When we featured iPhone hostel booking application Hostel Hero back in 2009, the most obvious complaint was the booking fee applied to each reservation. A newly-updated version of the app drops the direct charge, as well as adding hostel reviews drawn from HostelBookers. More »
Staying in hostels and backpacker establishments makes for cheap travelling, but it’s often a lottery as to what equipment you’ll find in the kitchen. Backpacking site Pack on Back details how a little ingenuity and a grill tray combined to make it possible to cook a pizza without an oven. More »
Hostels remain the cheapest way to score accommodation when you’re seeing the world (assuming security issues don’t drive you to a hotel). iPhone application Hostel Hero lets you search for and book hostels in 150 countries, and stores details of your bookings on the device itself. More »
