Archive for the ‘Hostel’ Category

Budget travel industry’s HOSCARS (HOStelworld Customer Annual Ratings like Oscars) for 2008 has been given to the best hostels in the world.
The winners were voted for by over 800,000 customers worldwide, who have stayed there and reviewed the hostels for their character, security, location, staff, fun and cleanliness.
In the leading top are three hostels from [...]

In our trip to Vienna in September we challenged ourselves to make it to a budget trip.
Meaning as cheap as possible accomodation or transport and only allowed to spend more on pleasures.
That’s why we stayed at the Wombat’s City Hostel (The Lounge) at Mariahilfer Strasse 137, nearby the Westbahnhof station in Vienna. (Such [...]

When we went with the local bus from the airport in Bratislava, it was very difficult to see from the bus what the different bus stops were called, so we didn’t really know where to get off the bus.
This led us to go one bus stop too far, which meant that we had to [...]