Bucharest · ten minutes from Piata Unirii
Free breakfast, free Wi-Fi, air conditioning and a locker of your own. Reception is open until midnight, and your door code reaches you by email before then.
Where you are
Which puts the Old Town, the Palace of Parliament and the metro within an easy walk, and puts you outside the tourist bubble — on a quiet street where the neighbours still buy their bread on the corner.
The desk is staffed by volunteers from a dozen countries. They will tell you which restaurant is worth the walk, book you onto the free walking tour, and warn you off the taxi at the airport.
Reception is open from 8 in the morning to midnight, every day. Ask for directions, for a printer, for a place to leave your bag, for the name of the restaurant we would actually go to. If you arrive after midnight, the code for the front door and for your room is already in your inbox.
Breakfast is served between 8:30 and 10:00 — simple, not fancy, and enough to get you out the door. The rest of the day the shared kitchens are yours: hob, oven, coffee, and a fridge shelf with your name on it.
Rooms
The quietest dorm we have. Four beds, air conditioning, a locker with a key.
Ten beds and its own bathroom. We do not move guests in or out of this room.
A double bed, a desk, a television and a door that locks. The bathroom is shared.
The practical half
If something is still unclear, write to office@firsthostel.ro or call +40 720 720 720. We answer in English and Romanian.
Bucharest
Thirty-one places, sorted by what you are in the mood for, with the details that only matter once you are standing there.
The Palace of Parliament, the Athenaeum, Stavropoleos, Herastrau, Cismigiu — and how to get inside the ones that need booking.
Where to eat Romanian food that is worth the money, and which club is busy on which night.
Mogosoaia, Snagov, Comana — and the Transylvanian castles, if you have a whole day to give them.
Booking on our own engine costs you the same as the big sites, and often less, because we do not have to pay anyone a commission on it. Same beds, same breakfast, same people at the desk.
