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Travelling with Kids: 10 Best Hostels for Families
Offering a practical and affordable place to stay,
hostels are becoming increasingly appealing to travelers with
children.
Family hostels
can offer private rooms with en-suite bathrooms and to really keep
costs down, the self-catering kitchens are ideal places to prepare
packed lunches. Most hostels offer games rooms and children will be
happy watching TV in the comfortable lounge areas after a busy day
of sightseeing. Hostels often organize free activities such as city
tours or movie nights.
HostelBookers has reveals their top 10
family-friendly hostels:
Only 10 minutes walk from Lincoln Park Zoo, this
hostel offers four-bed private rooms and provides a common kitchen,
tour information, maps and a BBQ area. Kids can have hours of fun in
the games room complete with pool and foosball tables. There are
also bikes for rent, board games and a large patio.
With a friendly and personal service the hostel is
modeled on homely European-style pensioni and families can stay in
the private triple, quad and six-bed rooms with daily cleaning.
Parents can have a break from planning excursions because the hostel
organizes free walking tours of the city and staff can even plan
trips to Yosemite National Park.
Parents travelling with kids can stay in family rooms
at this Georgian style hostel equipped with all the mod cons and
bright and colorful decor. Hyde Park is a short walk and top
tourist attractions including Madame Tussauds, the Science Museum
and Natural History Museum are within easy reach.
Located in a quiet and safe residential area,
families can book private en suite rooms at this charming converted
monastery. There are plenty of activities on offer to keep the
children happy including canyoning, sailing and horseback riding.
The hostel offers a free baby sitting service and parents can enjoy
some much needed time to themselves on a free city tour.
Just a 10-minute walk from Edinburgh’s main Waverly
Station and Princes Street, this hostel is ideally located for
little legs. Families can book quad, triple or twin en suite rooms.
There is a bistro and guests can also use self-catering facilities.
There is free Wi-Fi access as well as coin operated PCs, laundry
facilities and plasma TVs in the lounge area.
This family-friendly hostel is totally geared for
children with a TV room, table tennis and cycle hire on offer and
families can sleep in the private four and six-bed en suite rooms.
With views of the skyline and the harbor, it’s only a 10 minute walk
to the popular vintage Tivoli amusement park.
Located in the historical centre of Lisbon, this
hostel offers family rooms and provides a free breakfast, free cots
and baby highchairs. While the children play in the games room, or
run around in the 150m garden, parents can enjoy fantastic views of
the river from the 100m terrace.
The reception has a kiddie corner with playhouse,
crayons, coloring books and bedtime story books, as well as bike
rental and a games room with video games. Children under six can eat
for free at the dinner buffet too.
Located on Collaroy Beach, right on Sydney's superb
Northern Beach, the Beachouse is a great alternative to staying in
the bustling city centre for families. Children can play with the
free volleyball sets, surfboards, body boards, snorkeling sets and
bicycles. There is a rooftop pool and BBQ facilities.
Children will appreciate the techie touches in the
family rooms, each equipped with flat screen TVs and iPod docking
stations. For a quiet night in, this modern hotel and hostel boasts
a fantastic cinema room where kids can settle down and watch movies
while parents can make the most of the gym facilities.
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