Friends Hostel in Bucharest

zuletzt aktualisiert am 05.01.2010

If you decide to visit Bucharest, you have to consider staying with us at Friends Hostel. You will feel the charm of our friendly house, recently renovated and restructured to offer you all the comfort, enjoy a chat with the other travelers in our warm lounge area or cook your favorite meals in our cozy kitchen.   Our lounge is offering you more than 70 TV channels as well as the possibility to enjoy your favorite movies on our DVD player or the possibility of playing Darts, cards or chess.   The hostel is located at less than 10minutes walking from Gara de Nord - the main Train Station in Bucharest and also at convenient walking distance from the main tourist and leisure destinations: - National Military Museum – 3 min. - Presidential Palace – 5 min. - Botanical Garden – 5 min. - Ceausescu's Palace (Parliament Palace) – 25 min. - Students’ Campus – 20 min. (with bars, pubs and clubs) - Good value Romanian Restaurant – 10 min. - Parks, Pubs, Cafes and Clubs – 20 – 30 min   There are also excellent connections by public transportation.   Our staff will be glad to offer you information about the places to visit in town and also a free map of the city for your help.   Everything is new and clean - from the bathrooms to the rooms and kitchen.   We have 3 mixed dormitories: 2 of 8 places and 1 of 6 places, in total 22 places in Bunk Beds.   The air conditioning is available only in the lobby, but is helping to cool the rooms also.

Wegbeschreibung

From the Train Station (Gara de Nord Station), 5-10 minutes walking:
- As soon as you leave the train, head towards the end of the train tracks, and where the rail tracks end just keep going on the same directions along the central hallway. You will arrive in front of the main exit/entrance of Gara de Nord: turn right under the tall columns and go ahead, along the Witing Street. At the end, you have to turn left on Plevnei St. and then left again on Mircea Vulcanescu (former Stefan Furtuna St). The hostel is the first house on the left. The whole walk will be 5-10 minutes and it makes no sense to take a cab or any public transportation.

From the Otopeni &amp, Baneasa Airport:
1. By bus - there is the express bus 780 (2 trips ticket = 7RON), it is leaving every 15 minutes during week days and every 30 minutes during week-ends, from around 5.00 a.m. up to 11:00 p.m. You should leave the buss at the Gara de Nord Station (this is the main Train Station in Bucharest). From there you have to walk to the hostel as described above in the section “By train”.

2. By taxi - I would advice you to take Fly taxi - it is better then any other offer of private taxi driver. If they use the meter, then the total cost to our hostel should be approx. 50RON from Otopeni and 20RON from Baneasa.
If you have the possibility to order a cab from a mobile phone, you may call the number of the Taxi 2000 Company: 0040219494.

Other variants:
Close to the hostel, there are the stations of various public transportation vehicles:
- busses 123, 133 – get off to Station Mircea Vulcanescu or Plevnei
- trolley-busses: 62, 71, 85, 93, 96 – get off to Station Mircea Vulcanescu or Plevnei (depending on the direction you are coming from).
- Metro Stations: Eroilor or Gara de Nord (see the map for directions to the hostel).