Lilla Brunn - Hostel in Stockholm

The lady at the reception was very kind and helpful. The hotel's location is excellent; I would recommend it.

Cozy beds. They give you a towel, too. The showers are great and the hostel is a lot larger than it seems. The only downside is that the reception is open for only a few hours every day.

Staff very kind, good location, close to Subway service, Hard Rock Café and restaurants and supermarkets.
From a Spanish point of view: more than a hostel, less than a hotel. It has kitchen, dining room and shared toilets, as a hostel, but our room was cosy and the building is clean and well kept, as a hotel. I reccomend it for travellers who don't want to spend too much and don't look for big commodities. We were with two children and we have seen other children too, so it isn't just like a youth hostel.

Good hostel at a nice location, small walk from the city centre. Rooms were clean and staff was friendly. We made good use of the kitchen during our three day stay at 2Kronor, it has most of the supplies you need to cook nice meals.

P: In the Faroe Islands an Italian introduced me to the science of chronemics. It deals with how different cultures manage interpersonal time and space and other. For example, the Latin, or Mediterranean cultures are polychronemic, and Northern cultures monochronemic. You can be standing in line and naturally think, you have a quick question, just butt ahead and ask it. Here, for sure, then take one person at a time. They do not multi-task. I was walking from the train station in Hirtshals, in Denmark, to the ferry for the Faroe Islands. Already I'm walking a good 45 minutes beyond the G estimate. I get to a fence, I see the ferry. It's a restricted area. There a gate. I get this kids attention. He wants me to go back and around. I'm not in the mood to take directions and anyway they're unclear. I just wanna go through the gate. Won't let me. Again I try to concentrate on his instructions. Can't do it. I walk off in mid explanation. He's calling out -- I've already left the house. I'm in the wings, offstage. He's calling "mister mister, excuse me". Doesn't get it. Sometimes you just have to let yourself be a bad traveler. Isn't that an American birthright?

This science also explains, for example, how Brazilians will literally put their hands on you and push, while in line. And apparently it's customary to leave your emergency brake off when parking in Rio so other parking cars can push you around.

H: I never knew of such a concept until you mentioned it. Fascinating and worth reflecting upon. It is clear where the Swiss fit in…

P: Yeah. There's also no question which the Israel's are. They have the attention span of gnats. Or Dalmatians, Weimaraners.  

H: I find your comment – and similar ones by others – on the emergency brake thing amusing. This is default behavior in much of the Third World, by which I mean those countries where manual-drive cars are more common. In Cairo, Lagos or Kuala Lumpur there is very little available on street parking and leaving one’s car in a car park strikes a chord of anathema in most locals’ hearts unless you are entering a shopping mall. The idea of parking anywhere other than at the foot of the building you are visiting or reside in is laughable. To wit, in Cairo where my father had an apartment, the developer sold him a couple of parking spaces in a  garage when the units were first marketed (off the plans). He always believed he was one of the lucky few early buyers to secure these.  So did everybody else who bought an apartment. It never occurred to anybody to check supply versus demand. It wouldn’t have mattered anyway because the garage was sold to a supermarket which took half the planned lobby in addition to the real estate that was approved, and used as the warehouse. As a result everybody parked in front of the building with cars double and triple parked. On the rare occasions that you had a primary parking spot, you panicked because it could take a good 20 minutes to move the pieces of the Chinese puzzle to access your vehicle.

P: I've been towed twice. Once was for triple-parking at the Piazza Navona but there was no other place to park. Everyone else did I just didn't know to get up early enough. It was a good thing though. My mother had been to Rome so many times she wouldn't take me to see anything. I don't know why we were in Rome anyway. On the way to or back from Siena. Every destination had shopping at an ulterior motive. Florence, the Ponte Vecchio for leather gloves. Paris, the Champs Élysée for YSL and Cartier. Rome, the Spanish Steps for Bottega Veneta and Valentino. Anyway so if we hadn't been towed we wouldn't have driven to the impound lot and I never would have seen the Coliseum.

It is great here! The rooms are big, the showers are huge and clean. So, it is the second best hostel I used, directly after an hostel in Jerusalem where you can sleep on the roof at the fresh air in downtown Jerusalem. :)

Rooms are clean and so are the showers. Friendly staff that provide helpful information. Very nice common room/kitchen in the cellar featuring interesting masonry. Location near a grocer and metro station. Lovely park just down the road.

There are some kinds of people. But the shower room is a bit dark.