JUFA Salzburg is one of a chain of " budget hotels" in and around Austria and Germany. It was clean, had an excellent location central to the shops and major city sights. However, JUFA definitely has hostel tendencies--austere rooms, twin sized beds with an occasional bunk, lockers in some of the rooms, no amenities or toiletries. However, they do serve a complimentary breakfast (nothing fancy, typical Euro breakfast with rolls/cheese/salami/fruit/etc) and also have a food counter/cafe for late night snacking--very important for the jet-lagged. My only real complaint about this place is that the wifi only works in the lobby and you need to request a username and login from the front desk.
Pro tip: only 1 username/password for wifi per device.
We stayed in the hotel part of JUFA, and the people we were travelling with stayed in the field house. We really didn't see much of a difference at all, aside from the layout of the rooms. One luxury that I did notice was that our room in the hotel part came with towel warmers in the bathroom. Why don't more places have these!?
All of the people at the front desk were very kind and had good suggestions on what see and where to eat. They also have a couple electric bikes that you can rent for EU 1.50/hr. I highly recommend it--everyone in Salzburg bikes and it is a great way to get around town. read more