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By Kathleen Crislip, About.com Guide to Student Travel

New and Cool: TFT Hostel Booking Search Engine

Wednesday June 4, 2008
You need to see this: Marco van de Kamp, coordinator of the backpacking community Travelers for Travelers, has put together a great guesthouse and hostel search engine, TFTHostels, which allows you to search an integrated directory all of the major hostel booking websites simultaneously and see combined results for a given city. You can compare beds and rooms by prices or ratings, see current availability, and change currencies with a click. TFTHostels offers user-written reviews, too (meaning you can write 'em), as well as the hostel-supplied info, photos and directions.

This is great: like Kayak for hostels, but without ads and with exactly what you need to find and book hostels and guesthouses from Hostelworld.com, hostelbookers.com, HI Hostels, and more. Totally cool feature: search by country and get a list of cities plus a map for inspiration (reminders while planning of the spots you don't want to miss while traveling). Major thumbs up!

More reading: Hostels 101 | Hostel FAQ

Screenshot courtesy TFT Hostels

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