How easy and cheap is it to live in a hostel in Spain?

Question

Im a former spanish student from london and want to move to spain for a year or two. Does anyone know how easy it is to find cheap accomodation over there? I would preferably be looking for somewhere in Barcelona but im open to suggestions.

Answer 1

Cheap, it depends if you want to sleep in a dormitory with other 10 pple or if you want to have your own room. prices might be around 30 euros for an individual room to 15 for a bed in a dormitory. It also depends on the hostel.

about easy: you just have too google hostel barcelona, or alberg barcelona or albergue barcelona and you'll find several  youth hostels. Check the websites, locations and prices, etc and book the one you like the most.

here you have one that seem quite nice but also expensive

http://www.peretarres.org/alberg/

Answer 2

Most hostels have a maximum of 7 days that you can stay there.  The best option for finding accomodation is to look on this website for a room in a share house (the prices are monthly unless stated otherwise) :  http://www.loquo.com/en_us

Stay in a hostel when you first arrive then you can look for somewhere cheaper.  It will be much cheaper to find share accomodation than to pay for a hostel.  Also when you walk around the streets you will see lots of ads stuck everywhere offering accomodation.