RE: Lake Worth's International Appeal

I was delighted to meet Mr. Winston Smith, CEO of the Hummingbird Hotel, here in Downtown Lake Worth yesterday - he bought the hotel about a year ago and has been refurbishing it to meet a variety of traveller's needs - including hostel style rooms (a hostel is a budget style accomodation, often with shared bathrooms, sometimes dormitory stye). I was delighted to learn this - my travels, for business and pleasure, particularly internationally, involve staying at hostels. Hostels draw a unique, dynamic international crowd that fits Lake Worth. Our international tourists have the luxury of staying downtown, renting bikes, walking to the beach, taking yoga classes, taking the tri-rail to Miami and enjoying the uniqueness of Lake Worth. Lake Worth is home of the ONLY hostel style accomodations in Palm Beach county. Well done Winston for identifying this unique niche here in Lake Worth and thank you for choosing Lake Worth.

Here's the link to our new hostel:

http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/HummingbirdHotel-PalmBeach-25812

Many people use www.hostelworld.com to book hostels and inexpensive international accomodations. Below are a few hostels that I've stayed at to give you an idea of this type of travel if you are not familiar with it:

http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/Eurohostel-Helsinki-1912 - stayed here for price, location – I was in Helsinki for a conference – hotels were more than 200USD/night. 165 rooms or so in this hostel and BOOKED SOLID – very clean and nice. Great experience there. Free sauna, of course in Helsinki.


http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/ItacaHostel-Barcelona-1279 - stayed here in Barcelona with my daughter – gothic location – walk to everything – near beach and downtown – no a/c but worth it because of location. 86% customer rating.

http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/CatsHostel-Madrid-6657 - 81% cust. rating – OLD building – very cool – I didn’t like that they had a bar – but it turned out okay – I would stay there again because the place is so unique. It was a 400 year old Arabic style castle.

Please read today's cover story in the Palm Beach Post titled, New tourism strategy pushes county's diverse diversions - very appropriate to our new niche in Lake Worth's tourism strategy.