Alternative youth hostel - HABABUSCH HOSTEL
Lieselotte Hababusch's maverick backpackers hostel sits perfectly in the city centre // center of Weimar, a 1000 steps from the main station, in a dreamy corner of the historic old town.
Unprofessional & out-of-the-ordinary. A non-profit project in collaboration with the resident students.
Private rooms & dorms, mountain hut style. Community atmosphere in the fashion of a shared student apartment. Bike Rental.
15 minutes walking distance from the station:
Head downhill & continue straight to GOETHEPLATZ. At its far end, turn left into GELEITSTR. After 100m TURN RIGHT (to follow Geleitstrasse which changes its direction!). Find the entrance by the fountain, behind the vines.
Most buses from the station also run via GOETHEPLATZ (that's 1,7€. Shuttle transfer by us would be 8€).
Once you are at the hostel basically everything you might want to see is within walking distance.
We have singles, doubles, quads and dorm rooms. Some of the private rooms are very small and contain a single shared mattrass on a raised bed. Please enquire about the details by using the contact form at our web site.
Kitchen, bathroom, 2 showers and 2 toilets are shared among all guests.
Everything docks onto the central hall & common room.
The students living upstairs help with check-in/ check-out since we do not have a permanent reception.
It rarely happens that there is noone in the house at all. In this case we leave a list of phone numbers on the entrance door.
We hand out electronic keys for the front door (no curfew/ no lockout).
We are an independent backpackers hostel (no membership), run by a non-profit society (not professionals), in the fashion of a student shared house with guest beds (not usual).
Usually the hostel is a quiet place. It can be crowded in summer/ autumn. Also when there is a group staying. If you wish to relax and meditate maybe enquire about group bookings beforehand.
We care for the environment and ask our guests to separate their waste, turn off lights and heating whenever possible and to reuse plastic bags. Also please do not smoke in the hostel.
Tiny Weimar - city of pleasure & delight.
Dinky Weimar - the place to unwind after having had enough big city hustling. Cars are mostly replaced by horse carts & bicyles.
Peculiar Weimar - furnished with a surplus of culture & art.
Remarkable Weimar - no German city has more theatres, cafés, independent cinemas, free art collaboratives, more music students, actors and activists in subculture per capita than sweet Weimar.
Precious Weimar - the smallest european cultural capital.
Outlandish Weimar - its extensive landscape park equals the size of the old town centre. It starts (right) behind market square and continues out to the river flats.
Gemütliches Weimar - rent a bike at the hostel and go castle-and-park hopping (there is four of each). Ride downstream through the landscapes of historic viticulture of the so-called 'Thueringen Tuscany', see the 'GDR-Museum' and the 'Auerworld Willows Palace', float in the mineral waters of the famous 'Liquid Sound Spa' and return by train. Ride upstream past the limestone cliffs of the splendid 'Ilm' valley. Innocent little villages all over, displaying traces from the middle-ages and amalgemating socialist functionality with newfangled stylistic ineptitudes and deviations.
