I am forced some times to use the common room as a dorm room.
It happened that I had some over bookings and I was forced to do some changes with my rooms and the common room used to serve me as a dorm room.
The room links to another rooms and to the kitchen.
Is it actually ALLOWED in some cases to experiment like this ?
Thank you.
15 years
Is it actually ALLOWED in some cases to experiment like this ?
Is it the only common room?
It depends on local laws, but if it's the only common room, I don't think it's a good idea even if it is legal :)
I would send overbookings to other hostels if possible (and pay any difference in price if the other hostel is more expensive than the dorm they booked for).
15 years
To use the common room as a dorm room can be very helpfull on Saturdays .
I can charge the half price cheaper , so the price will compensate the little discomphort.
I think according to the law , ( I am not sure who determines the law , the hostelling international organization claims to be the official body and law-maker and law-controller of the hostels laws , but in my opinion , there is no such a law yet , in some countries where the hostels are just started to be opened.) I can do it in apartment or guest-house , but in the hostel it is not actually allowed.
But in my 6 rooms apart-hostel the common room is actually the ''room '' , ''one of the rooms'' , so even it is linked to the kitchen and another rooms it is a room.
Only , the best application of this room is of course , to serve it as a common guest room not a sleeping room.
15 years
if it's the only common room, I don't think it's a good idea even if it is legal
I agree.
I can charge the half price cheaper , so the price will compensate the little discomphort.
The problem you have with this is that the other guests (paying full price) can no longer use the room as a common area. Essentially they would get less from your hostel than what they would receive on a normal day and they still have to pay for it. The situation works well for you and for the otherwise-stranded guests, but I would feel a little cheated if I were one of the full-price guests on those nights.
15 years
Gotta agree with Brian, I wouldn't be too happy in that situation, especially if I was travelling on my own, nowhere to just chill out or mingle with other guests, that is where hostels get a certain amount of their character/ fun factor/ "heart & soul", whatever you want to call it.
15 years
And it is a slippery slope if you use the common area as sleeping arrangements because a reputation will come out that either you have really cheap accommodations But more likely that you are creating a fire hazard and jamming as many people in as possible which will most likely turn away more people in the long run than that you would gain in the short term.
15 years
In my city , there are more hostels than beds
And even more hostels are about to be opened
My dorm is empty during the week
I rent the private rooms much better
Thats the reason I even plan to make the common room as a dorm room and that room which used to be a dorm to make a private room.
The good reviews at the hostels web sites and tourists forums do not prevent my dorms from being empty .
I shall gain one more room
Its an apartment , you know
I can experiment
That is the reason , that its a question wether its good or bed idea.
When there is a high rent , when there are no tourists and competition is crazy , you think more about survival and the most successful way of renting the rooms.
15 years
Excuse me , I was saying that
'' In the city where I run apart-hostel , there are more beds than tourists.''
15 years
If there are more beds than tourists, then turning common room in to dorm room does not make any sense. Make privates cheaper if you have to to get more bookings, but don't take away a room where to have fun and meet other people. And I don't think that guests who pay lot less for dorm still won't complain saying that it actually was not a dorm room but a common room.
In our hostel we have had situation when guests want to extend their stay, but we are fully booked. So common room was turned in a huge sleeping area. Here is how it looked. But then again we are famous for being very relaxed...
Usually we would sell overbookings to another (friendly) hostel, but in Liepaja at the moment we were the only real hostel, so we couldn't do it
15 years
The thing is that , there are a few hostels who have better location , much bigger and cheaper dorms , much more successful and experienced in marketing and promotion. And still they are not doing well , because it is very slow and quite with a business.
And the only chance to rent the room its to rent it as a private. That's why I think the dorm must be transfered toi the common room , to get one more private room.
In the low season its simply dead
The bankers fool and rob the people , the same with farmaceutic companies , and its all reflect to the tourism .
People do not want to travel .
I mean , what I think is that in my case , as an apartment - hostel I can and even must some times to survive without a common room.:mad:
15 years
And the only chance to rent the room its to rent it as a private. That's why I think the dorm must be transfered toi the common room , to get one more private room. (..) I mean , what I think is that in my case , as an apartment - hostel I can and even must some times to survive without a common room.:mad:
When you say that I really don't see why you need that dorm room. If you can sell privates better, just do it, but don't sacrifice your common room. People (at least "true" travellers) will be very happy to have a common room and if dorms don't sell it does not make sense to have one on the expense of common room. Ratings also could be better if you have some "fun" activities in common room. Our hostel is also an apartment hostel, but I really can't see it without common room.
too many common room in the text :)
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