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.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
October 2005
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