"Sacramento hostel offers cheap historic lodgings"

Sacramento hostel offers cheap historic lodgings
http://www.sacbee.com/travel/story/1962420.html

For less than $30 a night, guests get a bunk within an 1885 Italianate stick-style Victorian smack-dab in the heart of California's capital.

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With its proximity to the Capitol, Old Sacramento and Sutter's Fort, Haynes said, the operation is kept afloat by schoolchildren.

"Last year, we had a fantastic year. The dollar was weak, and it was a good time to visit America," he said.

"This year attendance is off," he continued. "Whether it's the economy or swine flu, it's hard to say."

I've been to this hostel and it's a great building. I remember a really nice kitchen too (like all of the HI-USA hostels I've been to). There was a daytime lockout when I was there years ago, but it looks like there is no lockout now.