Traveler's Hostel or Halfway House?
Hostel Stories
Well, I have had a few hostel experiences but here's one example of nonexistent or uncaring management.
Myself and another guest are happily asleep in a 3 bed dorm room in a 2 bedroom apt style unit, it's about 3 am. The 3rd guest comes in with a non guest female friend and wakes us both up.
They proceed to have sex about 3 feet away from my face, squeak, squeak, squeak. :(
I sit up and ask him nicely if he wouldn't mind going out to the empty living room and using the privacy of the sofa there:o.
He looks annoyed, smiles and says "sure" while the girl continues to straddle him like a horse and it's apparent he isn't going to do anything of the sort:p.
I say "No, man, I have to get up early, so...ah, please stop." He tells me to "F--k off":mad:, so I make the mistake of telling him to "grow up":cool:. He then gets out of the cot and grabs me around the neck, at which point I implore him, "I didn't come here to fight, I just want to get some sleep". I managed to hold him off but by then other people are also awakened and present so he stops assaulting me. Now I do not feel safe around this person, sleep is now pretty much out of the question and I tell him that he needs to leave or I am calling the police and pressing charges. He refuses to leave so I pullout my cellphone to call 911. At that point 3 other guests in the apartment relate to me that they would rather I not do that, the reason being that they are in the country illegally:(.
Well, fine, you tell this guy he has to leave. After 30 min of arguing with him, he finally leaves. You are probably wondering where the management is during this incident. Since they do not live at the 40 bed hostel and I tried calling their number, I guess they were off the clock.
The next day I left a note on the office door concerning what happened and why I did not call the police. When I returned that evening, tired, I saw the same miscreant giving me the evil eye:eek:.
It seems they just moved him to another room:confused:.
When I asked the "trailer trash" :D in the office why, she tells me that he was "way behind on his rent and they cannot let him leave now."
Oh I see :rolleyes: - rule abiding, considerate, paying guests take second place to criminal, lowlife, nonpaying guests.
- Comments
15 years
Hostels in some places have to work extra hard to make sure they are defending their image as a backpacker's hostel and not low income housing, etc. Many hostels in the USA have "check-in restrictions" that serve primarily to keep these kinds of people out.
In the comments to a recent news story about the possibility of a new flashpacker's hostel, someone said something to the effect of, "this will start out as a place for Euro-backpacker types and will turn into a heroin den." ugh
15 years
It's not just check in restrictions. Sometimes the nomadic class has all the right ID, luggage and are at the moment of check in, clean. The important point is when they mess up, and usually doesn't take long in dorm rooms you have to deal with it quickly and decisively. Permanent DNA. More effective than police as usually they are not interested. Kind of funny how many banned guests have tried to check in 2 to 3 years later and are informed that no they can't stay. That is why it is so important to take down correct spellings, especially correct DOB, ID.
Sometimes bad guests get in. I just wish some of the smaller hostels would do the same instead of taking the short term money leading to long term reputation killers.
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