Reviews and test on Hostelworld — the comparison of hostels!
The world has never been as accessible as today. We are more and more traveling, which pushes the tourism offer to evolve quickly. As a result, new actors in tourism have emerged, ensuring that we offer more services and facilities in our holiday planning.
Online travel agencies, comparisons of flights, hotels or accommodations at home, they have become automatisms for travellers. In the same vein, a website was able to get out of the lot by positioning itself on the market of hostels and small budget accommodations, it is Hostelworld.
Want to find the perfect hostel for your next trip? Here is a small review to discover this online comparison!
What is Hostelworld?
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It’s in 1999 that the story of Hosteworld began to be written. The site is now in the form of an online reservation platform specializing in hostels and hotels in small budgets. The concept: offer a panel of group accommodation which allow you to stay at a lower level by sharing a dormitory, a bathroom and a common living space (kitchen, living room,...).
A long way from the image we can do, youth hostels offer more and more services comparable to hotels, such as swimming pools, bars or airport shuttle service. In addition, Hostelworld focuses on the social side of the experience, where meeting and sharing are bets. If the target is primarily young and looking for good business, youth hostels are now attracting more and more people and many types of profiles.
Proof of this, Hostelworld has evolved a lot over the past 20 years. The company now has a few 36,000 properties in 170 countries , giving him the place of leader in this market. The comparison of small budget accommodations allows you to go to the world.
How does it work?
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Hostelworld.com allows you to connect service providers to future travellers via its online platform. The site is intuitive and easy to use. You are enough indeed return your destination and dates to see you offer the availability of real-time facilities.
To find out more about a hostel and the services available there, simply click directly on the hostel’s enclosure. You will find a description with photos but also the reviews of old travellers, which can be useful in your choice. In addition, a note is available for each establishment in order to Quickly home favourites from users.
To go further in our test, we asked ourselves, what were the advantages and disadvantages for service providers and users of Hostelworld?
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Benefits
Evidence
- Good visibility
- Possibility of rating institutions
- Possibility to expand its network of customers
- Automatically added to friends sites like Hostels.com and over 3,000 other affiliated sites
- Simplification of online reservation for certain small structures
Utlisateurs
- Reservation guaranteed without charge
- Customer service 24/7 with interlocutors speaking 19 different languages
- Free cancellation if you book more than 7 days in advance
- Possibility to follow current and past bookings
- Access to a route planner
- Large selection of original accommodations
- Services like hotel (bars, wifi, airport shuttles, pool, rooftop, etc.)
Disadvantages
Evidence
- Hard competition (more than 36,000 registered establishments)
- Numerous constraints related to standards
- Time constraints: the inn must check several times a day the reservations made via the website
- Risk of being assigned a bad rating by users
Utlisateurs
- Limited offer by regions
- Minors often not allowed in dorms
- Regulation of certain taxes directly on site according to destinations
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At the editors we had the opportunity to test the site and some of the hostels that are listed there. Like the more than 10 million reviews left by the users on Hostelworld, we wanted to give you ours.
The description of the accommodation is very detailed and allows you to quickly identify the location that best suits your expectations. If it is true that some youth hostels suffer from their festive reputation and thus a little too noisy, we found that they were mostly offering beautiful services, often up to those of a hotel establishment.
Special mention for notes and reviews left by previous users, which are an excellent barometer in choosing your hostel. And cherry on the cake, the conviviality is actually well at the rendezvous!
So you try the experience and especially give us your opinion!
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