St. Christopher's Inns won a gold award for Best Budget Accommodation in the 2008 Visit London Awards.
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Seen via TravelPlug, the HI Galveston Texas Hostel has closed permanently because of severe hurricane damage.
A Philadelphia hostel has been temporarily shut down:
A building at 111 Ocean Street in Barnstable, Massachusetts is awaiting final approval for conversion into a hostel.
The Elenydd Hostels Trust, which operates two hostels in a remote area of Wales, is delighted to announce that their grant application for £82,000 to improve the structure and amenities at Dolgoch has been successful!
The HI Redwood National Park hostel was voted the #1 HI hostel in the world by users of hihostels.com, tying with the Shin-Osaka HI hostel in Japan.
New Zealand's Minister for the Environment spoke at YHA Wellington City on 29 April 2008:
A new hostel is being planned for Jasper, Canada:
Now that the Canadian Hostelling Association has made the administrative modifications needed to finance construction, Jasper could see a new hostel in its townsite by 2013.
The Gateway Hostel in Brisbane is getting demolished and rebuilt as a 5-story, 372-bed hostel:
"The south coast town of Plakias was once a tranquil fishing village before it became a retreat for adventurous backpackers" — Lonely Planet.
Welcome to Y. H. Plakias – the southernmost hostel in Europe!
The Transit Centre Backpackers Hostel in Hobart, Tasmania will close next week: