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The Hostel Showcase is where we feature some of the most interesting hostels from around the world.

If you have an exceptional hostel and would like your hostel featured in the Hostel Showcase, please contact us to apply. Your online ratings should be high - generally around 85% or higher on the booking engines.

Aboriginal Hostel in Budapest

Any Dream can become True.

It all started in the Dreamtime, when a young Hungarian fellow was working in one of the first hostels in Budapest. One day he decided to go backpacking, especially after all those guests who planted their own travel bugs in his head. Opening a hostel was just a dream this time. A dream of a hostel where there are not just beds within bare walls, but more like a home, where he can greet his guests as his friends and these friends can make more friends among each other. He wasn't looking for a name either, he only knew that one day he will open up a hostel. During his journey he met a fellow backpacker who described backpackers as Aboriginals doing their Walkabout: You wander around and challenge yourself until you find your goals in life. He liked the idea, especially as he had so many friends from Down Under. So after his walkabout around Europe he decided to settle back home in Budapest and established the Aboriginal Hostel. A place where backpackers can become friends, let their hair down and put their feet up.

Many moons later the Aboriginal hostel is still running and providing the warm friendly, and comfortable setting that makes backpacking something special. After all, home is a place where you're always happy to stay.

Aboriginal Hostel Budapest

Krumlov House, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

"If you build it, they will come"
—Field of Dreams

HISTORY OF THE HOSTEL

In 1990, Cal Zukowski, a Canadian artist, came to Cesky Krumlov on his way to study art in Berlin. After only a few hours of setting foot on the cobblestones, he decided to ditch Berlin, and set up his easel here, in a town that many describe as "the Europe we had in mind when we thought of Europe." Four hours south of Prague, built in a valley and set off by a bend in the Vltava, Cesky Krumlov's castle and tower literally grow from a clifftop, lording over this town of spires, ceramic-tiled rooftops, crooked alleyways, and cobblestone streets. Swallows return every summer from the south to make their nests in the crumbled facades of ancient houses. It's a town that revels in its age, reveals itself slowly.

Photo of Cesky Krumlov

Redwood Hostel: The Little Hostel by The Sea

The Basics: Who, What, When, Where …and Why

Pick a map. Any map. Okay, make it a map of the United States. Find the West Coast, and press your little finger into the black dot called "San Francisco." Now trace your finger north along the jagged edge of the coast as it goes up, up, up to the very tip of California. That's us.

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The Redwood National Park Hostel • Photo Credit: Cheri M. Larsh

Hostel Showcase: Y.H. Plakias, Crete, Greece

"The south coast town of Plakias was once a tranquil fishing village before it became a retreat for adventurous backpackers" — Lonely Planet.

Welcome to Y. H. Plakias – the southernmost hostel in Europe!