The phrase "as a hostel for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose or function of a place, specifically indicating that it serves as accommodation for travelers or guests.
Example: "The old building was repurposed as a hostel for backpackers looking for affordable lodging."
Alternatives: "serving as a hostel for" or "functioning as a hostel for".
The rooms upstairs, it transpires, are used as a hostel for backpackers.
The convent sometimes serves as a hostel for potential "urban pioneers," and the middle school as a gallery and studio space.
In order to maintain its extremely high success rate in preparing veterans for independent living, the charity wants to enlarge and modernise the building, which has been used as a hostel for homeless ex-servicemen since 1973.
In order to maintain its extremely high success rate in preparing veterans for independent living, the charity wants to enlarge and modernise the building, which has been used as a hostel for homeless ex-servicemen and women since 1973.
The modern hostel, located in Whitechapel, opened in 2014 after the European chain refurbished a building that originally opened in 1865 as a hostel for British Merchant Navy seaman.
Not only that, but Auberge Nicolas Flamel, as the restaurant at 51, rue Montmorency, is known, was initially opened by Flamel and his wife, Pernelle, as a hostel for the poor.
Meanwhile Ashley McGuire, as the manager of a hostel for young people, with a degree in "psycho-social" and a lifelong ambition to work with offenders, is phlegmatic and unassumingly dedicated: facing the audience, she raises a collusive eyebrow.
Baden-Powell House provides a hostel for people visiting London.
When a few visitors recently camped out in the school library, which serves as a makeshift hostel for journalists and state officials, a swarm of smiling and inquisitive elementary school kids peppered them for information: name, age, place of origin.
