Best Hostels of 2013

Best Small Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 small hostels (maximum 50 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Soul Kitchen
2. Budapest Bubble
3. Adventure Queenstown Hostel
4. Hostel One Paralelo
5. Mosquito Hostel
6. The MadHouse Prague
7. Lisboa Central Hostel
8. Lavender Circus Hostel, Doubles & Ensuites
9. Lisbon Lounge Hostel
10. Barcelona Central Garden

Best Small Hostels Nominees

1. Discovery Hostel
2. Hedonist Hostel
3. Carpe Noctem
4. Split Guesthouse & Hostel
5. Khaosan Tokyo Kabuki
6. Pal's Hostel
7. Lotte - The Backpackers
8. Greg & Tom Hostel
9. Greg & Tom Party Hostel
10. Hostel One Sants

Best Medium Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 medium hostels (51-100 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Home Lisbon Hostel
2. Travellers House
3. Yes! Porto Hostel
4. Goodmorning Lisbon Hostel
5. Living Lounge Hostel
6. Lisbon Destination Hostel
7. Ostello Bello
8. The Riverhouse Backpackers
9. Goodnight Lisbon Hostel
10. The Naughty Squirrel Backpackers Hostel

Best Medium Hostels Nominees

1. EastSeven Berlin Hostel
2. Granada Inn Backpackers
3. Die Wohngemeinschaft
4. Vagabonds
5. Sant Jordi Sagrada Familia
6. Charles Bridge Economic Hostel
7. Hostel of the Sun
8. Sant Jordi Alberg
9. The Garden Backpacker
10. Osaka Hana Hostel

Best Large Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 large hostels (101-250 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Tattva Design Hostel
2. Yes! Lisbon Hostel
3. M Montreal
4. The Cat's Pajamas Hostel
5. Backpackers Villa Sonnenhof (Hostel Interlaken)
6. Kinlay Eyre Square Hostel
7. Circus Hostel
8. Dream House Hostel
9. LoLHostel Siracusa
10. The Siem Reap Hostel

Best Large Hostels Nominees

1. Lub d Bangkok Silom
2. Planet Traveler
3. Hostel Mostel
4. Hostel One Prague
5. Montreal Central
6. Bounce Sydney
7. Pariwana Hostel Cusco
8. Casa Gracia Barcelona Hostel
9. Rowan Tree Hostel
10. U Hostels

Best Extra Large Hostels

Awarded by you to the top 10 extra large hostels (minimum 251 beds) worldwide based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

1. Wombats City Hostel Budapest
2. Hostelling International Boston
3. PLUS Berlin
4. Wombats City Hostel Vienna - at the Naschmarkt
5. Abraham Hostel Jerusalem
6. Castle Rock Hostel
7. Wombats City Hostel Munich
8. Wombats City Hostel Berlin
9. Chicago Getaway Hostel
10. H.I. Chicago Hostel
Best Extra Large Hostels Nominees
1. St Christopher's Barcelona
2. Nomads Queenstown
3. Generator Hostel Copenhagen
4. MEININGER Berlin Mitte Humboldthaus
5. MEININGER Frankfurt/Main Messe
6. Hostel Suites Florida
7. MEININGER Vienna Downtown Franz
8. SameSun Backpacker Lodge - Vancouver
9. ONE80º Hostel - Alexanderplatz
10. MEININGER Amsterdam City West
Continent Winners

Awarded by you to the top 3 hostels on each continent based on your reviews from 2013. Rating below based on current Hostelworld rating.

Africa
1. The Backpack
2. Hostel Riad Marrakech Rouge
3. Rainbow Marrakech
Asia
1. Khaosan Tokyo Kabuki
2. Osaka Hana Hostel
3. Mojzo inn
Europe
1. Soul Kitchen
2. Home Lisbon Hostel
3. Travellers House
Latin America
1. Discovery Hostel
2. Barra Beach Club Oceanfront Hostel
3. H Rado Hostel
North America
1. M Montreal
2. Hostelling International Boston
3. Planet Traveler
Oceania
1. Adventure Queenstown Hostel
2. Bounce Sydney
3. Travellers Oasis
Most Popular Hostels

Combining number of bookings and the average rating given by you, our customers, this is awarded to the most popular hostels in each of our top cities.

Amsterdam
• Amsterdam: Flying Pig Downtown
• Bangkok: Lub d Bangkok Silom
• Barcelona: St Christopher's Barcelona
• Beijing: Peking International Youth Hostel
• Berlin: Wombats City Hostel Berlin
• Brussels: Brussels Hello Hostel
• Budapest: Wombats City Hostel Budapest
• Buenos Aires: Hostel Suites Florida
• Dublin: Isaacs Hostel
• Edinburgh: Castle Rock Hostel
• Florence: PLUS Florence
• Hong Kong: Yesinn @CAUSEWAY BAY
• Lisbon: Yes! Lisbon Hostel
• London: Palmers Lodge - Swiss Cottage
• Los Angeles: USA Hostels Hollywood
• Madrid: U Hostels
• Melbourne: Home at The Mansion
• Milan: Ostello Bello
• Munich: Wombats City Hostel Munich
• New York: New York Budget Inn
• Paris: St Christopher's Inn Canal
• Prague: Old Prague Hostel
• Rio de Janeiro: Lemon Spirit Hostel
• Rome: The Yellow
• San Francisco: USA Hostels San Francisco
• Singapore: Footprints Hostel
• Sydney: Bounce Sydney
• Tokyo: Oak Hostel
• Venice: Ostello S. Fosca
• Vienna: Wombats City Hostel Vienna - at the Naschmarkt
Rating Criteria Winners

Awarded by you to the top hostels rated on the following criteria: Value For Money, Facilities, Location, Staff, Security, Cleanliness and Atmosphere based on your reviews from 2013.

Best value for money
• Tattva Design Hostel
Best facilities
• Tattva Design Hostel
Best atmosphere
• Hostel One Paralelo
Best location
• Adventure Queenstown Hostel
Best staff
• Hostel One Paralelo
Most secure hostel
• Soul Kitchen
Cleanest hostel
• Home Lisbon Hostel
New to Hostelworld
• MEININGER Brussels City Center
Lifetime Achievement Award
• Home Lisbon Hostel
Best Green Hostel
• Twentytu Hi-Tech Hostel
Special Contribution
• INOUT Hostel
Most Improved Hostel
• Ostello Tramonti

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World's Ultimate Running Races: 500 Races, 101 Countries, Choose Your Adventure

Many runners have dreamed of running along the Great Wall of China, up the Empire State Building, or across the Sahara Desert, of joining thousands of runners in a major city road race, and these are just a few of the races included in this list of 500 of the most classic running races in the world. The races featured range from 10-second sprints to several days' worth of running over hundreds of miles. All types of races are represented, including cross-country (English cross-country championships), mountain (run to the top of Mount Olympus in Greece), multiterrain (Brazil's Jungle Marathon), road (marathons through the world's greatest cities), snow (a marathon to the North Pole), stage (Japan's famous Ekiden relays), stair (the Empire State building), track (the British Milers Club races), trail (running on the Great Wall of China), and ultra (Death Valley). The diversity of races is matched by the number of countries featured, with races from more than 100 countries included. This author compiled the list along with contributions from some of the world's leading runners including Kilian Jornet, Mara Yamauchi, Ryan Sandes, and Jonathan Wyatt.

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Eighty Days

On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne’s fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors’ lives forever.

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Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die

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