Hostelworld: Hostel Travel App 4+
Affordable Sociable Adventures
Web Reservations International
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- Free
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Description
“Hostels are the best way to travel and Hostelworld is the best way to find them.” – Elite Daily
Want to travel on a budget? Find affordable accommodation almost everywhere with hostel locations worldwide.
We’ve been helping travellers meet the world for 25 years. With 16,500 hostels in 180 countries and reviews from over 13 million travellers, our travel app is a must-have for anyone booking a budget holiday or planning to travel the world on an epic backpacking trip.
We’re here to make travel possible for everyone – solo travellers, friendship groups, first-time backpackers, experienced explorers, gap-year students, millennials on the move and roaming retirees! Whether you want to book a dorm room, private room, low-cost hotel or bargain bnb, the Hostelworld app is THE place to start planning your budget trip.
If you love holidays packed with great value, unforgettable adventure and new people, you’ll LOVE this app! Download now to get all this at your fingertips:
+ Explore 16,500 hostels in 180 countries, from the Netherlands to New Zealand
+ Find hostels in countless locations – in the city, rainforest, mountains, by the beach
+ Filter by location, price, room type, sustainability, rating and facilities
+ See hostel pics, events and ratings
+ Check out ratings based on value, location, atmosphere, cleanliness, security, staff and facilities
+ Read reviews written by guests who stayed there
+ Choose from shared dorms (female-only options available) and private rooms
+ Stay spontaneous with free cancellation options
App-only perks:
+ Discover exclusive deals you won’t find on our website
+ Get 24/7 offline access to bookings – no internet needed
+ Create Wish Lists with your favourite hostels
+ Meet travellers with bespoke social features
*****
“Don’t know what I’d do without it! Absolute travel essential, super easy to use and understand. Best way to get a good feel of hostels and book them!” – Ettietonk
“I love the simplicity and how user-friendly Hostelworld is. I hope all the hostels in the world will start to work with you!” – Noortje
*****
Go anywhere, meet travellers everywhere! Find a new crew or BFF on your trip with our app-exclusive Chat feature, Linkup events and more. Ready to share the adventure? Whether you’re a solo traveller or globetrotting in a group, here’s how our app helps you get social:
+ Join Chats to meet people staying in your hostel and in the same city. Create group chats, send DMs and join chats based on your interests
+ Get tips from travellers who are already there – add to your travel itinerary, discover the best restaurants, find out which bus to catch
+ Explore Linkups, events organised by your hostel and hostels nearby. They’re a great way to meet like-minded people while doing the stuff you love. Explore on a walking tour, show off your beer pong skills, take a guided kayak tour...the options are endless
+ Get access to Chats and Linkups 14 days before you check in
+ Build out your profile with a bio, photos (new: link your Instagram!), languages you speak and more. Plus, add a ‘hang out’ badge to your profile to show others you’re ready to mingle
+ View traveller’s profiles to see who’s staying at your hostel
All these features are FREE on the app – so if you’re going solo, it’s easy to get social! We also offer Roamies group tours in collaboration with G Adventures with a focus on sociable hostels in iconic destinations.
*****
“Before I’d even touched down for my Dublin trip, I already had plans for a pub crawl on my first night, followed by a sightseeing day at the Cliffs of Moher!” – Courtney
“We booked a hostel in Edinburgh and used the app to plan a hike up Calton Hill with other mostly solo travellers. We had such a nice conversation at sunset then went for pints afterwards.” – Seif
What’s New
Version 13.52.0
This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Phenomenal but latent
A friend referred me to this app as he had used it in his travels. I too highly recommend this app. I have had an overall wonderful experience with the app. Not only was I able to find hostels in *most* all the areas I wanted, I was also able to find things to do in the surrounding areas, at great prices might I add too. The only downside to the app on my end is I keep running into latency issues and app crashes. I have tried restarting the app and changing VPN settings and even turning my VPN off, ensuring the app is up to date, etc etc. the app still tends to lag a bit at random when my connect is fine otherwise on every other app in my phone. Then every now and then the app will crash. I still highly recommend this app, however, looking forward to figuring out this latency and crashing issue at some point.
An honest review
The St. Christopher in Paris France is a dumb. The rooms are not maintained. Contact paper was used to cover the steal table, and was worn and torn. Someone had pealed back some of the contact paper only to have exposed other layers of contact paper from before. The floor are not real wood floors but are vinyl flooring that looks like wood and that too is also worn in places. The private bathroom door handle was broken and just hanging there. The staffs response when I told them about the bathroom door was, “That’s a private bathroom what are you doing in there?” Not we will have maintenance fix that right away. By the way I have photos and I showed them to the staff and they could care less! Also be very careful what you book because the hostel doesn’t describe the rooms as dormitory rooms. You don’t find that out until you book your room. This was by far the worst experience that I have ever had staying someplace!!! The free drink that you get when you check in is for either a pop/soda Pepsi products, or a glass of juice. Also the free drink special at 20:00/8:00P.M is some sort of sweet drink that they make up in large batches, and if you are a nonalcoholic drinker like myself, you are out of luck because they will not offer you a free soda, an 0.0 alcoholic beverage. This establishment gets a 1 star from me.
Sticker prices are often wrong
The app itself is good, and the general information you can see on each hostel is really useful, however… it’s really hard to know what you’ll actually pay for your stay, before you get there. Hostelworld typically doesn’t seem to include taxes and (usually more importantly) fees. So even though you may think you’ve already fully paid, you’ll often need to pay more once you try to check in. It’s never been more than like 30% extra or so of your initial price, but that’s still significant and I don’t understand why Hostelworld can’t include that in the price you pay through the app, or at least SHOW the full price you’ll actually pay when you’re comparing hostels. (Note that I’m not even talking about those classic scummy spots that charge you extra for sheets once you get there, even though, there too, I feel like Hostelworld should be able to indicate that in the itemized bill, or a notice as you check out that that will be the case). Point is, I wish Hostelworld would crackdown on the shady practices of SOME, though not all, hostels on the app.
App Privacy
The developer, Web Reservations International, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Other Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Financial Info
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Web Reservations International
- Size
- 125.9 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 9.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 1999–2024 Hostelworld.com Limited
- Price
- Free
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