With 30 bucks and an open mind, you can stay in some prime spots in California — on the Pacific Beach boardwalk in San Diego, for example, or a block from Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica or ...

With 30 bucks and an open mind, you can stay in some prime spots in California — on the Pacific Beach boardwalk in San Diego, for example, or overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. We’re ...

This iconic 19th-century building is now a so-so hostel but it’s still worth staying for the hot tub, dramatic setting and incredible lighthouse itself Chaplin's fame is such that his name has been ...

The hot tub was burbling, the sun close to setting, the ocean below surging. I reclined and let the bubbles seep into my pores, the rays warm my weary shoulders, the repetitive sound of waves against ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SAN FRANCISCO – Around nine years ago, my friend Renae and I, grandmothers both, left for an adventure in England and Scotland, staying at five youth hostels ...

If I mentioned the word "hostels" you'd probably think of young backpackers bunking down in a dormitory. But these days, you won't believe what hostels have turned into. And the kinds of people we ...

A weekend at a family hostel in a light station on the California coast is filled with tide-pooling, stargazing and marking time by the beacon’s flash. By Bonnie Tsui It turns out that Pigeon Point ...