Moon Hostel Gdansk
8.4-rated riverside hostel 8 min from Dlugi Targ — free daily walking tour, buffet breakfast included, pool table, quieter Dlugie Ogrody location
8.4-rated social hostel on Dlugie Ogrody, 8 min east of the Old Town — the quiet residential side of the river. 3,600+ reviews, free walking tour every morning, included breakfast, pool table and games room. Best value for multi-night stays who want quiet nights and a daily tour.
Moon Hostel sits on Dlugie Ogrody — literally "Long Gardens" — a residential street on the east bank of the Motlawa, eight minutes' walk from Dlugi Targ across the Zielony Most green bridge. The location trade-off is simple: you're a few minutes further out than the Old Town hostels, but you get noticeably quieter nights and a neighborhood that still has locals living in it rather than tourists.
The hostel is modern — a 2010s conversion — with 4, 6 and 8-bed mixed dorms, reading lights, lockers and shared bathrooms on each floor. A few private doubles are available. There's no lift, but the building is only three floors. Dorms are cleaner and more uniformly maintained than at older Old Town hostels, which is what pushes the rating to 8.4 across 3,600 reviews.
The common areas are where Moon earns its social rep. The ground-floor lounge has a pool table, board games, a big kitchen with two hobs and microwave, and a bar that runs from 17:00 into the evening with €2.50 Polish beers. Every morning at 11:00 the hostel runs its own free walking tour of the Old Town — guides are hostel staff or volunteer locals, 90 minutes, ends at Mariacka amber street with an optional pierogi stop.
The included buffet breakfast is generous for a hostel: pastries, cheese, ham, eggs cooked to order, coffee, yogurt. Served 07:30 to 10:00. Combined with the tour, the bar, and the quieter street, Moon is the best multi-night value pick in Gdansk — especially for travelers on 3 to 5 night stays.
- 01Daily free walking tour at 11:00 — most consistent in Gdansk, 365 days a year
- 02Included buffet breakfast with eggs cooked to order (rare at €23 a night)
- 03Dlugie Ogrody location — 8 min to Dlugi Targ but genuinely quiet at night
- 04Bar with €2.50 Polish beers and board-games corner that fills up every evening
- 05Modern 2010s building — cleaner dorms than the century-old Old Town buildings
- Daily free 11:00 walking tour of the Old Town (365 days a year)
- Buffet breakfast with eggs-to-order included
- Dlugie Ogrody location — 8 min to Dlugi Targ, quieter at night
- Bar with €2.50 Polish beers, pool table, board games
“The morning walking tour made our trip. Our guide Tomasz was a local who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and knew every door-handle in the Old Town. Breakfast was generous too. Would return.”
“Clean, modern, quiet at night. The eight-minute walk to the Old Town was nothing. Really enjoyed the bar downstairs — met travelers from all over Europe in the evening.”
“Staff were lovely, breakfast eggs cooked fresh, shared bathroom was clean every time I used it. The hostel bar had Polish beer cheaper than any bar in the Old Town.”
- Dlugi Targ (Long Market) & Neptune Fountain8 min on foot (via Zielony Most)
- Motlawa waterfront and Zuraw crane5 min on foot
- Mariacka amber street10 min on foot
- Dlugie Ogrody tram stop (lines 3, 8 to Wrzeszcz)2 min on foot
- Gdansk Glowny main train station18 min on foot (or tram 8)
- Biedronka supermarket (open till 22:00)5 min on foot
