Hot Hostels in the World - Hoscars 2009

800,000 Hostelworld.com customers rated more than 20,000 hostels over the last twelve months according to six criteria - character, security, location, staff, fun and cleanliness - to produce the definitive World Top Ten Hostels chart.

According to this World Top Ten Hostels chart, four of the best 10 hostels in the world are located in beautiful Lisbon - n. 1 position goes to the Travellers House.



As is said by this Guardian piece the new and undisputed centre of the hostelling world is ... Lisbon. The Portuguese capital has come from just about nowhere to snaffle the top three places (and number eight, too).



See complete list in the Guardian article