The Hostelz.com Review
Gothenburg's Youth Hostel is in the center of Gothenburg. You can get there by taking the tram only a few minutes from the Centralstation and the Nils Ericson Terminal from where the buses, trains, trams, and airport buses go. Nordstan, Sweden's biggest shopping-center is also situated there. The tram station Almedal is only about 100 metres to go from the hostel.
The rooms are very small and there is not much place to put your luggage, but it's very clean. Some rooms have no windows and it could be very hot in the summer months. There are many families and school classes and therefore sometimes it's a bit noisy. But the rooms aren't poorly sound-proofed and so it's no problem.
You have also a kitchen there where you can cook until 8 p.m. and you can find everything that's neccessary for cooking some food. There's a fridge and a freezer in it where you can put your food.
The toilets and showers are on the floor. They are effective but not very comfortable. In each cabin there is a toilet and a shower. Since there are no windows you sometimes think you might choke because of the steam in it.
The common room is nice. There are sofas and a TV. But most of the time you have to watch Swedish TV because so many visitors are Swedish.
You can also have breakfast. We booked it for the whole five days but it wasn't possible to cancel it after the first day (they said they had already bought the food for the next days, but we didn't believe them). There aren't any rolls -- only normal bread -- and some kind of Swedish flat cake. You get cheese and sausage but if you come after 9 a.m. there is sometimes nothing left. You also get eggs, jam, cornflakes, milk, margarine (no butter), tomatoes, cucumber, tea, coffee, and orange juice. Maybe it's cheaper to buy the breakfast in the store below the hostel (although the store two hundred metres away might be even cheaper).
Most of staff are very nice, friendly, and helpful but the owner isn't very obliging -- when you arrive, she is nice, but when you leave she isn't very interested in you anymore.
The rooms are very small and there is not much place to put your luggage, but it's very clean. Some rooms have no windows and it could be very hot in the summer months. There are many families and school classes and therefore sometimes it's a bit noisy. But the rooms aren't poorly sound-proofed and so it's no problem.
You have also a kitchen there where you can cook until 8 p.m. and you can find everything that's neccessary for cooking some food. There's a fridge and a freezer in it where you can put your food.
The toilets and showers are on the floor. They are effective but not very comfortable. In each cabin there is a toilet and a shower. Since there are no windows you sometimes think you might choke because of the steam in it.
The common room is nice. There are sofas and a TV. But most of the time you have to watch Swedish TV because so many visitors are Swedish.
You can also have breakfast. We booked it for the whole five days but it wasn't possible to cancel it after the first day (they said they had already bought the food for the next days, but we didn't believe them). There aren't any rolls -- only normal bread -- and some kind of Swedish flat cake. You get cheese and sausage but if you come after 9 a.m. there is sometimes nothing left. You also get eggs, jam, cornflakes, milk, margarine (no butter), tomatoes, cucumber, tea, coffee, and orange juice. Maybe it's cheaper to buy the breakfast in the store below the hostel (although the store two hundred metres away might be even cheaper).
Most of staff are very nice, friendly, and helpful but the owner isn't very obliging -- when you arrive, she is nice, but when you leave she isn't very interested in you anymore.
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October 2005
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Hostelz.com Guest Reviews
Modern and chill atmosphere Im often in gothenburg for work and have tried i think all of the hostels with a "central location" there. Well have to say that this is by FAR the most central located hostel in gothenburg. You are in 2min walking distance to Liseberg and if you take the RIGHT way your in the heart of the city centre in 10 min. I have made a lot of contacts all around the world during my stay there. Over all a fresh, living and comfortable place that i definitely recommend to people going to gothenburg and need a cheap place to crash! Have fun and say hi from me! /Mika — Mika , swedish (2010-01-06) Not as good as they advertise Average hostel, a good thirty-minute walk from the city centre and about twenty minutes from the beginning of the Kungsportsavenyen ("the Avenue"). The hostel itself is clean and decent, but lacks atmosphere. Staff is friendly but incomplete in their information. I was given a key with a number on both sites of the keyring but it was unclear which number represented the room and the bed number. Dorms accommodate up to eight people. If you have a car and park it in the garage, make sure you exit the garage by foot using the car-exit. Do not use the emergency door since you'll lock yourself up in a quiet place! Again, hostel staff could have been more clear about this since it is really confusing. I find the announcement on their website on which they pride themselves about the "central location" far too exaggerated. An almost thirty-minute walk from the city centre is not what I consider a central location. There are extra charges for sheets and parking (80 SEK per day, and you may not even use it for twenty-four hours, just till check-out time!). All in all, I find the room prices (250 SEK for a dorm bed) too high for the location. I would not stay here again for this price. — Mark , The Netherlands (2007-08-22) Good but unusual On a day when every other hostel in town was booked, this place had room to spare. Perhaps a lack of online booking is to blame, or the strange check-in hours of 4 to 6 p.m., but this hostel was really quite decent. Dorm rooms hold six but are not cramped. Showers and toilets are communal, but kept clean. Had no real complaints except for a lack of atmosphere. Oh, if taking the tram, take route 4 and get off at the first stop after the giant theme park. The hostel is well signed and hard to miss. — Bazz , Australia (2007-08-09) We stayed there two nights, and when we came back quite late the second night the staff had removed all our stuff and some other people were sleeping in our beds!!! As they have no staff in the reception during the night, nor any contact number to call in an emergency, we had to sleep on the sofas. The next day we got our bags and clothes back, and their explanation was that they thought we had checked out the day before?? Impossible as we had paid already for two nights. — Anonymous (2005-04-02) This hostel is a pretty good place, clean and comfortable. Try to book in advance! Last October, I was lucky enough to arrive there late and find someone who wasn't supposed to be at the reception at that time of the day! There's no place to buzz to, and nobody answered the phone at 7 p.m. when I got there, so I was even more lucky to find a guest who opened the door and let me into the reception. — Francesco (2005-02-17) It's like a 15-minute walk from Main Avenue, but there is a direct train from the station all the way to the hostel. Lots of students and families stay in the hostel, so it's not much fun. It's averagely clean. Some crazy Swedish people who came to Gothenburg for rock concerts stayed in my room, and they made lots of noise during the night. Some guy even brought his one-night-stand back to the dorm. — Anonymous (2004-06-29)