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everyone can travel everyone can travel everyone can travel can everyone Welcome at a&o a&o You can reach us any day, any time. All e-mails will be answered within 24 hours. +49 30 80 947 5110 +49 30 80 947 1212 Contact for bookings up to 9 persons: 3x less CO₂ [email protected] aohostels.com compared to Contact for bookings of 10 persons or more: other budget hotels [email protected] everyone can travel Welcome at a&o Central location: a&o hostels are in a great place. Central and well-connected to public transport. Arrival and your journey into the city centre are therefore just a matter of minutes. 24/7 Reception: our team is available to help you 24 hours Any Bed from a day! To check in, at the bar or for general 21st person enquiries. And for people in a hurry, we have free of 12€ self check-in kiosks and our fast check-out charge per night service. BACKPACKER Your own bathroom: GROUPS whether it be a single-bed room or a dor- ✓ 24/7 Reception ✓ 24/7 Bar | Billiard | XXL-Kicker mitory, every room has its own bathroom with ✓ All-you-can-eat breakfast buffet ✓ Guest kitchen | Washing machines & dryer shower and WC. 2-in-1 shower gel, hair dryers ✓ Wide range of leisure activities ✓ Tickets for activities and tours and cosmetic pads are also provided. Thoroughly well looked-after: we offer every guest a chargeable all-you- can-eat breakfast or lunch box for out and about. The bar also has small snacks. Half board and full board are also available for groups on request. Environmentally friendly overnight stays: choosing a&o means choosing sustainability. At 8.8 kg of CO₂ consumption per overnight Kids Bed from stay, our ecological footprint is 3 times smal- stay for ler than other budget hotels. This means we free 39€ per night ensure your stay is not only worry-free, but also kind to the environment! FAMILIES BUSINESS ✓ Kids aged 6 years and younger stay ✓ Co-working space See you soon! for free. Youngsters aged 7 to 17 years, ✓ Meeting rooms we charge only 10 € per night ✓ 24/7 Bar For the 20th birthday of a&o: new houses, plenty of service and the greenest a&o for our guests 20 years! This year, a&o is celebrating a 20 years of a&o is an important landmark anniversary - we started out landmark: This year, we will have as a team of ten in 2000, now we’re a over 30,000 beds available for guests team of over 1,000 people, between 16 from all over the world. This also and 76 years of age, from more than 42 entails significant responsibility for nations! Our properties accommodate climate and environmental protection. as many people every day as live in a Right from the outset, a&o has been small city. a&o currently operates at 39 committed to the more sustainable locations in eight countries, with new use of our resources. Whether it be properties due to open in Copenhagen bio-degradable cleaning products, and Budapest later this year. Florence water-saving showers and toilets will be getting its first a&o soon too. implementation of class trips - as and the deliberate non-use of small We opened our doors in Warsaw at demonstrated by our ever-growing packaged items such as soap, the beginning of the year – a&o’s first array of offers for groups and families. our contribution to protecting the property in Poland. Almost all of our More and more solo travellers, couples, environment very much reflects our properties have been redesigned too as senior citizens and business travellers belief that #everyonecanchange! part of our major design relaunch. are discovering a&o for themselves too. All of the electricity that a&o uses To offer the best possible travel comes from green energy, and up- a&o is and will always be a European experience, we use technology: we cycling is more than just a buzzword hostel chain! Our guests are our offer web check-in everywhere, and for us. Almost all of our properties are priority, and offering the best value for half of our properties already have fast established buildings, and our aim is to money is what we do. Travelling must check-in kiosks and express desks. achieve maximum energy efficiency. be affordable, because it helps us to a&o is already producing three times cross borders and learn new cultures. We are also investing in mobile key less CO₂ than other budget hotels, In 2019, over 40 % of our guests were technology, which allows you to check and we want to be as CO₂-neutral as from other countries. In 2017, this figure in and open your hotel room door using possible in 2022! was 25 %. your smartphone. This means less waiting and more convenience, and We do all this so that we can continue to We started out offering class trips and frees our teams up to help guests with say: EVERYONE CAN TRAVEL! this remains one of a&o’s core passions. any questions they may have. We are Travelling with young people creates creating the post of Hospitality Director Yours, its own set of challenges but provides to focus more intently on the needs of important and formative experiences. our guests. Oliver Winter We help with the organisation and CEO of a&o Introduction | 1 Our contribution to environmental protection #everyonecanchange 3x less CO₂ compared to other budget hotels Our approach to waste management – Only 8.8 kg CO₂ BUDGET HOTELS per overnight stay CO₂ This means that a&o is already 66 % below the consumption CO₂ CO₂ of other hotels. Our goal: to be as CO₂-neutral as possible in 2022. PAPER STRAWS Since the end of 2019, WASTE SEPARATION a&o relies entirely on –66 % Since 2000, a&o LARGE SOAP paper straws. separates all waste DISPENSERS in the houses. Many small soap packs cause much waste. Saving water in our hostel Therefore, a&o has been using soap dispensers since 2009. BRING YOUR OWN MUG! – 150,000,000 l NO PLASTIC Since 2007, a&o has TOOTHBRUSH CUPS been filling drinks into reusable cups of We save water Since 2017, a&o has our guests. Since 2006, a&o has been using water-saving already completely 1 m BATHTUBS NO PLASTIC In addition there shower heads. This allowed 150,000,000 litres passed on the use is even a small water to be saved. This is equivalent to about of plastic toothbrush PACKAGING discount on top. one million filled bathtubs. cups. FOR BREAKFAST a&o does not use needless small packaging (for example for jams or butter). Help us to extend our accomplishments – together for our environment on 2 | We need you! We need you! aohostels.com/green #everyonecanchange | 3 Content Copenhagen Introduction ............................... 1 Austria Graz ....................................... 56 Hamburg Our contribution to Salzburg ................................ 58 environmental protection ............ 2 Vienna ................................... 62 Bremen Amsterdam Berlin Warsaw Dortmund Welcome at a&o ........................... 6 Czech Republic Dusseldorf Leipzig Prague ................................... Dresden 66 Cologne Aachen Weimar Good to know ............................... 8 Denmark Frankfurt Prague Germany Copenhagen .......................... 70 Nuremberg Stuttgart Aachen ................................. 12 Vienna Berlin .................................... 14 Hungary 39x Munich Salzburg Budapest Bremen .................................. 20 Budapest .............................. 74 in Europe Graz Cologne ................................. 22 Dortmund .............................. 26 Italy Venice Dresden ................................. 28 Venice ................................... 76 Dusseldorf ............................. 30 coming soon Frankfurt ............................... 32 Netherlands Florence Hamburg ............................... 36 Amsterdam ............................ 80 Leipzig ................................... 42 Munich ................................. 44 Poland Nuremberg ............................ 48 Warsaw ................................. 82 Stuttgart ................................ 50 Weimar .................................. 52 Contact ...................................... 84 Content | 5 Welcome at a&o Always included: Free Wi-Fi and a smile Any Bed from Kids Bed from 21st person free of stay for 12€ free 39€ charge per night per night GROUPS BACKPACKER FAMILIES BUSINESS ✓ 24/7 Reception ✓ 24/7 Bar | Billiard | XXL-Tabletop football ✓ Kids aged 6 years and younger stay ✓ Co-working space ✓ All-you-can-eat breakfast buffet ✓ Guest kitchen | Laundry | Dryer for free. Youngsters aged 7 to 17 years, ✓ Conference rooms ✓ Wide range of leisure activities ✓ Booking of activities | Excursions we charge only 10 € per night ✓ 24/7 Bar Housing with pleasant comfort and with the Backpackers appreciate a&o’s relaxed Because we offer rooms in different sizes – A central location with an excellent best service? Experiences which inspire the atmosphere and central location in the double rooms, family rooms, shared rooms – connection is especially important for our whole group? An accommodation that also cities. The overnight stay in a shared room families are very welcome at a&o. We can also customers on their Business trip. The modern has room for larger groups? And all this for is available from 12 €. If you want to meet comfortably take care of the extended family designed rooms in our new a&o style and the the best price, even a free room for every exciting people from all over the world, a&o in our family-friendly accomodations. Families early breakfast hours, starting at 6 am, inspire 21st person? This and much more can be is the right place for you – thanks to the bar do not only benefit from the a&o bestprice, more and more business travellers. And after found at a&o hostels. In addition to that we which is open around the clock with delicious but also from the very generous discounts for a stressfull day at work our guests are looking provide groups with ideas and suggestions drinks and snacks, billiards and XXL-tabletop children. Additionally the children can play in forward to visit the bar which is openend for for their travel destination as well as for their football.