Hostels in Europe
This room is your room...this room is my room...this room has 30 other people snoring in it so how am I ever going to get some sleep?
Some hostels, like this one above Lake Bled in Slovenia, can be quite cozy and comfy. Big city hostels in Europe rarely look this good.
• hostels home
• how hostels work
• pros/cons
• finding hostels
• sleepsacks
• moneybelts
• packing list
If you're scrimping every eurocent, or are have a yen to fraternize with (primarily) youthful backpackers, the hostels system of Europe might by right up your alley. Hostels are among the cheapest lodgings options available, where you can get a bunk in a shared dorm for around $15 to $40.
At their best, hostels are great places not only to find a cheap bed for the night but also to enjoy a backpackers-of-the-world-unite-type of camaraderie, a chance to rub elbows with other English-speakers, and spend evenings contributing an ingredient to the communal spaghetti dinner someone is whipping up in the kitchen while your laundry spins in the back room, a dreadlocked dropout strums a guitar, and everyone sits around and shares travel tips and recently discovered gems not yet in the guidebooks.
Oh, and the massive savings. That's the upside to the hostelling experience. There are plenty of downsides, however, which is why we've summed up all the pros and cons to hostel life on a seperate page. There's also a page on how hostels work, a list of all the resources you'll need to find and book hostels, a bit of business about the sleep sacks you'll need to stay in most hostels, the moneybelts any wise backpacker employs, and, in a similar vein, the ultimate packing list for backpacking through Europe.
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This article was last updated in March 2008. All information was accurate at the time.
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