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These places used to be like $35-55 per night for a bunk bed usually in a dorm style room with 8-10 other beds. Now it's at least $100 per night for a bed even on nights with no big events or holidays surround the dates.
They used to be priced cheaply for young travelers now they are not cheap anymore. The city should get in and fix the rates somehow. Our youth hostels are possibly also used as homeless shelter over flow, so travelers will be paying +/- $120 for a bed and be next to a homeless person with a voucher that is paying $0 ???
These are not Youth Hostels.
They are Youth Hotels and rip offs!
Not even youth related anymore because older people stay at these places now.
Somehow meaning how? Do you propose the city should pay hostel owners the difference between market rate and whatever 'fixed rate' the city wants those hostel rooms to be rented at?
These places used to be like $35-55 per night for a bunk bed usually in a dorm style room with 8-10 other beds. Now it's at least $100 per night for a bed even on nights with no big events or holidays surround the dates.
They used to be priced cheaply for young travelers now they are not cheap anymore. The city should get in and fix the rates somehow. Our youth hostels are possibly also used as homeless shelter over flow, so travelers will be paying +/- $120 for a bed and be next to a homeless person with a voucher that is paying $0 ???
These are not Youth Hostels.
They are Youth Hotels and rip offs!
Not even youth related anymore because older people stay at these places now.
What do you know that costs today same as "back in the day"? When were you finding these $35/night rates? 1970s? 1980s?
One hundred bucks per night is actually cheap compared to what most hotels in Manhattan (that aren't fleabags an or in a clip joint area), charge.
When did New York ever have youth hostels? The 70s? Are you really thinking RSOs?
Youth hostels are not abundant in the US in general.
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