by Lucky Lucan » Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:36 pm
Hanno wrote: Only when there is absolutely no other way (as BDS: high mountain shelter, some national park in the middle of nowhere). With the rates for basic hotel rooms in this part of the wolrd, I just do not see the need.
I've stayed in a dorm for a night or two in the mountains of Nepal with some friends, that was fine. We were on a trek together and it was just a room to get stoned in and sleep before the next leg.
Another time in Livingstone with an old friend and some East Germans we met wasn't too cool. Mainly because two morons thought it was a good idea to bring hookers from the local restaurant home. You should have seen the state of these when the Portuguese owner chased them out with his Doberman in the morning. They probably looked ok with heavy beer-goggles and their wigs on, but they looked rough as fuck with their baldy Bantu peppercorn hair in the morning. Anyway, fuck that shit, me and one of the East German lads went out and sat by the pool all night chatting. I'm not at all into being in the same room as people who are fucking, it grosses me out. I got stuck in Neak Loung years back and had to share a double room with about five Khmer friends, that was terrible as well. The room was expensive (maybe $25) considering it was tiny and filthy. It had one of those shitty cracked plastic shower units leaking in the corner, and 24 hour porn on the cable.
I would rather pay for a crap single room and at least have some privacy and security. Like most people when they travel, I have some expensive gear and there's no way I'm sharing a room with some random stranger, nor am I interested in carrying my valuables around all day in case they get robbed from some shitbox shared room.
I think many younger tourists on limited budgets like dorms though for the social aspect, they can party and then all sleep in the same big room together and have a laugh together.
[quote="Hanno"] Only when there is absolutely no other way (as BDS: high mountain shelter, some national park in the middle of nowhere). With the rates for basic hotel rooms in this part of the wolrd, I just do not see the need.[/quote]
I've stayed in a dorm for a night or two in the mountains of Nepal with some friends, that was fine. We were on a trek together and it was just a room to get stoned in and sleep before the next leg.
Another time in Livingstone with an old friend and some East Germans we met wasn't too cool. Mainly because two morons thought it was a good idea to bring hookers from the local restaurant home. You should have seen the state of these when the Portuguese owner chased them out with his Doberman in the morning. They probably looked ok with heavy beer-goggles and their wigs on, but they looked rough as fuck with their baldy Bantu peppercorn hair in the morning. Anyway, fuck that shit, me and one of the East German lads went out and sat by the pool all night chatting. I'm not at all into being in the same room as people who are fucking, it grosses me out. I got stuck in Neak Loung years back and had to share a double room with about five Khmer friends, that was terrible as well. The room was expensive (maybe $25) considering it was tiny and filthy. It had one of those shitty cracked plastic shower units leaking in the corner, and 24 hour porn on the cable.
I would rather pay for a crap single room and at least have some privacy and security. Like most people when they travel, I have some expensive gear and there's no way I'm sharing a room with some random stranger, nor am I interested in carrying my valuables around all day in case they get robbed from some shitbox shared room.
I think many younger tourists on limited budgets like dorms though for the social aspect, they can party and then all sleep in the same big room together and have a laugh together.