Youth Hostel, Ooty  is a Home away from Home. It’s a joint venture of the Government of India and Government of Tamilnadu. Youth Hostels provide simple accommodation at moderate cost for three days at a time. It is a place for forming friendship, recreation and informal education. It provides young people on their educational excursions inexpensive hostelling facilities in the form of dormitories – separate for ladies and gents.  It is a non-religious, non-political, non-commercial unit transcending barriers of caste, creed or social background. Youth Hostels are not to be mistaken for luxury homes; nor are they to be mistaken for residential hostels, which provide boarding lodging for long periods