BODILY FLUIDS

I have two pretty gross hostel stories that, happened at the same hostel. I went to Hanoi, Vietnam this past spring. The city was awesome, busy and loud and so very different from Japan. The hostel my friend and I decided to stay at was cheap at $5 a night for a mixed dorm, so I really didn’t have the highest of expectations. Little did I know what was really in store for me! We were trying to fit six cities into our two week vacation so we weren’t really into “travel party mode” like… pretty much everyone else in our hostel. I had NO idea when I booked our hostel that it was going to be so heavily gauged towards partying, and if I did I would most likely not have booked there.

Well, the second night my friend and I get back from being out at Ha Long Bay and promptly pass out. I get woken up sometime in the middle of the night by the sound of puking in the bathroom. Great, someone is sick! These things happen in hostels, people drink too much or eat bad food. But then I realize it is the girl who is sleeping in the bed above me! I get woken up a few more times by her climbing down to vomit and I just keep thinking “girl, please just sleep in there!” Needless to say, I get very little sleep that night because I am worried on her NOT making it to the bathroom and gravity. Thankfully that never happened.

The second story is also pretty gross and involves bodily fluids. We were staying at that hostel for four nights. And during our second day we hear some people talking about their water not working. Apparently, they had just redone the building and were having some plumbing issues. We’re in an old part of Hanoi and I mean, it’s $5 a night. We were on the ground floor and had little issues with our water, until the last night there. No water for a shower and no water for the toilet, which meant everyone’s business is just there.

We are flying out to Cambodia the next day and all I want is a shower and to not be woken up by drunk girls puking! We ask them if they have any rooms with water and they did, so we ended up moving rooms and it was a really nice room. But still, no water in the hostel is gross, especially when you’re sharing a toilet with strangers.