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04 Aug 2008, 4:33 pm

If I wanted to go on a tour of the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany, would you recommend staying at a hostel or a hotel?



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04 Aug 2008, 4:35 pm

are you planning to go alone or with company?


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04 Aug 2008, 4:41 pm

Aren't you scared to stay in a hostel? 8O I saw the movie, both 1st and 2nd chapters! :eew: SCARY MOVIE! :skull:



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04 Aug 2008, 4:47 pm

Chaotica wrote:
Aren't you scared to stay in a hostel? 8O I saw the movie, both 1st and 2nd chapters! :eew: SCARY MOVIE! :skull:

LOL!


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04 Aug 2008, 5:03 pm

Nope. Not scared one bit.

Hopefully I'll be traveling with my pop.

I hope he doesn't mind be stopping by Amsterdam.



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04 Aug 2008, 5:04 pm

Lucky bast. :wink:



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04 Aug 2008, 5:51 pm

Chaotica wrote:
Aren't you scared to stay in a hostel? 8O I saw the movie, both 1st and 2nd chapters! :eew: SCARY MOVIE! :skull:


I would choose a hostel...just because of the movie.



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04 Aug 2008, 7:02 pm

I go for whatever is the cheapest option having a separate room. Dorms are nothing for me, so I need an own room. But I don't mind a small room with just a bed and nothing more. So hotel or hostel doesn't matter. Own room and low bill, that's all I ask for.

The Hostel film was really bad by the way. The first part cheap nudity and the second half cheap gore. I really disliked the film, 5 GBP I could have spent on much better stuff.


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04 Aug 2008, 7:46 pm

If you have money, I'd go for the hotels. Hostels are great if you're a poor college student, but if you can afford it it's really nice to have a private bathroom and bedroom for yourself after a long day exploring.



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04 Aug 2008, 9:30 pm

Aye, but hostels usually have private rooms as well. I never ever sleep in dorms, but have slept in many hostels. Hotels just have more luxury in their rooms, but hostels do have private rooms as well. Those in hostels are just more a bed and a table and that's it, while the hotel room will often come with own bathroom and TV...

In the end my only wish is a low bill and a private room. If the hostel has a private room, then the lack of luxury is the least of my worries. In the end I don't travel to spend much time in a hotel, you're there to sleep only while spending the time awake in the city :)


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05 Aug 2008, 5:43 am

crackedpleasures wrote:
The Hostel film was really bad by the way. The first part cheap nudity and the second half cheap gore. I really disliked the film, 5 GBP I could have spent on much better stuff.


I don't like films like that at all, but there was nothing more to see... Anyway, I usually stay at cheap hotels, 'cause I need just a place to sleep and spend all my time outside.



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05 Aug 2008, 12:23 pm

richard funfact- a motel is only called so if you can drive up to your room and park. a hotel is fancier i think. also hostel is german for "bording room"



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05 Aug 2008, 5:31 pm

Chaotica wrote:
crackedpleasures wrote:
The Hostel film was really bad by the way. The first part cheap nudity and the second half cheap gore. I really disliked the film, 5 GBP I could have spent on much better stuff.


I don't like films like that at all, but there was nothing more to see... Anyway, I usually stay at cheap hotels, 'cause I need just a place to sleep and spend all my time outside.


First 30 minutes of the film were tits and naked women, the remainder was just gore and bloodsoaked scenes. The whole film was crap from A to Z, a bit like "Euro Trip" but with 18+ because of the gore.

The worst was that the film makers didn't even try to hide their intention to attract people just wanting to see sex and blood. They did not even try to hide how bad their scenario was. I mean: those guys are taken to a sort of human abbatoir/slaughterhouse. The whole film gives no slight indication of the reason of existance of that abbatoir, it just happens to be there and the film makers must think their audience is stupid enough to not even ask what the purpose of that abbatoir is...

Worthless film, even though I must admit those actresses were quite arrousing. But that one scene with the eyeball destroyed everything that remained of my libido. I still cannot believe I spend 5 GBP on that film, I should have read reviews and watched previews first :?


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05 Aug 2008, 5:34 pm

richardbenson wrote:
richard funfact- a motel is only called so if you can drive up to your room and park. a hotel is fancier i think. also hostel is german for "bording room"


Isn't a motel like a hostel along a highway, where you would sleep before continueing your journey/roadtrip? Basically the motels I have been in were hostels outside of a city or village, but the rooms looked quite identical to the average hostel room.

By the way, why pay a hotel when you got things like HospitalityClub ? Sleep somewhere for free and make local friends at the same time... why book a hotel? :)


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05 Aug 2008, 5:42 pm

The hostels i`ve been to really sucked hardcore if you compared them to
hotels, so i would absolutely recommend hotels as long as they are good.
See amsterdam is mentioned above, that place has gone downhill, not as
laidback as it ones was, think they got tired of all the tourists messing up
badly making trouble while under the influence :lol: But, the new smoking
law that just hit`em is priceless, its hysterical, my sides are splitting just
thinking about it. People have to go outside to smoke cigarettes, and then
they have to go back inside to smoke the other stuff, and, they cant use
tobacco in it anymore :lol: :lol: how unusual is that, seriously. So now you
have these signs hanging in the shop-doors; "we only smoke pure inside this
shop - no tobaccco allowed" oh, my sides are splitting again



05 Aug 2008, 5:59 pm

I would rather stay in a hotel. I like my privacy and not have to worry about my stuff getting stolen. I do not like to share a room with a stranger.