{"id":1303651,"date":"2026-09-29T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1303651"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:32:35","slug":"cambridge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/europe\/england\/cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1302282,"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_ti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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Cambridge","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"Thirty-one colleges along a river, punts under stone bridges, and the best small-city museums in England \u2014 nearly all of them free.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1303740","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":"1209 | The university founded\r\n31 | Colleges\r\n\u00a30 | Entry to the Fitzwilliam and the university museums","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A university that happens to have a city attached","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Cambridge has been a university since 1209, and the city is arranged around that fact. Thirty-one colleges, most of them enclosed courts you pay to enter or walk past for free, line the river and the streets behind it.\r\n\r\nThe Backs \u2014 the stretch of college lawns running down to the Cam \u2014 is the view everyone comes for, and it costs nothing to walk along Queen's Road and look across it.\r\n\r\nKing's College Chapel is the one building to pay for: Gothic fan vaulting, finished in 1515, and among the most impressive interiors in the country.\r\n\r\nPunting on the Cam is the activity. Chauffeured is easier and about \u00a325 a head; self-punt is cheaper, harder and much funnier.\r\n\r\nIt is flat, compact, full of bicycles and entirely walkable. One long day, or two.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Train from London King's Cross 50 min, Stansted 35 min\r\nGetting around | Walk or cycle. The city is flat and small\r\nCurrency | Pound sterling\r\nMuseums | The Fitzwilliam and the university museums are free\r\nCollege entry | Varies by college, \u00a35\u201315. Many close during exams\r\nBicycles | Everywhere, fast, and they will not stop for you","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A small centre, with cheaper beds a short walk or cycle out.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"14","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"City centre | First-timers | Around King's Parade and the market: the colleges, the Fitzwilliam and everything on foot. | 52.2050 | 0.1190 |  | \nAround the station | Value and transport | Fifteen minutes south of the centre, with cheaper beds and fast trains to London and Stansted. | 52.1940 | 0.1370 |  | \nMill Road | Local and independent | East of the station: the city's most diverse street, cheap food, independent shops and no tourists. | 52.1980 | 0.1400 |  | ","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 Cambridge","hw_hub_city_do_body":"King's College Chapel is the single thing to pay for, at about \u00a315 including the college. The fan vaulting was finished in 1515 and is the largest of its kind anywhere; Evensong during term is free to attend and is the better way to see it.\r\n\r\nPunt the Cam. Chauffeured trips run about \u00a325 a head and take you under the Bridge of Sighs and the Mathematical Bridge; self-hire is around \u00a330 for a boat and requires learning to steer in public.\r\n\r\nWalk the Backs along Queen's Road for the view of the colleges from across their own lawns. Free.\r\n\r\nThe Fitzwilliam Museum is free and holds antiquities, Old Masters and an Egyptian collection that would be ticketed anywhere else.\r\n\r\nThe Cavendish Laboratory sites, the Eagle pub where Crick and Watson announced the structure of DNA, and Trinity's apple tree descended from Newton's are all free and all part of the same story.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"King's College Chapel | About \u00a315, or free at Evensong in term\r\nPunting | Chauffeured \u00a325 a head, self-hire about \u00a330 a boat\r\nThe Backs | Free, from Queen's Road\r\nThe Fitzwilliam | Free, and better than it has any right to be","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The university museums are free and there are eight of them: the Fitzwilliam, Zoology, Archaeology and Anthropology, the Sedgwick Earth Sciences museum, the Whipple history of science collection and more.\r\n\r\nThe Backs are free from Queen's Road, and the walk along the river to Grantchester Meadows is about an hour each way through water meadows.\r\n\r\nSeveral colleges are free to enter outside term or at quiet hours, and the ones that charge are still visible from the street.\r\n\r\nEvensong in King's College Chapel during term is free and is the best way to experience the building.\r\n\r\nThe market square operates daily, the Botanic Garden charges a small entry but the Parker's Piece and Jesus Green open spaces do not, and the Eagle pub's RAF bar with names burned into the ceiling costs the price of a pint.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"Eight free university museums | Including the Fitzwilliam\r\nEvensong at King's | Free during term, and the best way in\r\nGrantchester Meadows | An hour along the river through water meadows\r\nThe Backs | Free from Queen's Road","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_food_body":"The centre is geared to visitors and priced for them. Mill Road, ten minutes east, is the opposite: Turkish, Bangladeshi, Korean, Caribbean and Portuguese at \u00a38 to \u00a314 a plate, and it is where people who live here eat.\r\n\r\nThe market square has food stalls doing lunch at \u00a36 to \u00a310, which is the cheapest good option in the middle.\r\n\r\nThe old pubs are the traditional evening \u2014 the Eagle, where Crick and Watson announced the DNA double helix in 1953 and where wartime airmen burned their squadron numbers into the ceiling, and the Free Press, which has no music and no phones.\r\n\r\nA pub main is \u00a314 to \u00a319 and a pint \u00a35 to \u00a36.50.\r\n\r\nChelsea buns from Fitzbillies are the local sweet thing, at about \u00a34.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Mill Road | Where locals eat. \u00a38\u201314 a plate\r\nThe market square | Lunch stalls at \u00a36\u201310\r\nThe Eagle | Where DNA was announced, with an RAF ceiling\r\nA pint | \u00a35\u20136.50","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Cambridge","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Pub-led and quiet by city standards. The colleges run their own bars and events that outsiders largely cannot access, which shapes the whole scene.\r\n\r\nThe good old pubs are the point, and several are genuinely historic.\r\n\r\nThere are a couple of clubs aimed at students and one long-standing jazz and live music venue in the Corn Exchange area, but nobody travels here for nightlife.\r\n\r\nA pint is \u00a35 to \u00a36.50 and cocktails \u00a39 to \u00a313.\r\n\r\nTerm time \u2014 roughly October to June, with three eight-week terms \u2014 is when the city has any energy at all. Out of term it is noticeably flat in the evenings.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Pub-led | And several genuinely historic ones\r\nCollege bars | Where students actually are, and largely closed to visitors\r\nTerm time only | Out of term the evenings are flat\r\nPrices | Pint \u00a35\u20136.50, cocktails \u00a39\u201313","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Cambridge","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Cambridge","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Walk or cycle. The city is flat and about a mile and a half across, and cycling is the local default \u2014 hire is \u00a315 to \u00a320 a day.\r\n\r\nBikes have right of way in practice if not in law, they are fast, silent and numerous, and stepping into a cycle lane without looking is the most common visitor mistake here.\r\n\r\nThe station is fifteen minutes' walk south of the centre, with London King's Cross in 50 minutes and Stansted airport in 35.\r\n\r\nBuses cover the outer areas at about \u00a32.50, and the guided busway runs to St Ives.\r\n\r\nDriving into the centre is pointless: much of it is closed to cars and parking is expensive.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Cycle | The local default. Hire \u00a315\u201320 a day\r\nWatch for bikes | Fast, silent and numerous. Look before stepping out\r\nLondon | 50 minutes from King's Cross\r\nStansted | 35 minutes by train","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Cambridge","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Cambridge costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Expensive for its size, with a strong free tier. Dorms are \u00a322 to \u00a340 and beds are scarce, a pub main \u00a314 to \u00a319, and a pint \u00a35 to \u00a36.50.\r\n\r\nA day is \u00a355 to \u00a395.\r\n\r\nThe eight free university museums cover the daytime, and the Backs and the river walks cost nothing. King's at about \u00a315 and punting at about \u00a325 are the real spends.\r\n\r\nPunt touts on King's Parade quote high and negotiate; the operators by the bridges are cheaper, and self-hire cheaper again if you can steer.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u00a322\u201340, and limited\r\nA day, all in | \u00a355\u201395\r\nEight free museums | Including the Fitzwilliam\r\nPunt touts negotiate | The quoted price on King's Parade is not the price","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Cambridge","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"One of the safest cities in England, and the hazards here are mostly bicycles and water.\r\n\r\nBikes move fast and silently in both directions, often in contraflow lanes, and pedestrians stepping off kerbs without looking is the standard accident.\r\n\r\nThe Cam is shallow but cold, and people fall in off punts regularly \u2014 usually while standing up to take a photograph. Punt poles get stuck in the mud, and the correct move is to let go of the pole rather than hold on.\r\n\r\nBike theft is the most common crime in the city by a distance, so lock anything you hire properly.\r\n\r\nEmergency number is 999, or 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Bicycles | Fast, silent and constant. Look both ways always\r\nPunting | Let go of a stuck pole rather than hold on\r\nBike theft | The city's most common crime. Lock hired bikes well\r\nEmergency | 999 or 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Cambridge","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Cambridge","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"A codebreaking estate, a cathedral on a hill and the Norfolk coast.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Ely | 15 minutes | Train, about \u00a36 | A cathedral known as the Ship of the Fens, visible for miles across flat country, in a small market town. |  | 1303742\nBletchley Park | 1.5 hours | Train via Bedford, about \u00a320 | Where Enigma was broken. The huts and machines are preserved and the museum is excellent. |  | 1303744\nGrantchester | 1 hour on foot | Walk or punt, free | Water meadows along the Cam to a village with an orchard tea garden, a walk Rupert Brooke made famous. |  | 1303747\nLondon | 50 minutes | Train, \u00a315\u201330 | Close enough to do in either direction from either city. |  | 1303735","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Cambridge","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May and June for punting and term-time energy. Avoid exam season for college access.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. East Anglia is the driest part of England, and Cambridge gets noticeably less rain than the west \u2014 but it is flat, open country and the wind comes straight off the North Sea.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 7 | 2 | Cold and quiet. Term running and museums free\r\nFebruary | 8 | 3 | Grey. Cheapest beds\r\nMarch | 11 | 3 | Improving. Colleges accessible\r\nApril | 14 | 4 | Good. The Backs come out in blossom\r\nMay | 17 | 4 | Beautiful, but exam term \u2014 many colleges close to visitors\r\nJune | 20 | 4 | May Bumps and May Balls. Busy, expensive, and the city at its best\r\nJuly | 22 | 5 | Warm and full of summer schools. Punting season proper\r\nAugust | 22 | 5 | Peak visitors, students away, colleges mostly open\r\nSeptember | 19 | 5 | Superb. Quiet before term and the weather holds\r\nOctober | 15 | 4 | Term restarts and the city refills. Good value\r\nNovember | 10 | 3 | Dark and damp. Very quiet\r\nDecember | 8 | 3 | Cold. Carols from King's on Christmas Eve, balloted a year ahead","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"Rowing races in June, and a carol service broadcast worldwide at Christmas.","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 Cambridge","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/england\/cambridge\/","hw_hub_city_events":"May Bumps | June | The Cam | College rowing races where crews try to catch and bump the boat ahead. Free to watch from the towpath and a proper local day out. |  | \nCambridge Folk Festival | Late July or August | Cherry Hinton Hall | One of the longest-running folk festivals in the world, ticketed. |  | \nNine Lessons and Carols | 24 December | King's College Chapel | Broadcast worldwide. Free places are queued for from early morning on the day. |  | \nExam term | May to mid-June | Colleges | Many colleges close to visitors entirely. Check before planning around college entry. |  | \nCambridge Science Festival | March | Citywide | Two weeks of mostly free events across the university departments. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in pounds.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"The doing line assumes King's at about \u00a315 and a punt at about \u00a325. The eight free museums are why it can be so low otherwise.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 22 | 14 | 2 | 5\r\nMiddle of the road | 36 | 30 | 4 | 25\r\nComfortable | 66 | 50 | 8 | 45","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u00a3","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A small scene for a city this visited, so book ahead \u2014 especially in June and for graduation weekends. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Cambridge","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/cambridge\/","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":"Cambridge travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"Can I go inside the colleges? | Some, and it varies. Entry runs \u00a35 to \u00a315 where charged, several are free at quiet hours, and many close to visitors entirely during exam term in May and early June. Check the individual college before planning around it.\r\nIs punting worth it? | Yes, once. Chauffeured trips are about \u00a325 a head and include commentary under the Bridge of Sighs and the Mathematical Bridge. Self-hire is around \u00a330 for a boat, is much harder than it looks, and is considerably funnier for everyone watching.\r\nCambridge or Oxford? | Cambridge is smaller, flatter and greener, with the Backs and the river at its centre. Oxford is a bigger working city with more going on beyond the university. Both are under an hour from London and neither disappoints \u2014 if you can only do one, pick on whether you want the river or the city.\r\nAre the museums really free? | Yes. Eight university museums including the Fitzwilliam, which holds antiquities and Old Masters that would be ticketed anywhere else. They cover most of a day at no cost.\r\nHow do I see King's College Chapel cheaply? | Attend Evensong during term. It is free, it is sung by the choir that records the Christmas broadcast, and it is a better way to experience the building than a daytime ticket at about \u00a315.\r\nWhat is the best free walk? | The Backs from Queen's Road for the college view, then along the river to Grantchester Meadows \u2014 about an hour each way through water meadows to a village with an orchard tea garden.\r\nDo I need to worry about the bikes? | Yes, more than the traffic. Cambridge cycles more than anywhere else in Britain, the bikes are fast and silent, and stepping off a kerb without looking is how most visitors have a bad moment here.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Cambridge hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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