Hostelworld.com Travel Podcasts

Colm presents this podcast live from the 6th Annual Hostelworld.com Hoscar Awards Ceremony. The Hoscars were selected from over 600,000 Hostelworld.com reviews that were left by customers in 2007.

Colm speaks to Jon Fauver of Outdoor Interlaken, Interlaken's leading ski school, to find out which is harder to pick up - skiing or snowboarding? In this podcast Colm also learns when the ski season starts and ends and more

Join Hostelworld.com's Colm Hanratty and his friend Richie Talbot as they get the lowdown on the famous festival and go on an 'Oktoberfest Tent Test', visiting seven of the fourteen main tents.

Eating a gyros or a souvlaki is a much a part of a trip to Athens as visiting the Acropolis. The only problem is that you may not know the difference between the two. Colm speaks to Dimitris Bairaktaris and Vicky Moutsiounas from Athens famous Bairaktaris restaurant to find out the difference between the two.

Colm travels to Edinburgh to present this podcast live from 2007's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. At the festival he speaks to Jody Kamali, star of the one-man show 'Backpacker', Maeve Higgins, one of Ireland's top stand-up comics, press officer Duncan Fraser to find out how big the festival is, along with other performers at the largest arts festival in the world.

There are many things that you can only find in Japan, and two of these are types of accommodation - ryokans (traditional Japanese inns) and capsules. To learn more about them, Colm speaks to Kunio Koike of Homeikan, one of Tokyo's few traditional ryokans, and Toshikazu Odaijma of Capsule Inn Akihabara.

Join Colm as he walks down Bangkok's Khao San Road, the world's most famous road with backpackers. Armed with nothing but his dictaphone, he speaks to travellers from all over the world about where they've been, what they miss most about home, drinking 'buckets' and eating bugs!

Azman Ibrahim of Petronas speaks to Colm on the Skybride of Kuala Lumpur's famous Petronas Towers. In this podcast he tells him how you can get access to the bridge, what Petronas actually do and the impression Sean Connery made on him!

Rizuan Smile, bartender in The Long Bar in Singapore's famous Raffles Hotel, tells Colm exactly what goes into the famous cocktail.

Colm speaks to 'Hopper', manager of Perth's The Witch's Hat hostel and former Western Australia tour guide about the best stops on the coast of his beloved home state.

Colm speaks to Patrick Keane of the Australian Football League about the rules of his country's national sport, Aussie Rules football.

Planning on taking up surfing when you come to Australia? Listen to some tips from an expert as Colm talks to Paul Vella from Surf Camp Australia about what you need to do to pick up the sport.

Trent Johnson, bus driver with Magic Bus, one of New Zealands top tour operators, tells Hostelworld.coms Colm Hanratty what he thinks are the highlights of the countrys South Island

While it isn't the biggest country in the world, the list of places to see and things to do in New Zealand is endless. Colm met 'Chops', a driver with Magic Bus, one of the countrys top tour operators, to find out the highlights of New Zealands North Island.

Heard of a pub crawl? Where you call into loads of pubs in the one night? Well join Colm as he embarks on a 'wedding chapel crawl', calling into six different wedding chapels in the same evening on Las Vegas Boulevard in Sin City.