Solo travelers benefit from hostels says road trip expert

Huckleberry Finn Youth Hostel, Image credit to wheany (Flickr)

Hostels is just one method of lodging for travelers, but one road trip expert believes it benefits an individual who’s going solo.

Professional road tripper and founder and managing editor of RoadTripAmerica.com Mark Sedenquist has been a road tripper for 30 years -- 17 of which was devoted to RoadTrip America -- and he mentioned how hostels are on the rise.

“Hostels ... they’re big in Europe,” Sedenquist said. “They’re starting to be much bigger here in the United States. There’s probably, at this point, one or two really nice hostels in every state.”

But when asked whether hostels benefit college student groups, couples or families, Sedenquist gave a different response.

“Hostels were kind of created for solo travelers,” Sedenquist said. “Certainly couples like hostels. Several of our enthusiasts groups that are the most active people on RoadTrip America use hostels when they travel."

He went on to say on the site's Great American RoadTrip forum, there were discussions about which hostels they liked, and why they liked them, and all the good times they’ve had in one.

Sedenquist said that benefits were meeting people and having an opportunity to get your own room -- that being “relatively inexpensive” to top-of-the-line in the same hostel.

To check out hostels, visit hostels.com.