YHA loses more of its roots
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YHA (England & Wales) new policy:
"Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult when they
stay at a hostel.
Anyone aged 16/17 if unaccompanied must be allocated a private room or
share only with individuals of the same sex and age group."
Another example of the YHA systematically erasing all the things that they were originally set up for.
I had 14 hostel overnights before I was 16, travelling with others of the same age. Another 24 before I was 18, mostly with others of the same age, but a few nights on my own. (These were not city hostels, but mostly in country areas. In those days many hostels typically had one male dorm and one female dorm).
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16 years
This country is becoming MAD with regulations. Everyone who has to run a company or charity is dead scared that, if something happens and your form was not filled in correctly, you'll be up before the world police. So they do everything that just might be necessary, just in case. Like putting emergency lighting in a dorm in case of the 1 in a million chance of a fire, that comes on and buzzes on the one in 100 occasion when the power goes down. That happened to me, and was the biggest thing that has put me off YHA -- they didn't care about me (except for a standard apology that my night was disturbed), they cared much more about being seen by THE AUTHORITIES to be doing the prescibed RIGHT THING.
16 years
YHA (England & Wales) new policy:
"Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult when they
stay at a hostel.Anyone aged 16/17 if unaccompanied must be allocated a private room or
share only with individuals of the same sex and age group."Another example of the YHA systematically erasing all the things that they were originally set up for.
I had 14 hostel overnights before I was 16, travelling with others of the same age. Another 24 before I was 18, mostly with others of the same age, but a few nights on my own. (These were not city hostels, but mostly in country areas. In those days many hostels typically had one male dorm and one female dorm).
Hi UKTrail,
Do you have a link to these new regulations?
Rgs
SC
16 years
A colleague in the Elenydd Trust said that it had to be applied to their hostels because they are under YHA rules.
He says: "We were briefed on this at a YHA volunteer wardens weekend". He was told that the information is on the yha website, which is
www.yha.org.uk
I have looked at that website and couldnt find it, but maybe it is there. So all I can suggest is that you search that website, or contact the YHA and ask what their rules are.
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