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strange hostel experiences

  • 21-12-2012 8:38pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 822 ✭✭✭


    Anyone ever worked in a hostel? Any strange tales to tell... I'm doing a bit of research!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    You first.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 388 ✭✭Truncheon Rouge


    I stayed in a cheap hostel. In a small room with about 4 other bunk beds. About 8 people packed in this room.
    I couldnt have a ****.

    Thats all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    You first.

    Laugh of the day. Nice one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    I stayed in a cheap hostel. In a small room with about 4 other bunk beds. About 8 people packed in this room.
    I couldnt have a ****.

    Thats all.

    Unfortunately, that didn't stop the chap I shared with on one of my few hostel experiences.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    I was in a hostel with scouts years back, I was a patrol leader at the time and myself and the rest of us were settling down for the night.
    One of the younger lads (I'd say her was about 11-12 at the time, I would have been 16) started messing with a big kitchen knife on his bed, we had a strict no knife policy, especially with the younger lads.
    So as you'd expect I asked WTF he was doing and confiscated it, asked him if he had any more. He said no but sounded dead guilty, I asked him to empt his bag for me and he freaked.
    Straight out to get the actual leaders, they searched his bag and found 5 or 6 more knives in his bag. ****ing carving knives, meat cleavers. :eek:

    He was given a stern talking to and was sent home the next day, not before running up to the top of a cliff and saying he was going to jump first though.
    Bloody mental little kid.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Write your own damn book and don't be getting us to do it for you!:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭mosstin


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I was in a hostel with scouts years back, I was a patrol leader at the time and myself and the rest of us were settling down for the night.
    One of the younger lads (I'd say her was about 11-12 at the time, I would have been 16) started messing with a big kitchen knife on his bed, we had a strict no knife policy, especially with the younger lads.
    So as you'd expect I asked WTF he was doing and confiscated it, asked him if he had any more. He said no but sounded dead guilty, I asked him to empt his bag for me and he freaked.
    Straight out to get the actual leaders, they searched his bag and found 5 or 6 more knives in his bag. ****ing carving knives, meat cleavers. :eek:

    He was given a stern talking to and was sent home the next day, not before running up to the top of a cliff and saying he was going to jump first though.
    Bloody mental little kid.

    Yeah, he sounded pretty cut up at the end there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Didn't happen to me, per so; happened to a mates of a mate. There a few years ago in Amsterdam, two American fellas called Paxton and Josh and another fella called Óli(think he was from Iceland...first cousin of Bjork) meet Alexei, a Russian man who tells them about a Slovak hostel filled with American-loving local women, apparently if you shook them mickeys would practically fall out. DTF. The backpackers board a train to Slovakia, where they meet a Dutch businessman long enough to be unnerved by his bizarre behaviour. Upon arriving in the small village, the backpackers check into the local hostel and find themselves sharing a room with Natalya and Svetlana, two baours, single women who entice the backpackers to a spa and a disco before ridin' the bejaysus of of them.

    Afterwards, the next morning, Óli is missing; to be fair it happens. A young Japanese backpacker named Kana also reports that her friend Yuki is gonzo. An MMS photo sent from Yuki's phone shows Yuki and Óli beneath a smokestack of an abandoned factory, with the word 'Sayonara' written beneath it. Unbeknownst to Josh and Paxton, Oli has been decapitated and Yuki tortured, and (presumably) killed. Paxton and Josh decide to leave Bratislava with Kana the following day. They spot a man wearing Oli's jacket at a museum of medieval torture relics. Paxton later notices that in the MMS photo of Oli, Yuki and the smokestack is faked. Later that night, while partying with Natalya and Svetlana, Paxton and Josh get pist. Josh stumbles back to the hostel while Paxton passes out in the disco's storage room.

    Hours later, Josh wakes up handcuffed to a chair in a dungeon-like room surrounded by power tools and weapons, initially he believes he's in Abbeyleix. The Dutch businessman enters in a leather apron and gloves and begins torturing Josh drilling him in his pecs just above his nipples. After he is done, the Dutch Business man sits down and talks to Josh, explaining his unfulfilled dreams of being a surgeon for the HSE. Josh begs to be released, the businessman then cuts Josh's Achilles' tendon and lets him crawl towards the door before finally murdering him.

    Across town, Paxton awakens and returns to the hostel to find both Josh and Kana gonzo. In his room are a different pair of beautiful women inviting him to a spa, eerily similar to Natalya's and Svetlana's offer from before. When the local police chief proves unhelpful, Paxton locates Natalya and Svetlana and demands to be taken to an "art show" where he thinks his friends are. They drive to a factory on the outskirts of the town where inside, Paxton sees the Dutch businessman cutting up Josh's dead body. He screams at Natalya, who laughs at him, and he is then ambushed by thugs who drag him past cells filled with other backpackers being tortured by various clients.

    Paxton is taken to his own cell and restrained to a chair, joined minutes later by a German client who tortures him. Distracted by Paxton's ability to plead for his life in German, the client puts a ball-gag in his mouth(they has been a Thrusday special in Aldi the week before) and tries to kill him with a chainsaw, but before he can begin Paxton starts throwing up, either out of fear or because the gag was choking him. Due to his ball-gag, he starts to choke on his own vomit, and the client quickly removes the ball-gag, probably to stop Paxton dying before he could kill him. He then continues his torture with the chainsaw(looked like a 2 stroke jobby and she smoked a bit), but inadvertently saws off Paxton's handcuffs along with his ring and pinky finger before slipping on the ball-gag which he just threw on the floor. This leads to the client dropping the chainsaw and cutting off his own leg, (disaster, complete numpty).

    Paxton breaks free and shoots the client in the head with a gun on the weapon counter. When the guard comes to check on the situation, Paxton shoots and kills him before escaping dressed in torture gear; he looked like someone on their way to Young Wesley. He hides in a nearby room to avoid capture from other guards, where he finds a collection of victims, and hides under a pile of body parts before being taken to a room where he sees dead bodies being chopped up by a butcher for cremation. Paxton kills the butcher with a hammer, and escapes to the surface where he then peers outside to see police officers conspiring with the factory men. Paxton has turned into a one-man killing machine.

    Paxton dresses himself in the clothes of a client, pulling a glove over his mutilated hand, and discovers a business card for Elite Hunting, now revealed as a secret, worldwide, murder-for-profit organization that charges ascending rates for Slovakians, Europeans, and most of all for Americans. An American businessman arrives and believing Paxton to be another client, discusses his intended victim and asks Paxton whether to kill her quickly or slowly. Paxton advises administering a quick death, but the American businessman disagrees and decides to resort to torturing, leaving behind a no longer needed firearm before exiting. Paxton steals the firearm and escapes to the courtyard when he hears a woman scream. Unable to ignore it, he returns to the factory and kills the American, now in the middle of burning Kana's face with a blowtorch.

    Paxton and Kana flee the factory in a stolen car and head to the railway station, spotting Alexei, Natalya, and Svetlana on their way from the original hostel. Paxton subsequently runs them over. He later runs into the gang of kids and notices that he is in the same car that he was driven in to the "art show", which has a bag of candy in it. The gang then kills the people chasing Paxton, having been bribed with the bag of candy(no in a paedo way). At the railway station, Kana notices the disfigured reflection of her missing eye, and, unable to live with her hideous scars, throws herself into the path of an incoming train, distracting the guards and allowing Paxton to escape aboard another train.

    Once aboard, Paxton hears the familiar voice of Josh's torturer, the Dutch businessman. As the train stops in Vienna, Austria, Paxton follows him to a public restroom and throws the Elite Hunting's card under his stall. When the Dutch businessman reaches down to pick it up, Paxton grabs his hand and, using a scalpel, cuts off the same fingers he lost during his escape. He then breaks in the stall and nearly drowns the Dutch businessman in the toilet bowl, allowing time for him to recognize Paxton, before slitting his throat, killing him. Paxton then leaves to board another train out of Austria.

    All in all, a good time was had by everyone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I can't sleep in a room that has another person in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Didn't happen to me, per so; happened to a mates of a mate. There a few years ago in Amsterdam, two American fellas called Paxton and Josh and another fella called Óli(think he was from Iceland...first cousin of Bjork) meet Alexei, a Russian man who tells them about a Slovak hostel filled with American-loving local women, apparently if you shook them mickeys would practically fall out. DTF. The backpackers board a train to Slovakia, where they meet a Dutch businessman long enough to be unnerved by his bizarre behaviour. Upon arriving in the small village, the backpackers check into the local hostel and find themselves sharing a room with Natalya and Svetlana, two baours, single women who entice the backpackers to a spa and a disco before ridin' the bejaysus of of them.

    Afterwards, the next morning, Óli is missing; to be fair it happens. A young Japanese backpacker named Kana also reports that her friend Yuki is gonzo. An MMS photo sent from Yuki's phone shows Yuki and Óli beneath a smokestack of an abandoned factory, with the word 'Sayonara' written beneath it. Unbeknownst to Josh and Paxton, Oli has been decapitated and Yuki tortured, and (presumably) killed. Paxton and Josh decide to leave Bratislava with Kana the following day. They spot a man wearing Oli's jacket at a museum of medieval torture relics. Paxton later notices that in the MMS photo of Oli, Yuki and the smokestack is faked. Later that night, while partying with Natalya and Svetlana, Paxton and Josh get pist. Josh stumbles back to the hostel while Paxton passes out in the disco's storage room.

    Hours later, Josh wakes up handcuffed to a chair in a dungeon-like room surrounded by power tools and weapons, initially he believes he's in Abbeyleix. The Dutch businessman enters in a leather apron and gloves and begins torturing Josh drilling him in his pecs just above his nipples. After he is done, the Dutch Business man sits down and talks to Josh, explaining his unfulfilled dreams of being a surgeon for the HSE. Josh begs to be released, the businessman then cuts Josh's Achilles' tendon and lets him crawl towards the door before finally murdering him.

    Across town, Paxton awakens and returns to the hostel to find both Josh and Kana gonzo. In his room are a different pair of beautiful women inviting him to a spa, eerily similar to Natalya's and Svetlana's offer from before. When the local police chief proves unhelpful, Paxton locates Natalya and Svetlana and demands to be taken to an "art show" where he thinks his friends are. They drive to a factory on the outskirts of the town where inside, Paxton sees the Dutch businessman cutting up Josh's dead body. He screams at Natalya, who laughs at him, and he is then ambushed by thugs who drag him past cells filled with other backpackers being tortured by various clients.

    Paxton is taken to his own cell and restrained to a chair, joined minutes later by a German client who tortures him. Distracted by Paxton's ability to plead for his life in German, the client puts a ball-gag in his mouth(they has been a Thrusday special in Aldi the week before) and tries to kill him with a chainsaw, but before he can begin Paxton starts throwing up, either out of fear or because the gag was choking him. Due to his ball-gag, he starts to choke on his own vomit, and the client quickly removes the ball-gag, probably to stop Paxton dying before he could kill him. He then continues his torture with the chainsaw(looked like a 2 stroke jobby and she smoked a bit), but inadvertently saws off Paxton's handcuffs along with his ring and pinky finger before slipping on the ball-gag which he just threw on the floor. This leads to the client dropping the chainsaw and cutting off his own leg, (disaster, complete numpty).

    Paxton breaks free and shoots the client in the head with a gun on the weapon counter. When the guard comes to check on the situation, Paxton shoots and kills him before escaping dressed in torture gear; he looked like someone on their way to Young Wesley. He hides in a nearby room to avoid capture from other guards, where he finds a collection of victims, and hides under a pile of body parts before being taken to a room where he sees dead bodies being chopped up by a butcher for cremation. Paxton kills the butcher with a hammer, and escapes to the surface where he then peers outside to see police officers conspiring with the factory men. Paxton has turned into a one-man killing machine.

    Paxton dresses himself in the clothes of a client, pulling a glove over his mutilated hand, and discovers a business card for Elite Hunting, now revealed as a secret, worldwide, murder-for-profit organization that charges ascending rates for Slovakians, Europeans, and most of all for Americans. An American businessman arrives and believing Paxton to be another client, discusses his intended victim and asks Paxton whether to kill her quickly or slowly. Paxton advises administering a quick death, but the American businessman disagrees and decides to resort to torturing, leaving behind a no longer needed firearm before exiting. Paxton steals the firearm and escapes to the courtyard when he hears a woman scream. Unable to ignore it, he returns to the factory and kills the American, now in the middle of burning Kana's face with a blowtorch.

    Paxton and Kana flee the factory in a stolen car and head to the railway station, spotting Alexei, Natalya, and Svetlana on their way from the original hostel. Paxton subsequently runs them over. He later runs into the gang of kids and notices that he is in the same car that he was driven in to the "art show", which has a bag of candy in it. The gang then kills the people chasing Paxton, having been bribed with the bag of candy(no in a paedo way). At the railway station, Kana notices the disfigured reflection of her missing eye, and, unable to live with her hideous scars, throws herself into the path of an incoming train, distracting the guards and allowing Paxton to escape aboard another train.

    Once aboard, Paxton hears the familiar voice of Josh's torturer, the Dutch businessman. As the train stops in Vienna, Austria, Paxton follows him to a public restroom and throws the Elite Hunting's card under his stall. When the Dutch businessman reaches down to pick it up, Paxton grabs his hand and, using a scalpel, cuts off the same fingers he lost during his escape. He then breaks in the stall and nearly drowns the Dutch businessman in the toilet bowl, allowing time for him to recognize Paxton, before slitting his throat, killing him. Paxton then leaves to board another train out of Austria.

    All in all, a good time was had by everyone.

    Lost you there after "Didn't..."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭The Aussie


    Yeh, I worked in Cloudbreak Backpackers in Cape Town for 6 months about a decade ago.

    Loved it, great stories but......

    What ever goes on tour stays on tour dude.


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