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We stayed in YHA hostels during our whole trip, which you share a room with 3 other people and have a community bathroom.

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I stayed at the Exeter YHA which is right on the river, I thought the walk into town along the river would be awesome, instead I took the bus.

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I stayed at the Exeter YHA which is right on the river, I thought the walk into town along the river would be awesome, instead I took the bus.

Drowning in Exeter HayleyM 2008

After the zoo, I got a drive to the YHA which is quite a nice one.

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Main Beach YHA which is located at the center of activity - we got our Sea World tickets from there at a discount and also managed to leave our back-packs while we visited Sea

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• YHA Wastwater 0845 371 9350, yha.org.uk has rooms from £13.95pp.

Where I find inspiration … 2011

Yes, I know, but once you're over the initial shock it makes perfect sense, and there are now a number of YHA hostels with their own little campsites attached.

The 10 best secluded campsites 2011

Mar–Oct; £8.50 per person per night plus £3 YHA membership fee per person per night or £14.35 per year; 07747 174293If it weren't for the fact that Latin is a long-dead language, you could be forgiven for thinking that the phrase multum in parvo much in little was coined specifically with The Buzzards in mind.

The 10 best secluded campsites 2011

• 14 Noel Street W1, 0845 371 9133, yha.org.uk, under-18s £12.50 (£3 extra for non-members), adults £16.65 Offering a completely different vibe to the YHA's brash modern Oxford Street affair (see above), a wing of the building was built in 1607 as a Jacobean mansion.

10 of the best hostels in London 2011

• 78 King's Cross Road WC1, +44 020-7183 9400, clinkhostels.com, from £16pp After years of trying, the YHA has finally shrugged off its image of huge dorms populated by earnest young people drying out their anoraks over a lukewarm radiator.

10 of the best hostels in London 2011