Inn of youth

The inns of youth provide for one short duration a hiring of room and meals for the travellers, which is particularly encouraging for the external activities and the cultural exchanges for the young . An inn youth rents a reads (sometimes a Lit superimposed) in a Dortoir and makes divide common showers, collective or individual kitchens. Private rooms are sometimes placed at the disposal. The most important benefit in general in an inn of youth is to be able to meet other travellers of the whole world. The inns of youth are usually less formal and less expensive than the usual Hôtel S. They are thus used mainly by the youthful travellers. In the past, the inns of youth imposed an age limit, but today the majority of the inns accept a large age bracket. In certain parts of the world, the inns are called backpackers , particularly in Australia and New Zealand.

The inns give the opportunity of a cultural mixing and an increase in opening towards the others. There is more interaction between the guests than in traditional hotel trade, and much of inns free activities or at reduced prices with their guests propose. One of the disadvantages comes owing to the fact that to remain in an inn of youth to sleep because of the noise, when people return in the inn late the evening. For this reason, the inns fix sometimes limiting hours of arrivals, and the people who consider it necessary will be able to provide themselves in Earplugs.

History

In 1912 with Altena, in Germany, Richard Schirrmann created the first permanent center and still in activity. It was inside the castle of Altena which had been recently rebuilt. The old rooms are inactive, because of installation of new infrastructures but always in the castle. Appeared in 1956, the plain Federation of the inns of youth (FUAJ) comes to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.

External bonds

  • a source of documentation on the history of the AJ in France
  • French League for the Inns of Youth
  • Tricks for inns of youth
  • Plain Federation of the Inns of Youth
  • International Hostelling
  • Inns of Youth
  • Hostel listings and reviews in Spain and Portugal
  • Hostel listings and reviews in Germany
  • Backpacker Germany Hotels: Backpacker Network, Hostel List
  • Scottish Youth Hostel Association - Hostel Listings in Scotland
  • Hostels in Paris
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