Garden Hostel

Twenty-four-hour check-in at Garden Hostel suits the overnight-bus crowd arriving from Belgrade or Thessaloniki — a practical edge for budget travellers passing through Skopje.

Skopje's Old Bazaar, one of the Balkans' largest surviving Ottoman markets, sits north of the Vardar river within walking reach. Coppersmith workshops, tea houses, and the 15th-century Daut Pasha Hamam line its covered lanes — a sharper contrast to the neoclassical statuary of the Skopje 2014 waterfront redevelopment across the bridge.

Five reviewers have awarded the hostel a perfect score, suggesting attentive hosting outweighs limited facilities at this early stage.