Friends 'traumatised' after staying in hostels during European holiday
Aussie friends left ‘traumatised’ after staying in a hostel during their European holiday: ‘Never again’
- Two Aussie friends had to laugh off their ‘awful’ hostel experience
- Liv Hull and Demi Rutter say they ‘weren’t prepared’ for what occurred
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Clogged shower drains, sagging mattresses and travellers who sleep with their ‘eyes open’ were just three of the ‘icks’ that left two friends ‘traumatised’ after staying in shared accommodation during their European holiday.
Liv Hull and Demi Rutter, from Sydney, had to laugh off their awful experience and say they now understand why hostels are the ‘cheapest form of accommodation’.
‘We have discovered we f***ing hate hostels. We don’t cope unless it’s maybe five stars or above,’ Liv said in a TikTok video.
‘Glad we didn’t book our whole Europe [trip] in hostels like our original plan because I would’ve been home two months ago.’
The pals have been travelling around Europe since the middle of June and say it’s the first time they’ve stayed in a hostel.
Sydney friends Liv Hull (left) and Demi Rutter (right) had to laugh off their ‘awful’ travel experience and now understand why hostels are the ‘cheapest form of accommodation’
While staying in European hostels they claim the showers were ‘disgusting’, the mattress dipped and were terrified after seeing other travellers ‘sleep with their eyes open’
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‘We weren’t ready for hostel life [and] what came to us,’ Demi said in the video.
The two women said they had to share a single bed on the first night because Demi was too ‘scared to sleep on the top bunk’ after she fell from one when she was a child and broke her arm.
‘We shared a single bunk – went top and tail – so I roll over in the night and there’s Demi’s hooves (feet) in my face,’ Liv said while giggling.
The next morning they claim another woman in the dorm slept completely naked ‘without a sheet’.
Demi said: ‘I don’t know what the common courtesy is for what you wear in a hostel but I didn’t know that you could wear nothing to bed.’
One thing that ‘scared’ both friends were seeing ‘too many people sleep with their eyes open’ and encouraged other travellers to always wear an eye mask.
Must-have travel essentials while staying in a hostel:
Light-weight microfiber travel towel.
Toiletries. Unlike hotels, you likely won’t find free toiletries at the hostel
Padlocks
Eye mask/sleeping mask
Earplugs
Thongs/flip flops and slippers
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And because Demi bunked with Liv on the first night, the hostel assumed she found alternative accommodation and overbooked the room.
‘The next day when we came in, my bed was gone and they had replaced me with someone else. We now had five people in a four man dorm,’ Demi explained,
Liv added: ‘So I trotted on down to reception and was like, ‘Um, you’ve overbooked, someone’s in our bed!”
Rather than finding another room with an available bed, Demi claims she had to sleep on a ‘sunbed’.
Next, the unisex bathrooms were ‘see through’ and after coming out of the shower ‘you could see the person next to you’.
‘To make it worse, every three seconds it would fill up because everyone’s hair got caught in the drain. It would literally fill up over your feet,’ Demi said.
And to top it off the shower head ‘fell off’ while she was using it.
While recalling the sequence of events the friends giggled and laughed from ‘how bad’ the stories were.
While staying in European hostels they claim the showers were ‘disgusting’, the mattress dipped and saw other travellers ‘sleep with their eyes open’
Liv admitted they should’ve done further research before deciding where to stay, as the hostels didn’t have any air-conditioning or a fan.
She added how another night the mattress of the top bunk bed sunk as she lay on it.
‘I didn’t think I was that large of a human, but the whole thing dipped so far I thought I was going to sleep literally on top of the guy below me,’ she said.
One major perk of staying in hostels is the social aspect, however the two claim they tried to make friends with other people but failed.
The detailed video has since been viewed more than 57,000 times. Many found the stories hilarious and some empathised with the two.
‘This made me laugh so hard, the first time I stayed in a hostel I stayed with guys and it’s crazy,’ one commented.
‘Girls this was hilarious,’ another said, a third claimed: ‘The bunk trauma is real, I nearly broke my neck had to go to a chiro got weeks.’
‘You girls are so funny! I just got back from Europe and only stayed in a hostel once (booked a private room) and even that was horrible,’ another wrote.
Earlier this month Aussie traveller Lucy Holz, who is currently backpacking around Europe, claims staying in hostels is making her ‘ageist’ towards middle-aged women who ‘snore’ at night and are ‘disrespectful’ towards others in the dorm
Earlier this month another Aussie who’s currently backpacking through Europe says her experiences in hostels are making her ‘ageist’ towards older females who ‘snore’ and have ‘no respect’ for other people.
In a lengthy TikTok video, Lucy Holz claims ‘older women’ are the ‘worst’ to be around when it comes to sleeping in a shared space.
The young traveller booked female-only hostels for safety reasons but also because women are less likely than men to snore at night.
However, she’s learnt that this isn’t the case for older women who have kept her awake through the night by snoring, making noises, and even blow-drying their hair at midnight.
‘While women may not snore as much in general, I’ll tell you who does snore, old women. It’s got to the point where I see an older woman walking into my dorm room and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, why are you here?” she said in a TikTok video
‘I really hate to have to say this, but I do. Staying in hostels is making me ageist,’ she began.
‘I’ve been staying in a lot of hostels lately and I specifically selected female hostels, which are more expensive [and] they shouldn’t be.
‘Other girls were telling me you should always pick the female hostel not just for safety but also for snoring because women don’t tend to snore as much as men do.’
Lucy added how she ‘doesn’t fall asleep very easily’ and earplugs ‘don’t work’, so snoring ‘really effects’ her sleep.
‘While women may not snore as much in general, I’ll tell you who does snore, old women,’ she continued.
‘It’s got to the point where I see an older woman walking into my dorm room and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, why are you here?”
Lucy complained that older women don’t just snore, but they tend to be ‘so disrespectful’ towards other people in the dorm.
During her final night of staying at a ‘horrific hostel’, she claims a middle-aged woman had a shower at midnight then proceeded to blow-dry her hair and woke everyone up. Lucy claims the woman kept making noise while climbing into the middle of the three-bed bunk
‘I was just not built for the hostel life. It’s tarnishing my view of middle-aged women. I will not be the same person when I return from this holiday,’ she said
During her final night of staying at a ‘horrific hostel’, she claims a middle-aged woman had a shower at midnight then proceeded to blow-dry her hair and wake everyone up.
Lucy claims the woman kept making noise while climbing into the middle of the three-bed bunk.
‘Like, girl! You’re in a shared space!’ she said.
‘Anyway my towel was hanging up on one side, not in her way whatsoever.. she takes it off, throws it onto my bed, like…. awesome.
‘And of course, as I suspected, she f***ing snores. I was just not built for the hostel life. It’s tarnishing my view of middle-aged women.
‘I will not be the same person when I return from this holiday.’
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Within 24 hours the video exceeded more than 176,000 views and others agreed older women tend to be inconsiderate in hostels.
‘I had an older lady in a hostel wake up at 6am, turn on the light and do a full workout routine,’ one wrote.
‘And no phone etiquette, they’re always watching videos and TikToks [at] full volume,’ a second said.
‘Literally! just left a hostel in Switzerland and an older lady was yelling on phone calls late night and early morning every day,’ someone else wrote.
Another joined the conversation and said: ‘An older woman straight up TOOK someone’s bed at 10pm when they were out bc she wanted that bed more. Moved all the person’s stuff and everything.’
One person said a middle-aged woman kept turning the air-conditioner off overnight while staying in the humid Australian rainforests.
Another said: ‘I stayed at a hostel in Madrid and an older lady turned on the lights at midnight, then blasted TikTok at like 1am and also snored like crazy!’
One person encouraged Lucy to speak up in future.
‘You need to be assertive and tell them when they are doing things that are inconsiderate… cause God knows they will tell you on the reverse,’ she said.
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