BEGINNERS GUIDE TO HOSTELS (What to REALLY expect)

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and nothing hard if you've never been to a hostel you just wouldn't think you wouldn't know it that way yes so today we are going to really discuss the news topic our knowledge could be both spent years in hostels now side to live in you I would say we know we're pretty protests all going where we've stayed on our bed some enough I still say them now and it's actually still my preferred way to travel and even though you know some people go to hostels because it's the cheapest and they can only afford to travel that way but actually I still choose to travel is like you meet the most people in a hostel like it it's so much more fun and so much more sociable I know it's the best way to travel for back package right now so we're going to start with the beginning all right at the beginning of the day and that is alarm clock some people don't like to set our minds and hostel I definitely think it's necessary you got to get up for activity or something or going to gets like yes absolutely but there are a few things with alarms that you should probably be aware of / do / do not do because some people will have just had a crazy night out and they will be looking to light in so on so you're having a LAN set it's going to disrupt that but if you do it in a in the right way and these things in mind so at that booth if you set an alarm please make sure that you can wake up to it and I'm elderly but I have seen in several Hospital in fact nearly every console that I'm staying there is always someone there our last goes off in the morning they just don't wake up to it and it's just going that you know when you doing everyone else done but not a person like no make sure you can wake up to an alarm otherwise you're going to have about three or four pillows in your face also if you get up zero make sure you turn it off and don't just move it because if you then go for a shower which I'm sure you might do if you're going up and it's going to go it goes off again it's got a piss people off and if the shower you know is so loud you can't hear it everyone else in the room is waking up and it is very nice it's actually happened to me before and I've been that person but everyone hates and I'm obviously I'm Emma it's been when I went in the shower and it was an ensuite and I was literally just like mid shower and I could hear my alarm going off and all that yeah so you're not going to make that many friends no you're not don't you it looks good the second scenario is lights on in the morning so say you want to get up at 6 or 7 a.m. would you turn the lights on do you think that's acceptable or is that acceptable no not the main light so every dorm will usually have like a main light system and then most of these days I find and have personal likes that each fed will have its own plug a mini like reading light and that's a really good perk of a hospital if it does do that I sometimes do look for that in a hostel because it's super useful and if you're getting up early and rocking around bars which is very irritating and to minimize that ruffling and that morning disturbance I would definitely say make sure and your bags are packed as much as you can't do as much as you can the night before so in the morning you know there's mineral disturbance for everyone else's still asleep and actually if you've got a 4 a.m. flight or something oh good yeah and someone gets in at 2 a.m. from that out I kind of go with if it's light outside already I might just open her curtain just a little bit so you get a bit of natural light and then you can see what you're doing if it's still dark outside I'd probably just try and use a torch in for myself way around I know it is easier sometimes to switch the main light on I mean if it's really really necessary switch on but switch off as soon as you can because it it is very nice but then another way to get around that and I get rolling around that if you are the sleeper in a situation because I'm like that that is my number one backpacking essential actually taking a sleeping mask so that you know there's no like to service to electricity they'll help you in so many situations yeah another problem at my arrive in the morning is annoys people being super noisy I reckon if they're still asleep do keep your noise to a minimum and if you do want to Skype someone first will definitely don't do that in the room I mean most of the times the rooms don't have Wi-Fi anyway I find but don't just go right outside the room because a lot of the times in hostels the walls and people are still going to hear you so if you do want to not necessarily make noise but like have a full blown conversation with someone move away from the fleeces hall still have common rooms that hostels have social rooms like they they accommodate for all of these situations so make sure you just use them so I'm going to even have my internet rooms with computers and places to make phone calls so just be really aware and respectful of people in your room and lastly behind those common rooms are open 24/7 so you don't need to worry oh like I need to Skype my parents at 2:00 in the morning I don't know I need to do that time zones or whatever these aren't rules like everyone in hostels and if you're traveling everyone is on different timeframes and time together some people might be relaxing when they're in something also some like being are doing activity after activity so you still do what you need to do but just be respectful and they need to be a bit mindful about it intertwining with like treat others as you would like to be treated if you want to be sleeping in someone's basic allows room you wouldn't like that no just be mindful of other people what you would like and what you wouldn't and it's just about respecting other people's thanks this is an interesting on aerosol sprays because I've always been told that you should never spray might be Sun cream bug spray deodorant hair spray I personally think is not really nice to spray aerosol sprays at all even if it's a really unoffensive sense to use though it might be like a really nice fume or whatever some people in the room don't like it you don't know if they do or not but let's assume that they do they may even have like an allergy or something you like you don't know that they're not just going to collapse you and go hi I'm allergic to aerosol thread I know it's something to be aware of and I would just do it in the bathroom or outside if that's possible looks great definitely outside if you can do outside then do it outside some things I know you don't want to go all the way downstairs outside clicking deodorant on yeah very excessive but if you want to be excessively you know you're do not proper hair up when you go as a hairspray like if the bathroom is like you know that one of main bathrooms or yes you might also nice well I think that's going to be like the sort of sum up of all of these points on English is it appropriate to walk around in your underwear in a dorm room I I only do if you gauge the situation you know who's in your room and you're comfortable with them and you know that they probably wouldn't care less if you're walking around in your underwear if I didn't know anyone in the room and or if I thought sort of like a little bit creepy I definitely wouldn't I have actually had situation I was in Melbourne and obviously you want to keep your shower time to a minimum cause you're sharing a room with other people so I you know do what's possible in the bathroom that I come out other people can use it so sometimes that means coming out in my underwear and in Martin's warehouse like drama sells Macau and like we had a new team member store member come in and I was like ah again actually it kind of broke the awkwardness there not like I would make it I would never be naked in a dorm room um but please don't do that everything else some people might like it but I know no rules but I'm going to assume that most people don't want to do that yeah like with the showers on see you've got one shower normally between your dorm which can be eight people can be can be with me 20 people I've actually seen the 32 vector on before so that answers I would think after that maybe it was said to bit of site around around Asia it was pretty big it's like a double bet on double there's still this laughs it's like you look younger I say them triple defense I think about a boy yeah and it's like a proper like whether that will work out where's that quite a mullah I want to farewell and they know things like little that wait no unless not what's not safe is climbing up to it and obviously the very top bunk is really like not even wants to go on a top bunk it's like it doesn't mean I'm going to squash the passing collapses which sounds quite likely I mean what I mean actually I didn't even think about that I'm going on top squash everyone oh I never think about getting switched on just like I just I like got a trunk especially nothing silver I like that that's okay people can't you know when people come in and Charlie's sitting bunks yeah I must stop being touched out the way and people aren't when you're going to venture up just to sit down with the people come in and you like the top bunk yeah that know we can have all together earlier with a friend I have been that situation before I felt like I wanted the bottom bunk because you're missing what the bottom box but you can always sit on your mates bottom bunk like oh yeah it was bad but it so much that's something that I drove I don't mind people staying on my bed well it it depends on the person honestly if they're like this creepy old man and they're sitting all of them I'd be like what are you doing this is me yeah there's something better than me bit and it was making friendly backpacker just chilling it especially if they have a top button commit just wanted to sit down and be like sure I'll go for it people get drunk and like if I go normally I'm traveling so I've got documents and Technology and stuff that right right if sometimes when people are drunk they get careless and they'll lose things and yes that's a benefit of the top bunk isn't it yes and you can't just have all of your stuff anybody know what's going to touch it but yeah but that's the bottom bottom guys comment which one you prefer comment down below like some important wearing underwear there are no rules but I guess again gauge a situation whether you feel comfortable and then less turn as that line of what's acceptable okay then it comes to greeting roommate so when you're just entering around for the first time or someone else's I think you should always greet them even if it's just as simple as a smile I think is it it just goes in any way yes sometimes you might want to have a conversation I've been times when I'm working and I doing it not necessarily sure but I'm you acknowledged that yes knowledge hundred percent just those my looks yeah walked in I tend to always a feel like hi how's it going oh that sounds very Australian so and come from maybe travel to and like knowledge is really nice I find it quite off putting if I walk into a dorm room and everyone's just like doing their own thing actual human can't notice very closing and and you don't want to be that person you want to be open make friends and you don't know how that person's feeling either like people might work come in and go you know I'm really nervous I'm solar traveler but they might be nervous and be a solo traveler and you're welcome and your acknowledgement could actually turn around their day and their experience absolutely I also saying hello when they first walk in is the easiest way to do it once someone's walked in and you haven't said hello it gets harder and harder and harder to break the ice in the best thing I always find in any social situation is to nip it in the bud make the eye contact straight away smile ask you questions yeah boom branching off from that I also think it's always important to invite people into whatever you're doing if it's possible if you know that you're about to go do an activity do a bit of shopping go out for some food and you know that a couple of extra people can come along always ask just say hey I'm about to do this do you want to come with because you never know that person might not know what they're doing with their day they might feel really nervous like you just said and just for someone to ask them and invite them to something is so nice and I think it's something that not a lot of people lose like some people do yeah but it's so much better anyone in your drama is a potential friend and traveler like in the charming loud the welcomes very small and you cross paths with people a lot so for example I was in Queenstown and this guy's into my room and I was just about to walk up queenstown hill and I was fellow traveling so it benefits me to ask him and he was a sir shower so he will really appreciate it alpha and actually we came like best friends like a week and then when I went to Sydney I saw him there you never know where you go where doors opening and when you're going to see these people again so friendly vibes all around randomly vibe and it's super easy when they are your roommate because you've already got that common connection hey we're in the same room let's go do something also if you put in that ground mapping actually make friends with people in your dogs things are less likely to annoy your roommates and so I getting up in the morning if you like annoyed them by you know maybe not say hello and and rustling around and like switching I usually have a knock on the ice yeah yeah so yeah and you're gonna win always and walk you and I make them walk it's just going to be a pain of the other specific anything I'd be at home with me after one like that okay women talk about noise in the daytime so say scenario someone is sleeping in bed at 2:00 p.m. because either they're jet-lagged or they're seriously hungover and you're just having a conversation with you mate in the room normally would be acceptable because it's like 2:00 in the afternoon but what what do you think about that I'm saying that again people are on very different schedules and you can't not talk in the day but again be mindful if someone is sleeping I don't shout at the top of your voice and don't play your music to the highest volume and and if if if you do want me shouting to them you know to be a voice get out there and do it somewhere else yeah but that's just like out of respect you don't have to do that but again be mindful it's hard though because sometimes someone there's like really piss me off the day before like I said just like outrageously drunk the whole day and then it's the next day they're really hungover yeah I know that I kind of deserve it I don't feel any sympathy and I'm like I need to be quiet because you'll have another kid you are pissing me off yes the second that's where the mutual respect comes in like if he'd be a respectful when he came in you would then be more respectful cause he's sleeping yes it works both ways yes if I were really really drunk and pissing people off one day I probably wouldn't expect them to respect me the next day so I was really hungover yes neutral yeah where you give up sex genre trick to it it happens a lot it's inevitable yes alcohol new friends happy time happy time sexy time you're going to be in a dorm room and you're going to be sleeping and people are going to have sex it's not at some point at some plus saying when you were talking to us a lot yeah after your choice happened to me actually I walked into Dorian's and it's just been going at it and I'm being like wow yeah I personally wouldn't do it especially if other people are in the room and 20 Junction having it doesn't happen if you are in the room and not no one else is in there apart from the shacking couple we were saying I think definitely just cuff or just let them know that you're there yeah because sometimes they might not know that you're there and then like don't know we like up crap you know let's place it like that's why I should probably stop yeah I mean it's not very nice but then like you don't have anywhere else to do it so I can tell you if my people do it like that is your home when you're traveling but again when you're on the other side if you do experience it you're it's not the nicest thing when you have a flight in the morning or want to get off or just want a decent night's sleep but I have been in a few situations and it's you know coughing or ruffling around and my duvet doesn't do pay doing it duvet should get a sheet 1,300 to vote if that doesn't you know stop them or make some conscious of your thumb you've been that then I go into my bags I always have the earphones with me so I put my earphones in that blocks out the noise and I go actually there anytime that that doesn't work is when they're on the same vodka suit and you got a bit of rocking going on commandos the earthquake in New Zealand I was on a double bed and the ceiling of the earthquake felt exactly the same as when someone's having sex on the same night a lot of highways right now but what what when you're on the same bunker someone and the movement is there you can if I don't solve that so there are things in hostels that you can't avoid and you can't go down there like stop having sex because they want to have to expect gonna have sex you sort of hope that they don't do that and that when they're aware that you're there they stop up where should you put your bags and your valuables when you're in a dorm room because obviously they're going to people in there that you don't necessarily trust you've only just met them even if you've known them a day or two you still can't really trust them hostels nearly all the time have lockers make sure that you have a pub lock with you because most of the time you do have to have your own come to lock them up and it does vary actually sizes than some of them yes it's just a small one in a select your phone your passport and money I've actually been to ones in Bali that fit your whole backpack in so like nearly like size human science la cosa bar open there and actually a lot of them under the bug bed so you have yep I have a really big drawers and which are pretty bit I think it's definitely something to look for when you're actually booking a hostel is to make sure there's lockers it's just always good to put your valuables away I never lock up just my clothes and stuff because I always just think these are so old loans gonna live anyway and they've never been stolen but me replace easily but memory card laptop drones yeah expensive cameras you definitely gonna lock them up and I would say so when you're sleeping as well you never know who else is in your room I just don't take any chances I've had a lot of questions recently from girls who said they've always saved in a female dorm and can they say is a mixed or both of us are pro mixed dorm I planned them a lot more fun I find them normally a lot more relaxed mostly because I feel like FEMA dorms tends to be girls who are a bit more tentative or you come to realise that saying in a mixed or bit more dynamic yet around it's not any less safe I told like you know you can have females that you're not going to trust just the same that it's going to be males that you're not going to trust like it it does maybe difference at the end of the day I would say if you feel safer going in a female's room like and you are so traveler traveling to the first time I can understand why you'd want to be in like a single sex dorm well as being in a mixed alliance I like larger dorms because they can range for anything up and in for bed dawn to touch you to bet on but it's good time but it you're guaranteed have on there there's gonna be your partner in crimes like I al can always argue always also want for food or if I wanted to do something where and when you come back because everybody knows that you are taking them sorry guys we just wits camera if you are looking for you know making friends a really sociable experience it's kind of like people parking ships and dorms that anyone's on their an agenda so if you've got big a dorm you're more likely to when you go back to your dorm have people that yeah it's just more social we meet more people I've walked into a four-bed door before and it's being a group of three friends they were very closed and I would sit there on my own oh okay it's not really a hostile experience I view your painting price with fine school yeah otherwise it works but in terms of social side of it which not people like me buy into and hostel yeah and you're also kind of technically more likely to get a bottom back or topic or the bulk of your choice because less people will have arrived so when it comes to booking a hospital there's a few really good I guess online agents that you can try so there's hostile world hostile Booker's and looking calm they all have suffered everywhere in the world so if you are looking to book a hostel I'll lick all press and down below and all three of them are brilliant the main muscles will always be listed on their site but in taste is like something's in media sometimes they don't have a budget all of the technological awareness of websites they might have advertised advertised on there but sometimes turning under - Lee better I'm seeing you know getting the word on the street if you know you're going to be in a particular place for a particular day or for an event so for the full moon party in Thailand for example or acceptable or anywhere for like New Year in Sydney Opie or mines in Australia in the agreement I would look as far as up as possible because they get booked out trust me from experience I was in Byron Bay and I hadn't booked my accommodation and I turned up wanting to be spontaneous which is you know attraction to travelling and there was no accommodation I had to make friends with this guy at random travel agency and who had a friends and friends that haven't come back and I've slept in the night dreaming yeah literally let you become my homeless person Emily all of our telephone Oh baby yeah or try couchsurfing just say it's a dress though just looking at about if you do knows you can get and be there okay a lot of the websites I think the human comm Carmen would hostel well but some of them you don't actually pay advance and someone is free translation so there's no harm and the community yeah and they always say on those websites it says what facilities that happen if it has lockers if they my man Wi-Fi oh yeah free activities breakfast cleanest laundry all of the rest so make sure you have a look at those things it will be a big help when choosing your hostel so we're just going to finish off with a little bit of a round up some of our top tips and some things to bear in mind Wednesday in a hospital my first kind of tip would be if you remember try to reconfirm your booking if you've made the booking like far in advance reconfirm be booking 48 hours before I not done this before it was in Bali and I booked the hospital about a month in advance me and my friend Helena we rocked up to it quite late at night and they didn't think that I was coming yeah I didn't think I had to reconfirm anyway it doesn't think I was coming they saw the bed someone else me and Helen I have to go talk to tale that night in the bed not ideal even though we booked it and I thought it was all okay so if you do remember do just drop the hospital and email or if you can't phone them let you let them know that you're still coming and and it doesn't do any harm to do that if you are so travelling in a hostel and for example mostly rooms books out and you do find yourself in a small dorm or and have drawn by you on gelling with people that get involved with the activities all hospitals will hold like free free drinks at some o'clock or ladies night and events and that is to get you guys at the hostels to mingle and they really do work like that most people will get involved you'll meet people and they do this pretty much every day so get involved with the activities even if you don't really like the vibe or the sound of it so going for the social just to pop your head in and say hello it's the work that's going to happen is that your last salute hey said you can just leave let me know there's no most of them are downstairs in the hospital in the hostel bar yeah it's not like even have to like go somewhere but if you do meet people which is probably will and you'll probably have a great time and you know open the doors traveling in that opening door and taking every opportunity so definitely get involved with what hotle do next thing is a few things to free so your top thing was an eye mask and earplugs isn't it mine is a pillow I have it's like a thick memory foam pillow it always looks like a bit of a head breaks when I have it all in it like subscribe like it you just made my completely I mean I've never heard these I need to get one oh I'll put a link in the description bar below and I'll put a little picture here of what it actually looks like but it's amazing and I think you can use it for the whole of your travels and then if your hostel pillow is really which much most of them are like different guys when I have a pair then you can just like slide your own little pillow underneath there and it's just helpful I usually take as well a speaker I mean I know when people pack minimally you don't have featured speaker where I prioritize my speaker and because when you get ready for a night owl or just to break the tension and the silence I just love music in any situation there is so much more chill obviously don't just pop your music out whenever and wherever sometimes we would have one listen to music and sometimes you want to leave but it's not your room yeah it's difficult in hustle because you are going to come across so many different people most people are going to be very alone yes easygoing that's a good word to use and just open to new things wanting to meet new people but that's generally the type of person that you going to come across and hostile but not everyone is like that some people going to be very nervous very shy it might be the first time backpacking some people are going to be a bit creepy you're gonna come across creep you could be prepared for it prepared with situations hostels are fun because of all these things we've mentioned in this video but they're also challenging and that challenge isn't a bad thing you know that's what develops you and makes you grow in the traveling but we are all aware that you might come across some difficult situations and and what we've emphasized throughout this video in mindfulness to be mindful of the people around you and and you'll smash it you'll be the perfect backpacker and a hostile yeah I believe in you yes I do you can do it yes good luck to anyone if you have been hostile before is daunting like the first time you stay in a dorm room control like oh my god but it's fine if you don't love it you just say one again it's definitely worth trying and yeah point inoue a great accommodation for backpackers make so much more money than staying at a hotel and send long green and you're going to be no shoreline amore yeah absolutely just going to meet more people I think you're backpacking experience is going to be so much better like I have some of my favorite memories from backpacking is just being in hundreds and hundreds I hope you enjoyed this video give a thumbs up if you did go scribe the subscribe to Molly I'll have a link down below um are we going to be doing a video and just trouble yeah what are we going to be doing on your channel there's something ah we're going to be filming a video on solo travel on Molly's channel so I'll have that link down below so you can go and watch that one and I will see you in the next video okay [Music]

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Published: Sun Apr 30 2017