poshtel

plural poshtels

1. informalAn upscale or luxury hostel.

   Was it some sort of marketing ploy to drive the declining tourist revenues? More importantly, did it live up to the hype? I strolled around this poshtel in search of answers.

   2009 August 15, Louisa Lim, “The ‘poshtel’”, in The Star, Malaysia

   2 more examples

   The boutique Safestay hostel, a so-called “poshtel”, is to be floated on AIM by way of a demerger from Safeland, the property company that formed the business three years ago in a joint venture with Moorfield Group.

   2014 March 21, Dominic Walsh, “Safestay takes its poshtel to market”, in The Times, UK

   Should you make it to one of the most popular places, Britain, you may want to experience a rising trend: the so-called poshtel, a kind of elegant hostel such as Hoax or Safe­stay.

   2015, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Where Will Americans Travel in 2015?”, in The New York Times