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Latest YHA News
YHA England have stopped forcing guests to do chores, abandoned curfews and even started serving booze at some of their ritzier establishments. Now, in the latest stage of its modernisation programme, the Youth Hostel Association (YHA) is considering whether to finally allow men and women to share a dorm.
The strict gender division has existed since the YHA was formed 80 years ago, with no exceptions made for married couples, families or platonic friendship groups.
But amid increasing competition from antipodean-style backpackers' hostels that cram anyone and everyone into gargantuan dormitories where anything goes, the YHA has had to think about the hitherto unimaginable in order to stay in the game.
By the end of the year, the association hopes to have started a pilot scheme offering mixed dorms in some of its inner-city hostels, a YHA spokeswoman said
Latest YHA Hostel Reviews
ellington City YHA is the flagship YHA of New Zealand and it's not hard to see why. This monster of a hostel has just about every facility a backpacker could ask for....
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Fremantle YHA or Freo as it is known is simply not fit enough to be called a YHA. The hostel has an infestation of unfriendly, poorly educated, unemployed long termers, often British and often drunk...
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Sydney Central YHA is a monster. It is so big that there is a bed for every day for three years. Long termers are not too much of an issue as they are often lost in swathes backpackers, students and other budget conscious.
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Auckland City YHA is a nice place to hang out and a great location...
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