I was just browsing around reading NYT article on travel to NovaScotia and PEI and tumbled across this very innovative website which contains listings of accomodations in Canadian Universities during offseason which anybody can afford for accomodation or meeting purposes for a small fee.
Here's the website - http://www.connectoncampus.ca/resources.html
That's a very good use of existing infrastructure, which just lies around idle during the summer months when there is little to no activity. These kind of resources would be a boon to budget consious travelers or solo travelers or backpackers, who can take a break in clean place.
It would be really good, if some schools or colleges did the same in India, where in summer months there's absolutely no activity in schools - and backpackers to india would like to stay in a dorm/ room in these places than in a dingy room of a filthy hotel, in some shady neighbourhood.
An even more interesting (but i am pretty sure, not always) way to find cheaper temporary accomodation is this great idea called "crash on my couch" - http://www.couchsurfing.org/
In this website, people who have some spare space - couch or bed offers it to a traveler who needs a place to crash. Check the number of people offering a couch, all over the world! That's some amazing and ingenious idea.
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