Advantages: Cheap, clean, central, comfortable Disadvantages: No privacy, poor bathrooms
Rolleston House youthhostel is a HI hostel (YHA affiliated, i.e. you get a discount) on Worcester St in the centre of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is situated close to several bus stops, including the bus to the airport (which starts running early in the morning).
I came as a lone traveller here two years ago and found it an excellent base to stay. It was cheap (less than £15 per night), clean, in a nice area, and was a good place to meet like-minded travellers of all ages. The dorms were fairly small (4 bunk beds of two beds) and were mixed. The showers were very basic but clean and there were too few of them (only two in the women's bathroom).
The communal kitchens were large and well-provisioned; there are several grocery stores within a five minute walk of the hostel. There was an excellent library of books and videos that other ...
Advantages: Cheap, friendly and huge roof area Disadvantages: noisy and a little run down
Lime House is a popular hostel on Calle Lima near the intersection of 9 de Julio and 25 de Mayo in the centre of Buenos Aires. I recently stayed here for around a month-although i don't mean to imply that the relatively long stay in one hostel means it was fantastic, i was just too lazy to move!
The hostel is in a great location for sightseeing as Plaza de Mayo is a 10 minute walk away and there is access to the other main tourist areas via the metro (subway) which stops just outisde. There are also bus routes across the city from the street the hostel lies on. Around the hostel itself there are plenty of restuarants and a couple of supermarkets. The one downside is that the main pubbing and clubbing area is in Palermo, quite far from the Lime house, and as the subway stops at around midnight the taxis to get to and from going out can ...
Advantages: freindly staff, wonderful food, lovely local beer, cheap, family friendly, excellent building Disadvantages: a bit far from anywhere (but could be an advantage)
This is one of many of the YouthHostels run by the YHA. This organisation (or more exactly YHA (England & Wales) Ltd.) operates a network of 227 YouthHostels across England and Wales. It is a member organisation, with over 310,000 members. At the YHs people can get comfortable accommodation, good food and affordable prices. They YHA is a charity, with the objective:
'To help all, especially young people of limited means, to a greater knowledge, love and care of the countryside, and appreciation of the cultural values of towns and cities, particularly by providing YouthHostels or other accommodation for them in their travels, and thus to promote their health, recreation and education'.
If you want to know about the history of the YHA, then get yoursefl to their website, but basically a German opened the world's first Youth ...
