I just came across this website. Nominally, it does the same sort of thing as Hostelworld or Hostelbookers. They have quite a good page describing what hostels are all about, for the benefit of people who have never stayed in one. Their booking page (home page) is similar in format to Hostelbookers etc.
Looking at the hostels on offer, they appear to have only places who have signed up to them. For many places eg Bath, Oxford, there are only hotels and guest houses. For London some hostels do appear. Most of them say: no vacancy. The only ones with vacancies are the really big ones. (Presumably they are the only ones with enough beds to allocate some to each of many sites). For a given date, Smart Camden has beds at £25, but they are £18 on Hostelbookers. Generator has beds at £35, compared with £18 on Hostelbookers. For Oxford, there are no hostels and 2 guesthouses, one of which I have banned from UKTrail after a very bad review. For Glasgow, all the hostels showed no vacancy except one group which has been banned from my site and others and does not appear on HWorld or HBookers.
15 years
It's an interesting site -- I think based in LA, California. It might have been associated with a hostel there. I think the original idea was to offer hostel bookings in many Asian languages -- before the other engines had a lot of translations.
It's one of the booking engines that I think suffers from lack of SEO. (Hostelmania is the other major booking engine with the the same issue.)
15 years
my understanding is that it was started by the manager of the old Student Inn in Hollywood... i think, it's a little foggy.
We are on the site, but hardly get any bookings from them. Hostelworld still dominates this universe though Hostelbookers has made some inroads.
15 years
my understanding is that it was started by the manager of the old Student Inn in Hollywood... i think, it's a little foggy.
I think that's the one...
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