Youth Hostels — the pros and the cons

It seemed we could have a com­fort­able, hotel style room with two single beds, triple glaz­ing and air con­di­tion­ing, but with no ensuite and a little way out of the city centre (Stock­holm), or ensuite facil­it­ies, and extremely cent­ral loc­a­tion, and no vent­il­a­tion except an open win­dow onto a 05:00 to 01:00 bus route, an 04:00 bin col­lec­tion, and beer deliv­er­ies to the two cafes oppos­ite between 6 and 8 am. (Copen­ha­gen).  But the Copen­ha­gen one did have a very nice little café on the ground floor where you could get an excel­lent Ger­man weiss­bier so it wasn’t all bad.  As an aside, you might think the Carls­berg in Copen­ha­gen would be super­ior to any­where else but actu­ally it’s just as dread­ful as in the rest of the world.