Tergeste is clean, well maintained, and businesslike. This is not a party hostel, with little lobby area. Rooms are non-smoking and overlook the sea with large lockers. Showers are modern and adequate, although there is one per floor on open wing during low-season. Small breakfast is provided in dining area and the kitchen is not available in off-season.
The shore in front has a large promenade, busy with runners and cyclists. It leads to Miramare Castle and large park gardens above the sea. Bikes are available for hire in area, according to staff. Several high-end restaurants dot the coastal road in the other direction (back to town). Once you've done that, heading back to town is about the only option.
Trieste is an old port city with Austrian heritage evident in the architecture, mixed with the Italian large plaza opening up to the sea. Here you will find a tourist office, which has free maps and guides you'd expect to pay for. The Revolution Museum is full of Italian modern art and ends in a mansion. It's like two very different museums in one.
To get to the Tergeste HI hostel, purchase a bus ticket before leaving train station. Walk to the left as you exit the train station (the long-haul bus station is to the right of the train station). Wait at the stop next to the PAM supermarket. Make certain to validate your ticket with the stamping box once on bus. The hostel sells tickets for the return. The 36 bus runs about every twenty minutes starting at 6, and travels five kilometers on the busy coastal road. The road splits at the shore promenade, and you'll see an HI sign in the middle of that split pointing left to the hostel. Get off the bus here and walk along the very narrow shoulder back down to the shore promenade two hundred meters.
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