Budget Stay Options

How to Find Budget Travel Accommodation (Hotel or Hostel) at Perfect Location in any Country?

It’s not hard to search for budget accommodation (hotel or hostel) but finding budget accommodation at perfect location could be a challenging job. Because before looking for an accommodation you need to know where exactly to stay at your destination city. Usually city center could be a perfect choice for tourism purpose, from where you can access attractions easily, sometimes even on walking distance you can find attractions.

This guide will help you to find hotel or hostel at cheapest rate and at perfect location of your destination, but before moving forward let’s differentiate between hotel & hostel.

Hotel vs Hostel

The main difference between hotel and hostel is that, hotel has individual number of rooms, whereas hostel provides dormitory-like sharing rooms to stay.

If you are feeling you need more privacy, or if you are traveling with family, then a hotel would be a more comfortable option for you.

However, there is a big community feel more comfortable in a hostel compare to a hotel room. If you are a social being, a hostel would be great choice and beneficial as you would be able to meet all sorts of interesting people. Hostel is, for the most part, safe places to stay, as long as you keep your valuable items in a locker. If your budget is tight, or you are looking to meet new people of all different nationalities from around the World, hostel is the best option to stay.

Find a Perfect Location

Always do a little search where to stay at the destination you are intend to go. Look for the city center area and find out tourists’ area before you book your accommodation. Always book one or two nights so after your arrival if you don’t like place you can easily switch to other one.

Hotel Booking

So, you need more privacy or intend to travel with family. Great!

There are bundles of hotel search engines out there on internet to make reservation but you need to know which hotel search engine is best to use. Here are my recommendations as per my personal experience when I travel with family.

I found Booking.com and Agoda.com best hotel booking search engines. Both offer budget hotel bookings. However, fewer search engine are not a good idea. You may need to perform your search on a combination of search engines to ensure you’re not missing lowest price.

Hostel Booking

Okay, so you are wondering to consider hostel. Excellent!

I always prefer to stay in hostel when I travel alone.

There are many search engines offer dormitory-like sharing rooms for single bed reservation. The best hostel search engine is HostelWorld.com, HostelWorld charges 10% in advance and balance 90% you can pay in cash or with credit/debit card when you arrive at hostel , you need to check your selected hostel accepts credit/debit cards or not upon your arrival.

Booking.com offers many types of accommodations including Hostel. Some properties offer reservations without credit/debit cards.

Wait a minute, before you book a single bed in hostel you need to know types of rooms they offer, usually most of hostels offer three or four types of rooms as listed below. Also don’t forget to look at number of people per room before you select your room eg: “2 beds per room”, “4 beds per room”, “6 beds per room”, “8 beds per room” and so on…

Budget Booking Tips

Travel Tips

My Hostel Stay Experience

If you have any other questions, please let me know in the comments section below. And share this information with your friends and family if you want.