While backpack I ’ve made friends for life history , run across fan , and pick up about far corners of the world bystaying in hostels . They ’re amazing , particularly when you ’re making your style across Europe or Asia alone – you may be sure you ’ll connect and find new fellow traveler this way .

But as in just about everything , there ’s always a stop . hostelry drive up the risk of exposure of putting you in close quarters with psychopath , narcist , dullards , or terror who have no conception of communal space . A friend who used to shape in a auberge in Canada has tell me storey that go to even darker places still . " We all hated the the great unwashed who pooped in the ice motorcar , " she started . Take heed , people , do n’t ever utilise the ice machine . There are other dread type waiting in the weeds at a hostel – or hopefully not .

Really Old Couples

I love the idea . Two people who fall in love , journey the world and relive past romance . In practice , it just reminds the ease of us that we ’re infants who are run short to die one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .

First-Time-Abroaders

speak of infant , it ’s incessantly the first calendar week of freshman year for these tykes . Wet - faced , flummox by everything , make love the bar .

The Bunk Humpers

Just because you’re able to , does n’t mean you should . No one really like to take heed unknown mass boinking , especially when they ’re lying underneath you in a dorm .

Families

There ’s no reason for a kinsperson of four to dash the party and push the rest of us degenerates to turn ourselves down to a PG rating . Get an Airbnb before I accidentally buy your 11 - class - old an IPA .

The Guy With the Guitar

No matter how many masses you need , however far you travel , the resolution is resoundingly unanimous : everyone cringes when they hear this hombre tuning . Morning , noon , or nighttime , no one want to try " Redemption Song . "

The Light-Flippers

When rest in a student residence with a 12 other the great unwashed , the first rules of coarse decency are be hushed and keep it dark . During a recent stay in Šibenik , Croatia , I had the good destiny to continue with a British chap who after a night out , turned the illumination on at 2 am so he could read his Word . What a guy .

The Spiritually Awakened Chatterbox

Whether they ’ve just done ayahuasca , or chance on some deeper meaning of life , you will always come to find someone who will want to share their awful realization with you .

Australians

No matter how many people you call for , Australians often do up . " I ’ve met some particularly dirt Australians during an badly - notify arrest in a hostelry , " a fellow medicine diary keeper recount me when expect . ( Federal Reserve note : Brits and Canadians just barely escape their own categories . )

The Kid Who Never Leaves the Hostel

travel in South America you often chance into the type of unfortunate introvert who see picture show in the common elbow room all twenty-four hour period , and drinks all night in the bar . ( For those who ’ve been to the Flying Dog hostels , you ’ll eff on the button the type . ) Get out into the human beings already – it ’s right outside .

Trust-Fund Kids

Here ’s another gem from a fellow traveler : " In Australia I stayed in a youth hostel somewhere on the Gold Coast with a Japanese trust - fund kid called Koji . He had no plans for his life because he did n’t need any . He was also a faith therapist , and kept the dorm awake all nighttime by standing in the middle   of the elbow room , arms outstretched , clear these snorting and hawking noises , then chanting at the back of his throat . This was because his friend in Japan had the flu and Koji was healing her from Byron Bay . ”

Bros

Bro . BRO . Just , look , release down the bro - ing . No one likes that much bro . Not even in hostels .

Phoners

The people who go to sleep gazing into their telephone set . Wake up to their phones . Have breakfast with their phones . Hover silently in the common elbow room , on their phones . Go to the bathroom , earpiece . I trust you had a good holiday . Phones .

Nudists/Exhibitionists

There has to be a line between feel secure about your own trunk , and feel respectable letting other people know how estimable you feel about your torso . I ’ve seen too many schlongs while on the road . Schlongs I definitely did n’t need to see . Schlongs that could ’ve been cured by a common towel .

The Really Sick Guy

Sadly , I ’ve been this guy far too often . A random microbe start in your rake and you demand to utilize that communal bath every 15 minutes . For two whole days your bowels precede you .

The Girl Way Too Hot to Sleep in a Mixed Dorm

I take it back , she ’s not the bad . I ’m thankful she was here these preceding pair of sidereal day . think back when she was here ? Sigh .

Meth-Drinking Swedes

" There were these Swedish kids in Townsville , Australia who tried to make me drink shabu , " a fellow journalist name Simon Sylvester wrote . " ' You wanna sample this , dude ? It totally burns , ' they said . " Technically these guys are n’t in every hostel , nor are they of necessity the worst . But , you know . Avoid .

The Guy Reading Dan Brown

No matter where you go , the hostel ’s shared - book library will always have books by Dan Brown and Tom Clancy , and someone will decide that ’s exactly the amount of input their brain needs after a foresighted , taxing daytime .

Drug Tourists

Yeah , you ’re plausibly American . You ’re belike in Amsterdam . You ’re probably incognizant that ticket to Denver these days are much trashy . You ’re probably going to mark a fatty spliff , institute it back to everyone else ’s household for the night , and hot - box the rest of us nerds who just desire to breath breeze . estimate what ? You ’re not overstrung , nor are you more hard-core than people who have it off how to handle their intake courteously .

Mr. “I’ve Been Everywhere”

move around to fresh plaza can be exciting , until you adjoin the guy who has not only been there , but has also been everywhere else . Apparently it was far better .

The Lonely Old Guy

This is rifle to be me soon . Is n’t it .

The Do-Gooders

The volunteer - lifers , who have happily give up years of their clock time to journey abroad and help oneself others . They ’re in strapping shape and even if there ’s a hell , they ’re not last there . Ugh , badly , the bad .

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