I've just looked at a Youth Hostel Map. Not a lot of use for Hadrians Wall, or the Lyke Wake, but it might be worth keeping in mind. I used to use them a lot in my youth and there are certainly fewer on the ground today but I believe that they might be just a bit more comfortable. However I CAN'T speak from current experience. https://www.yha.org.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/PDFs/Maps/YHA_Network_Map_2018.pdf
I am going to walk in the cheviots for a couple of days and have booked into Wooler youth hostel. £44 per night en suite room. Basic but ideal location.
Cheers. Incidentally, I organised a stag weekend including Whitby ... the YHA there is brilliant and cheap.
Me and our lass are doing all the YHA in the Lakes believe it or not but I think there is only 27 the rest have been bought by private companies they were telling us they weren’t sure if anybody had done that yet.
The Association were gifted many of these fabulous buildings by well meaning philanthropists. It's an absolute ****ing scandal if things like this are allowed to happen as it has with the Scouts, etc. The whole point of these organisations was to get kids off their arses and learn to appreciate things outside of their existence. At a time when the only exercise some get is running their thumbs over a screen these buildings should be treasured and packed out ... .... by ****ing force if necessary
Another post quotes over £40 a night but at a standard unheard of when I used the YHA. But it's a sort of chicken and egg. They were very popular when I was a teenager because a kid from Hendon, with little money, could get on his bike on Saturday lunchtime, after work and cycle to Whitby then come home on Sunday in time for tea. From memory it cost only a few bob the current equivalent would be about £5 to £8 a night. But in the effort to provide comforts they may well have priced themselves out of the market they were originally meant for. If so it's sad, but I don't have any answers.
We had a disappointing walk yesterday from Watchet to Blue Anchor, near Minehead, along the coastal path. The path is right on the cliff edge and looks unsafe at various points. We didn't see anyone else all the way there. As we neared the end there was a sign saying the path had been closed due to landslides and a diversion, via the main road, which we didn't fancy. So we did the last mile on a condemned clifftop path listening for creaking sounds, we heard a few but it turned out to be my knees When we arrived in Blue Anchor the lovely 17th century pub, after which the village is named, was closed down because the beer garden had collapsed into the sea! We gave it up and hitched a lift back to Watchet to eat there under the statue of the Ancient Mariner ... ... when we got home we Googled the poem and read it through, I'd forgotten just how good it was.
