Advantages: Excellent location, lovely views, quiet, good value for money Disadvantages: Pillow was a bit stingy!
After booking some cheap flights to Prague, I was left with the task of finding some accommodation.
As three young women, our main priority was to be in the city centre, close to attractions and night life. We wanted somewhere cheap but not a hostel where we would have to sleep in bunkbeds or share a bathroom, we are past that now!
We found the Dlouha apartments on the internet, at www.travellers.cz/en/dlouha-pension-hostel-prague.php
I booked it simply by sending an email via the website.
The apartments are on the top floor of a block which is made up of the Travellers Hostel, and some private flats. There is a nightclub in the basement (Roxys Music Club) but we didn't hear any noise at all. In fact it was very peaceful.
To get to the apartments from the airport, we got into one of the many airport minibuses, got off ...
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 ...
