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Hostelworld vs the market.
Hostelworld prices 190 hotels — 2% of everything we track — across 4 cities. When another site quotes the same stay, it is the cheapest 26% of the time, over 353 contests.Too few contests yet for a place in the league (200 needed).
Prices as collected on 17 Sep 2026
Where Hostelworld wins. And where it doesn’t.
Every city with 100+ contests: how often it had the lowest price there, how many of the city’s hotels it quotes, and where its price usually sits. ★ marks the cities where it wins most often of any site.
Against the sites that win most.
Sites with a track record — 200 contests and 5% of the hotels — by how often they had the lowest price.
Where Hostelworld undercuts everyone today.
The same stay quoted by several sites today, and this one well under the median of the others. Gaps over 60% left out — usually a different room.
Hostelworld prices that just fell.
Offers on this site cheaper than the same site asked for the same stay over the previous days.
Compare another one.
Stuff people ask.
Answers written from today’s numbers, not a help page from 2019.
How much of the market does Hostelworld cover?
2% of it: 190 hotels with a current Hostelworld price out of 8,198 hotels priced by any site on 17 September 2026, spread over 15 cities.
How often is Hostelworld the cheapest?
In 26% of its contests: of the 353 contests on 17 September 2026 where Hostelworld and at least one other site quoted the same stay, it matched the lowest price 90 times. With 353 contests it is not yet ranked: a place in the league needs 200 contests and 5% of the hotels.
How does Hostelworld's price compare with the market?
Measured against the median site for the same stay on the same day, over 353 contests: Hostelworld's price typically sits 35% below the median site quoting the same stay — it undercuts the market more often than not.
How is a "contest" counted?
A contest is one stay on one scrape day where Hostelworld and at least one other site quoted the same hotel, dates and guests. Hostelworld "wins" when it matched the lowest price — ties count for everyone tied. "Against the market" is its distance from the median site in each contest, then the median of those distances. Room types are not reported by the sources, so a very large gap can be a different room rather than a lower price.
How up to date are these prices?
As of 17 September 2026: every figure here is a quote read from the site on that collection day, the latest of which was 17 September 2026. Nothing is live — a site can have moved since — so treat the numbers as the state of the market at collection, and the seller's page as the price.
Can I book through StayScope?
StayScope does not sell rooms. Every price links to the site that quoted it — a booking site or the hotel's own — and the booking happens there, at that site's terms.
Figures as of 17 Sep 2026.