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rate (Db-1,195-1,895 kr, Kungsgatan 47, tel. [phone], fax [phone],
www.rica.se , [e-mail] ) .
$$ Queen's Hotel enjoys a great location at the quiet top end of Stock-
holm's main pedestrian shopping street (about a 10-minute walk from the
train station or Gamla Stan). The 52 well-priced rooms feel old-fashioned
but have been renovated, and the plush Old World lounge is inviting. Three
types of double rooms vary only in size (Sb-1,020-1,220 kr, “small standard”
Db-1,120-1,320 kr, “large standard” Db-1,220-1,520 kr, “superior” Db with
pull-out sofa bed-1,320-1,620 kr, 10 percent discount for readers who book
direct—be sure to ask for it, extra bed-250 kr, elevator, free Internet access
and Wi-Fi, Drottninggatan 71A, tel. [phone], fax [phone],
www.queenshotel.se , [e-mail] ) .
$CityBackpackers iscentral—a quarter-mile fromthestation—and open
year-round. It's enthusiastically run, with 140 beds and plenty of creativity
(bunk in 8- to 12-bed room-190 kr, bunk in 4- or 6-bed room-280 kr, bunk-
bed D-650 kr, 6-person apartment-1,760 kr, 40 percent more for Fri- or Sat-
night stay without weeknight, sheets-50 kr, free cook-it-yourself pasta, break-
fast-40 kr, laundry-50 kr, free Internet access and Wi-Fi, movies, sauna, lock-
ers, shoes-off policy, Upplandsgatan 2A, tel. [phone], fax [phone],
www.citybackpackers.se , [e-mail] ) .
$ City Lodge Hostel, new and well-run, is just a block in front of the cent-
ral train station on a quiet side street. It has a convivial lounge, kitchen, free
Internet access, laundry, and no curfew. It's a good value for backpackers in
Stockholm (65 beds, bunk in 18-bed dorm-220 kr, in 6-bed dorm-270 kr, in
quad-315 kr, a few tiny bunk-bed doubles-640 kr, cheaper outside of sum-
mer, sheets-50 kr, 60-kr breakfast available, Klara Norra Kyrkogata 15, tel.
08/226-630, www.citylodge.se , [e-mail] ) .
In Norrmalm and Östermalm, in Quieter Residential
Areas
Theseoptionsareinstately,elegantneighborhoodsoffive-andsix-storyturn-
of-the-century apartment buildings. All are too far to walk from the station