Best Hostels with Bars in Tallinn
8 top-rated hostels with bar in Tallinn Handpicked for travelers who want the best.
Tallinn's seven hostel bars span the full spectrum — The Monks Bunk's ground-floor pub that doubles as the pre-crawl lobby, Fat Margaret's honesty fridge in the games room, and Ring SPA's pool bar by the jacuzzi. Every hostel here has a place to drink without leaving the building, which matters at 02:00 when it's minus-ten outside and the Old Town bars are shutting their doors.
Tallinn's bar culture is split between the medieval pubs on Lai, Pikk and Rüütli — Hell Hunt, Porgu, Valli baar, Põrgu — and the Telliskivi craft beer scene with Pudel and Põhjala's flagship bar. Hostel bars serve as the connective tissue, either as pre-loading spots before the Old Town pub crawl or as the place you end up when the snow hits and walking seven minutes feels like a bad idea. Saku and A. Le Coq dominate the mainstream tap lists; Põhjala and Lehe the craft ones.
🏨Why Tallinn is Perfect for Bar
The Monks Bunk has the genuine article: a real bar on the ground floor with local Saku, Põhjala craft and a drinks menu that runs until midnight. It's the lobby, the social hub and the pub-crawl meeting point in one, and non-guests can walk in off Lai street — meaning you meet locals as well as other travelers. Fat Margaret's bar is smaller, more of an honesty-fridge model in the games room with €2 A. Le Coq beers on a trust basis, but combined with the rentable sauna it's where Tallinn winter nights actually happen.
Viru Backpackers, Imaginary and Munkenhof lean on adjacency rather than in-house bars — Hell Hunt at Pikk 39 is a four-to-seven minute walk and serves a solid craft list until 02:00 — but all three have lounge bars where you can sit with a Rimi beer from the grocery run. Ring SPA's pool bar is the outlier, serving by the jacuzzi and hammam area: not a party bar, but genuinely useful after a sauna session when you want a cold glass of something without going out. Combined, this is Tallinn's full hostel drinking infrastructure.
Traveler's take
“My Wednesday at The Monks Bunk started in the ground-floor bar at 20:30 for the pub crawl briefing, then walked to Hell Hunt, Porgu and Valli baar before ending at a club in Kesklinn at 01:30. By Friday I was back at Monks Bunk's bar for karaoke, and Saturday I'd moved to Fat Margaret's where four of us rented the sauna for 90 minutes and bought six A. Le Coq from the honesty fridge. The bars are the infrastructure — every good Tallinn night starts or ends at one.”
Our Top 8 Picks
Hostels in Tallinn with bar, sorted by guest rating.
Espak Hostel
Tallinn City Center
Excellent
759 reviews
Espak sits on Viadukti 42a, a ten-minute tram ride from the Old Town and five minutes from the Balti Jaam train station for the Narva and St Petersburg lines. Every room has its own private bathroom and a kitchenette with microwave, fridge, and kettle. Self check-in via keycode, free parking on site, and a 9.3 guest cleanliness score.
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€28//night
Why travelers love Espak Hostel
“Finnish and Polish travelers dominate the review pool, repeatedly pointing out the seamless key-less check-in and how staff answer messages within minutes even outside reception hours. Rooms are small but every one is a private unit with its own bathroom and kitchenette — the budget equivalent of a studio flat at €28 a night.”
Ring SPA Hostel
Haabersti
Excellent
1,039 reviews
Ring SPA Hostel sits at 130 Õismäe tee in Haabersti, fifteen minutes west of the Old Town by bus but built around a full wellness center with sauna, indoor swimming pool, plunge pool, Turkish steam bath, and a hot tub. Private rooms with private bathrooms, continental breakfast, free parking, and — the only hostel in Tallinn where the sauna is included in your night. 8.7 on 1039 reviews.
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€30//night
Why travelers love Ring SPA Hostel
“UK, Finnish, and Lithuanian guests consistently call it more hotel than hostel for the price, and the spa is the recurring headline. The Haabersti location sits twenty minutes by bus 21 from Viru — fine if you want morning sauna sessions over bar crawls, less fine if Old Town cobblestones are the trip. The on-site coffee shop, pool bar, and continental breakfast round out what's really a budget sports-hotel mislabeled as a hostel.”
Harbour Hub Hostel
Tallinn City Center
Excellent
881 reviews
Harbour Hub sits on Paadi street, a five-minute walk from the Port of Tallinn ferry terminals and fifteen minutes from Viru gate into the Old Town. Private parking, free bicycles, a shared kitchen that gets used, and a 9.4 guest location score put it firmly on the Helsinki-day-trip circuit.
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€22//night
Why travelers love Harbour Hub Hostel
“Finnish weekenders and Swedish backpackers cycle through here on the ferry loop. Staff get called out repeatedly for being helpful without hovering. The shared kitchen is stocked with the basics, rooms face a quiet courtyard, and the price stays under €25 for a dorm bed even in summer.”
Viru Backpackers Hostel
Tallinn City Center
Very Good
801 reviews
Viru Backpackers sits at Viru 5, thirty seconds from the Viru gate and ninety seconds from Raekoja plats (Town Hall Square). Self check-in, a shared kitchen, board games in the lounge and a tight mix of dorms and privates make it the Old Town pick for travelers who want the medieval streets as their front yard. 8.4 on 801 reviews.
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€24//night
Why travelers love Viru Backpackers Hostel
“German and UK guests cite the location above everything: you step out of reception directly onto the main pedestrian artery. The hostel is small — twenty-odd beds — and the small scale is exactly why it feels more like a guesthouse than a factory. Staff in reviews get flagged for giving proper sightseeing advice, not just handing out maps.”
16eur - Old Town Munkenhof
Tallinn City Center
Very Good
2,331 reviews
16eur - Old Town Munkenhof is the quieter sibling in the 16eur backpacker group, set in a classical building on Munga 4 in the deep Old Town — 250 m from Town Hall Square and literally inside the medieval city wall. Some rooms have private bathrooms, a games room downstairs, free lockers, and bicycle rental. 2331 reviews and an 8.4 score confirm the trade: slightly nicer than Fat Margaret's, no in-house bar, and €4 more a night.
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€20//night
Why travelers love 16eur - Old Town Munkenhof
“Portuguese, German, Taiwanese and Malian travelers in the reviews praise the depth of location — not just Old Town, but inside the cluster of medieval houses behind the Raekoja plats. Beds get mentioned as properly comfortable rather than hostel-functional, and the games room is a repeated highlight. The contrast with Fat Margaret's is clear: quieter nights, slightly better rooms, less party, same low price.”
16eur - Fat Margaret's
Põhja-Tallinn
Very Good
4,736 reviews
16eur - Fat Margaret's is Tallinn's veteran backpacker hostel with 4736 reviews under its belt, named after the 16th-century cannon tower it sits next to on Põhja puiestee. €16 dorm beds, a proper shared kitchen, a rentable sauna and small plunge pool, and a five-minute walk to both Raekoja plats and the ferry harbour. Straddles the Old Town wall and the Kalamaja creative quarter.
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€16//night
Why travelers love 16eur - Fat Margaret's
“Almost five thousand reviews mean the picture is clear: location wins every time, cleanliness holds up for the price, and the staff come up as patient rather than warm. The dorms are big and busy. What moves Fat Margaret's beyond a standard €16 bunk is the rentable sauna — you book a slot, grab a six-pack of A. Le Coq, and do a proper Estonian evening without leaving the building.”
The Monks Bunk Hostel & Bar
Tallinn City Center
Very Good
2,233 reviews
The Monks Bunk is Tallinn's social hostel — an in-house bar on the ground floor, a genuine bar crawl that picks up guests three nights a week, and 656 feet from Raekoja plats on Lai street. 2233 reviews, 8.0 rating, karaoke nights and an outdoor summer picnic area round out what's earned it the title of Tallinn's party hostel without apology.
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€22//night
Why travelers love The Monks Bunk Hostel & Bar
“Australian, French, Portuguese, and Cypriot backpackers keep surfacing in reviews calling out the staff by name and the bar crawl as the highlight of their Tallinn trip. Rooms are basic and the bar below makes it loud until midnight — which is the point. For travelers prioritizing a social night over a quiet sleep, this is the obvious Old Town pick.”
Imaginary Hostel
Tallinn City Center
Good
2,758 reviews
Imaginary Hostel is an old building on Vene 33/35/37, the Russian Orthodox corner of Tallinn's Old Town and five minutes from Raekoja plats. Two and a half thousand reviews keep it honest: the rooms are old, the shared bathrooms are basic, but for €18 you get a bunk in a building from the 1600s, a shared kitchen, and a lounge full of travelers from twenty countries. 7.6 for a reason.
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€18//night
Why travelers love Imaginary Hostel
“Reviews split: the location inside the Old Town walls is consistently praised, especially by couples using the singles and solo travelers who don't mind a worn bunk. The cleanliness of the bathrooms comes up as the main gripe. For €18 a night in a medieval building, that's a trade most backpackers take.”
💡Tips for Choosing a Hostel with Bar in Tallinn
- 1The Monks Bunk bar closes at midnight on quieter nights but stays open until 01:00 on pub-crawl days. Non-guests welcome.
- 2Fat Margaret's honesty fridge in the games room is €2/beer for A. Le Coq, €2.50 for Saku. Cheaper than any Old Town bar.
- 3Ring SPA's pool bar only serves until 22:00 and closes with the sauna. Book the sauna + drink combo in one go.
- 4Hell Hunt is two minutes from The Monks Bunk and has the better craft list — use it for the pre-crawl round.
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