hostelworld.com
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Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and ReviewsOnline confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.
Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and ReviewsOnline confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.
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Business details
- Category
- Hotels and accommodation
- Places to visit
- 2 placesLondon
- Sells
- Services
- Sells to
- The public
- Licensed trade
- No licence normally needed
- Domain age
- 27 years
- Address
- 8 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 AF58
- Email address
- customerservice
@hostelworld.com - Phone number
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- Website
- hostelworld.com
- Social media
Customer reviews
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Is hostelworld.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 86 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 of 11 public checks clear, 1 not found, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: no rating found yet.
hostelworld.com's website address was registered 27 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has 22,056 reviews on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find an archive history for its website or a phone number.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
Positives
- Its website address was registered 27 years ago.
- 22,056 reviews on Trustpilot.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Not found
- Web history and authority information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.
What they offer
Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.
2 places
Numbers are places close together. Positions from OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Promises
- Booking Guarantee
Latest YouTube video
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How to check if hostelworld.com is legit
To check if hostelworld.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about hostelworld.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsnothing known
- Where the company is based
- Not stated with its address
- Which countries the company serves
- Worldwide
- Why we believe that
- it publishes pages in 18 languages, its pages say it works in 100 or more countries
- VAT number
- 9689072B
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 27 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 27 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 2 of its pages: terms and privacy
- Company contact email is available
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- Not found
- Contact page linked
- Yes
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews22,056 reviews on Trustpilot
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | 22,056 |
| SmartCustomer | Not found | |
| G2 | Not found | |
| Capterra | Not found | |
| Reviews.io | Not found | |
| Feefo | Not found | |
| Trustindex | Not found | |
| Not checked |
App StoreIts app, Hostelworld: Hostel Travel App, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.8 out of 5 from 58,762 ratings. App ratings are not counted as reviews.
- App
- Hostelworld: Hostel Travel App
- App Store rating
- 4.8 out of 5
- App Store ratings
- 58,762
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 50,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 50,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 50,000 sites
Web history and authoritynothing known
nothing recorded
Social presenceIt is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X and YouTube); the largest audience is 2,057,269 followers on Facebook
- Its YouTube channel has 33,900 subscribers and 513 videos, the latest uploaded on 17 Jun 2026
| Platform | Profile | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Profile | 2,057,269 followers | |
| Profile | 357,000 followers | |
| X | Profile | Unknown |
| Profile | Unknown | |
| YouTube | Profile | 33,900 subscribers |
| TikTok | Profile | 61,600 followers |
- Social platforms with discovered profiles
- facebook, instagram, linkedin, tiktok, x, youtube
- Social follower counts
- 2,509,769 followers in total
- YouTube channel
- 513 videos, 33,900 subscribers, last upload 17 Jun 2026
What data this site collects about you
What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
- Shares your data with other companies.
- “Advertising - As part of our online advertising programmes, we may also share your personal data with third parties, who will combine it with data that they hold about you to tailor adverts that appear on third-party websites (which may be our own adverts, or adverts we serve on behalf of third parties).”
- Collects where you are.
- “Location Data - If you enable location services for our app and perform a search using your current location or view map directions to the hostel from your location, we will record your location.”
- May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.
- “Automated decisions may be made in relation to the content of messages to ensure inappropriate message content is not transmitted.”
- Says how long it keeps your data.
- “If you cease to be an active customer, we will retain your personal data for a period of 5 years, in case you return to our website and want to continue using your account, and also so that we can continue to use transaction data to improve our services and undertake business analysis.”
- Says you can ask it to delete your data.
- “Right to erasure – You have the right to request us to delete personal data that we hold about you.”
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics and Google Tag Manager
Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.
- Google Analytics
- Counts your visits and what you look at.
- Google Tag Manager
- Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- quarantine
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Certificate type
- OV
- Certificate expires
- 19 Dec 2026
- Nameservers
- ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com
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ns-cloud-d4.googledomains.com - Address
- 34.54.2.225
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