By: Adam Seper

“Hostel.” How can one word evoke so many different
pictures in different people’s minds? Depending on how much traveling a person has done, what age that person is, and where their travels have taken them, their idea of a hostel could be drastically different from the next person’s.

The fact is that hostels differ not only from country to country and city to city, but within cities themselves. They’re all different, they’re all unique, and they all have varying degrees of comfort (or discomfort). In my opinion, that’s what makes hostels exciting. You know what you’re getting if you stay at any chain hotel around the world. Those hotels are all basically the same – but you never know what you’re going to get when you walk through the doors of a hostel.

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