It's almost April Fools Day — one of our favorite holidays here at The Backslackers. No matter where you're traveling this year, you can celebrate April Fools by pulling an epic prank on your hostelmates, fellow travelers, or your friends and family back home. Stumped...
You might think you know hostels, but do you really know hostels? Gone are the day of cookie cutter hostels where you know what to expect. Nowadays there are hostels of every type for every type in every location and at every price point. Not...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost There comes a time in every backpacker's trip where they face a travel conundrum, where they have to make a choice. Sometimes it's a...
You know it's going to come up. You meet a hot Swedish chick on a gap year. You hit it off, have a few buckets, and she's ready to go. The only problem is that you're both in a hostel, and hostels aren't exactly known...
No one has the budget to travel forever. No one. You may think you have enough money in savings but eventually it will all run out. Every cent of it. But there are ways to stretch your travel dollar. Accommodation will be one of your biggest...
There are plenty of things to be annoyed about when staying in a hostel: early check out times, crappy free breakfast, flooding showers, dirty sheets. The list goes on and on. But sometimes the most annoying thing about being in a hostel is the other...
The best parts about hostels: the drinking, the people, the community. The worst part about hostels: the hostel rules. All hostels have them, those laminated sheets of paper taped up all over the common room, all over the bathroom, and all over the dorm rooms telling you...
When you’re traveling around the world you are going to stay in a lot of hostels. It’s really the only choice for accommodation. But, with so many options to choose from, it’s hard to know which place to pick. How do you choose the right...
On my gap year around the world I always stayed in hostels. There's just no other choice. Hostels are the best place to meet other travelers and they usually offer everything a backpacker needs: beds, babes, and booze. There really is no other option for...
Zach recently made me watch the movie Hostel. It's this movie where these guys are backpacking through Europe and get lured away to Bratislava where they discover this murder club where people pay money to murder backpackers. He knew I was already scared to stay...