The Damascus Hostel

The hostel is currently closed for renovation/expansion works. We offer the following services during closure

Accommodation
1-A first class accommodation in a boutique Hotel just opened in Damascus that cannot be booked through the internet. This is in Bab Touma, the Christian quarters near hostel.

Single room with private bathroom – 85 euros including breakfast
Double/twin room with private bathroom 110 euros including breakfast.

This is same class and status as the long established famous boutique hotels like the Talisman, Beit-al-Mamlouka and Beit-Zaman.

Small hotels like these can’t afford to have their own English speaking staff. They rely on travel agents and us to take reservations for their rooms. We offer 4 hotels near the hostel.

We can arrange bookings in one of these hotels in the heart of the tourist area of the walled city near all the attractions.

Short Stay accommodation in an apartment
2- An apartment in Damascus, 4.4 km from Bab Sharqi

Euros 120 for 3 nights  minimum

Euros 220 for one week.

Review of apartment here

Do you need a car and driver?
We can provide taxi and driver around city Damascus Euros 20 per day.

We can provide a tour guide for city of Damascus on foot half a day tour to show you places of interest in the walled city.Price  is  20 Euros

Full day tour 25 Euros,

Many of our guides are university students who speak fluent English.

Shared Accommodation
3- A single room with a shared bathroom in a house with mostly European students who are studying the Arabic language.

Euros 22 per night for a single room and shared bathroom

or double/twin room with a shared bath room

Euros 40 per night.

The share houses are located near Bab Touma and are no frills with basic facilities.

A 15% down payment is required upon booking with balance due after arrival and your upon your satisfaction with the accoomodation.

Hostel Tours are running as usual all the time, tour bookings we require a 15% down payment.

Satisfaction is guaranteed or your money back which has always been our policy at the Damascus Hostel.

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Nestled safely in the Christian quarter, we offer clean, comfortable, affordable accommodation for travellers from all round the world.

This is not the average hostel, this is a VIP hostelling , it is home away from home.You have a choice of TV lounge featuring hundreds of channels including BBC, CNBC, CNN, France 24 Hours, Bloomberg, and most European channels. We also have an Arabian lounge, sunset lounge and guests can sun bathe in private on the roof top.

It’s an ideal place for the solo traveller to meet others, and suitable for first time visitors to Syria where we can give you all the information on where to go and how to get there and the best way to do it. Damascus Hostel has a social atmosphere which often is derived from sharing dining tables, washing machines and much more with other guests.

Our Hostel organizes parties and excursions for guests, and many people can meet and get to know each other over a drink. In a hostel one is more likely to start a conversation with a fellow traveller or to be asked for advice, tips and information by someone you have never met before.

Hostels are a good place to make friends and meet people from many different countries. Hostel guests like to exchange tips on clubs, museums, shows, shopping and often share tours.

Enjoy city views over the wall to the East and Mount Kasioon to the West. We are not in any travel guide books yet because we opened in second half of 2007.

Location:

Situated in Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Damascus Hostel offers a clean, comfortable, welcoming place to stay. Close to many internet cafes, inexpensive cafes and takeaway restaurants, the Hostel is a home away from home right in the heart of the city. View the main street from the roof courtyard or turret. There is an abundance of architectural styles, historical and religious sights to see within minutes from the Hostel. Upon arrival we will help you to familiarise yourself with the exotic Old City.

Immerse yourself in the local language and culture. Learn to read and write Arabic from our helpful and friendly local staff.

Damascus Hostel is based on the style of student accommodation begun originally by manager Ray Gordon in Australia over 21 years ago. Ray created long-term stays that attracted many international students from Europe and Asia, in Western Australia, next to Curtin University in Bentley. Ray now brings this style of welcome hospitality to the heart of Old Damascus.

bookings raymond@damascushostel.com

How to find us

1 – enter from Bab Sharqi, (one way traffic, taxi cannot enter) and walk 200m then you arrive to the new BEIT ZAMAN HOTEL. Turn left into our street Alabbara (opposit hotel) and walk past Oriental Hotel till you come to a Virgin Mary T junction

at the end of the lane way. You will see a water tap. Turn left for another 40m till you arrive at our door. The hostel has a lit cross on the roof and a flag on next to the front door and a lemon tree.

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2 – enter from Bab Touma (taxi one way only) or walk 300m till you come to Beit Zaman Hotel on Straight Street then turn left towards Bab Sharqi then turn right into our laneway Alabarra and follow details as above.

3 – If you are the sporty type, climb (a rope ladder) the Old City wall from the Airport road .You ask the driver to drive to the Roman arch of Bab Sharqi then continue on the road to the airport along the old city wall for 100 metters after Bab Sharqi untill you see the hostel over the wall and the hostel tower and ofcourse the rope ladder hanging over the wall ( look for picture for tower as below). Ring the bell next to ladder someone will drop electric hoist to lift your baggage and assist you climp rope ladder . Then enter our courtyard from the balcony on the Old City Wall ( you cant miss the white house), please let the driver know, he will assist you with lifting your bags by electric hoist. Look at the tower with flags and lights between Bab Sharqi and Bab Kissan, (St Paul’s Gate). If the ladder is folded, ring the bell on the wall and we’ll drop a ladder for you to climb.

in December we installed the firemen pale to slide down to the ground

Taxi to Damascus Hostel?

1-When travelling from Lebanon.

Go to Charles Helo square in Beirut for the taxi terminal. You will be asked if you want to go to Dimashq or Cham which mean Damascus. The journey takes 3 hours including border crossing and cost around USD 18. The taxi will arrive at Soumariya Terminal, 15 km away from the city of Damascus. From there take a yellow taxi to the old walled city which costs around 200 SP.

2- From Al-kadam train station

Take a yellow taxi to the Old City (Bab Sharqi, Bab Touma) which should cost around 100 SP.

3- From Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Palmyra, Tartus or Turkey

Your bus will stop at Harasta Pullman Garage. Take yellow taxi to the Old City, cost around 100 SP or take minibus to Bab Sharqi, cost 10 SP

4-From Jordan

The taxi terminal is at Soumaria, but usually you get dropped off at Naher Aishe (closer to Damascus), the yellow taxi costs 100 SP.

phone: +963 11 541 4115
mobile: +963 933 871 588

Bab Touma Al Abbarah street
Old City, Damascus, Syria

Latitude: 33° 30.444′N Longitude: 36° 18.978′E