The owners, Marcus and Sascha, founded Wombat's in 1998, nearly ten years after they had the crazy idea while Backpacking around Australia together. In 1999, they opened their first hostel in Vienna and now Wombat's hostels can be found in Berlin, London, Budapest, Munich and coming soon in Venice too (2019). I couldn't have summed it up better myself so I will quote directly from the Wombat's website. "Wombat’s prides