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!
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!
- Check it out: TFT Hostels
- Sister backpacker's community site: Travelers for Travelers
TFT is not a good for finding hostels.
Santa Cruz, CA, is not shown, only Santa Cruz, Bolivia, comes up.
A better search site for finding most all hostels is http://www.hostelz.com.
This outfit tries to list all hostels, not just the ones subscribing to its reservation system.
TFT makes the false assumption that http://www.hostels.com, hostelworld and some others would somehow list all hostels, but since many HI affiliated hostels only use http://www.hiusa.org or use the IYHF web sites, not these private commercial sites, they are left out.
TFT is lousy!!
Hi Kathleen,
Thank you for writing about TFTHostels.
Hi PGP,
Please tell us what you see. We want to make our site better, still beta and every day working on improvements. All suggestions erors tips are welcome at: http://www.tfthostels.com/feedback.html
We solved the Santa Cruz issue. Your hostel is in the list: http://www.tfthostels.com/Santa_Cruz/ Check here: HI Santa Cruz Hostel
We are still beta, and we have the goal to list all hostels in the world, also all HI hostels.
You can add your direct contact details at TFTHostels and add video if you have. We can make TFTHostels better together.