Most people don’t think of hosteling when they think of the Caribbean, but the dirt-cheap accommodations that have made backpacking across Europe an affordable rite of passage for millions of young travelers over the years do, in fact, exist throughout the region.
Even knowing this, you might assume that Caribbean hostels would be confined to the urban centers of the larger islands, but you can actually find ‘em within more tropical settings in such smaller destinations as Dominica, Tobago, and St. John. Good online resources for Caribbean hostels can be found here, here and here.
With their low-low prices, hostels always qualify as a good deal, but we found one in Martinique that offers a whole lot more.