Backpacker hostels get creative

Sleep in a former Singapore Airlines plane, pick up muay thai or experience the horrors of the Bosnian war at these properties

You can read all day at book-themed CaoJi Book Inn (above) in Tainan, where dormitory beds are tucked into book shelves.
You can read all day at book-themed CaoJi Book Inn (above) in Tainan, where dormitory beds are tucked into book shelves. PHOTO: JACLYNN SEAH
Comfort is the last thing you will feel at War Hostel Sarajevo, where conditions simulate life during the Bosnian War, complete with a war-themed lobby and thin mattresses in the rooms (above).
Comfort is the last thing you will feel at War Hostel Sarajevo, where conditions simulate life during the Bosnian War, complete with a war-themed lobby and thin mattresses in the rooms (above). PHOTO: ZERO ONE
Clara Lock
Travel Correspondent
Updated
Apr 21, 2019, 08:26 AM
Published
Apr 21, 2019, 05:00 AM
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When Ms Jaclynn Seah, 35, travels alone, she stays in backpacker hostels about 90 per cent of the time.

Besides being affordable places where it is easy to meet other travellers, some hostels are better designed than budget hotels.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on April 21, 2019, with the headline Backpacker hostels get creative. Subscribe

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