Best Hostels in Belgrade: Party and Budget Picks

These six Belgrade hostels charge anywhere from EUR 6.66 to EUR 17 a night for a dorm bed, and the honest split is between three within stumbling distance of the nightlife and three built around a good night’s sleep. Balkan Soul, El Diablo and Hostel Bongo put you inside or a short stagger from the nightlife. Sun Hostel, Hostel Inn Downtown and Karavan Inn trade a few minutes’ walk for quiet rooms and a noticeably cheaper bed. Every price, rating and address below is a live snapshot, checked on 8 August 2026 - here’s what each one actually offers.

The six, at a glance

Prices are Hostelworld’s lowest listed dorm-bed rate on the day we checked - they move with demand, season and how far ahead you book, so treat this table as a starting point, not a locked-in fare. They swing hardest around New Year, EXIT-adjacent weekends and any big stag influx, so price your actual dates before you commit.

Closest to the nightlife

Over 1,700 reviews and a 9.1 score make Balkan Soul Hostel, at Kosančićev Venac 11a in the old town, the one with the biggest track record on this list - a real, sustained result, not a lucky first month. There’s no formal bar on site: what it actually has is a shared kitchen, big in-room lockers, and a common area the hostel calls the Soul room, where a match or a film gets watched together some nights. The lane itself is one of Stari Grad’s most atmospheric corners, a few minutes’ walk from Kalemegdan and the Beton Hala waterfront, and reception takes check-ins from 14:00 to 23:00. If you only read one entry on this list, this is the safe one.

El Diablo Hostel Belgrade earns its place in this group for where it sits, not for what happens inside it. Strahinjica Bana 75 in Dorćol, on the corner nearest Skadarlija, puts the kafana strip five minutes away on foot. The hostel itself runs the opposite way: it describes its own vibe as homely and quiet, asks guests to keep it down after 10pm because the building is residential, and doesn’t open the door before 8am. That combination, close enough to stumble home from a night out but not built for pre-drinks in the common room, is part of why it pulls a 9.5 score from well over a thousand reviews - people keep mentioning the same thing, that the owners know your name by day two. Twenty beds across five room types, not a 200-bed warehouse, is part of why that holds together.

Hostel Bongo, at Terazije 36, is the wild card. It sits right on Belgrade’s main central boulevard, but the building itself is tucked into a quiet backyard off the street with room for a beer and a barbecue, so the location reads as central-and-social rather than central-and-loud. Six rooms, security lockers for each bed, and an 8.8 score - solid, though it’s worth knowing the review count (64) is far smaller than the other two, so treat the rating as promising, not proven at Balkan Soul’s scale. Check-in runs 14:00 to 22:00.

The quiet and budget picks

The cheapest bed on this list, at EUR 6.66, belongs to Sun Hostel at Novopazarska 25 in Vračar - and unlike some rock-bottom listings, it still carries a genuinely strong review base: 9.0 from 881 reviews. It’s also the farthest out of the six, roughly 2.3 km from Republic Square instead of a short old-town walk - that distance is the real trade-off for the price, not anything wrong with the place itself. Seventeen rooms across dorms and private options hold about 35 guests total, reception runs around the clock, and it swaps old-town buzz for Vračar’s calmer, more residential feel - a fair deal if you’re not planning to be out until dawn every night.

Book Hostel Inn Downtown knowing one thing upfront: it’s on Koče Popovića 6 in Savski Venac, on the fifth floor of a building with no lift, so a heavy backpack up five flights is part of the deal (there’s a rooftop terrace lounge as the trade-off, and the address is sometimes still listed under its old name, Zagrebačka). What that buys is a perfect 10.0 across 280 reviews, which is rare enough to be suspicious - genuinely flawless scores at that sample size usually aren’t real - except the recurring specific complaint in the reviews is exactly the stairs and a single shared shower, the kind of detail a padded review set wouldn’t bother including. Beds start around EUR 8, it’s about 730 metres from the centre and genuinely walkable once you’re down the stairs, and there’s no curfew.

At 9.8 out of 10, Karavan Inn is quietly the second-highest-rated hostel on this whole list, not just “the quiet one”. It’s on Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 60 in Vračar, facing Tasmajdan park, with check-in running 14:00 to 22:00. Reviewers describe it again and again as clean, comfortable and calm rather than social, which reads as a downside if you’re after a party hostel and a real selling point if you’re not. Beds run from around EUR 13, and with 252 reviews behind that 9.8, this is a real number, not a small sample riding high.

What a bed actually costs, and when to book

The spread across these six, roughly EUR 6.66 to EUR 17 for a dorm bed, sits inside Belgrade’s normal range - it doesn’t define the city’s edges. Sun Hostel’s price happens to be the cheapest dorm bed in the whole city on the day we checked, but hostels above Bongo’s EUR 17 exist too, so don’t treat this list as the ceiling. What moves the number more than the hostel itself is the calendar: prices climb hard around New Year and Orthodox Christmas, during the Guča trumpet festival in August, and whenever a big stag or bachelor party season hits a summer weekend. Book the popular ones - Balkan Soul and El Diablo especially, given their review volume - at least a few weeks out for a summer Friday or Saturday, and expect same-week availability to cost noticeably more than a booking made a month ahead.

One practical point that makes any of these six easier to reach: Belgrade’s regular buses, trams and trolleybuses have carried no fare at all since January 2025, so once you’re on the ordinary city network, getting to your hostel costs nothing. Only the airport leg still costs money: 400 dinars on the A1 minibus to Slavija, 200 on the E-badged express lines. Budget for that one ride, then forget your wallet for the rest of the week - the detail is in our guide to Belgrade’s free public transport. Our guide to where to stay in Belgrade covers the wider area-by-area picture - Stari Grad, Dorćol, Savamala, Vračar and the rest - if you’d rather choose a neighbourhood first and a specific bed second.

Hostel basics worth knowing before you book

Most Belgrade hostels sell both dorm beds and a private room or two, so a couple who wants hostel prices without sharing a room usually has that option if they book early enough - check the room type carefully before you pay, because “hostel” here covers everything from an 8-bed dorm to a private double with its own bathroom. Lockers turn up at four of the six: Balkan Soul, El Diablo, Hostel Bongo and Sun Hostel all list them outright, so bring your own padlock or budget a euro or two for one at check-in regardless, since not every reception keeps a spare. None of the six lists a curfew in its published house rules. That’s normal for Belgrade’s hostel scene, and useful to know if your flight or the splavovi keep you out past 2am - though El Diablo is the one exception worth flagging, since it asks for quiet after 10pm and won’t open the door before 8am.

If you’re coming for the nights out specifically, not just sightseeing, read this page alongside our Belgrade nightlife guide for the splavovi and bar districts these hostels sit near, and our Belgrade stag and bachelor party guide if you’re booking for a group instead of a solo trip or a couple.

Which one to book

If the trip is about the nights out, book Balkan Soul first. El Diablo is second only if you’ll be back before its door opens at 8am - it locks up overnight. Both have the review volume to back up the rating, and either puts you within stumbling distance of Stari Grad or Skadarlija. Bongo is a fair third option if the price and the backyard appeal, just go in knowing the smaller review sample. If you’d rather sleep well and spend the savings on the day out, it’s a genuine three-way choice now, not two: Sun Hostel is the cheapest bed with real reviews behind it, Hostel Inn Downtown has the single best score on this list if you can handle the stairs, and Karavan Inn is no longer just the consolation prize for wanting quiet - at 9.8 from 252 reviews, it’s the second-highest-rated hostel here, full stop. Whichever you choose, lock in the date first, the specific hostel second. A great hostel at a bad price on a busy weekend is worse value than a good one booked three weeks out.