17 years
Are you agree with all above suggestions?.
I will add more if there is anything to come in mind.
How to be a good hostel guest
The Ideal Hostel
I stayed in a 10-bed dorm in a nice hostel last night. I couldn't sleep though because of cell phones.
First a cell phone kept going off on vibrate while a guest was in the bathroom. Another cell phone had 3 or 4 text messages come in with a loud musical chime. A 3rd guest answered her phone in the dark room at 12:30am, about 2 hours after I went to sleep, talking for about 5 minutes in her bed. When I woke up again at about 2am, it was because she was tapping away on her cell phone in her bed, sending text messages.
If you were making a list of advice for people on how to be a good hostel guest, what items would you add? I was laying in bed last night after being woken up thinking about it.
Here are just a few courtesies that I wish more backpackers would follow -- they should be obvious, but I keep running into them:
- Turn off cell phone before going into a dorm room where people are sleeping (ringer off and vibrate off)
- Don't send text messages or tap on a laptop keyboard in the dorm room when people are sleeping
- Don't burn anything in the dorm room (cigarettes, incense, mosquito coils, etc.). Other guest may have chronic respiratory problems like asthma or bronchitis.
- Don't spray deodorant in the dorm room for the same reason -- and it wakes people up
- Don't talk in the dorm room when the lights go out, or when people are sleeping
- Don't turn on the dorm room light after people are sleeping. Use a flashlight or the light from a cell phone screen.
- If you have to check out early in the morning, pack the day before.
- Don't rummage around with plastic bags in luggage when people are sleeping.
Is there anything that you wish backpackers were aware of before they stayed at your hostel or in your dorm room with you?
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16 years
I agree with those...
Another thing I saw recently in a hostel was a guest who was snoring very loudly at about 3am in a 10-bed dorm. One of the other guests got up and starting hitting the guest with a pillow to try to wake him up. In the process, the guest who was beating the sleeper with the pillow was waking up everyone else who was sleeping.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the problem...
16 years
Another thing I saw recently in a hostel was a guest who was snoring very loudly at about 3am in a 10-bed dorm. One of the other guests got up and starting hitting the guest with a pillow to try to wake him up. In the process, the guest who was beating the sleeper with the pillow was waking up everyone else who was sleeping.
Someone recently told me that if you whistle a recognizable song into a the ear of a snoring person it does something to jumpstart their brain and change the way it's processing information, potentially stopping the snoring. Sounds like a load of crap to me, but maybe there is something to it. Has anyone ever heard this before? If I were trying to sleep in that room I think I would just end up pissed off with the loud snoring AND an annoying song in my head...
16 years
When I woke up again at about 2am, it was because she was tapping away on her cell phone in her bed, sending text messages.
You must be a seriously light sleeper if you can be woken up by the sound of somebody tapping the keys of their cell phone. Time to invest in some ear plugs maybe?
Agree with most of your points though.
One of the other guests got up and starting hitting the guest with a pillow to try to wake him up
Starting a pillow fight with a snorer in the middle of the night doesn't sound like a recipe for peace and quiet to me...
16 years
I had to print your suggestions, not only funny but REAL!!!
Ill come uo with some new ones, make a poll, this has soooooo many possibilities!
Thanks guys!
Luciana:)
16 years
You must be a seriously light sleeper if you can be woken up by the sound of somebody tapping the keys of their cell phone.
I'm actually a heavy sleeper, but maybe I'm conditioned to the sound of keys tapping because of my work. I even have dreams about sending emails.
Starting a pillow fight with a snorer in the middle of the night doesn't sound like a recipe for peace and quiet to me...
He was beating the other guest with the pillow fairly hard, but the snorer wasn't waking up. It was difficult to sleep after something that ridiculous :D
16 years
I stayed in a 10-bed dorm in a nice hostel last night. I couldn't sleep though because of cell phones.
First a cell phone kept going off on vibrate while a guest was in the bathroom. Another cell phone had 3 or 4 text messages come in with a loud musical chime. A 3rd guest answered her phone in the dark room at 12:30am, about 2 hours after I went to sleep, talking for about 5 minutes in her bed. When I woke up again at about 2am, it was because she was tapping away on her cell phone in her bed, sending text messages.
Once at a nightshift there were people complaining about a cellphone constantly ringing inside a locked locker in the middle of the night in a big dorm. Apparently the owner of the phone went out to party. To avoid any discussions about a broken lock and security issues i just took the whole locker down to the reception-backoffice (almost without any big noise). You should have seen his face when he came back and missed the whole locker :)
16 years
The ideal Guest is the 'no show' guest
I'd disagree if you don't mind... a no show may or may not be able to charged for not staying and only for the first night, regardless how many nights has he/she been booked for.
Although I understand the irony of your message... So IMHO the ideal guest is the one who has been paid up at the first night and already departed! :p
About mobile phones, the tapping is definitely annoying if the keyboard sounds haven't been deactivated!
14 years
I run a backpackers hostel. I think the main one I suggest to guests, apart from the obvious bag one, is what I call the 10 o'clock rule. If people are in bed atfer 10pm and before 10am don't make unnessessary noise or turn the lights on.
Works pretty well.
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