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Article: SUGGESTION #2; Bring Back Our Hostel
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- January 4, 2006
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DESPITE THEIR IMAGE as a haven for backpack-toting free spirits traveling on the cheap, hostels still live or die as a business. Pittsburgh's hostel, which opened in 1997 on Arlington Street in the Allentown neighborhood, got rave reviews from patrons who signed the guest book. "Brilliant," "amazing" and "clean," they enthused in 2002. "You have altered my life forever," wrote "Roger from Conn."
But the Pittsburgh Hostel died in 2003 when the nonprofit group running it, the Pittsburgh Hostelling International Council, ran out of money.
The first thing Pittsburghers need to consider when planning a new one, say the folks at Hostelling International-USA's Silver Spring, Md., headquarters, is ...