14 years
I tried this out and it is very well done.
The only significant problem that I noticed is that it doesn’t make any distinction between hotels and hostels under the "hostels" tab.
For example, if I go to Florence Italy and look for hostels I just get a long list of hotels that are selling rooms on Hostelworld. There really should be a distinction, because hostels are getting drowned out in the hotel listings in some locations. I don't know if the Hostelworld API will let them filter out the hotels from the "hostels" tab, but I think it's misleading to travelers.
Example:
The app shows a property in the "hostels" tab for $19, next to other properties in a similar price range:
But when you go to book it, it's a minimum of $232 booking:
(The property is definitely not a hostel.)
From the traveler's perspective, that makes the app less useful. I hope they are able to fix it so that the "hostels" tab only shows hostels, because the app's functionality does look very promising.
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