Just google for hotels, motels and hostels for whatever town. It works, but sometimes less expensive options might not be listed, for which there may or might not be good reasons. The international youth hostel association or the one in the USA should have a list. I cycled and hosteled all around England, Scotland and Wales and much of western Europe. The books for hostels gave much information, not just about the locations of hostels, but also about phone numbers, open and closed seasons, directions from bus stops and train stations, rules, availability of food and more. I found European hostels more in the spirit of traveling on one's own steam than American hostels. In American hostels I saw almost nothing of hikers and cyclists. One had a rule of no Americans without a passport showing international travel within the past six months. Another had bad attitude characters hanging around. You have to make your choices when you get there. I saw the differences between the American hosteling scene and that in Europe. In Europe hostelers were bicycle tourists, hikers, and tourists using trains. Intended for those traveling by foot or bicycle, when a cyclist or hiker and a motorist showed up at the same time and only one bed was left, the bed went to the cyclist or hiker. In the USA hostels cater to young tourists, often foreigners, who travel by bus, train, rented cars and airplanes. Hostels are places where young travelers newly seeing the world gather with others of their age and experience. It matters not how you travel, whether you just cycled 10,000 miles and need a place to say in the city, or whether you just drove 10 miles from the airport. The idea of long distance cycling and hiking seems to be lost to so many people.
