Hostel - a great way to travel in the night

Many travelers when planning your budget (in other words, doing useless thing) often sigh and angrily clicked their tongues at the sight of the amount resulting in line "Accommodation". And indeed - even the cheapest hotels wring huge amounts per night, tens of euros per night. How to save on it? It's simple - you need to spend the night in the hostel.

How to tell us, please read Wikipedia personal appeal, the hostel - it is a public hotel offering travelers a sleeping place for a very small fee. Essentially a hostel - it's the cheapest way to spend the night elsewhere, but such savings achieved overnight low living comfort. So, the hostel is:

• Joint overnight with strangers and unfamiliar (the first few minutes) people. Share the room will have a different number of people from 4 to 24. In some hostels for men and women lodge together, some - separately.

• Of service - the bed and linens, socket. Sometimes - internet, paid in the room, and free in the lobby.

• Shared bathroom and toilet rooms. Sometimes, in the bathroom you can find soap, and laundry included - bath towel.

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• The breakfast, which may be free ( "buffet") or for a fee. Breakfast served usually strictly bounds (e.g., from 9.30 to 10.30).

• Possibility to hide their belongings in safe deposit box - large lockable box. In some hostels for the lock to the box asking for some money.

• Free maps of the city at the front reception.

Many indignantly say, "Why go to Europe and spend the night in some kind of rooming house, for fear that you are going to be killed at night and steal your things?" We dare them to argue:

• The most important advantage of living in the hostel - extremely low cost locations. This author personally visited Amsterdam hostel for a night in which they asked 11 euro (though cheaper hotel 50-70 euros per night and it is very difficult to find). The average night in a hostel cheaper the cheapest hotels three times.

• Optimization erected in a rank of the absolute. Why do you need a large and comfortable room at the hotel, the whole day if you go out and travel, and at night - sleep? What, after all, the difference is like to sleep in the same room or with ten men?

• Many live in hostels for the opportunity to communicate with others. That's just imagine - I slept once with the manager of a large American construction company, Berliner traveling for the purpose of collectible beer tastes Serb married to a black woman, two gay friends, avctralitsami and a guy who did not speak any I know of language. People who live in hotels, and speak only a servant and do not see a third of that life which can be seen from the windows of the hostel. The hostel does not have homeless people, thieves and killers, 70% of European students is a simple living room.

• Bed and keep things in hostels - is perfectly safe. I was traveling with an expensive camera and a computer, not counting the money and stuff, but never have I had no reason to fear for their property - everything is easily locked up in the safe.

But some hostel may seem inconvenient:

• Not all girls are willing to share their accommodation in a room with strange men.

• Some people experience much discomfort from the fact that a number of strangers are. I saw a man who simply did not sleep all night because of it.

• In most cases, the hostel you will find comfort, which is in the hotel. Slippers, towels, king size bed, hair dryer in the bathroom - if all this is important to you, then c'est la vie.

• Some people want to live in a hostel, but can not afford the rank - it is difficult to imagine a major businessman in the shared room.

• The hostel is inconvenient to live with your partner, with your family.

But in general, for me, traveling alone, the hotel ceased to exist as a class. Now I choose the hostel (you can easily find a lot of sites are specialized, the most famous of which is the hostelworld.com) Rezernviruyu him for ridiculous money and enjoy a full-fledged tour. Lastly - some simple tips on how to choose the hostel:

• Do not try to buy the cheap - the author knows of cases when extremely cheap hostels bags disappeared from the food - it stole the local rats. Choose something in between.

• Carefully read the reviews on the site, guests tell us in detail about the shortcomings and pitfalls of living in a particular hostel.

• Do not be afraid of Christian hostels - in many cases, it is the perfect option. You may put the bedside bible, and offered to pray (you can refuse), but you will have a clean bed and definitely not cigarettes, alcohol and drugs at your cellmates sokomnatnikov.

• Pay attention to the presence of a free breakfast (at a certain arrogance to eat at once for the entire day), on how to work safe (in some places over the lock requires a fee) and the presence of Internet.

• Take a look at the map - the hostel should be easily accessible. Do not believe the words of the site ( "five minutes walk from the station" may turn into an hour of walking around an unfamiliar city).

I strongly advise you to try at least once to stay in the hostel - it is economically very interesting. However, many do not know that there is a way to spend the night absolutely free... but we'll talk about kauchsorfinge next time.

Any questions about hostels and living in them are made in the comments.