Hostels

casanova_kid

Can anybody reccomend any hostels in Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Prague, Berlin or Amsterdam. We're booking for interrailing but it's hard to know whether these hostels are good or what. We're looking for budget price hostels.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Generator in Berlin. Tenner a night if you're not fussy. 15 mins by tram from centre, clean, very cheap but very basic food, bar, lockers in room (bring own padlock) internet and the evening tourist pub-crawl passes by :-).

Hostel - http://www.generatorhostels.com/berlin/
Pub crawl (recommended) - http://www.newberlintours.com/pubcrawl.php

Everywhere else, try these guys
http://www.hostelworld.com

gilroyb

Budapest Hostel- 'Yellow Submarine'

Great fun, chilled atmosphere and plenty of other people

daiixi

Munich and Vienna - Wombat's.
Amsterdam - The Flying Pig.
Budapest - Back Pack Hostel or Yellow Submarine.
Berlin - A&O Hostel Zoo or Circus Hostel.

You may be able to find cheaper places - depends on what your standards are! A good way of finding out what's available and what's cheap (besides hostelworld.com) is to ask people you meet while travelling.

Right_Side

Amsterdam - AVOID "The Globe" at all costs. Dirty hole.

Book for Amsterdam now, good places go fast.

Prague - Hostel Arnosta. Student rooms during the year but rented to hostlers in July and August. Nothing special but big safe rooms.

Lisapeep

I couldn't imagine planning a holiday without referring to www.hostelz.com - it's a great website with user reviews of hostels!

breadmonkey

ATTENTION CASANOVA!!

Seriously, don't book all of your hostels in advance, that just makes the whole trip so inflexible. We didn't book any hostels except in the first place, but we stuck to our route really rigidly. Looking back, I wish we hadn't planned everything so much. If I went inter railing again, I would start out woth little or no plan and see where I would be taken.

Think about it. I really wish someone had told me this before I did it!

javelin

www.hoho.cz/hostel

travellers hostel ujezd in prague.
the best hostel I've ever stayed in
so much fun!

Norfork Nights

Vienna - Hostel Ruthensiener

Munich - Wombats

$lattman

Prague- A plus hostel, great craic, good location within walking distance of city centre and the free breakfast is brilliant, all you can eat!

bazzer06

Hostel elf in Prague - cheap, cheerful, 50cent pint bottles of budvar, convenient to the bus station and metro stop (florenc) and just generally cool!
staff are pretty laid back if you've just come from holland and have some "souvenirs" if ya know what i mean! heehee
and breadmonkey is damn right bout not planning too much ahead. you can book hostels really easily on the road and there's usually a couple of spaces left somewhere! and by the way, when you're using websites to book, and hostels show up as full - RING THEM!! AFAIK, they set aside a number of beds for the websites, and often have spaces when they appear to be booked out!
anyway, happy travelling!! and if you have time, go to the balkans (particularly bosnia and croatia) - you'd have a great time there1

blocparty

myself and my friends are currrently planning our interrailing trip. we were thinking of going at the end of august until the middle of septemeber. so i was looking for advice on where to go and what to see there and what hostels to stay in in those places.

we have made a very general plan but i know its not going to be stuck to really and i think having flexible plan is prob the best way to do things. so heres our plan

amsterdam 2/3 days
cologne 2 days
munich 2 days
prague 3 days
krakow 2 days
budapest 2 days
zagreb 2 days
split 3 days??? is it worth going to?
venice 2 days
nice 2 days
and then home


we really dont know if split is worth going to so any advice would be handy.

also are there any festivals/gigs on during this time of the year?

also if there are places that we should consider going to then please tell me

cheers for the help

breadmonkey

You're going to way too many places. Everywhere I went I was there for 4 days and it still felt very short. You'll barely have arrived and have to leave again. I'd advise you to reconsider this immediately.

Split is a total dive as far as I'm concerned and I would not advise anyone to go there. Also, the train from Zagreb to Split is the stuff of nightmares. I don't know what you'll find in Zagreb tbh, there of plenty of other places that would be better and if decide to take my advice and spend longer in each place then Zagreb has to be the first to get the chop.

I don't know about finishing up in Venice and Nice. For one thing, they are expensive places, Venice especially and I didn't really have either pinned as a place for a group of youg lads/ladies. I mean, my parents just came back from Venice which says it all.

blocparty

well the reason for finishing in nice is because there is a flight to cork from there and my best friends dad lives there so we can crash at his for a couple of days at no extra cost so thats handy.

i was always sceptical about split and venice. as far as i know venice is for oldies and it smells in the summer and i really doubt split is worth a 9 hour train journey. so any places you'd add to the list? you can consider venice and split cut from the plan.

are there any nice and cheap places in northern italy that would be perfect for a number of male students?

daiixi

I wouldn't bother with Zagreb and Split is okay, for a day, maybe two but it's a smelly port town with a manmade beach which consists of concrete covered by an inch of sand. You're best off spending a week in Dubrovnik and sailing between the islands if you want to go to Croatia.

I'd suggest longer in Krakow. You can easily spend two days in the city as well as doing trips to the Saltmines and Auschwitz. There's also a city, Zakapane, a couple of hours on the train from Krakow which is worth visiting.

I'd also suggest at least three days in Amsterdam and three days in Budapest. Make sure you go to one of the baths and head out to a winery or two.

If you're heading to Munich you can cover the city in a day however I'd recommend doing a halfday trip to Dachau - I thought the museum was much more interesting and detailed than Auschwitz (although I think Auschwitz is a must) also you can visit Neuschwanstein Castle from Munich.

Nice can be seen in a day, so I'd spend a day in Monaco and head down to Cannes for a day as well. Don't bother even considering St. Tropez.

I've never been to Cologne but I'd definitely recommend Berlin. Also Lljubjana, Slovenia is gorgeous and the countryside is fantastic - one of the most enjoyable train rides I've had.

breadmonkey

manmade beach which consists of concrete covered by an inch of sand

I forgot to mention this. The "beach" in Split makes Seapoint look like Waikiki.

danvideo

Thinking of interailing soon! Is it better to interail alone or with friends? (A lad speaking)