Staying in a hostel is not for the faint of heart.
IaskedourBuzzFeed Communityto tell me about their experiences staying in hostels.
Here are some of their wildest stories:
1.
“My hostel in London had triple bunks, with probably close to 30 people in the room.
We all shut up fairly quickly after that!”
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3.
The hostel we were staying in was a nightmare.
The next day, my ex and I decided to go to another hostel.
“My friend and I stayed in a hotel in Paris 15 or so years ago.
Everyone there, all strangers, started singing along.
It was sweet.”
TK, Seattle, Washington
6.
I noticed one of the guys and introduced myself.
I will always owe that stay the love of my life, and I will never forget it."
He never used a hostel again."
“I traveled to Thailand by myself in 2016.
They were horrible dorm mates…”
9.
We booked a hostel upon arrival, which gave us a private room.
Frozen, we watch him open his eyes and say: Bonjour, Mademoiselles.
Good thing Frenchy was a gentleman."
“Mybest friendand I had booked tickets for Disneyland Paris.
We booked a cheap hostel to stay off-site.
The place’s ‘check-in desk’ was the bar with a mirror surface people did lines on.
We tried sleeping clothed, with our house keys between our fingers and left before the sun fully rose.
While we were there, it was terrifying.
prisabaloha
11.
We were all exhausted and reluctantly agreed.”
“We were a group, so we felt pretty safe.
When we got to the dorm, we found bunks near each other and settled in.
It was an awful night.
None of us slept.
The guys also farted all night, adding to the stink.
Mary, California
12.
“My friend woke up with bedbug bites.
She didn’t know what they were.
Thankfully, we didn’t bring any home with us.
Probably because we didn’t unpack anything from our suitcases and fled first thing in the morning.”
When training finished, they got back on track, and we continued.
I missed my connection and got to Salzberg at 3 a.m. in the pouring rain.
It was a great night; very bizarre.”
We got to the room, and my mother decided to take a bath.
“In the late ’90s, in college, I spent a semester in Ireland.
In Galway, we stayed at a hostel I had been to before.
I had called and made a reservation, indicating that two women needed a room.
Well, we got to the room.
I unlocked the door, and two young men were in their underwear, brushing their teeth.
We all froze and stared at each other.”
“Then I blurted out, ‘Hi!
We’re your roommates!
I’ll give you a moment to get dressed!’
We gave the guys 1015 minutes, then went back upstairs and knocked on the door.
We told them what the desk clerk had said and asked if they minded sharing the room.
We just needed a place to sleep.
They said yes, and we awkwardly introduced ourselves.
(We are American, and they were German, and thankfully, we all spoke English.)
And eventually, we all went to bed.
The following day, they were gone before my alarm even went off.
