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As a community, we’ve stayed in thousands of different hostels, homestays, hotels, luxury resorts, squats, campsites — and whatever other accommodation options there are out there — around the world. We’ve got profiles and guides on how to dirtbag it through the American West and what 700-thread-count sheets feel like.

We’re big into couchsurfing, so you’ll find lots of tips for building up your profile and getting into the community. We also like to hit alternatives like home exchanges, short-term rentals, and house sits.

Definitely check out our stuff on novelty accommodations — ice hotels, a jumbo jet hostel, and more.

By day 5 we've stared at her bookshelves and closets long enough to decide that we like...
Book via WeHostels and enter the code MATADOR for $10 off!
Forget major booking sites. Cheer for the little guy. Tell better stories.
Brighton has more pubs per capita than any other UK city (or so we tell one another...
The Queen Mary, once a WWII troopship, is allegedly haunted by 600 different ghosts.
When I take someone out on a date, I wine and dine them good.
Captain James Bates sailed around the world and built an eco retreat from the ground up.
Each room has an open fourth wall equipped with its own infinity pool (BALLER!).
If you’re wondering if it’s possible to take a dip in this rooftop infinity pool, the...
You spent the next four hours drinking free vodka with VIPs.
Hitchhike to the southwestern Rila Mountains in Bulgaria.
Happy first birthday, Abraham Hostel.
Now the process of booking a short-term rental is much easier and more secure.
"I watch the tattoo of a swallow shiver on my chest. 'And where do you fit into this?' I...
You don't have to be a monk or a nun, or even particularly religious, to appreciate the...
Some days, I was supposed to be an English tutor. Other days, I was meant to be Mary...
I purchased two glasses of something called a Peach Crush and was set back $35, even with...
YHA’s are often affairs so stodgy that not even sex-crazed rats would breed in them....
The frustrating thing with reviews is that unsatisfied people will be very negative...
What's more soothing than strangers dressed in terry-cloth footie pajamas coming into...
Adena Harford read our recent melee about hostel films that make us barfy, then decided...