses routinely bring camera-laden gawkers here. It has charmingly old-fashioned rooms, each with a phone, desk and TV...
The legendary af Chapman is a storied vessel that has done plenty of travelling of its own. It’s now well anchored in a superb, quiet location, swaying gently off Skeppsholmen...
Despite the rather anonymous vibe, Helsingborg’s only central hostel offers clean, comfortable rooms about 200m from Knutpunkten. Reception opens between 3pm and 6pm.
The hostel, a newly renovated military building, is off the E18 at Kasernhöjden, 1km southwest of Karlstad’s centre, and has good facilities. Take bus 100.
The STF hostel is above the town on Norra Stadsberget, and has both older rooms and more expensive modern rooms with private bathroom...
Vandrarhem City is recommended for its sheer convenience – you really can’t stay anywhere more central for these prices...
With a foyer that looks like one of those old Main Street facade recreations you find in cheesy museums, the Zinkensdamm STF is unabashedly fun...
This sterling SVIF hostel, a few kilometres northeast of the city centre (tram 6, 7 or 11), boasts super amenities, including flatscreen TVs, wi-fi, sauna, sun beds, laundry, table tennis, two kitchens and two lounges...
Perhaps slightly less ‘away from it all’ as it used to be, thanks to a new development of houses going up across the road, this rustic little hostel 27km north of Sälen is nevertheless a fantastic hideaway...
Well-equipped, if rather large and impersonal, the STF hostel sits 3.5km south of the city centre, overlooking the E6 (take bus 2 from Centralstationen).
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