I think the issue is the guides. Prague, I made the mistake of going into a "party hostel". (I won't pretend my 20s were anything but wild but... you shouldn't

I think the issue is the guides. Prague, I made the mistake of going into a "party hostel". (I won't pretend my 20s were anything but wild but... you shouldn't party in the hostel, you should sleep, cook, and bathe there and party out in the city.) Unlike other places where the pub crawls were a separate set of people it was just like... some of the staff stayed on after work? They would goad the folks walking between bars to sing and yell. (And goad the girls to overdrink) I ended up nearly getting into a fight with one of them about the last bit - he told someone to do another shot, I was like lady you're like five feet tall and ninety pounds and there's like three more stops if you do three shots at each you might die, he got pissed and said "here's some water" and dumped one on me. Then some Czech guy sitting the next booth over who he'd assumed couldn't speak English was like what are you trying to pull and got amused I was nearly fighting the hostel staff, he thought we were just bunkmates. Told me they should be paying you not him and took me to the next leg of their journey to calm down. Ended up having a bunch of water in the corner of some club I couldn't fully appreciate (very nice club, I probably wouldn't have been let in w/o someone putting me on a list), then walking back near morning to sleep for a bit then check out and move deeper into the EU by train. Anyways... it was certainly an adventure, and to be clear Prague was very nice outside the party aspect -- I spent a whole day in Old Town just admiring the architecture... but that night kind of Signaled to me I was getting too old for hostels, which made me sad since I didn't really get to travel until late in life (by Eurotripping standards), so it was kind of my last hurrah but... a last hurrah means more like purposefully forgetting people's names and turning off your phone not -- being a huge jerk because you think you can hop a border :-) Anyways TL;DR: I suspect the issue is often the hostels and/or tour guides actively encouraging people to be antisocial... the party I was with was pretty chill until they got goaded into singing between pubs. It's my understanding a lot of people get woken up by that if it's not a weekend in the old town and adjacent areas.