The posh accommodations posing as hostels throughout Europe


Skift Take

Many European hostels today are nearly unrecognizable from their ancestors in design, but the culture of camaraderie remains as a wider group of tourists turn to the hostels for beds on the cheap.

With the wine tasting in the lobby bar approaching, I rinsed the green-tea shampoo from my hair, grabbed a towel from the queen bed and settled into a Philippe Starck chair, espresso in hand. A flat-s