Travelling is my big passion as you might have seen from my other reviews. During University time trips like 5months backpacking in Asia are not possible but I can always find time for a quick weekend in a great city.
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... My experience with hostelworld.com was always positive. I used the site to find and book accommodation in Spain, Italy, Germany, England and Ireland. The selection of hostels is great, they vary from cheap & grumpy to luxurious & incredibly expensive. The cheap & clean category is normally the one I'm going for, less comfort for less money is a motto that stick from my time at university. The navigation is easy and I especially like ... ...rating and availability. The map is also very useful, on my first trip to London we ended up staying in a hostel so far away from the city centre that we had to pay more for the subway card than for our rooms.
Travelling is my big passion as you might have seen from my other reviews. During University time trips like 5months backpacking in Asia are not possible but I can always find time for a quick weekend in a great city. I'm just about to book 2 nights in Bratislava and you can follow me through the process.
-------------------------- What is it? -------------------------- www.hostelworld.com is a website to find and book accommodation in over 170 countries. Property types start with campsites over hostels to budget hotels so there's something for every taste. The website can be used in over 20 languages and with the currencies Pound, Euro and US Dollar.
-------------------------- For who is it? -------------------------- Everyone can use it, no registration or card is needed. You don't have to be under 26 or a student, no ISIC, nothing. It's free to use, quick, easy and reliable. They don't even ask for my age or occupation.
-------------------------- How to use it! -------------------------- So, I want to nights in a cheap hostel in Bratislava. I select on the front page 'Slovakia' and 'Bratislava'. My dates are the 24th & 25th of September, that goes just under the location. I select 2 nights and one traveller. 2 seconds till the results page comes up. It's in Euro and I have to change the currency to Pound. One click and that's done. The hostel should be cheap so my sorting category is 'price'.
Hostel Possonium comes up with 10Pound per night and an overall rating of 83%. Sounds ok, let's have a closer look. The Pound is for a night in a 10 bed mixed dorm. If you point with the courser on the price it shows you how many beds are still available. Oh, I have to be quick, only 2 cheapies left. On the site I can find the description of the hostel, the facilities and photos. Everything is easy to find and understand, photos are good quality.
That looks fine, now a quick look at the reviews and ratings
-------------------------- The Rating System! -------------------------- A good - but sometimes misleading - way to judge the hostels before booking is to check the ranking. Percentage points are given on the results page with 100 being the best. This rating is divided into the following subcategories: - Character - Security - Location - Staff - Fun - Cleanness These categories are quite open and the results vary from author to author, what for you is an exceptable unfriendliness of the staff is for me inexcusable, what for me are just a few stains on the sheet is for you a major problem etc. However, this problem is solved with the review section. User can write a short text about the hostel and their experience there. Some are just hilarious (no fresh fruit for breakfast in a 10Pound per night hostel in Bratislava etc) but you'll get the general idea.
The reviews are all ok, so let's go to the booking.
-------------------------- The Booking! -------------------------- The booking is easy, I have to fill in my details and chose the payment form. All major cards are excepted. You don't pay the full amount now, only a 10% deposit plus 1 Pound service charge. For me that's 3 Pound with 19Pound due on check in.
That was incredibly easy, self explanatory and quick. It took me less than 10min to find and book a decent hostel in Bratislava.
-------------------------- Own Experience! --------------------------
My experience with hostelworld.com was always positive. I used the site to find and book accommodation in Spain, Italy, Germany, England and Ireland. The selection of hostels is great, they vary from cheap & grumpy to luxurious & incredibly expensive. The cheap & clean category is normally the one I'm going for, less comfort for less money is a motto that stick from my time at university. The navigation is easy and I especially like the feature that you can sort the results by price, rating and availability. The map is also very useful, on my first trip to London we ended up staying in a hostel so far away from the city centre that we had to pay more for the subway card than for our rooms.
Advantages: Easy to use, cheap booking fees, social networking site, covers the world Disadvantages: Dont use if you want an expensive, upmarket hotel
As my status says I am currently busy planning a fantastic travelling experience. A friend that recently did the same kind of experience recommended this site to me. My girlfriend and myself went off making our plans and started using this site extensively. Signing up to the site was simple and only needed basic information about you, which included a contact number, address and email address.
On the sites homepage it boosts 17,000 hostels in 168 ... ...be able to find a hostel in the place that you want to travel to. The homepage also gives you links to useful information if you are planning a travelling adventure like how to make your pounds reach as far as possible, tips for which injections you need for the locations you are visiting, a free pocket guide for any city that you are staying in and pod casts which are submitted by other members of the site for places that they have stayed.
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mtpatton 23.06.2008
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Advantages: Great wide selection of accommodation all over the world, easy to use and nagivate Disadvantages: Paying 10% deposit can get a bit confusing, sometimes I find the site a tad slow
Hostelworld.com is a brilliant site to use for booking cheap accommodation anywhere in the world. It searches over 20,000 hostels in more than 170 countries. To search for a hostel you simply enter the country and then the city and enter the dates you want to stay on the homepage. If you wish, you can also enter additional search options (or you can add these in once you've entered the main search) such as the type of accommodation, type of room ... ...you want the prices displayed in and from the list it looks like they do almost every single currency. You can then sort your results by price, availability, rating or name to make it easier for you. The list will show a small summary of each of the accommodations including a small picture, a brief description, the amount that prices start from and the percentage rating from customers. You can also open up a large map which will show you all the ...
frankiefromings13 23.04.2009
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Advantages: Comprehensive, easily navigated Disadvantages: Don't bother if you want a Ritz-esque experience
I came across hostelworld whilst browsing the Internet for an affordable place to stay in Dublin on New Year's Eve given that hotel prices appeared to double for that night.
I found its search facility excellent - it immediately offered me a wide range of hostels that fitted the criteria I had entered; whilst going on to display the availability of beds in that particular property. Its database apparently boasts over 10,000 hostels worldwide, so ... ...place to do it!
The descriptions of each hostel were complete and helpful, offering information on the facilities provided by each, plus some background history and each hostel's policies regarding smoking, curfew etc. which was especially helpful to us when choosing.
The site offers comprehensive prices, maps and directions - and, in fact, not only hostel bookings. Also from the haven of the site you can book tours, various activities, sightseeing ...
blackdahlia 15.02.2006
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Advantages: no advantages Disadvantages: didnt make a booking, no customer service
Stay away from this guys, i have terrible experience. I've mada a hostelworld booking for two days in "Il Quinto Moro B&B" in Sardegna and they charged me a depost and sent confirmation mail. When I arrive in B&B the polite owner apalogize and said that he have never received Hostelworld booking and that he is full for that weekend. I've tried to contact HostelWorld but I receive answer that they are "out of office" for 4 days due to Irish national ...
kresoz 19.04.2009
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Advantages: Easy to use well organized Disadvantages: If you have a complaint nowhere to turn to
I too was looking for budget housing, for one of my travels, I paid extra and joined their gold card membership. Everything went along smoothly, I took my trip, hostels and hotels had my reservations at all the places I stayed in Southern France region. It wasn't until I wrote my review that I realized something was wrong.
Overall I had a wonderful experience but at one place I was attacked by bedbugs (this can happen at any hotel), and left the ... ...told the manager a couple days later and about the bedbugs and showed him the photos I took, he was curtious and polite but has never returned any of my emails since. When I wrote that in the review and checked it a day later all was there but, low and behold a week latter all my commentaries were gone only then did I realize why there are only a few commentaries in their listing, there is also no way to update your commenaries or reviews.
Its also ...
smilesalot2u 14.07.2006
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