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Finding love in a hostel

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Rucksack Brian started this discussion 11 years 11 months ago

HI-USA is offering more than just a bed now. They’re selling hookups with a chance of love.

7 Reasons it’s Easy to Find Love at a Hostel

If you’re single and it’s bumming you out, your perfect match may be closer than you think – literally. Throughout the U.S., in small towns and major cities, are hostels, which are havens for single travelers from all over the world who just want to meet other people and have a good time.

With an even mix of guys are girls, single folks are the vast majority. While long-term love is not a guarantee, HI-USA has countless stories of couples who met their spouse at a hostel.

Here’s why finding a match at a hostel is so easy:

The majority of guests are 18-30, who are confident, fun, and adventure-seeking.

Free or low cost outings arranged by the hostel, like pub crawls or a bike tour, make it easy to mix and mingle.

Common areas, such as a game room or TV lounge, get people out of their rooms and in a social situation.

Most guests are traveling solo or with friends – not something most people in serious relationship would do.

Something about being on vacation removes relationship expectations, allowing you just to have fun and enjoy the moment with whoever catches your eye.

You can opt to stay in an all-male, all-female, or coed dorm!

You just need to be yourself. Your job, social status, and exes from the past are non-existent in a hostel. With guests from more than 90 nationalities represented across more than 50 hostels in the U.S., hostellers just want to meet authentic people from different countries. You could be the coolest kid or the biggest nerd back home and no one would be the wiser.

And around 45% of guests across the HI-USA network are domestic, so you might not even need to worry about the logistics of a long-distance relationship.

One night in a dorm room starts at just $24 per night, so why not have some fun, take a mini-vacation, and possibly meet the love of your life?

This reminded me of an older thread on HM: Do you encourage the front desk to play matchmaker?
And this one ;) : Sex in Hostels

Do you think many backpackers are traveling with the hope of finding love in a hostel?

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gordo

11 years

Love? :D
Something that their grandparents may associate with love? More likely.

That said, I know of a great deal of very successful relationships born from hostel encounters - Plakias was always very proud (and insisted on mentioning at check-in) of the fact that his hostel had produced 14 marriages. No mention of divorces of course :P

I think most of us have met someone special whilst traveling - and I firmly believe that point 7 of the article is the reason why. Back in the real world however, the inverse of point 7 plays a role and things dont often work out. Without wanting to mention the specifics of my own sexual proclivities, point 4 isn't relevant.

Life long friends are made whilst on the road, why not life long love affairs? But does anyone engage in a nomadic lifestyle in the hope of finding something permanent, be it friendship or romance? I think a lot of people may travel with the hope of having a foreign/summer romance/fling but I doubt too many are looking for luuuurve. But hey, has anyone that was looking for love ever found it? Or is it something they simply stumbled upon in unlikely circumstances? Just like your keys or glasses, always in the last place you look.

:love: :love: :love: (finally a chance to use that smiley!)

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