2-Star Hotels in Stockholm

Absolutely lovely experience! The location is perfect and very central with easy access to central station, Norrmalm and the old town. On the same island as the boat you also have the Modern Museum and the East Asian Antiquities Museum - both worth checking out. Lovely to sleep on the ship, even for a mixed bed room hostel - the showers and bathrooms were plentiful and functional. The breakfast is also totally worth getting as it’s a buffet for 120SEK and will fill you up for several hours. It costs almost 70-80SEK to get a sandwich anywhere else and 50SEK for a coffee so definitely value for money to get the hotel breakfast.

Great place to stay centrally in Stockholm. We Walker everywhere and did not take public transportation at all. Fantastic views from the room. We chose a superior room with private bathroom and everything lived up to our expectations. You just have to remember that this is a budget hotel and hostel. Very cheap for a central location in Stockholm. We visited in January, but the room was nice and warm. Bathroom was not heated, but they had placed an electric heater that we turned on while using the bathroom and that was just fine for us. The staff was lovely and allowed us to check in several hours early. We had only asked if we could leave our bag, but they had the room available. Probably possible due to low occupancy in January. I loved the unique stay and would definitely recommended. Would like to visit again in the spring or summertime.

Hi! I like the service thay give you! Quick to get a answer and easy to understand. You have all the things you need for a good price! People are friendly and you can actually relax to it's karma. The WiFi is good and you can be anywhere in the hostel with connection.! Br

We had a very pleasant stay during our 5-day trip in the backpackers city hostel. The personnel was very involved and friendly. Also, the rooms and shower/ toilets were very clean. The location is perfect and close to central station. Lastly, the extra facilities such as the free pasta and sauna were fantastic. Definitely worth a recommendation. Best Regards, Coco

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You can stay at those well known chains of hotels with their exactly proportioned rooms and exactly duplicated furnishings and that cater to defined guest budgets all expressed in algorithms probably these days, or you can find yourself a home from home where you are getting what you hoped for at a price that you can afford. Steering that choice these days has become even more problematic as hotels find it increasingly difficult to employ reliable staff at all levels and costs continue to rise. It’s a poor prognosis with a discouraging theme. Bigger hotels have to play to an economy off scale on their costs, higher prices and less staff to take care of guests resulting in mistakes, lack of care of the properties and a spiral of dissatisfied guests. A nightmare. One way out of this for potential hotel guests is to simply avoid the behemoths no matter how many stars they have or what facilities they boast. At the end of the day you need a home from home, you need it at an affordable price and hopefully located where you can get all the benefits you were anticipating in the place to which you are traveling. Post pandemic (if what they say is true) the flood gates have opened for the tourist season so they say and hotels will be benefiting from that. How well are they coping? Well in the case of Hornsgaten Hotel the best description would be riding the wave. This is a small scale (not boutique) very central in Stockholm surrounded by foodie heavens and some shopping that is a conversion of one of the old huge apartments which once abounded here a hundred years ago. It’s a charming place with a basic but functional renovation, including all-new bathrooms and plumbing, a sensible layout with the rooms all on one level and a sort of hostel-like feel to it although it lacks the disadvantages of strict rules. This is one for adults, children welcome, and unusually run by the owner Clara and husband on a daily basis which adds to the welcoming atmosphere. The rooms are not huge but adequate and each of them said to be individually furnished. I chose a two bedroom variant with a private bathroom but some of the other rooms were sharing bathrooms and toilets. Hence the hostelry feel. But it is all done in an incredibly charming way, smiles and pleasantries and good advice. Concern for your comfort, and after my very recent face off with another hotel chain over double charging me at one hotel and triple charging me at another, it was a blast of warm and pleasant feeling that someone gave a hoot about me as a guest. Breakfast was self-service Swedish style and as already mentioned you are not going to starve in this area of Stockholm with an incredibly well-serviced variety of tastes and culinary styles (eleven in the block where the hotel is) available in a wide price range. So if your taste is for the slightly more human approach to living as a guest in a hotel and you like the company of other people I cannot recommend Horngaten too highly and my only h

Good value hostel with excellent kitchen and washing facilities and comfortable rooms. Everywhere clean. A friendly welcome with lots of tips for the visitor. Location close to the station very good for our late night arrival, but it's still within walking distance of the main city sights.

Great experience to stay in this quaint boat hostel (actually two boats, one red, one white). I stayed in two single rooms and both were clean and cute. (If you are sensitive to noise - half the rooms are on the busy street side. I don’t know if you can tell which are bay view rooms when booking?) Great lounge/breakfast area with good breakfast. The walk is manageable, but is far in the cold or rain. I walked from the train station and followed directions over the bridge, meaning carrying my luggage up steps then down again on the other side and then walk to the boat. There is another walk a bit farther along that bypasses climbing the bridge and allows you to walk on a sidewalk across the water and is much easier!!

We stayed in the hostel for one night with our three teenage sons en route to Nörrkoping and were very impressed with how clean and organised it was. The staff were all friendly, welcoming and helpful. The food was delicious and the kitchen was well equipped if you wanted to cook. We were glad to be able to access a washing machine. The neighbouring park is lovely and there is easy access to the metro if you want to go into town. We especially appreciated pretty the garden of this hostel and its eco credentials. A nice place to stay!

BEDBUGS! To start with, we are aware this is not a 5 stars hotel and our expectations were not high. The breakfast was not the best but decent, the local staff a little unkind and rough, the shower curtain smelled bad. However, the real problem were bedbugs and the attitude of the staff after it was reported. We noticed insects in the room (we didn’t know at the time what it was) and I ended up being severely bitten. I reported this to the hotel by e-mail after I learnt what it is and after being examined by the doctor. I wanted to make sure they do something about that but they immediately replied there’s no way there are bedbugs in the hotel. Searching for bedbugs should take at least 1 hour (the insects hide) so there is no chance somebody even went to the room to check. I need to use ointment with antibiotics and do disinsection of my apartment in case I transferred bugs from that hotel. It is a costly and unpleasant process and the hotel’s attitude is unacceptable. I went through other comments on booking and we are not the first ones to report that. The personnel’s response is the same, though.