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Bargain Travel West guide to unique destinations, sight-seeing, history and culture,
budget travel vacation ideas for the independent traveler in the western
U.S., Canada and Caribbean.
Travel destination in Los Angeles
SANTA MONICA HOSTEL
Hostelling International’s Los Angeles Hostel
I recently
saw on a travel message board a question about the location of the
hostel in Santa Monica.
You probably can’t find a better
location - with one caveat. The hostel operated by the Hostelling International
group is right in the heart of Santa Monica’s hip westside tourist
and entertainment area. Around the corner from the Third Street Promenade,
the popular pedestrian zone with shopping, restaurants, bars and clubs
of all variety, and a block from Ocean Avenue which overlooks the beach,
a short walk to the famed pier (see Santa Monica Pier).
A sub-station of the Santa Monica Police is even right across the street.
Okay, but 
what’s the catch? – Maybe tough for smokers. The city of
Santa Monica has recently passed new anti-smoking ordinances, banning
the habit from public spaces. So, bring your patch. First opened in
1990, the recently completely renovated Santa Monica Hostel is largest
purpose built hostel in the USA, with 260 beds on four
floors
of dormitory
style
accommodation,
with
some private-family rooms, and dorms with en-suite bathroom facilities, provided
with a common kitchen, movie, game and tv rooms, a computer center, library,
and laundry facilities.
Daily tour
excursions with discounted pricing for hostel guests depart from the
front door to Disneyland Resort, Universal Studios,
Hollywood (see Hollywood & Highland), Movie Star Homes, the Getty
Museum and all the area's other famous attractions, with a travel store
on site. The hostel has
regularly scheduled free entertainment and educational programs – pub
crawls, acting workshops, museum outings, poetry reading and music events,
BBQ’s
and beach volleyball matches. Or rent a bike nearby and ride down the California
beach trail to Venice, Marina Del Rey and beyond.
The
Santa Monica Hostel is nine miles from LAX – the Los Angeles International
Airport, served by City Blue Bus “C” Shuttle from the LAX Bus
Center. Public transportation from Santa Monica to the rest of Los Angeles
is by city
bus, Westwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and Hollywood are all reached
on the Santa Monica Boulevard line, or Wilshire Blvd to Rodeo Drive, the
LA County
Art Museum, La Brea Tar Pits (see Tar
Pits Page Museum) and downtown.(see L.A
Live Downtown) - or go up to Hollywood and take the subway to downtown or
Universal Studios, (the Metro subway line to Santa Monica won’t be
built for another 12 years).
What about the other hostel in Hollywood? Yep, near the "young Hollywood" club
scene, in a former apartment building in the bit run-down center of the city,
gated from the surrounding area of the Hollywood homeless and alcoholics,
at a glance is not the prettiest, but a block from Hollywood Boulevard, and
a
bit
more
complicated
to get to from the airports. But you can still smoke in Hollywood. © Bargain
Travel West
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