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hostelworld.com

Who runs hostelworld.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest hostel booking alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
booking.com

Measured from hostelworld.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs hostelworld.com

hostelworld.com

Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.

Wikidata: hostel booking website

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What hostelworld.com tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

13 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
TrustArc
US company
4 tools

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to hostelworld.com

Fewer trackers than hostelworld.comNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to hostelworld.com match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what hostelworld.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
35 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Nuxt page source: /_nuxt/
  • Vue.js page source: data-v-e1ae79df
Fonts
Analytics
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 mx a:smtp.europe.secureserver.net include:spfip.hostelworld.co…
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx a:smtp.europe.secureserver.net include:spfip.hostelworld.co…
Cookie consent
  • TrustArc page source: consent.trustarc.com
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=9585FC174696967538079CA203F3E050AFFC0464A0629B03F…
Monitoring
  • Sentry page source: .ingest.sentry.io
Hosting
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
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  • Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: B062587789B141D9BF3FED9B67A6B3F6
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=fmzrmHurD6JP2yQBaeviIxwhbsuJ1rc-z0IUv…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=_fW2EYm99J9NaKtzGGH8gDIQt-R0cmJAHo_PSwTuDYI