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backpacker hostels

Disguised as a bubble, providing you with a comfort zone, but secretly stripping away your motivation the backpacker hostel bubble turns into a trap. This post shows how It’s not always a bad thing but it can be dangerous.
Traveling Realisms

The backpacker hostel bubble can trap you in 4 ways

Backpacker hostel environments can get quite intense, for a lot of backpackers hostels can become an integral part of journeys and experiences. They can turn from just being a place to sleep and dump bags to being an anchor…but be wary because they can turn into a trap…

    
By foreverroamingtheworld, 3 yearsFebruary 25, 2020 ago
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Hostels

Know Your Backpacker Hostel Etiquette: 15 Simple Unwritten Rules

so many first-time backpackers have no idea of those unwritten hostel rules and definitely don’t have a clue about backpacker hostel etiquette. So, Forever Roaming the World will give you an idea of what to expect.

    
By foreverroamingtheworld, 3 yearsFebruary 19, 2020 ago
Forever Roaming the Worlds post on the different types of backpacker hostels - they come in all shapes and sizes
Hostels

Backpacker Hostels: 7 Fantastic Options & 1 Not So Great!

They’re all the same right? – Smelly, grotty, disgusting dorm rooms, full of drunk and high gap year backpackers having sex everywhere! – Well yes, some are like that but no there are not all the same. As somebody who has stayed in backpacker hostels all over the world, through Read more…

    
By foreverroamingtheworld, 5 yearsDecember 5, 2017 ago

 

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