Hostel Bucharest - Friends Hostel
Bucharest - Friends Hostel
Mircea Vulcanescu Street,
no. 114/ A
1 district
Bucharest
Romania
Tel.
+40 31 805 3414 +40 764 177 964
Fax.
+40 31 817 3764
Customer Rating
| 93% | |
| 87% | |
| 76% | |
| 74% | |
| 72% | |
| 78% |
Welcome to Friends hostel! A centrally located hostel in Bucharest. The Friends hostel is one of the HI network of hostels in Romania and one of five hostels in Bucharest. This recently renovated hostel is close to the city's attractions. Hostel staff look forward to welcoming you and helping you make the most of your trip!
We are here (24h daily, centrally located, in a nice old house) happy to guide you (with maps and best tips) to discover the Bucharest of the local people at the best rates for you.
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 5-10minutes walk 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. - Pubs and Clubs - 25 min
In case you don't want to walk, there are 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 are here (24h daily, centrally located, in a nice old house) happy to guide you (with maps and best tips) to discover the Bucharest of the local people at the best rates for you.
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 5-10minutes walk 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. - Pubs and Clubs - 25 min
In case you don't want to walk, there are 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.
Hostel bed capacity
| Beds per room: |  |
Total beds |
| Number of rooms: | 3 | 22 |
Opening times
| Opening times (daily/weekly): | Reception Open: 8:00 - 23:00 |
| Opening times (over the year): | Open all the year |
Street Map and Route Planning
Directions
| Rail: | It is very easy to reach the hostel if you travel by train (Gara de Nord Station): - 700m from the Train Station Gara de Nord. 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. The hostel could be reached also from some other variants, depending on your needs: - From 30m to 200m from the hostel, there are the stations of various public transportation vehicles (busses 123, 133 and trolley-busses: 62, 71, 85, 93, 96) - At 900m there is another Eroilor Metro Station (see the map for directions to the hostel). |
| Airport: | From the Otopeni Airport you may reach our hostel in 2 ways: 1. 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. 60RON. If you have the possibility to order a cab from a mobile phone, you may call the number of the Taxi 2000 Company: 0040219494. 2. by bus - there is the express bus 783 (2 trips ticket = 5RON), 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 Piata Romana ( Romana Square ) and get a taxi to the hostel - if they use the meter should be about 5RON. From the Baneasa Airport you can reach the hostel by public transportation in a few different ways: - from the airport you take the bus 131 to Piata Victoriei and from there u can take the metro to Gara de Nord (this is the main train station). From here, there is a 5-7 minutes walk to the hostel (in case you choose this variant, print the map included here and follow the instructions. - or you can get off the 131 bus at Piata Romana (this is the end of this bus line, one station further from Piata Victoriei). From here you can walk to the hostel directly, taking Dacia Boulevard against the crossing with Calea Victoriei (this is one of the main Boulevards in Bucharest). If you walk straight ahead on Dacia against Calea Victoriei, after the crossing with Victoriei, you will reach another crossing with Calea Grivitei - this is where the Mircea Vulcanescu St. starts, going along the same direction as Dacia. |
Attractions
 | Museums/art galleries nearby | | City centre location |
| River/harbour/lake nearby | | Main attractions nearby |
| Nightlife nearby | | Botanical gardens nearby |
| Restaurants nearby | | Shopping centre/market nearby |
| Meet other travellers! Read their tips for things to do in Bucharest - Friends Hostel |
Facilities
 | Breakfast in price |  | Hostel open 24h |
 | TV room |  | Self-catering kitchen |
 | Groups welcome |  | Sheets in price |
 | Internet access |  | Currency exchange at or near hostel |
 | Individual traveller welcome |  | Luggage Store |
 | Lockers available |  | Non smoking room/area |
 | Basic store available at or near the hostel |  | Garden |
 | Rates include local tax |  | BBQ |
Customer Reviews Bucharest - Friends Hostel
| 21 Aug 2011 Wang, Taiwan | 100% | |
| nice friendly and helpful
the service of staff very kind and helpful | ||
| 31 Jul 2011 Stanley, USA | 93% | |
| I walked there from the train station--and that's a big plus. Breakfast was good. Staff were wonderful. | ||
| 12 Jun 2011 Auguste, Netherlands | 80% | |
| The friendly staff and its small size really make this place. The facilities are pretty good. As Bucharest is such a widespread city, it's one of the better located hostels as it is close enough to the train station and you can walk to the city centre within 20-30 minutes. | ||
| 16 Apr 2011 Richard, USA | 100% | |
| Nice place, very friendly staff. | ||
| 15 Apr 2011 Ronald, Germany | 83% | |
| The breakfast is very small, it´s only 10 minutes to gara de nord (main train station) to walk. | ||
| 13 Apr 2011 Michiko, Japan | 80% | |
| I enjoyed staying. The staff ware very friendly and helpful.
There is a kitchen, free coffee and tea,free internet,laundry but no drier. It is easy to get there from the train station. | ||
| 09 Apr 2011 Paul, USA | 77% | |
| Good internet, breakfast, just what you need really. | ||
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