As long as everyone gets freaky it sounds like a bargain.

Umm, they are called hostels, and they are usually about as cheap and typically provide basic services like A/C and warm showers.

No thanks.

Since when are conceptual artists good at anything that doesn't involve failure?

I'll never understand the allure of staying in hostels. If you live in abject poverty, you should get a job, not travel.

The pound is worth like 6 or 7 bucks? Something like that the last time I looked at any rate. That seems a bit pricey for a hostel with those few amenities. Often, if you ask to speak to the manager, you can get hotel rates at great prices. Even more likely is finding a flier at one of the rest areas or online these days. Those have coupons that give even better discounts.

It's probably a nicer place than this hotel...



/ Ryugyong Hotel a.k.a. "The Hotel of Doom" FTW

I figured some of the hotels I stayed at in Korea were 0 star hotels. They may just not of been rated.

UnspokenVoice: The pound is worth like 6 or 7 bucks? Something like that the last time I looked at any rate.

I assume you arrived in the US on the Mayflower?

The UK Pound is worth 1.6 US Dollars.

So this £5.99 a night would be $9.80

The discount hostels I've stayed in were all disgusting, filthy hovels. I'm looking at you, The Generator (or rather, the Gonorrhator), and Hyde Park Inn in London.

There are nice ones out there, but at this point, I don't want to have to worry about the state of my hotel room when I come back at night. I want to be comfortable.

The writer obviously never stayed at the motel at Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park. The AAA refuses to grant it their approval to the place since not all the rooms have potable water. They list it in their tourbooks as an "FYI" listing only.

The room we stayed in had 3 spigots in the sink...one for hot, one for cold, one for potable. We also had a mouse in our room. The room heater kicked on at about 2 in the morning, even though it was still at least 80 degrees outside, and sounded like a Pratt & Whitney jet engine.

Oh, and some of the rooms are unusable because the walls are infested with stink bugs, which the Park Service would not allow the management to kill since they were indigenous to the park.

The restaurant was nice, though.

Patrick Riklin, who co-owns it with his brother, said he wanted guests to abide by the motto "less is more" as they paid between £5.99 and £17 for a room for the night.



Hey, dumbass, some amenities are worth (more than) the price demanded.

Sounds like the summer camp I went to as a kid.

If his goes under it means that hotels could charge ANYTHING to people wanting to spend the night. We need to subsidize these poorly run places.

"... with no windows, no heating, no TV, and...share rooms with up to six other people..."

In 90% of the world they call that a home.

kmt11: I'll never understand the allure of staying in hostels. If you live in abject poverty, you should get a job, not travel.

I realize you're trolling, but I'll bite. If you have a certain amount of money to travel, you have to decide how much you want to spend on sleeping. It can be the difference between spending two weeks in Europe and spending two months in Europe.

thenateman: kmt11: I'll never understand the allure of staying in hostels. If you live in abject poverty, you should get a job, not travel.

I realize you're trolling, but I'll bite. If you have a certain amount of money to travel, you have to decide how much you want to spend on sleeping. It can be the difference between spending two weeks in Europe and spending two months in Europe.

If you want to spend your time relaxing in a hotel, it would probably be cheaper to stay home and find a nice hotel close by.

I guess the subby has never heard of Motel 6 before.

HempHead: thenateman: kmt11: I'll never understand the allure of staying in hostels. If you live in abject poverty, you should get a job, not travel.

I realize you're trolling, but I'll bite. If you have a certain amount of money to travel, you have to decide how much you want to spend on sleeping. It can be the difference between spending two weeks in Europe and spending two months in Europe.

If you want to spend your time relaxing in a hotel, it would probably be cheaper to stay home and find a nice hotel close by.

I don't think you understand the concept of 'traveling.' For students traveling to Spain or Holland or France, the landscape, cities, new people and general change of scenery are the primary reason they are there.

When I went to Spain, I was able to get for about 30 Euros a night in a decent hostel in Madrid. The room had a bed, a shower, a television, and locks. The only thing one needs in accommodations if backpacking around Europe is a place to throw their crap for a few hours where it won't get stolen and a reasonably comfortable bed and place to shower. Luxury hotels are nice, but I'd rather get several more weeks out of my trip and the chance to see more places.

Reading that article makes me feel hostel.

No TV? Is that even legal?

zz9: UnspokenVoice: The pound is worth like 6 or 7 bucks? Something like that the last time I looked at any rate.

I assume you arrived in the US on the Mayflower?

The UK Pound is worth 1.6 US Dollars.

So this £5.99 a night would be $9.80

Thank you - in which case that's damned cheap. In my last jaunt I found some that were actually under $20 and not at all bad. One of them even had a gym and a pool, both of which were quite clean. That one was in Clinton, Oklahoma as I recall.

These places are full o' drek, and you're half-liable to get your hoop slotted while you sleep, but when you're low on nuyen or just need a place to hole up while the heat from your last run cools out, it's Coffin Hotel ftw, chummer.

/SINner

This sounds like the resort I built on Tropico.

Dear Penthouse,

I never thought this would...yada yada yada yada you get the picture

Author has obviously never stayed where "the ocals play"...



/actually an "interesting" place until sold in 2004 to Barrick.

Chelsea Clinton Is Carrot Top's Lost Twin: Author has obviously never stayed where "the (l)ocals play"...


(ftfm) This is where I stay in LV:



$20/night, tiny rooms so no families anywhere near the place and a great craps game. A fine place to go enjoy a little 420, mind your own business and lose a few dollars.

Gold Spike is weird now that it's all clean. No craps though, so it's not a real casino.

but is there wi-fi?

I stayed at a place in Costa Rica that was 7.00 night. A bed on a frame, bars on the windows. If you had mosquito netting, great. If not, you weren't sleeping.

Last cheapie place I stayed at in the US was in eastern NC. Walls so thin that when the hooker in the room next door screwed her john and her head hit the headboard I felt it. I've seen discount TP that was thicker than those walls.

/slept in the car the next night.

bdub77: Umm, they are called hostels, and they are usually about as cheap and typically provide basic services like A/C and warm showers.

Exactly. I'm in Panama City right now paying $8 a night, sharing an air conditioned room with seven others. Towels and sheets are provided. Wifi is included. They have a great pirated movie collection (watching Borat right now, 160 total). A full kitchen is available, and a free pancake breakfast. There are eight bathrooms, eight showers.
I guess I know not to go to England.

kmt11: I'll never understand the allure of staying in hostels. If you live in abject poverty, you should get a job, not travel.

Well, I could stay at a resort for a week, or travel Latin America for three months. Seems like common sense to me.

Ranger Joe: The writer obviously never stayed at the motel at Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park. The AAA refuses to grant it their approval to the place since not all the rooms have potable water. They list it in their tourbooks as an "FYI" listing only.

The room we stayed in had 3 spigots in the sink...one for hot, one for cold, one for potable. We also had a mouse in our room. The room heater kicked on at about 2 in the morning, even though it was still at least 80 degrees outside, and sounded like a Pratt & Whitney jet engine.

Oh, and some of the rooms are unusable because the walls are infested with stink bugs, which the Park Service would not allow the management to kill since they were indigenous to the park.

The restaurant was nice, though.

I stayed there in '04. My room was perfectly okay, except no TV.

The shower did drip though, and as it dripped onto the plastic bath/shower base it made a loud noise every drip. If you pushed the tap it stopped so I removed the shower rail and jammed it between the tap and the wall so I could sleep without the BANG! every couple of seconds coming through the wall.

But it was perfectly clean though.

Can't remember the lack of drinking water.

/Mosaic Canyon a mile or so away is a fun place to visit.

Ranger Joe: The writer obviously never stayed at the motel at Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park. The AAA refuses to grant it their approval to the place since not all the rooms have potable water. They list it in their tourbooks as an "FYI" listing only.

The room we stayed in had 3 spigots in the sink...one for hot, one for cold, one for potable. We also had a mouse in our room. The room heater kicked on at about 2 in the morning, even though it was still at least 80 degrees outside, and sounded like a Pratt & Whitney jet engine.

Oh, and some of the rooms are unusable because the walls are infested with stink bugs, which the Park Service would not allow the management to kill since they were indigenous to the park.

The restaurant was nice, though.

We camped in the RV parking lot across the street. There are ten tent sites just over the curb at the edge of the property.

/Beats the crap out of that fleabag rattrap.

No TV? Guess if I want to watch that documentary on Squawking Bird (Leader of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1860s), I'm out of luck.

/Not obscure.

FTA: The hotel is built in a disused nuclear bunker - a relic of the Cold War - so guests are guaranteed safety in the event of an atomic explosion.

Not if it's a direct hit, and good luck living for a few days afterward if it's a global nuclear exchange.

Fengen: When I went to Spain, I was able to get for about 30 Euros a night in a decent hostel in Madrid. The room had a bed, a shower, a television, and locks. The only thing one needs in accommodations if backpacking around Europe is a place to throw their crap for a few hours where it won't get stolen and a reasonably comfortable bed and place to shower. Luxury hotels are nice, but I'd rather get several more weeks out of my trip and the chance to see more places.

QFT
/Stayed at the Mad Hostel in Madrid
//Met some extremely nice people there
///Liked the beer can vending machine (1 euro a pop)

simpsonfan: No TV? Guess if I want to watch that documentary on Squawking Bird (Leader of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1860s), I'm out of luck.

/Not obscure.

You ponce in here expecting to be waited on hand and foot, while I'm trying to run a hotel here. Have you any idea of how much there is to do? Do you ever think of that? Of course not, you're all too busy sticking your noses into every corner, poking around for things to complain about, aren't you? Well let me tell you something - this is exactly how Nazi Germany started. A lot of layabouts with nothing better to do than to cause trouble. Well I've had fifteen years of pandering to the likes of you, and I've had enough. I've had it. Come on, pack your bags and get out.

bogey: No TV? Is that even legal?

I recently stayed in a cabin in a state park where there was no television, no alarm clock, no internet access and no cell phone reception whatsoever.

Can you hear me now? No. Not at all.

It was wonderful.

/Oddly, there was a firetower in the park where you could see six cell phone towers from the top -- yet still zero bars.

Donnchadha: bogey: No TV? Is that even legal?

I recently stayed in a cabin in a state park where there was no television, no alarm clock, no internet access and no cell phone reception whatsoever.

Can you hear me now? No. Not at all.

It was wonderful.

/Oddly, there was a firetower in the park where you could see six cell phone towers from the top -- yet still zero bars.



Glad you made it back