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I'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, ev
by jasonkester 10y ago
I'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.