r/hostels

Hi guys !

I plan to go in New York for my first solo travel, i already Booked the hostel, the HI NEW YORK CITY HOSTEL... i had the choice between that and kama central Park (the one with the pods beds)... and i dont know if i did the right choice. Thats my first time in a hostel and i would like to know how to not disturb the people in my room ? I mean with the ringtone in the morning or if i come back a little bit late ? I dont want to wake up anybody.

Maybe kama would have been better ? Anyone in his own pod so i dont disturb them ?

If someone could help me with thoses fears... i would love it... thanks !

hey everyone, I have a question.

Is it possible to socialize and make friends and have fun and the average hostel experience while staying in a private room?

I’ve stayed in a hostel once before, one with 6 beds but it’s very hard for me to use shared bathrooms or stall showers and also in general sleep when there’s people present

Another thing, whenever I do long day trips, I like to go back to my room and eat food and chill out and I guess that’s also not allowed in a hostel room

since I travel solo, I am looking to also socialize and hang out with other solo people which is only possible in a hostel setting

Hi! I'm trying to launch a consultancy agency for hostels, colivings, surf camps, and similar lifestyle hospitality properties.

Some context: I lived as a digital nomad for about four years. During that time I got to see the best and the worst of this kind of location. I met owners and founders of chains, watched properties rise and become recognized brands with multiple locations, and also watched others fall apart over stupid mistakes or just lack of passion. I also became close with volunteers and workers at a lot of these properties, so I've seen the operational side up close too, not just the business side.

Now I want to build an agency to advise people who want to start in this business, or who already have the means and want to invest in a property. The idea is to guide them on how to build the place, hire the right people, give the property soul and recognition, and help them scale.

There's a lot I want to do, but I'm not sure how to actually start. I have a partner with me, and between the two of us we have solid commercial backgrounds, plus experience in marketing, content creation, and some light programming.

My current plan is:

1. Start by finding real pain points; what owners/managers would actually pay to solve
2. Tailor solutions around those specific pain points instead of a generic offer
3. Start spreading the word through community connections and owner friends we already have

Does this approach make sense? Any advice on how to validate this faster, or things I should be thinking about that I'm missing?

Thanks!!

I have solo travelled 3 times(Copenhagen, Madeira & Sao Miguel) all in Airbnb’s. Loved the independence but fancy trying something more social so I want to know the best hostels in Lisbon. I have read about good morning which seemed brilliant as I want to focus and socialising this time around. Don't mind the idea of a party hostel either

Hi everyone,

I’m a 21-year-old guy going to Budapest solo (July 15th - 20) and I’m trying to choose between The Hive Party Hostel and Onefam Budapest.

I’m looking for the most social/party vibe possible: I want to arrive and easily meet people, go out drinking, join pub crawls, talk to girls, and not feel alone during the trip.

I’ve heard The Hive used to be one of the best party hostels, but I also saw some comments saying it may have changed or become less wild recently. Onefam also seems very social, but maybe less “party hostel” and more solo-traveler community.

Which one would you recommend in 2026 for someone who wants a lot of nightlife, easy socializing, and a fun young crowd? To meet people my age 18-25 and same vibes

Thanks!

I know boutique hostels exist and so do surf camps and stuff like that but I was wondering if theres other terms for it.

I was traveling on my savings before so I was being more conservative with my cash and hostels fit perfectly but now that I have a bit more income coming in, I'd like to experience more curated experiences but I'm not exactly sure what to search for.

Planning on taking about 6 months to travel as much as I can in ‘27, I’ve never stayed in a hostel before and I’ve only ever solo travelled once. What’s the skinny on the social situation at hostels? Am I gonna be old af compared to everyone else there? Are people generally welcoming to solo male travelers? I get there’s exceptions to every rule, just looking for broad strokes here.

Hey,

First time solo traveling in Denmark and I’ve never slept in an hostel before. I’ve slept in an hostel yesterday night in Copenhagen after not sleeping at all for almost 24h. I slept good. Everything was fine.

I moved to Aarhus today to get closer to a workshop I’m following in 2 days.

I fell asleep and it’s in an hostel with like 48 booths by floor. Each booths has a privacy curtain. I had trouble falling asleep because of jetlag. I ended up falling askance and after 30 minutes, I woke up. Someone was over my bed and had opened my curtain. I had earplugs and before i took them out he just walked away.
My neighbour was also up. Sitting on his bed. When the guy left I asked him what had happened and he told me he didn’t know. He left shortly after.

When he came back I asked him again what happened and he told me that the guy came to tell me to stop to snore. I asked him if my snoring was annoying him and he said no. Meanwhile there’s another guy snoring loudly in the same aisle.

I’m surprised. I didn’t know I was a snorer, maybe it’s the position I was sleeping in. I don’t know. I’m also kind of not confortable knowing someone came up and woke me up/invaded my privacy by opening the curtain.

What would you do in this situation?
I’m somewhat scared to fall asleep knowing someone might be annoyed by me. Is snoring uncommon too?
Also, any tips to atleast calm down my snoring if it happens again?

Thanks for the reply.

Update: It happened at around 3-4 am. I did speak to the person at the reception and he was very apologetic. He told me to come back at the reception at 11 am in the morning and that he had written a note on my reservation. They offered me a private room for tonight.

Hi everyone,

I’m planning a trip to Taiwan this October. I don’t have a fixed route yet and I’d like to keep it flexible, so good hostel recommendations might actually help shape where I go.

So I’m curious: did you stay in any hostel that genuinely surprised you?

Not just cheap and clean, but a place with a good atmosphere. The kind of hostel where you planned to stay one night and ended up wanting to stay three.

I’m in my late 30s and travelling solo, so I’m not looking for party hostels. I’d much rather find places that are calm, cozy, clean and still social in a natural way. Somewhere with a nice common area, good people around, and a relaxed vibe where it feels easy to slow down for a few days.

I’m open to anywhere in Taiwan. Big cities, small towns, east coast, mountains, islands, whatever. I’m especially interested in hostels that felt warm, personal or memorable.

Any places that really stood out to you?

I just booked using HostelWorld for the first time, but only 8€ left my bank account. On the confirmation email, it says that the rest is payed to the property:

" Property will charge the outstanding amount at any time after the booking has been made. If your card is invalid, property will contact you for new card details. If you don't provide those details, property is entitled to cancel your reservation."

How long do they usually take to charge the amount?

Hi everyone,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news. What I believed for 3 years to be the best hostel in our world (I've stayed at 50+) has a dark secret.

In case of any doubts, watch this Google Drive link, which I'm currently sharing widely: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jv-L9S7KCD12stNAgLKoE6oP0G7QgnT0/view?usp=drive_link

Important accompanying notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/140PqUV-1NUQxuOx_12J3Ab1uKbTs6NCb/view?usp=sharing

Depending on response I will elaborate in comments. I met Talib Abdul-Hakeem—founder/sole owner/"manager" of The Brooklyn Riviera Hostel, in New York City, United States—in June 2023. I was a hostel guest from Australia, and I quickly became friends with Talib. Everyone loved him, and I and other regulars returned to the hostel many times over the years. We were a family, and I started to get to know Talib on a very personal level. In April 2026, I started to hear jokes about footage of me. On May 3rd 2026, I realised it was all true. Since founding The Brooklyn Riviera in 2015, Talib has used secret cameras to film his guests in the bathrooms and dorm rooms of his hostel. He has maintained an illegal porn website with 3,000+ paid monthly subscribers, and the content doesn't show victims' faces, and typically technology is used to change the backgrounds in the footage so as not to incriminate the hostel nor Talib. The content goes up on this website for 3–4 days before automatically disappearing "for legal reasons." A second unknown individual helps operate the website and/or subscriber list. As far as I know, the cameras ("built into the walls" of the hostel's bathrooms and dorm rooms by a third [potentially second] "professional") are permanently installed, almost always recording, and often uploading to the website. Talib uses a bizarre exchange principle he learned from the Italian Mafia in order to decide who gets uploaded and who doesn't—to the best of my knowledge, anyone who breaks the hostel rule 7 Nights Maximum Stay gets uploaded. This is his way of justifying his behaviour to himself. I am a victim of this sex crime. There are dozens and potentially thousands of victims of this sex crime; likely mostly women, as Talib typically has more female dorms than male dorms going at any one time (he rearranges rooms according to the necessities of his hostel business and his porn business). Even if not every hostel guest is uploaded, every guest of the hostel is subject to the presence of hidden cameras. Talib has also been known to keep footage for his own pleasure. I know all of this because Talib has repeatedly told me all of this in detail.

The main reason I'm making this Reddit post is to ask everyone's advice. The only thing I care about is that the filming permanently stops. I personally don't care whether or not Talib gets charged and imprisoned for this Class E Felony (maximum 4 years in prison). I spent 6 weeks living at the hostel and trying to change him. (At one point he agreed to stop, before changing his mind 12 hours later.) I talked to him in person TODAY, effectively giving him one final chance before I would report everything to the police for the first time. He's a proud person, a lifelong criminal (I'm happy to share his myriad unrelated crimes), and still he refused to stop filming; so I finally reported what I had to the NYPD, in person at the 77th Precinct. They were useless and weren't even able to file a report or record any details. Tomorrow I'm going in person to the FBI; I plan to contact Hostelworld, Google Reviews, the online portal for the FBI Internet Complaint Crime Center (IC3); and potentially Talib's mother, the owner of the building in which the hostel illegally operates (an acquaintance of mine named Teji), etc. Talib is fully aware I am blowing the whistle.

Today's NYPD experience was a significant letdown (though part of me was expecting it). Ideally Talib would agree to permanently stop filming, all the cameras would be destroyed, the website and any reproductions of the content would be permanently removed from the Internet, the greatest hostel in the world would be exorcised, and Talib would continue to operate it legally. (All of this constitutes my ideal outcome and this is therefore not a slanderous anti-Brooklyn-Riviera Reddit post, only a report of facts and an effective siren and an appeal for help.) But he's refusing to back down, and has blocked me everywhere (though we're still in intermittent and toxic contact), and this is where I'm at. Let's assume the filming must end no matter what. My question: HOW?

Thank you

I (18F) am about a month into a three month solo trip. I booked a hostel which had good reviews and said it was fairly social, and had dorms varying from 6-14 beds per room, all mixed. I booked a 10-bed dorm, but it's only me and another guy, who's probably about ten years older than me, here. The hostel owner isn't around as he had some personal things to deal with, and apart from him the guy in my room is the only other person I've seen in this hostel.

Said guy asked what I was doing this afternoon when I checked in, which I was pretty cagey about because of my age and vulnerability, and I left to explore soon after, and hoped that there would be more people checking in, but it's nearly 9pm and no sign of anyone else. I'm considering moving to a hotel as I feel quite uneasy and vulnerable, especially because I'm so young, but I'm concerned that may be an overreaction. Am I being stupid?

For context, I've spent 3 out of the last 4 nights on sleeper trains, so my sleep quality hasn't been the best and I don't have very much of my tether or emotional bandwidth left. I also really don't like the city I'm in, it was a hard enough faff as it was booking this place anyway (booked the wrong date initially so i lost money) and my train is at about 10am tomorrow morning. Other than this, the hostel is quite nice and the owner is good.

Hi

Which would be the best hostel that you could meet people who would be willing to go around amsterdam, check out the sites but also have groups that wouldnt mind to drink and party till 3 am. Also only AC hostels please.

Any tips to survive in hostel as a first time in triple sharing what are the boundaries and how to cut off toxic people i had bad experience with friends and i let them take advantage of me easily and how to keep boundaries from them using your products

Sometime hostel-goer here but I'm confused by a booking I've just made on hostel world and looking for clarity as their support has been slow to respond. I think the mix of currency is also confusing me.

The total for the room is $866. I've paid online £126.10. Payable to the property is $863.84 then there are also taxes of $153.72 (payable at the property)

Basically I'm confused why the payable to the property is only $3 less than the total for the room even after factoring in what I've already paid. Am I misreading this horribly?

Just warning I used my credit card on their website to book a stay and my card got compromised. It was the only transaction I did on that card.

Not saying they did it but that their website checkout is not secure. Luckily no money got taken out. It was flagged by my bank. Someone tried to use it on a website called I Love Dooney.

i need hostel near kupandole or pulchowk area inside lalitpur

So my hostel doesn't have a fridge but I wanna keep fruits here to eat. I also go home once a week so I'm tryna find fruits that can last for at least a week at room temperature. Any suggestions?

Hey Leute,
ich würde vom 06.07. bis 09.07. nach Barcelona fliegen. Es wäre das erste Mal, dass ich alleine verreise. Ich bin total unentschlossen, weil ich alleine Urlaub machen würde, aber gleichzeitig habe ich total Lust, mal etwas Neues auszuprobieren. Ich habe mir schon ein paar Hostels angeschaut und auch einige Beiträge hier gelesen, bin aber etwas überfordert, welches für mich am besten geeignet wäre. Ich bin eher ein introvertierter Mensch (mit einem sozialen Beruf😅), taue aber bei den richtigen Leuten schnell auf, wenn ich gut aufgenommen werde.

Ich würde gerne neue Leute kennenlernen und hätte Lust auf gemeinsame Aktivitäten, möchte mir Barcelona aber auch entspannt mal alleine anschauen.

Meine Favoriten sind bisher Onefam Ramblas, Yeah Barcelona und Kabul.

Hat jemand noch weitere Ideen oder Tipps? Oder ist vielleicht sogar jemand im gleichen Zeitraum dort und hätte Lust, sich zu connecten?

While travelling through Vietnam I came across a few hostels. All hostels were mixed and I chose them because they were cheap. During my stay in those hostels I noticed my roommates were really chill with nudity. Not all but some would change in the open or sleep nude or take a shower naked. It was weird at first but my roommates were just chill and I felt safe. It was my first time travelling where I used hostels and I'm wondering if this is normal.