Aarhus Hostel og Hotel
Aarhus Hostel og Hotel — the 7.4-rated outskirts hostel on Beringvej with a real garden, BBQ facilities, free parking, a shared kitchen and pool table — the cheapest bed in town if you don't mind a 20-minute bus ride.
Aarhus Hostel og Hotel sits on Beringvej south of the city, surrounded by fields and small detached houses. 7.4 rating, garden with BBQ and outdoor furniture, shared kitchen, pool table, free on-site parking. The cheapest hostel beds in Aarhus and the only one with real green space — a 20-minute bus ride from the centre on Bus 4A or 16 from the Banegårdspladsen.
Aarhus Hostel og Hotel is the budget-and-suburban option. The building is a low-slung pavilion-style hostel on Beringvej, in the residential outskirts south of the city, near the Skanderborgvej arterial road. There is a real garden with picnic furniture and a working BBQ, a sun deck, free parking out front (rare in Aarhus and worth knowing if you're driving), and a shared kitchen big enough that you can actually cook a meal without waiting in line.
The rooms are practical, motel-style — wardrobes, single beds, shared bathrooms in the corridor for the dorms, en-suite for the private rooms. Reviewers describe it as clean, quiet, and good value, with breakfast included in some rates and self-checkin available for late arrivals (you get the door code by email). It's family-friendly: many guests are domestic Danish families on a road trip, and the BBQ-and-garden setup works for that. The pool table and BBQ area become the de facto social space on summer evenings.
Location is the trade-off. Bus 4A runs every 10 minutes during the day from the corner stop and gets you to Banegårdspladsen (the main station and bus terminal) in about 18 minutes for 24 DKK. After 23:00 the buses thin out — the night bus N18 runs Friday and Saturday only. If you want to be in the bar district until 3am, this isn't your hostel; if you want the cheapest clean bed in Aarhus and a quiet sleep, it is. The Skanderborg highway gets you out toward Marselisborg Forest in 10 minutes by bike.
Who this is for: domestic road-trippers, budget travellers happy to commute, families wanting their own private room without paying Latin-Quarter prices, anyone with a car. Skip if you want to stagger home from Mejlgade at 2am — you'll be paying 250 DKK for a cab.
- 01Real garden with BBQ and picnic furniture — the only Aarhus hostel where you can actually grill outside on a summer evening
- 02Free on-site parking — genuinely rare in this city, where street parking in the centre is 30 DKK an hour
- 03Cheapest hostel beds in Aarhus by a clear margin — about 30 percent under the city-centre options
- 04Big shared kitchen that actually fits a group cooking together (most hostel kitchens here are tight)
- 05Pool table and games room that locals' kids and travelling families both end up using
- Garden + BBQ + free parking
- Cheapest beds in Aarhus
- Family-friendly outskirts
- Big shared kitchen
“Very clean, nice garden around, breakfast was good there were nice board games for the evening.”
“Free parking but limited spaces. We arrived late evening but it was easy self check-in with directions to the room. The room was spacious.”
“The hostel is rather cheap and connected by bus going once per hour to Aarhus and to Skanderborg.”
- Bus 4A stop (to centre)2 min walk
- Marselisborg Forest10 min by bike
- Aarhus Centre (Banegårdspladsen)18 min by bus 4A
- Føtex supermarket5 min walk
- Skanderborgvej local pubs8 min walk
- Mosquito the Stadium (AGF football)12 min walk
