How to live in a Hostel:
1) Try to avoid, if possible. Visits are okay, but don't move in to the joint.
2) Pack light - the less stuff you have to futz with, the better. On the flipside, you don't want to be wearing the same pants for five days. Just don't plan on the luxury of being able to dress according to mood.
3) Abandon your sense of privacy. It is very difficult to be alone in a hostel, especially if you book a bed in the "24-bed male/female" room. This can make going to the showers a little tricky (private stalls, though, so rest easy), but if you plan ahead and make a "bathroom bundle" out of your towel and delicates, it's not too big a deal (but, oh yeah, bring flip flops!). Also, the sooner you get over having to share a couch with a stranger in order to have a good read, the sooner you'll be able to have a comfy seat by the fireplace. If you want to avoid talking to people, bring headphones. See below:
4) Bring appropriate earware. Earplugs for the night-time, headphones for the daytime, or while your walking to wherever you're going. The earplugs are especially important, since there are perhaps a dozen things that will conspire to keep you up at night, if you don't. Snoring is the most obvious of these. If you spend a considerable amount of time in a hostel, the number of people you share a room with who seem to have, or to have developed, the capacity to out-snore a pack of bears will truly shock you. That's only a mild exaggeration. The principle of night-time earware carries over to eyeware, as well. Flashlights, though they cast a less ubiquitous beam than a room light, are still visible to nearly everything in the room and can be a major annoyance when your bunkmates are waving them around at 3:00am looking for their toothbrush.
5) Get up early. It's good for you, and you'll have first pick of bagels at the breakfast bar.
6) Enjoy the experience, for all the weirdness that it is worth. Take advantage of what hostels were made for: providing cheap room and board for people who want to see an interesting place.
7) Appreciate your home when you return there.
End Transmission.
1) Try to avoid, if possible. Visits are okay, but don't move in to the joint.
2) Pack light - the less stuff you have to futz with, the better. On the flipside, you don't want to be wearing the same pants for five days. Just don't plan on the luxury of being able to dress according to mood.
3) Abandon your sense of privacy. It is very difficult to be alone in a hostel, especially if you book a bed in the "24-bed male/female" room. This can make going to the showers a little tricky (private stalls, though, so rest easy), but if you plan ahead and make a "bathroom bundle" out of your towel and delicates, it's not too big a deal (but, oh yeah, bring flip flops!). Also, the sooner you get over having to share a couch with a stranger in order to have a good read, the sooner you'll be able to have a comfy seat by the fireplace. If you want to avoid talking to people, bring headphones. See below:
4) Bring appropriate earware. Earplugs for the night-time, headphones for the daytime, or while your walking to wherever you're going. The earplugs are especially important, since there are perhaps a dozen things that will conspire to keep you up at night, if you don't. Snoring is the most obvious of these. If you spend a considerable amount of time in a hostel, the number of people you share a room with who seem to have, or to have developed, the capacity to out-snore a pack of bears will truly shock you. That's only a mild exaggeration. The principle of night-time earware carries over to eyeware, as well. Flashlights, though they cast a less ubiquitous beam than a room light, are still visible to nearly everything in the room and can be a major annoyance when your bunkmates are waving them around at 3:00am looking for their toothbrush.
5) Get up early. It's good for you, and you'll have first pick of bagels at the breakfast bar.
6) Enjoy the experience, for all the weirdness that it is worth. Take advantage of what hostels were made for: providing cheap room and board for people who want to see an interesting place.
7) Appreciate your home when you return there.
End Transmission.
posted by napalmbrain at
4:39 PM
1 Comments:
I have only stayed at a hostel once. It was in Hawaii. I'm pretty sure I got scabies. May you be protected from such problems.
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