Hostels to Avoid

In the bustling city of Manchester, amongst the Game of Thrones styled oldest public library in the english language, and crowds of football fanatics, is a hostel named Hatters on Newton. When browsing hostelworld.com it was one of the first ones to come up, with (at the time) fairly good reviews. I was only going to be there one night as I was only in Manchester to catch a plane to Amsterdam, but oh how I wish I had looked around a bit more.

However, the awe of the decor quickly fades when you realize there is no heating, in February. I attempted to hang out in the large common area to see if I could make some new friends, but after 10 minutes shivering I headed upstairs to bed my 18 bed mixed dorm. I stayed in an 18 bed dorm as the place had a fairly high price range and a backpackers gotta go what a backpackers gotta due.

I woke up that next morning to a room full of six 50+ year old men walking around in their briefs. Yes, hairy, beer-bellied, half naked, men. Now know this is not the hostels fault, however in my experience certain hostels attract certain crowds of people, just something to keep in mind.