About Hostelz.com

"Hostels are a great, often overlooked resource, and Hostelz is your best bet for finding one." - Kevin Kelly - Cool Tools

"Chock full of information and the reviews had a much higher usefulness percentage than I’ve seen on some sites." - Research Buzz

"I just wanted to say a great big THANK YOU for providing this website. It has been an INVALUABLE aid in choosing my hostels on my round the world trip. The reviews feature made it real. No other website does that. Excellent. Just excellent." - Dave D.

"Your website is without a doubt the BEST hostel website I've come across. Love the layout, the info, the visitor comments, the opportunity to offer my own." - Lora D.

Hostelz.com has been named to The Times Online's Top 100 Travel Websites.

Hostelz.com was started 5 years ago by backpackers who saw a need for a better hostels guide website. While travelling we found that there wasn't a hostels guide that provided enough information to really help you to chose the best hostels to stay at. So we created this site to be the ultimate hostels guide with everything we and other backpackers were looking for. Some of what this site offers include free complete listings for all hostels worldwide, quick searching, genuine unbiased reviews, original hostel photographs, comments from other backpackers, and a better reservation system that searches for the best availability in across all of the major booking systems. And we keep all of our pages clean and simple with no pop-ups or banner ads so it's fast and easy to find the information you want.

Some of our hostel listings have only information supplied by the hostel owner, but we're trying to photograph and review as many hostels as possible. The goal of this site is to be the best hostels and budget accommodations guide available anywhere.

A hostel (also called a youth hostel) is like a hotel except at a hostel you can get a bed in a dormitory room which you share with other travellers. Of course this means that you can stay for less money than you would pay at a hotel for private room. But there's more to the hostel experience than that. Hostels are primarily used by young travellers, including many people who are travelling alone. So a hostel is also a great place to meet other young backpackers to swap travel stories or hang out.

The atmosphere of a hostel can vary greatly. Some are big social hang outs with pool tables and a bar, and some are quaint little homey places run by a sweet old lady. The reviews and descriptions on this site will help you to find the ones that fit what you're looking for.

Unlike some hostel guides, we don't accept payments of any kind from hostels to be listed or reviewed on this site. All listings are completely free, and of course the site is free to use. We do get a small percent back from the booking companies for hostel beds the are booked through our site. That helps pay for running and maintaining Hostelz.com, so that's why if you use our site to find a hostel, we appreciate it if you also use our site to make your reservation.

Use this form to add a hostel. There are no fees of any kind to list a hostel, all listings on this site are completely free.

We appreciate any help we can get to let people know about our site. There is HTML and an image you can use with instructions on our Link To Us page.

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