Subsequent Home Copenhagen Hostel assessment

Persevering with my hostels of the longer term collection, I travelled earlier this spring to Copenhagen to checkout the model new Next House Copenhagen hostel in Copenhagen. With 1600 beds, Subsequent Home is the most important luxurious hostel in Europe in the intervening time. 1600 beds? That’s an insane capability. I used to be actually curious to know the way a hostel can operate and create an environment for its visitors with that variety of visitors. I hopped alongside to see for my very own eyes and here’s a fast assessment with my ideas and impressions from my keep.

Location

Location of the hostel is implausible. It’s a brief stroll from Copenhagen Central prepare station so it’s excellent if you’re coming by prepare or by the metro from the airport. The opposite key landmark on the doorstep of the hostel is the magical Tivoli Gardens amusement park which is a should go to for folks of all ages. You might be additionally a number of hundred meters from the riverside the place you may rent kayaks in the summertime and discover or simply go for a pleasant stroll or run within the morning.

Rooms and bedrooms

There are a thoughts boggling 433 rooms and 1600 beds within the hostel. Company can select from the spacious 6-bed dorm or a 4-bed dorm, and if you need a smaller room that’s non-public, you may e book one in all our double rooms. The doubles are fairly tight so I might not advocate it for quite a lot of days keep. The 6-bed dorms and 4-bed dorms are divided into ‘For All’ and ‘For Ladies’, they usually may also be booked as a personal room. All of the dorms have non-public loos and embody linen, towels plus the pod fashion bunk beds are geared up with 2 particular person energy sockets and studying lights. Dorm rooms additionally present private lockers.

Rooftop restaurant

Services

Unfold throughout 3600 sq. metres, the unimaginable vary of services are what makes this hostel actually stand out. If you enter the hostel, there’s a very cosy lounge space for visitors to chill out in with lengthy leather-based couches to sink into with {a magazine} or simply to browse in your smartphone.

There’s a big in-house restaurant the place they serve a beneficiant buffet breakfast the place you may make your individual ham cheese toasties with potato wedges-perfect for a hangover breakfast. There’s additionally cereal, teas and coffee-all for the princely sum of 49dkk ( €6.50 ). There may be an additionally all you eat pizza and pasta buffet from 99 dkk ( €13 ) ( which is implausible worth for Copenhagen.

There are 4 bars to select from however the choose of them must be the rooftop bar , with a beneficiant out of doors seating space with 360 diploma panoramic views of town. The bar costs are implausible here- you may get pint of Carslberg for as little as 30 DKK (€4) or a glass of wine for 40 DKK>

Different star options embody a rooftop self service kitchen parallel to the bar -has to be in with a powerful shout for the very best hostel kitchen within the universe.

It’s important to pay a 20 DKK charge however that covers to your total size of keep. Value noting right here that there’s a superb worth Netto grocery store simply 5 minutes up the highway from the hostel.

There’s additionally a sizeable lounge tucked away with a classic Jaguar ( unsure why they’ve a Jag there however it seems to be cool ) and plenty of comfortable sofas, board video games, foosball tables and a correct shuffleboard so for those who’re a video games lover, it is a nice hostel to remain in.

Nonetheless, the star function in my view lies tucked away within the stomach of the hostel on the bottom floor- the Subsequent Door’s indoor stadium, a ten x 20 metre courtroom excellent for soccer, padel tennis, dodgeball, softball and far more. Once more, this may be rented with pals for as little as 20 DKK. Proper subsequent to the stadium is a completely geared up gymnasium and likewise a health/yoga studio- Subsequent Home is the proper hostel for sports activities fanatics.

There’s additionally a cinema ( with Netflix ) tucked away beside the indoor stadium and yoga room. There’s additionally a venue with sound system arrange for stay music and DJ’s to play.

By way of services, I feel there are a number of hostels on the earth that may beat this hostel!

Expertise

For the scale of the hostel , you’ll discover it fairly intimate which is because of the very useful, pleasant staff of employees right here who actually are useful by way of answering visitors enquiries, sharing suggestions of town or serving you a beer- they actually set the tone for a really nice and easygoing ambiance. Throughout my keep I discovered that folks of all ages- {couples}, solo travellers, particularly households actually having fun with the hostel. Loads of house for everybody to chill out in, learn a e book or have a cheeky daytime snooze. The hostel has a busy schedule of actions -there was a stay band on, karaoke evening, video games evening plus additionally they even organised an indoor mini golf match…so there’s no scarcity of issues occurring within the hostel. I’d like to see extra occasions devoted to solo travellers occurring to carry them together- one minor criticism however apart from that, little I may fault with the hostel.

Verdict

By way of location, expertise and its superb vary of services, Subsequent Home stands out as one in all Denmark and Scandinavia’s main hostels- e book your keep right here, you received’t remorse it!

A mattress in a 6 mattress dorm begins from as little 125 DKK an evening whereas a personal room begins round 500 DKK ( €70) an evening. Ebook immediately on the hostel website, for the very best charges