Free Hostel Bookings.com is a site devoted to listing hostels for free.
Participating hostels enjoy enhanced listings that include hot links,
photographs additional information about their hostel. Hostelling
international as it is called, especially youth hostels and American youth
hostels have become popular due in part to their informal, friendly and
budget price. Hostelling international started in Europe and spread to
the American youth hostels scene. When you look for American youth hostels,
think of Free Hostel Bookings.com as your first stop to find the best youth
hostels. If you are a student or on a fixed income, consider hostelling
international as a great and fun alternative to expensive hotels. To find
hostelling international sites, just click on the country you would like
information about. Currently most of our sites are listed in North America
but will soon expand to South America, Europe, Australia and Eastern Europe.
"The youth hostel movement was started by Richard Schirrmann, a German
school teacher, taking his students from a coal mining city on weekend
outings to the countryside for fresh air and interaction with nature. This
quickly evolved into an international peace movement with hostels as places
where students and other young people from different countries could get to
know each other on a student's budget usually on the rough. The original
concept included an ethic for moving on one's own steam hostellers were
expected to walk or bike to the hostel. In these early hostels there were
often age restrictions, strict curfews and other rules imposed on the youths
by hostel. Indeed, some vestiges of these rules can be found in hostels
today. However, not often, and not in North America. In fact, the word is
rarely used in hostel names or regulations."
