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Best hostels in India

Fun/social-ranked hostels across India. Punk Score is the best available evidence that guests actually have a good time together, calibrated onto the 0-100 UI.

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We read reviews on Hostelworld, Booking.com, and Google Maps and flag two things right on the cards: bed-bug reports, and reviews that read bought or incentivized. The bed-bug detector is the Punk AI Language Model, a small in-house classifier.

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Top hostel cities in India

Cities ranked by recent hostel demand plus the strongest Good-or-better Punk Score signals.

Top hostels overall in India

Pondicherry · India

Micasa Hostels Pondicherry

Punk Score
37% SHIT
High confidence 306 reviews
Lucknow · India 4th best in Lucknow

Backpackers Den

Punk Score
36% SHIT
Medium confidence 135 reviews
135 reviews $8 dorm · $21 priv View
Khajuraho · India

Moustache Khajuraho

Punk Score
38% SHIT
Medium confidence 269 reviews
269 reviews $3 dorm · $16 priv View
Nainital · India Best in Nainital

goSTOPS Nainital

Punk Score
35% SHIT
High confidence 920 reviews
920 reviews $15 dorm · $30 priv View
Bikaner · India

Sankhu Niwas

Punk Score
35% SHIT
Medium confidence 156 reviews
Bikaner · India

Partap Mahal

Punk Score
38% TINY SAMPLE
Low confidence 40 reviews
Jaipur · India

Vinayak Guesthouse

Punk Score
36% SHIT
High confidence 513 reviews
513 reviews $4 dorm · $9 priv View
Agra · India

Friends Guest House & Hostel

Punk Score
34% SHIT
High confidence 525 reviews
525 reviews $4 dorm · $6 priv View
Varanasi · India

Madsquad Varanasi

Punk Score
34% SHIT
High confidence 2,368 reviews
2368 reviews $9 dorm · $18 priv View
New Delhi · India

Hide-In Hostel Delhi

Punk Score
34% SHIT
High confidence 524 reviews
524 reviews $14 dorm · $63 priv View
Jaisalmer · India

Mariyan Safari Hostel Jaisalmer

Punk Score
34% SHIT
Medium confidence 195 reviews
195 reviews $5 dorm · $3 priv View
Jaipur · India

goSTOPS Lite Jaipur

Punk Score
34% SHIT
High confidence 928 reviews
928 reviews $4 dorm · $15 priv View
Sawai Madhopur · India Best in Sawai Madhopur

Aditya Resort

Punk Score
32% SHIT
Medium confidence 84 reviews