Poll: Have you ever hooked up in a hostel?

By Tom Gates On June 10, 2010 · 17 Comments

Tweet

Which one’s the real bounty? Photo by erutan

What percentage of Matador’s readership has been party to bunkthumping?

Something happens at youth hostels that can make reality flip. I have seen the most pure, saintly ladies go Animal Planet over the course of a three glasses of cheap Chianti. I have heard men tell tale of holding onto their virginity until they are married, only hours later to be seen furiously flustered at a condom vending machine with a dire, spastic look in their eyes.

This is not say that the reality flip happens to everyone, nor that it happens all of the time. Which made me curious.

What percentage of people are pulling off into dark hostel corners or pretending to “just crash in my new friend’s bunk tonight”?

For the purposes of this poll, ‘hooking up’ is defined as: 1) Any sexual activity that goes beyond kissing (you know). 2) Takes place on the grounds of a hostel, tree houses included (I suggest for no particular reason at all). 3) Occurs with somebody that could not, at that time, be considered your partner.

We welcome any stories in the replies, and also understand that you’ll be creating a fictitious name for any comments. It’s a great day to create a pen name.

Loading ...

Community Connection

Have you read our picks for the craziest party hostels in the world or its sequel? Did you know that you could also move the party to the coolest campers around?

About The Author

Tom Gates

Tom is a wayward writer based in Los Angeles. He has served as Editor for both Matador Nights and Life. He loves to go far, far away whenever possible. He is also pretending to be a third person right now and is obviously writing his own bio. He knows that you knew that, despite the deft maneuvering of pronouns.

More By This Author

8:46 am, 9/11 Manhattan (58 comments)
Patron saint of my round-the-world trip
Hollywood's monthly food truck orgy (2 comments)

view all → Tom Gates

http://www.havepack.com Have Pack, Will Travel

I have yet to find a girl desperate enough.
Dan

What a though-provoking survey! Such an original idea! Looking forward to the “Have you ever pissed in an alley in Europe?” Yawn.
http://www.adventurouskate.com/ Adventurous Kate

Hostels create the shortest possible distance between bar and bed. The atmosphere is set up for just that!

Beyond that…no comment.
Simon

She was a beautiful girl from Frankfurt, whom I met in Florence whilst traveling. Hostels are awkward places, particularly to find privacy, but there was something about the secret, the keeping quiet in the dorm and the laughing about it the next morning at breakfast, that I’ll never forget…. even now, eight years later, I still remember what a memorable time that was…..
http://evaholland.com Eva

Re: qualifier #3, if you hook up with someone in several hostels in multiple countries, does that person then count as your “partner”?

Also, I’d like to make clear that I have at no time engaged in “bunkthumping.” Shared dorms are off-limits; common rooms, stairwells, hallways and rooftops are fair game. Because I’m a lady.

Juliane Huang

Respekt.

http://www.candicedoestheworld.com Candice

I second that.

And no, not yet.

http://www.inspirits.com.ar In Spirits

Where there’s a bed, there’s action, nuff said

Geraldo Figueras
http://www.musicfestivaljunkies.com Chip

If you hook up with someone in multiple countries then you are “dating”. This may be one of the shorter relationships in your life.
http://www.rawr52.blogspot.com Sandy

Pshaw, I admit it. I didn’t go allll the way, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t why my parents bought me a private room as a treat that night.
de Beauvoir

For round 2 that night. Started on the banks of the local river. Finish the night on the rooftop bar of the hostel as the sun came up. Lovely country, China, and not just because of Yangshuo and Monkey Jane’s…
http://brinkofsomethingelse.com Camden Luxford

I refuse to believe there’s actually more no’s than yes’s on this poll.

I mean, I was totally I a no, obviously. But the rest of you? Liars…
http://itchyfoot.tumblr.com Sara C.

This is one of the few ways in which I am a lady – I need my privacy, sorry.
Matt

I used to work in a hostel and can say with some confidence the above poll is not very accurate. More nos than yess. I don’t belive it!!
Ryan

Yeah, there are truly some false replies to this poll.

For me it was a magical night in Cork, to drunk to properly remember where the hostel was me and this chaste young lady took a 2 min. cab around the block to it.

Once inside we kicked the tires about whose room we would “sleep” in and ended up agreeing that the stack of extra mattresses in the poorly lit area under the flight of stairs farthest from foot traffic would be the best place for a nap. We were surprised to find out that this real eager beaver of a employee liked to mop the floors at 4am and so both of us huddled under one of our blankets pulled an anne frank and stopped breathing while waiting for this man to finish mopping and carry-on with us undetected.

This would have worked except apparently we hastly shed our clothes all over the hallway and so he gave us the old “I’ll start at the other end of the hostel tonight, do NOT be here when i get back” talk that we’ve all heard before and to which i replied in my worst drunken british accent “Right-o goodsir, pleasant evening”
andrew

yes i have a few times and i apologize to any past roommates i’ve had who might’ve caught a glimpse
http://www.bucketlistnation.com/bucket-list/ Bucketlist

I like it, that’s why i will come again.

Poll: Have you ever hooked up in a hostel?

Community Connection

Related Posts

Tom Gates

More By This Author

Subscribe to Matador

The best travel articles each week. No spam.

Breaking stories, announcements, events, and more.

In partnership with Matador

Quick-Read

Feature

Feature

Feature

Quick-Read

Feature

Feature

Feature

Feature

Feature

Feature

Matador Network © 2006-2011

About Matador

Sections

Become a Contributor

New Media School