Now you can go directly to the hostel Web sites, call them or email them, and snatch up their special promotions before it's too late. You can also compare the normal prices offered by the hostels themselves to what the online hostel bookers are offering. You might be surprised! Browse this growing list of USA hostel city destinations to find deals now:

San Francisco
Los Angeles
New York
Orlando
Washington, DC
Atlanta
Chicago
New Orleans
San Francisco
San Diego
Las Vegas

Look closely when you go to the major hostel booking engines like Kayak, Orbitz and even Hostelling International. They all provide sleek and fast booking engines, but the prices they give you are what the database spits out, in other words, what the hostels have given to the booking engines. But the hostels haven't given their secret low prices to the booking engines. You have to go directly to the hostels themselves to find the hidden discounts on youth hostel dorm beds and private rooms throughout America.

If you are wondering why these amazing low rates on hostel booking have been kept secret, don't blame the hostels. You'll be interested to know that the reason that booking hostels at a discount can be hard to figure out is that over the years everyone has come to understand that youth hostels are simply the cheapest option out there. Because this is true, many unscrupulous hostel bookers at travel agencies or even some of the online hostel bookers have tended to take advantage and want you to believe that whatever price they are offering for a room or a bed in a hostel must be lowest price possible. After all, so the thinking goes, how could you get a discount on a youth hostel, when this type of lodging is already known to be the cheapest option out there? But it's as if they want you to believe that the price they offer you for booking a room or bed in a hostel is the lowest price on accommodation you'll ever find because it's a YOUTH HOSTEL, kid, end of story. But what hostel bookers don't want you to know is that more often than not the hostels themselves offer their own set of rates on rooms and beds that are priced much lower than what the hostel bookers offer. It's not just about the booking fees, it's about the markup: the fact that hostel bookers are in many ways in a business unto their own. That said, we've used online hostel bookers too and we agree that they can be a very valuable service. We're even in the process of developing a hostel booking engine for this very site, because we want to empower you and give you the tools to compare on your own.

It is true that hostel accommodations are the cheapest lodging you'll find. But this does not mean that all hostels were created equal. Some can really drain your pocketbook, so watch out for those, and remember that you can still find slash-rate discounts on hostels in America, and in fact you will need to if you want to travel on a budget.

What the hostel bookers don't want you to know is nearly all hostels will negotiate prices on their own, and that a savvy traveler can save tons of money by using this secret method. So make a hostel reservation today!

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