Not enjoying Europe hostels social aspect so far
I’ve been staying at Onefam parallelo and Onefam sungate. Everything I’ve seen has rated them as one of the best Europe hostels and the people there all say it’s amazing. It’s very social and people want to talk. But I just haven’t really liked it. The facilities are fine but I think the partying is not at all what I thought it’d be.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what I’m not vibing with but everything seems very manufactured and surface level. They have the free dinner and then drinking games at 8 or 9PM every night. I think the drinking games just kinda suck. There’s way too many people for it to be any fun and it’s difficult to hear anything. It’s all just a bunch of people talking loudly. By the end of it I don’t really know anything about anyone cause it’s all just dumb stuff and no one is having proper conversations. After 1 hour it’s straight to either a bar or a club but you don’t even know most of the people there at this point or you only do in a very surface level way and it’s too late to get to know anyone in such a short time before town.
Kinda regretting booking the ones labelled social or party hostels. It’s not like I’m super introverted or have been too shy to talk, I’ve been friendly and met some cool people. I definitely want to be in hostels where people want to talk but I thought it’d be more of a vibe of finding a group in the hostel to go out with and drinking together for a few hours then going out yourself. Every night I’ve been there if you’re not drinking or going out with the hostel it will basically be completely deserted.