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Family Friendly Hostels

Family Friendly Hostels in UK & Ireland

In these tough times hostels are great places for families to stay in rather than hotels. Because of this we have developed a list of family-friendly hostels with private family rooms which make the perfect base for a family break in the UK & Ireland.

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Destination features

Top Destinations to Ring in the New Year

Top Destinations to Ring in the New Year

At 12 midnight on December 31st, people all over the world will say goodbye to 2009 and hello to the New Year. Here we've put together a list of some of the best places to spend the final hours of this year and welcome in the 2010…

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Tips and advice features

Take that perfect shot

Take that perfect shot

Are you just about to set off on your travels? Want to be able to show your friends some breathtaking photographs when you get home? If so read on as Hostelworld.com has ten helpful tips to help you take some unforgettable pictures...

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Festival features

Top Ten Highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009

Top Ten Highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the world's biggest arts festival. This year almost 2,100 shows featuring comedy, theatre, dance, music and more will be performed in 265 venues across the city. Here, we've picked 10 highlights from the festival's jam-packed schedule...

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Hostelworld on the road features

Boats beers and beautiful Bruges

Boats, beers and beautiful Bruges

It won't take long to discover why Bruges' is Belgium's most visited cit. It is remarkably clean, it has two of the country's most beautiful squares and, by taking a short canal trip, you can see the entire city in a day.

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Staff profiles

Staff Highlights - Frances O Sullivan

Staff Highlights - Frances O Sullivan

Hostelworld.com's staff members share their favourite travel memories and more from the last decade.

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Ten year anniversary features

How backpacking has changed

How backpacking has changed

Things have changed over the last ten years in terms of backpacking. Over the last decade online reviews have been preferred to those in guidebooks, the term \'flashpacker\' has been coined, and you can book online to give yourself piece of mind. Read on to find out Hostelworld.com\'s top ten ways backpacking has changed over the decade...

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Other travel features

Chic Hostels

Credit crunch sees hostels turn from bleak to chic

No longer are hostels the drab, sparsely furnished dormitories of yester year. Hostels have finally come of age. The general public are now catching on that hostels have turned from bleak to chic.

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