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I've been to the Adventurer Hotel which is the first on that list a long, long time ago. I would not recommend it. I had a layover at LAX, their bus pulled up r
by zappo2938 10y ago
I've been to the Adventurer Hotel which is the first on that list a long, long time ago. I would not recommend it. I had a layover at LAX, their bus pulled up right in front of me, and some kids said get on. The staff, all the girls were from Russia or Poland and the guys were from New Zealand, Australia, and one bloke from England, on the bus made a pit stop at the liqueur store. They bought at least 12 liters of booze. There wasn't a bar by the pool like in the pictures. They just set up a table by the pool. When the bus rolled in there was a prostitute on roller skates across the street and one prostitute half a block up 6 or 7 months pregnant. One guy says looks like roller girl is working tonight. The staff lived in the hotel rooms. This was during the Gulf War and the bus picked up two kids serving in the British army who just got a couple weeks leave. The Australian guy who worked at the front desk set up an elaborate plan to hook the soldiers up with a couple of the Russian girls who were waitresses in the bar. Early in the night he rounded a few of us up to pretend the party was in one of the empty hotel rooms. The staff were just people travelling from other countries working under the table. They just partied and partied with everyone who stayed there. He invited two Russian girls and the soldiers to join all of us in the room. As soon as they all got there the rest of us left. It worked because they ended up hanging out together all night. It just kept going on like that. It was wild and out of control. Frat parties are tame compared to what was going on there that night. There is no reason ever to stay there. If you do you will get bed bugs or hepatitis.
- apatters 10y agoMan, life was a lot more colorful before we started spending all our time behind a screen.
- mistermann 10y agoMan ain't that the sad truth.
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- jasonkester 10y agoI'm with you right up to the point where you say you don't recommend staying at this place. From your description, this sounds like every backpacker hostel, everywhere. Or at least what they aspire to be. Sadly, everything moves upmarket, and "hostel" tends to now translate to giant soulless hotel where they have two or three bunk beds in each room and no real shared space or opportunity to meet other travelers (who realistically would now be staring at their phone the entire time they were in one of those shared spaces, so you'd never meet them anyway). But what you describe used to be every night of your round the world trip. It was fun.
- 1337chan 10y agoI've found if you read the hostelworld reviews carefully, places that are described as "not a party hostel" tend to have a good sense of community.
- apatters 10y agoIt seems like everyone's trying to move upmarket and killing everything that was fun, unique or interesting about themselves in the process. It's not just businesses it's people too. Everyone wants to get the same soulless desk job, parrot the same inoffensive opinions, Instagram the same stupid travel and gym photos to show how worldly and fit they are, and sit in their same stupid Ubers so that they can interact with as little of the world as possible while moving through it. I live in a red light district and I get shit about it on a daily basis, but man, not once have I had a dull night and the stories people tell around here blow my goddamn mind. For sure you wouldn't want to live in this type of environment your whole life, but it's absolutely tragic to watch it all gentrifying and being replaced by lifeless condo developments and Au Bon Pain. I'll take the pregnant prostitutes and the alcoholic backpackers over Au Bon Pain any day because they have CHARACTER.