mixed dorms in hostels

tentickles666

has anyone stayed in these? im a bit aprehensive as a single female traveller but at £10 per night when you are on a budget....

Margey

Yes i have in New york.
It's not as bad as it first seems. Obviously your sharing a room with people, but just keep your stuff with you and make sure you have travel insurance! If you don't like it on your first night, move to somewhere that's a little more expensive and settle for your own room?

cazziebo

my daughter (19, travelling alone) is in her second mixed hostel in Australia and says she prefers mixed to female only. The things that bother her - no time on her own, snoring, people getting up and going to bed at different times so disturbance goes on all night - are not gender specific. But very cheap and that's the attraction. Sounds like she is having a great time - I'm quite jealous!

flutterbyuk25

I prefer mixed dorms too. I'm off to Oz, New Zealand and Singapore this month and am staying in mixed dorms. I find you tend to get a bit more interaction with people in mixed than same sex ones, not sure why though! But I've always felt perfectly safe in them.

linz

I was the only female in a 10-bed dorm in Poland a couple of years back. I never felt unsafe, to be honest people are off doing their own thing. The only problem I had was the noise on the last night when I had a flight to catch at the crack of dawn, but you'd get that whether it was blokes or girls.

HTH

Jeff_Bridges_hair

yeh ive done this before and its not as bad as you think.. Even me missus thought it was fine too.. No sex though - another story lol.

laurel7172

I avoided dorms until one night in New York when I arrived to find my single had been double booked, and it was a dorm or hit the streets to find another bed.

And...I've used dorms ever since when travelling alone. Apart from having someone to chat to and swap stories with, I actually feel safer knowing that there are people with whom I've shared my plans for the day, and who will notice if I go missing. So go for it and don't worry-you'll have a great time

rubytuesday

Yes in New York with my son who was thirteen at the time.

It was fine.

foreign_correspondent

yes, and booked me an me old mum into one in amsterdam a few years ago... she was fine, after she got over her intitial trepidtion!

AHAR

I wonder if they're described as mixed dorms so that if the ratio of male to female bookings doesn't fit neatly into separate rooms, they can still fill every bed. You'd hope they'd still allocate beds so you don't end up in a room full of blokes.
Due to the lack of inexpensive hotels in Stockholm I decided on a hostel when I went there earlier this year. Upon my arrival I was slightly surprised to find the other beds in the room occupied by 3 young German ladies. I don't think they were expecting me to turn up there either but they were great and we got on very well. They didn't take advantage of me being on my own...but you can't have everything! :rotfl:

Siouxsie32

Yip, I have in New York too - felt a little intimidated when I got back from a night out and there was a naked young man in the room :eek: but I think he got more of a fright than me! He quickly got dressed and left to join some of the others downstairs! I had the room to myself for most of the night :rotfl: