I'd like to visit Yellowknife because I've been meaning to come up there from NW Ontario to run the YK Marathon, which is in mid-August...I have a few questions for those who are locals... I do a lot of advanced planning as far as saving money and never travel with a car. I've travelled to Windsor and Niagara Falls for very cheap, usually what I'll do is stay at a hostel - the ones in Toronto aren't bad if you plan ahead, and I have found that most of the time I can make it comfortably and with very little money. So I'm looking to make the most of my time while spending as little as possible - rather than blowing all my money and being able to stay only a few days, I'd rather save it and last for a week or so to really see if Yellowknife is the place for me (I'm ready for a change, but this is a change where the nearest metro area is a 24 hour drive away, and as much as I've watched so many shows from the NWT and read stories of people who fell in love with the NWT from the second they arrived, it may or may not be for me. But I'll have to see. Is there a gym/fitness centre downtown? Are there hostels in Yellowknife or low-cost accommodations - do the student dorms rent out during the summer? Is the downtown kind of sketchy and vacant like