Best Hostels with Shared Kitchens in Tallinn
8 top-rated hostels with shared kitchen in Tallinn Handpicked for travelers who want the best.
Tallinn's cheapest meal is the one you cook yourself from the Balti Jaam market, and the seven hostels below all have shared kitchens that earn their keep — labeled fridges, multiple burners, and enough gear to handle a 12-bed dorm worth of Interrail travelers making pasta on the same evening. From harbor-adjacent Harbour Hub to Old Town Munkenhof, if you're self-catering in Tallinn, this is where to sleep.
Tallinn rewards self-caterers. Balti Jaam Market opens at 09:00 with fresh bread, Estonian sprats on rye, and home-made sauerkraut at prices that undercut any hostel breakfast. The Rimi supermarket chain does €3 microwave chicken legs and €2 pre-cooked rice that carry a lot of the backpacker kitchen-budget in this city, and the hostels listed here have the gear to turn those into a meal.
🍳Why Tallinn is Perfect for Shared Kitchen
Tallinn's restaurant scene is affordable by Nordic standards but still skews €12-20 for a main, which makes the shared kitchen strategy real money saved over three nights. Harbour Hub and Espak both run shared kitchens with labeled fridge shelves — important when twenty travelers are using the same fridge — and Espak takes it further with in-room kitchenettes that let you cook without leaving your door. Ring SPA Hostel has a smaller shared kitchen per floor that's useful alongside its continental breakfast for heavier evening meals.
The Old Town trio — Viru Backpackers, Imaginary Hostel, Munkenhof — all have smaller kitchens that run non-stop during the Interrail season. Imaginary's kitchen is the biggest and busiest; Viru Backpackers' is cozier but has free tea and coffee on the same counter. Fat Margaret's kitchen is the largest of them all and has proper ventilation, which means you can actually cook a Tuesday-night dumpling dinner without smoking out the dorm above. Combined, these seven hostels cover every Tallinn neighborhood a self-caterer might want.
Traveler's take
“I did five nights in Tallinn cooking every dinner myself — €40 total for groceries versus €90+ for the same eating out — and the kitchens at Espak and Fat Margaret's made it effortless. The fridge at Harbour Hub labeled every shelf with bed numbers, so nobody's spaghetti sauce disappeared overnight. Imaginary's kitchen had a queue at 19:30 and free by 20:30, reliably. If you're traveling the Baltics on a real budget, Tallinn is the city where your hostel kitchen pays for the whole stay.”
Our Top 8 Picks
Hostels in Tallinn with shared kitchen, 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.
From
€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.
From
€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.
From
€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.
From
€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.
From
€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.
From
€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.
From
€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.
From
€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 Shared Kitchen in Tallinn
- 1Balti Jaam Market (next to Espak) opens 09:00 for the freshest bread and sprats. Leaves less than a kilometer to carry.
- 2Rimi at Rotermanni Keskus opens at 08:00 and has the best ready-meal section for night-of shoppers at Harbour Hub.
- 3The hostel fridges at Imaginary and Fat Margaret's get busy Sunday evenings during Interrail season — shop Friday if you want deli-meat drawer space.
- 4Espak's in-room kitchenette includes a microwave and kettle but no oven; pre-cooked Rimi meals under €4 are the winning category.
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