A Hostel is a great inexpensive and efficient form of accommodation when you’re travelling. Once you’re there there are a guaranteed people you may encounter. Here are the seven kinds of people you’re sure to fulfill…
1. Early Sleepers
It’s 6pm, the lights are off and there’s a lump in one of the bunks and a tussle of hair poking out of the top of the duvet. They know they are likely to be woken but they’re prepared with an eye mask and have fitted their free ear plugs, but do not take this as an excuse to speak, anything greater than a whisper will permeate the foam as well as the sleeper will probably bare fangs. This is all you will see of the breed of goer though check in, early check out.
2. ‘Lights on’ man
Quite the opposite to sleepers and things may get tense when the 2 species clash but truth be told, lights on man is quite a nuisance. Often confused with all the party goer, this personality tends to arrive at the middle of the evening but unlike the prior subjects they will continuously return to the hostel dorm throughout the night, collecting this and that, flicking on the light as he can and leaving it on since he leaves.
3. Sleep talkers
My personal favorite. A rare breed in hostel dorms but they make for great conversation. Varying from a moan all of the way to a confrontation that the sleep talker will wake up up a few people, you swap their foot wills shake all will look at each other and finish the comedy.
4. Sleep walkers
A one up on sleep talkers, sleep walkers could be frightening. I remember back to one night in Lake Como, one stood above a sleeping guest of the women in the top bunk in my dorm slid from her bunk and proceeded to sit on the end of her bed in. She then stood back up and climbed back into her own bed and fell back asleep… There’s always a risk when sharing a room with strangers that there might be a psychopath in the midst but then again, they could just be sleeping walkers.
5. Silent boinkers
The increasingly popular not-so-silent boinkers are observed in a blue moon. A rustle of bed sheets, a fish puckering up, the sound of a 20 year-old bunk bed creaking back and forth would be the distinctive sounds of a set of silent boinkers attempting to do the horizontal bop at a 12 man dorm whilst hammering shame throughout the room.
6. The snorer
Speak to anybody that has ever slept in a hostel dorm earlier and they will agree that there ought to be a option in addition to a dorm. Following a days trek possibly the most habit that could come from a sleeping person is to be kept alert by the snorer that has just spent the whole night guzzling pints that are 99p. By day he’s a friend.
7. Party Goers
Every hostel dorm will possess at least two party goers since the demographic are young, wilful travellers searching for a night and a good time. The majority of the party goers are extremely respectful people, they’ll be out once you arrive and then will sneak back in the dorm in the middle of the night unnoticed. But you will hear them continuing by regurgitating and waking the entire dorm.
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