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1. I'm curious about other people's experiences in hostels. Especially the ones which are a little odd. 9 out of 10 times it's amazing, but there is always that odd one out.
All right, I'll go first.
I was once staying at a hostel in Berlin, during covid. Because of covid, Germany closed all of the hostels, and all travelers of other hostels were rebooked into a hotel, which happened to have dorm rooms. So there was this Swedish guy, who was there already for 5 months, who liked to drink his home made liquer and go out every night. This one night he came back at around 4 o'clock. He entered to room, grabbed my feet for a few seconds, and then went to bed. Needles to say, I didn't sleep for the rest of the night
On a solo trip to Edinburgh I was four feet away from another American girl who had come back to the 12-bunk dorm to have impossibly loud sex with a French guy who kept giggling (??). At some point in the early morning her top bunk mate kept saying her name, trying to wake her up, saying their flight was in an hour. The French guy was literally still in her bed when the top bunk mate got up, packed her bag and left. By the time the sun came up the French guy got up butt naked and walked out, and an hour later the girl herself got up and left. I was left with 8 other Irish guys who were there for a bachelor party to banter about what the hell that all was.
2. Oh boy, first night in Hanoi this aussie dude comes back at 3am and proceeds to loudly chow down on this girl in the bed next to me for like 40 min, could smell the coochie with my head turned the other way. Hoi An the hostel was absolutely loaded with cockroaches (like alot of places but this one was insane) turned the bathroom lights on and every surface was covered in them before they disappeared behind every part of the bathroom, in the morning there was dozens of their corpses all throughout the room from everyone stepping on them during the night. Got eaten alive by fleas or something in Laos and the list goes on. If your in southeast asia and have the coin spend the extra 2-5 dollars a night for a private room at a guesthouse and save yourself the pain.
3. We went down to Vung Tau, Vietnam, paid a bit extra this specific night for private rooms in a nice guesthouse. A friend was in the next room over. During the night we heard a blood-curdling scream from next door. Fearing the worst, we ran into her room. A cockroach had crawled into her water bottle and was still alive when she took a sip.
4. I got food poisoning in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. The hostel had to have a major issue with a faulty water tank that night and none of the toilets could flush until the repair guy could come in the next day. For that entire night, all occupants were forced to use the same toilets that wouldnt flush, backed up with bodily fluids and feces collectively. And I would periodically have to run to them, and hover my face over them as I vomited. I just couldnt gain even slight comfort due to this. The experience made the food poisoning exponentially worse.
In a 10 bed room in Rome. (Co-ed)
5. There were two 20 something year old women from China who would go into the bathroom after the bathroom was cleaned and flood the bathroom to the point that the dorm floor would also be flooded. They did this by washing their undergarments in the shower with the door to the shower open. My first roommate at university was an exchange student from China so I understand this is a cultural difference that they wash their underwear daily. The problem is that the bathroom and dorm floor wouldn't just be flooded absolutely everything in the bathroom was soaked including the toilet paper. Luckily my bunk was the top because anyone who had stuff on the floor ended up with soaked clothes and belongings.
A guy from Brazil would come back to the hostel every night at 3am completely drunk and blast techno music while turning the lights on and off yelling "WHEN IN ROME!!"
6. I ended up with the flu the last day I was in Rome. I was so miserable and stayed in bed the whole last day. That night when going back to my bunk after using the bathroom I slipped in the water and ready hurt myself. I just went to bed and silently cried until I had to be up for my flight the next morning.
7. When I got back to Spain, where I was living at the time, I had to go to the doctor due to pain from my fall. Turns out I sprained my ACL and had a labral tear, so the horror of that stay took several weeks to heal.
8. Stayed in an eight-bunk hostel room in Chiang Mai where a guy apparently had night terrors or something. Several times that night I woke up and he was screaming in his bunk, he'd go for 10 seconds or so then just go back to snoring.
Had the most expensive pair of hiking boots I've ever owned (worth about 300 USD) stolen in Laos. I don't usually buy boots that pricey but these were really good boots, was a bummer to lose them. They smelled awful too, kind of ridiculous that someone lifted them.
Woke up in Munich and had something on my cheek, it was something sticky, then noticed it was all over me. The bedding had chewing gum all through it, but like a really thin layer and not a clump, I think someone must've spit their gum into the bedding and it went through the washer/dryer, spreading it all through the sheets.
Even More funny than a horror story but I think some people would find this horrifying... In Bratislava I had a private room with an en suite bathroom, woke up in the middle of the night (kind of hammered) and stumbled into the bathroom, or so I thought ... I actually walked out into the dark hallway wearing nothing but underwear and my door locked behind me. Had to walk down from the fourth floor into the common area and reception in bare feet and my undies, the staff member at the front desk laughed her ass off, said it wasn't the first time she'd seen this happen. Thankfully there weren't very many people still up in the common area.
Pretty sure I ran into the same night terror guy in Cambodia lol… I came in late from the airport around midnight, I snuck into my dorm, climbed up into the top bunk. 10min later this guy in the bunk next to me sits up, looks at me and screams at the top of his lungs. I yelled back “WTF!?!?” He just stared at me, really dark skinnned guy from Ghana IIRC. All I saw was the whites of his eyes. It was creepy. Then he just laid down and went back to sleep.
It took me a solid hour to relax again. The next morning I asked him what was wrong and he said he saw a ghost… 👍🏻
9. I also locked myself out of a hostel thinking it was the bathroom. This was the red light district in Amsterdam. I was 16, naked in nothing but a towel, and the reception was in another building at the end of the street. I had to walk down the street, during the 2010 World Cup. I…didn’t get as much stares as I’d thought, surprisingly, but the receptionist found it hilarious when giving me another key.
10. Sleeping in a hostel with bunk beds on the coast of Thailand. Random Lithuanian mother and daughter sharing the room with me. The AC is above my bed (I’m on top bunk).
11. They won’t stop talking loudly in Lithuanian, though basically just the mum monologuing and the daughter giving one word answers. It last hours and they are talking until 2am, even after I ask them to stop multiple times. Eventually I get down, point at the time and tell them to shut the fuck up. Seems to do the trick.
Then at 3am they wake me up asking to turn the AC off, so I turn it off because even though it’s insanely hot I can’t be bothered to argue. Then I wake up at 6am itching like crazy, and turns out they wanted the AC off so they could open the door to the coast overnight and let every single mosquito in. They seemed to just feast on me, and I counted 47 bites across my entire body in the morning.
At a hostel in Barcelona, I was traveling solo because my friend got food poisoning in San Sebastián. The front desk employee was super creepy from the moment I checked in, trying to flirt and making suggestive comments. He booked me into an empty 4 person room saying it would fill up later and lingered after letting me in.
I hit it off with 4 awesome Canadians in the room next door who all noticed the hostel worker’s fixation on me. They invited me out with them and we partied, then came back late.
That night, we noticed that my dorm was still empty. The Canadians wanted me to bunk with them to be safe, but I insisted it would be fine and that I’d lock the door just in case.
After I turned the lights off, I got a bit uneasy but decided to power through. Not too long after, I heard the door knob jiggle and I have never been so scared in my life.
I could never confirm if it was or wasn’t the hostel worker. He probably didn’t live there and if he did, he would have a key I’m sure. But the next day, the Canadians dragged a mattress for me into their room and the 2 men in the group made sure to accompany me at all times. The worker noticing this steered clear. Thank god for kind fellow travelers!
Two occurrences in the same hostel in Malaga. There was a free evening sangria event and one guy went to hard and got out of control. Ended up biting his own phone and ruining it, went to bed early and urinated on himself. Proceeded to wake up and appear in common area still nasty drunk topless and accuse people of peeing on him! It got quite confrontational and police had to be called eventually. Second thing was a different night and someone else decided it was ideal to hide behind the curtains in the dorm room whilst everyone was sleeping and start rubbing himself whilst looking out the window. He was going at it so much it woke people up and they called him out on it. He was asked to leave. Just for clarity I was volunteering in this hostel and spent more than just a few nights stay. It was actually really nice and I have loads of amazing memories during my time there too..
I went for the cheapest bed in an Edinburgh hostel: one bunk in an eight-bed mixed dorm. I'm American, and slightly relevant that I am female.
First night I was the only person there, sweet.
Next night, every bed was occupied by some construction workers in town for a job during the week. I pretended to sleep while they shot the shit amongst themselves. I could not understand a single word they were saying with their strong (I believe) midlands accents. Except-
Every five minutes or so one of them would fart, and clear as a bell these big burly workers would say "WHOOPSIE DAISY!"
An hour of gibberish - fart - WHOOPSIE DAISY! It was hilarious
The worst was probably the one in London where there was a sink in the room and one of my roommates got back at 2:30ish every night and brushed her teeth with an electric toothbrush for over 20 minutes (I timed it). Just bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz for like 2:30-3AM every night.
The very first night I stayed in a hostel I was incredibly jetlagged and slept like a rock (which is very unlike me). I woke up and peered over the edge of the bed to find all my roommates awake, several hostel staff, and 3 EMTs in the room, loading someone onto a stretcher. I had absolutely slept through someone passing out, waking up, trying to get up again, having heart palpitations, and passing out again and then being attended by emergency services. It apparently had been 30+ minutes since everything started and I slept through it all. When my head emerged, one of the roommates was like "oh, thank god, we were about to ask them to check on you too because we were having trouble believing you were sleeping through all that!"
Funniest was sharing a dorm with a girl who snored and kept waking herself up with the noise and then "shushing" the room. I was absolutely dying trying to silently giggle through the whole thing-like tears streaming down my face. It went on for like 15 minutes-just a couple snores, a second or two of silence, "shhhhh!", another beat for her to fall back asleep, a couple snores, etc.