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count for members, free Wi-Fi). Reception and breakfast are at Skeppsholmen
Hostel (next).
$ Skeppsholmen Hostel, just ashore from the Af Chapman , has 160 beds
(bunk in 17-bed dorm-265 kr, bunk in 3- to 6-bed room-310 kr, D-690 kr, 50
kr less for hostel members, sheets-70 kr, breakfast-80 kr, laundry service, no
lockout, free Wi-Fi, bus #65 from train station or walk about 20 minutes, tel.
08/463-2266, www.stfchapman.com , [e-mail] ).
On or near Södermalm
Södermalm is residential and hip, with Stockholm's best café and bar scene.
You'll need to take the bus or T-bana to get here from the train station.
$$HotelHellstens Malmgård isaneclectic collage of50roomscrammed
with antiques in a circa-1770 mansion. No two rooms are alike, but all
have modern baths and quirky touches such as porcelain stoves or four-
poster beds. Unwind in its secluded cobblestone courtyard, and you may
forget what century you're in (Sb-690-1,290 kr, Db-890-1,490 kr, elevator,
free Wi-Fi; T-bana: Zinkensdamm, then a 5-minute walk to Brännkyrkagatan
110; tel. [phone], fax [phone], www.hellstensmalmgard.se ,
[e-mail] ) .
$$ Columbus Hotell —located in a 19th-century building that formerly
housed a brewery, a jail, and a hospital—has 69 quiet rooms in the heart of
Södermalm. Half of its rooms (first and second floors) have private facilit-
ies. Third-floor rooms have facilities down the hall (S-845 kr, Sb-995-1,350
kr, D-995 kr, Db-1,350-1,650 kr, T-1,250 kr, no elevator; T-bana: Medbor-
garplatsen or bus #53 from train station to Tjärhovsplan, then a 5-minute
walk to Tjärhovsgatan 11; tel. [phone], fax [phone],
www.columbushotell.se , [e-mail] ).
$$ Långholmen Hotel/Hostel is on Långholmen, a small island off Sö-
dermalm that was transformed in the 1980s from Stockholm's main prison
into a lovely park. Rooms are converted cells in the old prison building.
You can choose between hostel- and hotel-standard rooms at many different
price levels (hostel rooms: dorm bed-270 kr, D-650 kr, Tb-900 kr, Q-1,080
kr, 50-kr discount for hostel members, sheets-60 kr, breakfast-95 kr; hotel
rooms: Db-1,700-1,890 kr, extra bed-250 kr, includes breakfast; free Wi-Fi,