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About our recommended hostels

Our recommended hostels are the ones that we would happily send our own friends and family to - if only we could get them over to the other side of the world. We rate them as the best and so thought it only fair that we recommend them to you good gappers...

How we select our recommended hostels

When picking our recommended hostels, we judge them on the following:

- Location - should be centrally based or close to amenities/attractions
- Proximity to airport and transport links
- Clean and spacious
- Established
- Preferably with a bar
- Preferably with a reputable travel agent/operator attached
- Reasonably priced

Hostels that fit the above criteria are then compared and the overall winner presented with our gapyear.com gold award for all-round hostel excellency.

Free beer alert!

These hostels offer two free beers to gapyear.com members - that's one for you and another to break the ice with a fellow backpacker. Or that's two for you and no friends... your choice!
Click here >> to download your free beer vouchers now!

:: Wake Up Sydney Central, Australia
:: Nomads Industry Melbourne, Australia
:: Auckland Central Backpackers, New Zealand
:: Discovery Lodge Queenstown, New Zealand
:: Kiwi House, Christchurch, New Zealand
:: Pipi Patch Bay of Islands, New Zealand
:: Hot Rock Rotorua, New Zealand
:: Nomads Capital Wellington, New Zealand
:: Backpackers International Rarotonga, Cook Islands
:: SameSun Backpackers Lodge Vancouver, Canada

We recommend hostels in...

:: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA ::

:: AIRLIE BEACH, AUSTRALIA :: ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA :: BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA :: BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA :: CAIRNS (BUDGET), AUSTRALIA :: CAIRNS (MID-RANGE), AUSTRALIA :: CORAL BAY, AUSTRALIA :: DARWIN, AUSTRALIA :: HERVEY BAY, AUSTRALIA :: MAGNETIC ISLAND, AUSTRALIA :: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA :: MISSION BEACH, AUSTRALIA :: PERTH, AUSTRALIA :: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA ::

:: SARTENEGA, BELIZE ::

:: RIO DE JANIERO, BRAZIL ::

:: TORONTO, CANADA :: VANCOUVER, CANADA ::

:: :: BEIJING, CHINA ::

:: RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS ::

:: FIJI, NADI ::

:: HONOLULU, HAWAII ::

:: BALI, INDONESIA ::

:: TOKYO, JAPAN ::

:: BORNEO, MALAYSIA ::

:: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO ::

:: AUCKLAND, NZ :: CHRISTCHURCH, NZ :: QUEENSTOWN, NZ :: BAY OF ISLANDS, NZ :: ROTORUA, NZ :: WELLINGTON, NZ ::

:: LIMA, PERU ::

:: SINGAPORE ::

:: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA :: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA ::

:: BANGKOK, THAILAND ::

:: LONDON (RUSSELL SQUARE), UK :: LONDON (LONDON BRIDGE), UK :: BELFAST, UK ::

:: ARIZONA, USA :: LA, USA :: NEW YORK, USA :: SAN FRANCISCO, USA :: SEATTLE, USA ::

:: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM ::