Aquarium Youth Hostel

Frommer's Review

This hostel (formerly known as Ananda) is run by an interesting South American fellow named Jairo Bustos, who operated at least two other hostels of the same name in Budapest in the early 1990s. The hostel is well located just a few minutes by foot from Keleti Railway Station (where most international trains arrive), on the corner of Alsóerdósor utca and Péterfy Sándor utca. Like most other centrally located, privately run youth hostels in town, Aquarium is sited in a residential building (a classic Pest apartment house), and there is little evidence from the street of its existence within (just a small buzzer that says HOSTEL). The hostel has extremely clean rooms (mixed-sex) and a friendly, engaging staff. Guests are given large lockers in which to store gear, and there is a TV in the common room. There is no curfew. The hostel is frequented in equal parts by tired rail travelers arriving at Keleti Station and by meditation-vegetarian types who have been drawn by Mr. Bustos, a magnetic personality who is somewhat famous among certain circles of locals and Euro travelers.

Facilities:
Coin-op washers and dryers; communal kitchen; free Internet access

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