{"id":1303568,"date":"2026-09-29T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1303568"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:33:28","slug":"leipzig","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/europe\/germany\/leipzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Leipzig"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1302303,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"hw-hub-city","meta":{"footnotes":"","hw_hub_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_hero_image":"","hw_hub_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_why_title":"","hw_hub_why_body":"","hw_hub_why_link_label":"","hw_hub_why_link_url":"","hw_hub_why_cards":"","hw_hub_stats":"","hw_hub_countries_title":"","hw_hub_countries_intro":"","hw_hub_featured":"","hw_hub_regions":"","hw_hub_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_hostels":"","hw_hub_when_title":"","hw_hub_when_intro":"","hw_hub_seasons":"","hw_hub_costs_title":"","hw_hub_costs_body":"","hw_hub_cost_rows":"","hw_hub_cost_note":"","hw_hub_money_reads":"","hw_hub_rail_title":"","hw_hub_rail_body":"","hw_hub_rail_link_label":"","hw_hub_rail_link_url":"","hw_hub_rail_image":"","hw_hub_routes":"","hw_hub_events_title":"","hw_hub_events_intro":"","hw_hub_events_source":"","hw_hub_events_continent":"","hw_hub_events_count":"","hw_hub_events_cache":"","hw_hub_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_events":"","hw_hub_events_pills":"","hw_hub_reads_intro":"","hw_hub_article_rows":"","hw_hub_show_read_time":"","hw_hub_all_title":"","hw_hub_all_body":"","hw_hub_all_cta":"","hw_hub_trips_title":"","hw_hub_trips_note":"","hw_hub_trips":"","hw_hub_faq_title":"","hw_hub_faq_note":"","hw_hub_faqs":"","hw_hub_cta_title":"","hw_hub_cta_body":"","hw_hub_cta_buttons":"","hw_hub_newsletter_title":"","hw_hub_newsletter_body":"","hw_hub_newsletter_shortcode":"","hw_hub_hub_term":"","hw_hub_scope_rows":"","hw_hub_country_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_country_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_country_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hero_image":"","hw_hub_country_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_country_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_country_stats":"","hw_hub_country_intro_title":"","hw_hub_country_intro_body":"","hw_hub_country_facts":"","hw_hub_country_cities_title":"","hw_hub_country_cities_intro":"","hw_hub_country_cities_live":"","hw_hub_country_cities":"","hw_hub_country_trips_title":"","hw_hub_country_trips_intro":"","hw_hub_country_trip_types":"","hw_hub_country_do_title":"","hw_hub_country_do_body":"","hw_hub_country_do_points":"","hw_hub_country_do_tag":"","hw_hub_country_do_more":"","hw_hub_country_food_title":"","hw_hub_country_food_body":"","hw_hub_country_food_points":"","hw_hub_country_food_tag":"","hw_hub_country_food_more":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_title":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_body":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_points":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_tag":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_more":"","hw_hub_country_transport_title":"","hw_hub_country_transport_body":"","hw_hub_country_transport_points":"","hw_hub_country_transport_tag":"","hw_hub_country_transport_more":"","hw_hub_country_money_title":"","hw_hub_country_money_body":"","hw_hub_country_money_points":"","hw_hub_country_money_tag":"","hw_hub_country_money_more":"","hw_hub_country_safety_title":"","hw_hub_country_safety_body":"","hw_hub_country_safety_points":"","hw_hub_country_safety_tag":"","hw_hub_country_safety_more":"","hw_hub_country_entry_title":"","hw_hub_country_entry_body":"","hw_hub_country_entry_points":"","hw_hub_country_entry_tag":"","hw_hub_country_entry_more":"","hw_hub_country_season_title":"","hw_hub_country_season_intro":"","hw_hub_country_season_note":"","hw_hub_country_season_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_title":"","hw_hub_country_budget_intro":"","hw_hub_country_budget_note":"","hw_hub_country_budget_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_currency":"","hw_hub_country_events_title":"","hw_hub_country_events_intro":"","hw_hub_country_events_source":"","hw_hub_country_events_country":"","hw_hub_country_events_count":"","hw_hub_country_events_cache":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_events":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_country_hostels":"","hw_hub_country_faq_title":"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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Leipzig","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"Where Berliners move when Berlin gets expensive: Bach's church, a cotton mill full of galleries, lakes made from old coal pits, and the city where the GDR started to fall.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1303695","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"1723\u20131750 | Bach as cantor at the Thomaskirche\r\n9 Oct 1989 | When 70,000 marched and the GDR began to end\r\n1 hour | From Berlin by ICE","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A trade city that keeps reinventing itself","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Leipzig has been a trade fair city since the Middle Ages, which left it with covered arcades and passages threading the centre \u2014 you can cross much of the old town without going outside.\r\n\r\nBach was cantor at the Thomaskirche from 1723 until his death in 1750 and is buried there. Mendelssohn and Schumann worked here too, and the Gewandhaus orchestra is among the oldest in the world.\r\n\r\nIn 1989 the Monday demonstrations at the Nikolaikirche grew from a few hundred to seventy thousand people, and the regime did not fire. It is generally considered the moment the GDR started to collapse, and Leipzig calls itself the Heldenstadt \u2014 the city of heroes \u2014 for it.\r\n\r\nThe Spinnerei, a vast nineteenth-century cotton mill in the west, is now a gallery complex and the centre of the contemporary art scene that made Leipzig's reputation.\r\n\r\nIt is cheap, young and growing fast. Two days.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | ICE from Berlin 1h15. Airport 15 minutes by S-Bahn, about \u20ac5\r\nGetting around | Trams and S-Bahn. Day ticket about \u20ac8.50. The centre is walkable\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nThe station | One of the largest railway terminals in Europe, with a shopping centre inside\r\nThe Spinnerei | Free galleries, open Tuesday to Saturday. Check opening days\r\nSundays | Shops closed by law, except inside the Hauptbahnhof","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A ring road around a compact centre, with the interesting districts just outside it.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Zentrum | First-timers | Inside the ring: the churches, the arcades, the station and most of the sights, all walkable. | 51.3400 | 12.3750 |  | \nS\u00fcdvorstadt and Karli | Bars and students | South: Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, the main bar strip, with cheap food and a young crowd. | 51.3260 | 12.3730 |  | \nPlagwitz | Art and value | West: the Spinnerei, converted factories, canals and the cheapest beds in the city. | 51.3280 | 12.3320 |  | \nWaldstrassenviertel | Quiet and handsome | North-west: one of the largest intact Gr\u00fcnderzeit districts in Europe, beside a park and the stadium. | 51.3450 | 12.3580 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_do_body":"The Thomaskirche is free and holds Bach's grave. The Thomanerchor, the boys' choir he directed, still sings there \u2014 the Friday evening and Saturday afternoon motets are the ones to aim for, and they cost a few euros.\r\n\r\nThe Nikolaikirche, also free, is where the Monday demonstrations began in 1989. The Forum of Contemporary History nearby is free and covers the GDR and the peaceful revolution properly.\r\n\r\nThe Spinnerei in Plagwitz is a twenty-hectare former cotton mill now holding galleries and studios, free to walk into, and it is where the New Leipzig School painters worked. Check the opening days before going.\r\n\r\nThe Monument to the Battle of the Nations, about \u20ac10, commemorates Napoleon's defeat here in 1813 and is a 91-metre block of granite that looks less like a monument than a threat. The climb inside is worth it.\r\n\r\nThen swim. The lakes south and east of the city are flooded former open-cast coal mines, and Cospudener See is twenty minutes away by bike.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Thomaskirche | Free. Bach's grave, and his choir still sings there\r\nNikolaikirche | Free. Where the 1989 demonstrations began\r\nThe Spinnerei | Free galleries in a vast cotton mill\r\nThe lakes | Flooded coal pits, and twenty minutes by bike","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_free_body":"Both major churches are free \u2014 the Thomaskirche with Bach's grave and the Nikolaikirche with its 1989 history.\r\n\r\nThe Forum of Contemporary History is free and is the best account of the GDR and the peaceful revolution anywhere.\r\n\r\nThe Spinnerei galleries are free to enter, and so are the arcades and passages threading the old town \u2014 M\u00e4dler Passage, with Auerbachs Keller beneath it, is the one Goethe put in Faust.\r\n\r\nThe Clara-Zetkin-Park and the Auwald, a large riparian forest running through the city, are free.\r\n\r\nThe lakes are free to swim in, and the Karl-Heine-Kanal towpath through Plagwitz is a good free walk or cycle past converted factories.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"Both churches | Bach's grave and the 1989 church, free\r\nForum of Contemporary History | Free, and excellent on the GDR\r\nThe Spinnerei | Free contemporary galleries\r\nThe lakes | Free swimming in flooded coal pits","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Cheap and student-driven. Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse \u2014 universally called Karli \u2014 has the best concentration of cheap eating at \u20ac8 to \u20ac14, with Middle Eastern, Vietnamese and Indian throughout.\r\n\r\nLeipziger Allerlei is the local dish, a vegetable medley that in its proper form involves crayfish and morels, though most versions are considerably plainer.\r\n\r\nLeipziger Lerche is a shortcrust pastry with marzipan, invented after songbird pies were banned in the nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nGose is the local beer style \u2014 sour, salty and coriander-spiced \u2014 and Bayerischer Bahnhof brews it in a former railway station. It divides opinion sharply and is worth trying once.\r\n\r\nA restaurant main is \u20ac11 to \u20ac17 and a beer \u20ac3.50 to \u20ac5.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Karli | The cheap eating strip, \u20ac8\u201314\r\nGose | Sour, salty local beer. Try it once\r\nLeipziger Lerche | Marzipan pastry, invented when songbird pies were banned\r\nA beer | \u20ac3.50\u20135","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Leipzig","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse in the south is the main strip, with dozens of bars along a kilometre and a half and a heavy student presence.\r\n\r\nPlagwitz in the west has the warehouse venues and the more interesting clubs, in converted industrial buildings along the canal.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac3.50 to \u20ac5 and cocktails \u20ac7 to \u20ac11 \u2014 cheaper than Berlin, which is part of why so many people moved here.\r\n\r\nThe electronic scene is good and unpretentious, with none of Berlin's door theatre.\r\n\r\nWave-Gotik-Treffen at Whitsun brings tens of thousands of goths to the city for four days and is one of the largest gatherings of its kind in the world. If you are here then, the city looks extraordinary and beds are scarce.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Karli | Dozens of bars along a kilometre and a half\r\nPlagwitz | Warehouse venues in converted factories\r\nCheaper than Berlin | Beer \u20ac3.50\u20135, cocktails \u20ac7\u201311\r\nWave-Gotik-Treffen | Tens of thousands of goths, at Whitsun","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Leipzig","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Leipzig","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Trams and the S-Bahn cover the city with a day ticket around \u20ac8.50. The centre inside the ring is walkable in twenty minutes.\r\n\r\nValidate before boarding \u2014 the fine is \u20ac60.\r\n\r\nThe Hauptbahnhof is one of the largest railway terminals in Europe by floor area and contains a full shopping centre, which is the only place in the city where shops open on a Sunday.\r\n\r\nThe airport is 15 minutes by S-Bahn for about \u20ac5.\r\n\r\nICE trains reach Berlin in about an hour and a quarter, Dresden in about seventy minutes and Munich in three and a half hours.\r\n\r\nCycling is excellent \u2014 the city is flat, the canal paths run west into Plagwitz and south to the lakes, and hire is \u20ac10 to \u20ac15 a day.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Day ticket about \u20ac8.50 | Trams and S-Bahn\r\nBerlin | About an hour and a quarter by ICE\r\nSunday shopping | Only inside the Hauptbahnhof\r\nCycle to the lakes | Flat, with canal paths most of the way","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Leipzig","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Leipzig costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"One of the cheapest cities in Germany. Dorms are \u20ac15 to \u20ac30, a main \u20ac11 to \u20ac17, and a beer \u20ac3.50 to \u20ac5.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac38 to \u20ac70.\r\n\r\nThe churches, the Forum of Contemporary History, the Spinnerei and the lakes are all free, which covers most of what you came for.\r\n\r\nThe Battle of the Nations monument at about \u20ac10 is the main entry.\r\n\r\nWave-Gotik-Treffen at Whitsun is the one week when beds tighten and prices rise sharply.\r\n\r\nBeing an hour from Berlin at these prices is the reason so many people have moved here, and it shows in how fast the city is changing.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac15\u201330\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac38\u201370\r\nAlmost everything free | Churches, galleries, GDR museum, lakes\r\nAn hour from Berlin | At about two-thirds the price","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Leipzig","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Leipzig is a safe city and crime against visitors is low.\r\n\r\nPetty theft happens around the Hauptbahnhof and on Karli at weekends.\r\n\r\nConnewitz, south of the centre, is a well-known left-wing district with a history of confrontations between activists, far-right groups and police. Ordinary visitors are not the target and the area is fine day to day, but demonstrations there can escalate and are best avoided.\r\n\r\nThe lakes are flooded open-cast mines and are deep, cold and steep-sided away from the supervised beaches. Swim at the official bathing areas \u2014 Cospudener and Markkleeberger See both have them \u2014 rather than from the banks.\r\n\r\nValidate transport tickets; the \u20ac60 fine applies here too. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"The lakes | Deep, cold and steep-sided. Swim at the official beaches\r\nConnewitz demonstrations | Not aimed at visitors, but avoid them\r\nPetty theft | The station and Karli at weekends\r\nValidate tickets | \u20ac60 fine","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Leipzig","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Leipzig","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Lakes, Luther and two cities within ninety minutes.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Dresden | 70 minutes | ICE or regional, \u20ac20\u201340 | A rebuilt baroque city on the Elbe, and Saxon Switzerland beyond it. |  | 1303655\nWittenberg | 40 minutes | Regional or ICE, \u20ac15\u201325 | Where Luther posted his theses in 1517, with the church door and his house both UNESCO-listed. |  | 1303696\nBerlin | 75 minutes | ICE, \u20ac25\u201360 | The capital, easy in either direction. |  | 1303690","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Leipzig","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to September for the lakes and the terraces. Whitsun is the goth festival.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Leipzig is continental and flat, so winters are colder than western Germany. The lakes are only really usable from June to early September.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 3 | 2 | Cold and grey. Cheapest, and students in\r\nFebruary | 4 | 2 | Cold and quiet\r\nMarch | 9 | 3 | Improving. Karli terraces reopening\r\nApril | 15 | 4 | Good. Parks and canals in use\r\nMay | 19 | 5 | Excellent. Wave-Gotik-Treffen at Whitsun\r\nJune | 23 | 5 | The best month. Lake swimming starts properly\r\nJuly | 25 | 5 | Warm. The lakes are the city's summer\r\nAugust | 24 | 5 | Warm and slightly quieter\r\nSeptember | 20 | 5 | Superb. Term restarts and the weather holds\r\nOctober | 14 | 4 | Autumn. 9 October marks the 1989 demonstrations\r\nNovember | 7 | 2 | Grey and dark. Quietest month\r\nDecember | 3 | 4 | Christmas market in the centre, one of Germany's largest","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"Tens of thousands of goths at Whitsun, and Bach all year.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/germany\/leipzig\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Wave-Gotik-Treffen | Whitsun, May or June | Citywide | One of the largest gatherings of the goth scene in the world, over four days, with tens of thousands attending and the whole city visibly transformed. |  | \nBachfest | June | Thomaskirche and citywide | Ten days of Bach in the church where he worked, performed by the choir he directed. |  | \nLeipzig Book Fair | March | Fairgrounds and citywide | Germany's second-largest book fair, with a large manga and cosplay presence that spills across the city. |  | \nLichtfest | 9 October | Augustusplatz and the ring | Marking the 1989 Monday demonstration, with light installations along the route the marchers took. |  | \nChristmas market | Late November to December | Markt and the centre | One of the largest in Germany, spread across several squares. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Wave-Gotik-Treffen week runs well above these. The doing line is very low because almost everything worth seeing is free.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 15 | 12 | 8 | 2\r\nMiddle of the road | 27 | 24 | 9 | 12\r\nComfortable | 48 | 42 | 12 | 28","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A good scene in the centre and Plagwitz at some of the lowest prices in Germany. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Leipzig","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/germany\/leipzig\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Leipzig travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"Why do people compare it to Berlin? | Because it is an hour away by train, considerably cheaper, and has absorbed a lot of people priced out of Berlin over the past decade \u2014 which is why it is sometimes called Hypezig. Dorms are \u20ac15 to \u20ac30 and a beer \u20ac3.50 to \u20ac5, against Berlin's \u20ac18 to \u20ac38 and \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.\r\nWhat happened here in 1989? | The Monday demonstrations at the Nikolaikirche grew from a few hundred people to around seventy thousand on 9 October, and the regime did not open fire. It is widely considered the moment the GDR began to collapse. The church is free, and the Forum of Contemporary History nearby covers it properly, also free.\r\nCan I hear Bach's choir? | Yes. The Thomanerchor, which Bach directed, still sings at the Thomaskirche where he is buried. The Friday evening and Saturday afternoon motets are the regular performances and cost a few euros. The church itself is free to enter.\r\nWhat is the Spinnerei? | A twenty-hectare nineteenth-century cotton mill in Plagwitz, now holding galleries and artists' studios, and the home of the New Leipzig School painters. It is free to walk into but check the opening days \u2014 most galleries open Tuesday to Saturday only.\r\nCan I swim in the lakes? | Yes, at the official bathing beaches \u2014 Cospudener See is twenty minutes by bike from the centre. They are flooded open-cast coal mines, so away from the supervised areas they are deep, cold and steep-sided. Stick to the beaches.\r\nWhat is Gose? | The local beer style: sour, salty and spiced with coriander. Bayerischer Bahnhof brews it in a former railway station. It divides opinion very sharply and is worth ordering once to find out which side you are on.\r\nWhen is the goth festival? | Wave-Gotik-Treffen, at Whitsun, so the dates move with Easter \u2014 usually late May or early June. Tens of thousands attend over four days and the whole city looks different for it. Beds are scarce that week.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Leipzig hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Leipzig | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/germany\/leipzig\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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