What Is The Female Only Hostel In Amsterdam?

What Is The Female Only Hostel In Amsterdam?

The female only hostel in Amsterdam is Hostelle, a women only hostel in the Zuidoost district, roughly 7.94 km in a straight line from Amsterdam Centraal. Beds there start from €14 per night for a dorm bed, and the hostel scores 9.1/10 across 2222 reviews, one of the strongest ratings on this city's roster. It is the only property of its kind carried in our stays data, so if an all-female dorm is the requirement, the choice is short: Hostelle, or a female-only room inside an otherwise mixed hostel, which is a different product.

That distinction matters more than most first-time visitors expect. Solo travel to Amsterdam has grown quickly, and the questions we get most often about staying in an Amsterdam hostel are about who else is in the room. A women only hostel removes the mixed-dorm question entirely: every guest is a woman, the common spaces are designed around that, and the reviews reflect it in a way that numbers alone do not quite capture. Travellers describe a different atmosphere, quieter and easier to settle into, and that is precisely the product Hostelle sells.

Hostelle sits in Zuidoost, which is honest-to-goodness outside the canal belt. That is the real trade-off and we will treat it seriously lower down this page, because 7.94 km straight-line means roughly twenty minutes by metro to the centre, and a night out that runs past the last metro changes the maths entirely. For now, the headline: the cheapest verified women only bed in Amsterdam is €14, the property offers a kitchen and lockers, and free cancellation is listed on the live listing.

Before the detail, here are the three stays we would put side by side for a solo female traveller weighing this up: Hostelle itself, plus a well-reviewed mixed alternative closer in and a format contrast.

How Much Does Hostelle Cost Per Night?

Hostelle's verified lowest price is from €14 per night for a dorm bed, sampled across the dates we track. On the roster's own scale it scores 9.1/10 across 2222 reviews, which puts it ahead of every mixed hostel in the city centre on rating, though its district, Zuidoost, is the farthest out. Two listed extras matter for budgeting: the listing shows free cancellation, and a kitchen, so self-catering is possible. Breakfast is not something we can state either way, because the roster line does not say.

For context, the median hostel from-price across the twelve hostels we track is €17 per night, and the cheapest bed anywhere on the roster is €12 per night at Flying Pig Uptown, on a lowest bed or room basis for one guest rather than a labelled dorm bed. Hostelle at €14 therefore sits near the bottom of the price range while holding the top rating, which is unusual. The usual rule in this city is that you pay for location, and Zuidoost is why the price stays low. In the centre, four hostels cluster between €13 and €26 for a bed, and the district medians tell the same story: Centrum's median is €18.5 per night, Oost's is €16, while Zuidoost's single-stay figure is €14.

One cost that is easy to miss: Amsterdam's tourist tax is 12.5% of the overnight price excluding VAT, charged to the guest by the host at hostels just as at hotels, per the city's municipal taxes page. Where a hostel states it in its listing text, the tax is not in the displayed price and is paid on arrival or added to the balance. Budget roughly an extra eighth on top of the room rate and you will not be surprised at the desk. Behind that sits another change worth knowing: lodging VAT in the Netherlands rose to 21% from 1 January 2026, up from 9%, per the tax authority's lodging page, and that rise is already inside every 2026 room rate you will see.

Check dates and rooms on the stay's live listing before assuming the €14 holds for your week; sampled lows move with demand, and the full list of Amsterdam stays shows how each property's from-price compares. The price you see in any research, ours included, is a floor sampled on specific dates, not a rate that follows you around. Seasonality does the rest: hostel beds across our roster run a €16 median in January against a €46 median in October, when Amsterdam Dance Event fills the city from 21 to 25 October 2026.

Is Zuidoost Too Far From The Centre?

Zuidoost is about 7.94 km straight-line from Amsterdam Centraal, the farthest of any district on our neighbourhood table, and its median per-night figure of €14 rests on a single stay, Hostelle, so treat the area's pricing as thin. The trade is simple: the cheapest strong-rated bed on the roster against a metro ride of roughly twenty minutes each way, and a late night that outlasts regular services will mean a night bus home.

The night transport detail is worth knowing before you book, not after. A GVB night bus single is €5.70 per the transport company's fares page, and it is a separate ticket from anything you used during the day, valid for ninety minutes from first check-in, at night only. So a bed far from Centraal genuinely costs a few euro more on any night that runs late. Some travellers price that in and still come out ahead; others would rather pay more per night and walk home. Over a four-night stay with two late evenings, that is an extra €11.40 in night fares, which still does not close a gap of twenty or thirty euros a night against a central hostel in the busy months.

The counterweight is that Zuidoost is quiet in a way the centre never is, and for a solo traveller the walk from the metro to the door can feel calmer than the lanes around the busiest central hostel districts. If your priority is a women only room and a restful night rather than stumbling distance from the bars, the distance stops being a defect and becomes a preference. Read our piece on where most tourists stay in Amsterdam if you want the centre-heavy picture first, because the contrast between that world and Zuidoost is the whole decision in miniature.

Should you stay at Hostelle?

Free cancellation is listed on the live listing, so the usual advice applies: book early, hold the bed, and re-check the price closer to your dates. Nothing on this page is a promise of a rate, only the sampled lows we verified. If the cancellation terms change, the listing is where you will see it first.

What Should Solo Female Travellers Look For In An Amsterdam Hostel?

Three things decide it: an all-female room or building, a rating with a review pool big enough to mean something, and a location you will actually walk or ride home to late. Hostelle covers the first two emphatically, at 9.1/10 across 2222 reviews; only you can weigh the third. Lockers and a kitchen are listed for Hostelle, and lockers are listed for most of the city's hostels, so security basics are widely available.

On ratings, be a sceptic. A perfect score from a handful of reviews tells you little; 2222 reviews at 9.1/10 is a real signal, and it is the strongest on our hostel roster. When you compare, keep scales separate: a 9.1/10 across 2222 reviews is not the same measure as a Google rating of 4.1/5, and we never mix them. Our guide to cheap hostels in Amsterdam prints each rating on its own scale with its own count, so you can compare like with like rather than trusting a single bare number.

Age rules are another filter solo travellers ask about. The roster carries them only where a hostel states one: Stayokay Amsterdam Stadsdoelen does not permit guests under 18, and St Christopher's at The Winston requires guests to be 18 or older on the day of check-in. Hostelle's roster line states no age rule, so if a quieter, adult-leaning crowd matters to you, that is a question for the live listing rather than something we can assert. A women only building already selects heavily for solo travellers, which many guests cite as the appeal. The full index of guides sits on Cheap Hotels In Amsterdam.

The practical picture is also helped by what is not happening: no hostel openings or closures have been confirmed in the last twelve months, and the city's hotel policy counts hostels as hotels, meaning a new one only opens where an old one closes, per the Hotelbeleid 2024 document. The women only option is not about to multiply, so the choice you see is roughly the choice you have.

For a fuller treatment of solo budget strategy generally, our piece on the cheapest way to stay in Amsterdam walks through dorms, capsules and cabins side by side, and the hostels hub gathers every dorm property in one place.

How Does Hostelle Compare With Mixed Amsterdam Hostels?

On price and rating Hostelle beats every central mixed hostel we track: €14 per night for a dorm bed against a €17 hostel median, and 9.1/10 across 2222 reviews against 8.8/10 across 13431 reviews for the best-rated central rival, Flying Pig Downtown. On location the comparison flips, with Hostelle the farthest out. It is a clean trade, not a landslide either way.

Flying Pig Downtown is the natural contrast: 0.36 km straight-line from Centraal, dorm beds from €13 per night, a kitchen and lockers listed, and the largest review pool of any central hostel. The two properties differ by one euro at the sampled low end, which means you are effectively choosing between a women only building in Zuidoost and a mixed party-adjacent hostel in the middle of everything for close to the same money. Flying Pig Downtown also lists breakfast, which Hostelle's roster line does not, though with a kitchen at Hostelle you can self-cater instead.

ClinkNOORD is the middle path worth a look: a dorm bed from €17 per night, 8.2/10 across 15735 reviews, and only 0.64 km straight-line from Centraal across the water in Noord, with lockers and breakfast listed. It is mixed rather than women only, but it shortens the late-night journey dramatically while staying inside a solo traveller's budget. Noord's neighbourhood figures rest on that single stay, so read them as one property's price rather than an area verdict.

For travellers who want the women only guarantee without the distance, the honest answer is that the roster does not carry a central women only option, so the workaround is a private room or a smaller dorm in a well-reviewed mixed hostel, read the reviews on the live listing for how the property handles shared spaces at night. Several hostels on the roster list private rooms alongside dorms, including Flying Pig Downtown, ClinkNOORD and Generator Amsterdam, and our guide to Amsterdam hostels with private rooms covers that route in full.

Flying Pig Downtown is the one we would book for the centre-first traveller, with Check availability at Hostelle the move for the guarantee-first traveller. The rest of this page's advice, from tourist tax to night buses, applies equally to both, so the comparison stays fair no matter which side you land on.

Should You Book The Women Only Hostel Or Keep Looking?

Book Hostelle if the all-female space is the point and you accept a metro commute for the best rating and one of the lowest prices on the roster. Keep looking if being walking distance from the centre at 2am outweighs everything else, in which case a well-reviewed mixed hostel like Flying Pig Downtown at from €13 per night is the honest alternative. The women only question has exactly one answer in this city; the location question is yours.

The decision usually comes down to how you spend evenings. If your nights end early or you do not mind the ride, Hostelle is close to unbeatable on the numbers: the top hostel rating we track, a from-price €3 below the hostel median, free cancellation listed, a kitchen for cheap self-catered dinners, and a dorm room where every guest is a woman. That package does not exist anywhere else on the roster, and it is worth saying plainly that several central hostels beat it on nothing except location. If Amsterdam's nightlife is on your list and you value walking home, read our safety-minded piece on walking around Amsterdam at night and weigh it against the €5.70 night bus single. Money you save on the bed can quietly return to the transport budget.

Timing changes the arithmetic too. Our month-by-month Amsterdam price guide shows hostel beds at a €46 median in October against €16 in January and €20 in December, so a winter trip can make the central mixed hostel cheap enough that the Hostelle saving stops mattering. In the peak weeks the saving is real money, and the trade tilts back toward Zuidoost.

Whichever way you lean, verify the details that matter to you on the live listing: cancellation terms, bed type and total price including the 12.5% tourist tax. Sampled lows move by date, and the price you see in research is a floor, not a promise. Cheap Hotels In Amsterdam keeps this roster refreshed monthly, so the figures here are the ones we would stand behind today.

For the three stays this comparison actually comes down to, in price order:

Common Questions About The Female Only Hostel In Amsterdam

What Is The Female Only Hostel In Amsterdam?

Hostelle, in the Zuidoost district, roughly 7.94 km straight-line from Amsterdam Centraal. Dorm beds are from €14 per night and the property is rated 9.1/10 across 2222 reviews.

Is Hostelle Safe For Solo Female Travellers?

It is the only dedicated women only hostel on our roster, every guest is a woman, lockers are listed and it holds the strongest hostel rating we track at 9.1/10 across 2222 reviews. Zuidoost itself is a quiet residential district rather than a party area.

How Far Is Hostelle From Amsterdam City Centre?

About 7.94 km in a straight line from Amsterdam Centraal, roughly a twenty minute metro ride. A GVB night bus single costs €5.70 if you stay out past regular services.

Does Hostelle Include Breakfast Or A Kitchen?

The listing shows a kitchen and lockers. Breakfast is not stated on the roster line, so check the live listing before you rely on it.

Are There Other Women Only Hostels In Amsterdam?

Not on this roster. Hostelle is the only women only hostel we track. The workaround is a private room or a small dorm in a well-rated mixed hostel, such as Flying Pig Downtown or ClinkNOORD.