Staying in a cheap hostel practically guarantees you will hear a total stranger continuously snore like a loud chainsaw

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Sharing a room with twelve heavily backpacked travelers is a brutal test of auditory endurance. Earplugs are completely useless against the thunderous nasal vibrations of an exhausted backpacker in the bunk directly above you.

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Many youth hostels across Europe enforce strict age limits, explicitly banning guests over thirty-five or forty from sleeping in their cheapest shared dormitory rooms.

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Hostel volunteer staff are broke travelers

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Cooking pasta in a crowded hostel kitchen is purely awful

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Hostels guarantee interaction with highly annoying youths

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The hostel movement began as a moral boot camp

Hostels are explicitly designed to maximize the density of human bodies per square foot, packing up to sixteen budget-conscious backpackers into a single poorly ventilated room featuring squeaky metal bunk beds.

Many youth hostels across Europe enforce strict age limits, explicitly banning guests over thirty-five or forty from sleeping in their cheapest shared dormitory rooms.

Hostel volunteer staff are broke travelers

Cooking pasta in a crowded hostel kitchen is purely awful

Hostels guarantee interaction with highly annoying youths

A bigger world.
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