Hostels

If you’re looking for short-term, inexpensive housing, hostels can offer a basic living environment at a good price.   You can always use a hostel as a temporary place to stay while you find more permanent housing.

• hostelworld.com
  Provides online bookings for hostels around the world.
• kasbar.com
  Cheap hostels, youth hostels, international hostels & guesthouses: search by country or city.
• hostles.com
  Over 6,000 hostels listed.
• bootsnall.com
  Great article called, “Debunking the Myths of Hostels.”
• HIhostels.com
  Take a tour around the Virtual Youth Hostel to discover the many high-quality facilities and services you can expect in HI hostels.
• YHA England & Wales
  Select a region for the best in youth hostels in England & Wales.
• The Hostel Handbook
  On-line listing for all the hostels in the USA & Canada.
• Hostels of Europe
  Quality Independent Hostels throughout Europe.
• Japan Youth Hostels, Inc.
  Japan Youth Hostel provides a lodging place for anyone who wants to enjoy safe, pleasant and economical traveling. They now cover 80 countries all over the world with 5,500 hostels. In Japan, approximately 350 facilities are scattered throughout the country from Hokkaido to Okinawa, offering accommodation at very reasonable overnight fee of about 3,000 yen per night (around 5,000 yen on half-board basis).
• Hostelz.com
  View photographs of lodgings and read guest comments and reviews. Online booking with a live calendar of available beds
• 111 Travel Directory
  Includes discount hotels as well as hostels.

  
Content for this page provided by:
Dr. Kate Brooks, Director, Liberal Arts Career Services, University of Texas at Austin