If you are lucky enough to have a Apple iphone or ipod touch you can download Hostel Hero for free. Hostel Hero is a app for booking hostels and they currently have hostels listed from 150 different countries.

You can download content about hostels so that you can view it offline at a later date. With Hostel Hero you can also book your hostel via your iphone/ipod touch. This is very useful for those flashpackers carrying their iphones around the world. Personally I prefer the old fashioned way of travel by simply turning up and attempting to find a place to stay, but Hostel Hero will certainly prove useful to many.

Hostel Hero has plenty of hostel results with popular backpacking destinations such as Australia, but less so with places off the beaten track. This will probably improve as the application grows.

Do you currently use and cool travel apps? Do you think you’d use Hostel Hero? Let us know in the comments.