Florentine Backpackers Hostel

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Welcome to the Florentine Hostel !
please notice our age restriction is 18-40

Right around the corner of the Florentine Street lives happily an intimate, home-style, youth hostel. Located less then 3 minutes walk from the center of the up-and-coming Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv and 10-15 minutes walk from many other attractions (beach, train station and central bus station, old jaffa, and center of town) .
We have a small number of rooms, including two dormitories, keeping the atmosphere here personal and friendly.
The spirit of the Florentine Hostel is young and vibrant – a place to feel at home, meet fellow travellers and other backpackers, relax, make friends, and absorb the Tel Aviv vibe. Guests at the hostel share a cosy indoor lounge, a fully equipped communal kitchen, and the spacious rooftop terrace where they can enjoy their morning coffee, take a meal together, trade stories and travel tips, or just relax and enjoy their time.

With easy access to all of Tel Aviv by foot and nearby bus lines, we’re certain you’ll find the Florentine Hostel a great place to set out from in the morning, and a relaxing place to return to at night.

Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Tel Aviv-Jaffa is the largest city in Israel and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The city is at the heart of Israeli society and represents the coming together of Israel’s contemporary life and its ancient roots. A tourist can find pretty much anything that he is looking for here – from the ancient buildings of Old Jaffa, to the century old Bauhaus buildings of the White City, from the business district, to the diverse social centers and old-style markets.

Tel Aviv stays warm for the better part of the year, so come prepared to enjoy the fine beaches anytime between February and October! You will also find here the broad array of galleries, museums, theatres, and other cultural centres for which Tel Aviv is known.

Last But Not Least… The Israelis!

Israelis are a genuine and warm people who are as eager to make new friends as they are happy to point a stranger in the right direction. Although sometimes perceived as rude or pushy, Israelis are actually very generous by nature. Whether on the bus, or in the market, you will find locals who will be pleased to practice their excellent English and make your acquaintance!
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General Info
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* Age restriction : 18-40 !!!!

Reception hours: 9.00 am -14.00 am
and 19:00 pm - 21:00 pm
!!!Please note we don't have a 24-hour reception but i've you contact us in advance and we will guide you in
.*late night arrivals- if you are planning to arrive later than reception hours we require a minimum stay of two nights, else your reservation will be cancelled.
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* No smoking inside the rooms (we have spacious terraced roof)

* Passport is a must! ( we keep our place for travelers, and friends only)

*Check in & out: check-out at 11:00, check-in at 14:00.

We offer 10 bed mixed dorm room
5 Female dorm room,
Private rooms with double bed and communal bathroom and showers.
all bed are well kept clean and comfortable with think mattresses and clean sheets and towels provided.

Free Wifi and Free internet!
Free coffee and tea! (1 shek donation)
Large opened air terrace area
Fully equipped communal kitchen
Cosy living room
Bicycle hire.
Lockers.
Phone and Fax services
Washing machine and dryer
Social games
Cell phone rentals
Free public parking!
BBQ area

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Location/Contact

Address	10 Elifelet Street, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Coordinates	32.055910, 34.764945
Location	• Directions and how to get: • * From Ben Gurion Airport: • * Either take a taxi straight to us (140 shekels- take the airport taxi they are well organised) or Take the Train • - By Train - Take a Train (bus isn't a good option) to Tel Aviv central bus station (“Ha-Hagana' train station- which is very close to the central bus station). • (15 shekel ride) • The hostel is 15 min walk from central bus station and about 20 min from the Hagana train station. • - Taxi from the train station - should be around 25 shekels to us (make sure the driver knows where it is since it is a new hostel) • - Walk - However! if you intend to walk you can take the shortest walk which is less interesting. Or the 5 minutes longer walk! Which is more interesting and passes through the spice market and the Florentine Street. So if you don't have big luggage and you don't mind walking. Take the interesting way. • * Very Important - At night time both ways look a bit dark at some points of the way, however Israel is a very safe place and Tel Aviv itself is a super safe place so there is no problems walking anywhere anytime and you can be safe with yourself or just take a taxi if you feel uncomfortable. • - Short way (not interesting): find Salame (Shalame, Shlomo, it has different names!) street which is at the back street of the central bus station, and just walk straight (west- to the beach direction) until Elifelet Street crosses you on the right! Turn right on Elifelet, walk 100 meters to Elifelet 10 (we have a red wooden door with a small sign and number 10 on it, or look for two blue lights of our intercom) • - Longer way is to walk through Levinski Street (west-toward the beach, which turns into the spice market at a certain point of it) until Hertzel Street. Turn left (south) on Hertzel and walk until Florentine Street. Turn right to Florentine, and walk through all of Florentine Street till it ends. Then continue straight through the alley till you get to Elifelet Street (next to the dogs garden) and then turn left, walk 20 meters and you find our wooden red door with # 10 on it. • - Bus from central bus station - If you arrive during the day you can also take the Bus! Take bus number 44 or 46 from 4rth floor at the central bus station and ask the driver to drop you off at the closest station to Elifelet Street.( ask him for directions...they are usually nice and like to help). Also, from Har Tzion Avenue ( close to central bus station) bus number 42 will drop you off at the corner of Salame( Solomon) street and Elifelet Street. Then just walk up Eliefelet (north) till you reach Elifelet 10. • Sometimes just waiting for bus takes twice as much time as just simply walking. • Florentine Hostel • 10 Elifelet St • Tel Aviv. • Florentine Neighbourhood • (You can always call me directly to my cell phone if you get problems getting here)
Website	www.florentinehostel.com/ (to make a reservation click here)
Telephone	+972 52 5219093

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Florentine Backpackers Hostel Reviews from the Web

Liked: It is my 2nd time at this hostel. That tells a lot from the get go. I had such a blast a year ago, i decided to come again this year! This time i stayed 8 nights (last year only 2). The people who work there are the kind of people you keep as your friends. The crew is totally dedicated to getting to know their guests, so it wasnt a surprise to me when they remembered me from last year!:) The location of the hostel is fantastic, just a short walk from the beach, and in a hippy neighborhood of Florentine. The facilities at the hostel are great, everything thing is done with a careful thought of the customer, which i love. The place is spotless clean and they clean ALL THE TIME. The famous by now rooftop social area is the heart of this hostel. All guests love to mingle and share stories from home and their travels. Music is fanstastic too. Wifi is superfat and they have 2 wifi's, one on each floor. They have plenty of organized activities trying to integrate everyone even more. When i was there, we had a huge bonfire and grill for the Israeli holiday Lag Baomer. During my stay there, i felt the staff and the people staying at the same time were like a family. Such a great feeling when traveling alone. Theyre really helpful with giving you advice for how to organize your next leg of the trip and always give great advice. They will bend over backwards to find things for you. I wanna give a huge shoutout to staff workers Natalie, Ron and Nitzan and all their volunteers who work so hard. And Rafi too, the boss whos definitely sometimes too hard on them ;)) Keep up the great work! And ill prob come and see you again! Disliked: too small sinks in bathrooms!! — Senka Stojanovic (2013-05-15) Hostelbookers

Liked: Everything as described and expected. Great place to be, nice and helpful staff, people from all over the world meeting on the terrace. Exactly what I was looking for. Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback. — Customer review (2013-05-13) Hostelbookers

Liked: Wonderful staff - so friendly. I loved to coffee in the morning! Disliked: Nicole left no negative feedback. — Nicole Beasse (2013-05-03) Hostelbookers

Liked: Cheap, clean, great atmosphere, showers, awesome terrace lounge, kitchen and good wi-fi. Like a home. Disliked: No lockers in the dorm room but I never felt like my stuff was unsafe; a bit of a drab location. — Customer review (2013-05-02) Hostelbookers

Liked: Everything! Staff and atmosphere are amazing. Disliked: Nothing. — Customer review (2013-04-28) Hostelbookers

Liked: Very friendly workers. We were only there for one night, but we were treated very well. Disliked: The location is kind of shady and at night it was hard to find. — Customer review (2013-04-26) Hostelbookers

Liked: Great vibe, friendly staff, awesome hangout spot on the roof. Disliked: Nothing — Texel Feder (2013-04-18) Hostelbookers

Liked: The dorm rooms were very nice, especially the ones downstairs (which I think are new), and the rooftop terrace was great for hanging out. The staff were very friendly, very casual, and quite helpful in terms of recommending places to go - on our first night they organized a free trip to a local club for whoever wanted to go.The free breakfast was only bread and stuff to spread on it, but hey, it's free. Disliked: There was a lot of street noise (very loud trucks, mostly) outside our window in the early morning. Generally, the location isn't ideal - it's in the southern part of Tel Aviv, so things in the center of town are a bit of a hike, and walking there from the nearest train station takes a while. However, Jaffa is fairly close, and Carmel Market and the nearest stretch of beach aren't too far. — Customer review (2013-04-06) Hostelbookers

Liked: Everything. The people working at Florentine Hostel are off the scale in terms of their friendliness, warmth and desire to foster an environment in which travellers become friends, potentially friends for life.. It's clean, it's safe. The location is excellent because Tel Aviv is so manageable from a walking perspective, and I couldn't have possibly a better anywhere with the 6 days at Florentine. Natalie was a sensational host. The volunteers were all charming and well intentioned. Didn't want to leave. In fact can I please go back immediately? ;) Disliked: There are no negatives to the experience I had at Florentine Hostel. — William Cleverly (2013-03-31) Hostelbookers

Liked: The folks at Florentine managed to redefine my idea of what a hostel should look like. Fantastic atmosphere - didn't feel like leaving at all! Disliked: Customer left no negative feedback. — Customer review (2013-03-25) Hostelbookers

Liked: florentine hostel is by far the coolest hostel ive ever stayed at throughout europe, the middle east or anywhere in the world. The rooftop lounge is awesome, you can chill out all day and night and look over the florentine neighborhood of tel aviv. There's a kitchen you can use whenever you need. The rooms are comfortable and the whole hostel is kept very clean. Its pretty centrally located, near to old jaffa, the beach and the center of the city. Florentine neighborhood is an up and coming area of tel aviv, cool bars, great food, graffiti and more. The staff in the hostel is great, Natalie ron and noam are all awesome, helpful and cool people. The volunteers are great, some will even take you out to party at night and on top of it all the owner Rafi is a really cool. All in all, amazing hostel, amazing location, amazing people, best hostel i have ever been to. If your in Israel, go to florentine hostel. Disliked: there is nothing to dislike about this hostel. it is entirely awesome. — samantha saltzman (2013-03-25) Hostelbookers

Liked: Very nice terrace with a lot of backpackers and other travellers. Good kitchen facilities. Nice degign and a lot of useful/funny messages around. Disliked: It was no lock on the door in the room, reception is on the 3rd floor. Cleaness was normal, but not very. — STANISLAV Kotov (2013-03-21) Hostelbookers

Liked: Helpful staff, nice atmosphere in the hostel, clean and modern rooms. Disliked: location not that central. kind of scary to come back at night... — Joyce Monclus (2013-03-17) Hostelbookers

Liked: Awesome atmosphere, staff, just an amazing place to stay! Thank you: Rafi,Ron,Natalie,Asaf,Aaron,Alex,Mez,Digger,John,Grady,Stas,Tasfi, and everyone else who made my stay an unforgettable experience! Can't Wait to to come back! Disliked: Nothing — Andy Offerman (2013-03-11) Hostelbookers

Liked: chilled atmosphere Disliked: looked like a hole from the outside, but very nice inside — jeremy duggan (2013-03-09) Hostelbookers

Liked: Great atmosphere + great welcome, Thanks Natalie + John!! Disliked: Uwe left no negative feedback. — Uwe Zander (2013-03-03) Hostelbookers

Liked: cool amtmospere, very close to Florentin night life and bars. Disliked: YANIV left no negative feedback. — YANIV PEREZ (2013-03-01) Hostelbookers

Liked: this was a good experience for at this hostel made to feel real homey Disliked: nothing — brandon saldana (2013-02-26) Hostelbookers

Liked: Good location good people Disliked: Yongxin left no negative feedback. — Yongxin Zhang (2013-02-24) Hostelbookers

Liked: GREAT atmosphere, both the people staying there and the staff are great! Good location, very clean, great hostel! Disliked: Nothing — jeffry snippe (2013-02-21) Hostelbookers

Hostelz.com Guest Reviews

Firmly in the "ok" box There's absolutely nothing wrong with this place but it doesn't shine like a lot of the backpackers hostels that have sprung up around the world in resent years. The friendly staff, free wi-fi, and roof terrace are all plus factors but on basics like security, price, location, and cleanliness it is firmly average. — Martin, UK (2011-09-09)

Tel Aviv? stay at the Florenine Hostel!! You won't regret it!! Best backpackers Hostel in Tel Aviv -- very friendly staff, you meet a lot of interesting people, and you can chill outside at the big rooftop. It is very well located and everything is clean. I'll come back soon. — Laura, Germany (2011-03-21)

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