USA Hostels Hollywood

USA Hostels Hollywood - Advantages: Great Location and relatively cheap to stay here, Very helpful and friendly staff, Good tours from the hostel - Disadvantages: No swimming pool!

My first impressions of this hostel werent good, and nor did it change while I was staying there. I only stayed there a few nights, as I didnt really like the place. It's cheap, which was a good thing as I was on a budget. It was loud throughout the night, the whole place was dirty, the laundry room was really small for the size of the hostel, and the staff werent over enthusiastic. A good thing was, that the staff gave us a tour of the hostel when we arrived. This is very rare, as most budget travellers will be aware. The area it was in wasnt good either. Even though Hollywood is meant to be glitsy and glamourous, it isnt. It's dangerous, and ...  Read the complete review

This hostel is now located on Schraider Blvd just off Hollywood Blvd, it is a few minutes walk to Hollywood and highland entertianment complex and subway station which contains Cinemas shops and restaurants along with some of the other hollywood attractions like the wax museum. I stayed there this summer for 8 nights and I had a great time. It costs $20 a night for a bed in a dorm room, which each have there own en-suite bathroom so no communial showers. It has pay phones, vending machines and Internet access in the downstairs lounge and in the up stairs lounge/bar is a large screen tv. There is also a laundy room in the hostel for guest use. The bar is open ...  Read the complete review

The official IYHA hostels in Los Angels are just a touch too expensive to stay at ($24) considering there are some excellent cheaper backpackers in and around the city. I stayed near Universal studios in the North Hollywood district at the Banana Backpacker motel and hostel on Cuihanga Blvd opposite the Hollywood bowl for a cool $18 bucks a night which included breakfast and a pack lunch on request. The location is the biggest draw back as you are trapped in the hostel as the slipway to the highway is right out side the gate so it requires some hot footing to get on to the pathways in and around the hostel but you can pick up the souvenir number plate of the ...  Read the complete review

I stayed at this hostel during the summer, and I have to say that it was a great experience. It's situated on Hawthorn Avenue, in Hollywood, just a stone's throw from the major tourist sights, like Mann's Chinese Theatre, and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The hostel is pretty cheap, about $17US per night, which is much cheaper than many of the HI places, the HI in Santa Monica, although a fantastic building, was priced at about $25US per night. For the $17 you get a complimantary breakfast of waffles and pancakes, and there's tea & coffee all day. There's vending machines in the lobby, and a laundry room upstairs.The rooms are kept clean, ...  Read the complete review