Hello. I'm looking to spend a month in Scandinavia this summer with my 5-year-old. I know it's an expensive place to travel, but we are still trying to do it on a budget. Has anyone had good experiences in specific hostels with a child?
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Bellingham, WA
1751 posts
You might try first determining whether there are any hostels where you could stay with a child that age. Certainly, hostels with family rooms or twin rooms are likely to permit it, but not all have them, and I found that these rooms were often as expensive as a budget hotel or AirBnB. I don't believe a child of that age is likely to be permitted in the dorms at a hostel.
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We have stayed at many YHA hostels around the world with our children starting when the youngest was age 5. The only requirement we found is that we had to be the only ones in the room. We would reserve a 4 bed mixed sex room because there were 4 of us. Sometimes we had a private bathroom, but not always. We never had any problems and our kids loved it.