Hostels provide budget oriented, sociable accommodation where guests can rent a bed in a dorm. Good Hostels have kitchens, lockers, and curtains on beds. Hostels over 15 USD start to be a bad value, competing with Hotels.
Find and learn about Hostels of the world:
Countries where living in Hostels is best:
1. USA
2. Europe
3. Japan
4. South Korea
5. Australia
6. New Zealand
7. Canada
Normally, the Very High Developed countries on the HDI - Human Development Index, what I often call, the over-developed countries. Click Here
How to be in an empty Hostel?
1. Shower, and walk around before 10 am, then return after 10. Generally everyone slept late, then go be tourists after 10 or 12, and you have the hostel room to yourself.
Laundry in Hostels
1 Tire ropes around bottom bunk.
2. Hostels have machines 75 percent of time.
Bunkbeds
1. Room to sit below, and not hit head.
2. Curtains
3. Small light
4. 2 Electrical outlets per bed.
5. Small pocket to put smartphone inside, or shelf.
6. Hooks on end for towels.
7. Bars across ends, and side, dowel rod to hold a towel.
8. Drawers under bed, i.e. Malta
Lockers
1. Electrical plugs inside to charge smartphone, or computer.
2. Big enough to put inside a 40 liter backpack.
3. Able to use our own lock.
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Hostels provide budget oriented, sociable accommodation where guests can rent a bed, sometimes a bunk bed, in a dormitory and share a bathroom, lounge and sometimes a kitchen. Rooms can be mixed or single-sex, although private rooms may also be available. Hostels are generally cheaper for both the operator and the occupants; many hostels have long-term residents whom they employ as desk clerks or housekeeping staff in exchange for free accommodation.
In a few countries, such as the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia, the word hostel sometimes also refers to establishments providing longer-term accommodation (often to specific classes of clientèle such as nurses, students, drug addicts, court defendants on bail) where the hostels are sometimes run by Housing Associations and charities. In the rest of the world, the word hostel refers only to properties offering accommodation to travellers or backpackers.
Within the 'traveller' category, another distinction can be drawn between hostels which are members of Hostelling International (HI), a UK-based, non-profit organization encouraging outdoor activities and cultural exchange for the young (formerly the IYHA), and independently operated hostels. Hostels for travellers are sometimes called backpackers' hostels, particularly in Australia and New Zealand (often abbreviated to just "backpackers").
This type of travel is impossible in Europe now, because there is a shortage of rooms, overpriced, a bad value for the money, and the reservation systems force you to leave. Travel is now is never the days of Frommer's, Europe on 5 and 10 dollars a day: Arthur Frommer.
Hostels provide budget oriented, sociable accommodation where guests can rent a bed in a dorm. Good Hostels have kitchens, lockers, and curtains on beds. Hostels over 15 USD start to be a bad value, competing with Hotels.
The electricity went off, there are these micro bugs fluttering up against the light of my computer screen. There are rooster crowing, large truck noises, I am in a new country, a new culture, this is the real world.
Wed, 4 Aug 2010 04:03:19