How old is too old to stay in hostels

MoonshineMonty

How old is too old to stay in hostels? I like traveling and I like doing things cheaply. My last holiday however, I felt old and I'm in my 30s.

Joeseph Balls

MoonshineMonty wrote: »

How old is too old to stay in hostels? I like traveling and I like doing things cheaply. My last holiday however, I felt old and I'm in my 30s.

Was camping this last year, and the tent beside me was one of them one man, mummy coffin looking things and a foldable bike.
Next morning the person who rolled out of it, was a pensioner cycling around the Irish coast, staying in hostels and camping when he had to.
You've a few years ahead of you yet.

Nekarsulm

Feck, I'm just turned 50 and it dosent bother me.
I'd be more afraid of sharing with people who snore like a freight train, than of their age or nationality!

happyoutscan

Seriously?

Pawwed Rig

I have stayed in them in my 40s and have seen OAPs in them.

HeidiHeidi

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Feck, I'm just turned 50 and it dosent bother me.
I'd be more afraid of sharing with people who snore like a freight train, than of their age or nationality!

This, all day long!

Mutant z

I dont think any age is too old why should it even matter.

mosstin

Each to their own but I'm in my mid-40s and still always staying in hostels when abroad. The social dynamic has changed nowadays anyway as everyone's on their devices and so I've found hostels to be far less sociable in recent years.

Nekarsulm

Most memorable night ( for all the wrong reasons ) was in Haarlem in Holland.
In a room with a couple, originally from the Middle East but living in Canada, who literally shook the room with their snores. After a half an hour they synchronised into a kind of rhythm, about 5 am a local dog joined in by howling nearby, and all3 kept going until dawn.

Sleeper12

Personally I like the comfort of a nice hotel but I don't think you are ever too old for a hostel if that's what you want. I'm betting they get all age groups in Europe

mrcheez

sugarman wrote: »

There is no age limit, ive shared dozens of rooms with teens to OAPs in all my years staying in them. Im nearing 30 and ive no plan to stop anyway, although I do try to suss out less of a "party" hostel now than before and tend to book the odd private room if I really want peace.

heh, I always avoided "party" hostels even when I was backpacking in my 20s. I preferred to visit other people's party hostels but no way in hell would I actively stay in one.

And to the OP's question, you're never too old. Always met French and Germans in their 60s in hostels back in the day (tbh probably perhaps because they weren't party hostels).

elperello

Keep going until they start asking for a letter of permission from your kids!

fdevine

Plenty of hostels now offer private rooms. Generator being one example. As others have said thers is no "too old"

ShadyAcres

Never too old. I stayed in a 10 bed shared room hostel in Nice last summer. There was all ages there. Nobody batted an eyelid. I'm 39

spurious

I travelled around New Zealand hostels with my mother when she was in her 70s. No issues. We did try to avoid the hostels known for drinking and partying.

JohnCleary

No such thing, however maybe checkout what type of hostel it is... I can't imagine someone in their 40's wanting to stay in a 'party' or 'youth' hostel.

Met a guy in his 50's in Lisbon last year, travelling with his kids (approx. 10 yrs) - we stayed in one night (hostel hosted a wine and food evening)... he was one of the last to go to bed

grimm2005

Some hostels will have a rule that you can only stay in a dorm up to 35 or 40 (but many don't have this rule) but you can stay in private rooms.

Myself, I'm 30 and still staying in hostels and dorms, and never feel old. The last hostel I was in, I was with a group of mostly people in their early 30s as well as one guy who was 22 and my first hostel experience around when I was 25 I spent my first night hanging out with a mixed group who were all around 35. Have also seen some much older in hostels too.

I'm sure the average age generally is probably somewhere in mid 20s but as others have said if you pick your hostel carefully you're more likely to have a mixed group. I've never looked for party hostels and stuck more with hostels with a great social element but go out for drinks before midnight so depending on what sort of night you want you're covered.

hargo

I'd say you might be too old when you ca't climb to top bunk!

lorcand1990

I used to work in a hostel in Dublin. Granted the majority of the guests were in their 20's, but you would get people of all ages really, so I don't think you can be 'too old' to stay in one.. Hope that helps!

Greg81

Took my mother for a trip around Switzerland. Hotels are expensive there so we were using hostels instead. My mother is over 60 and she was happy she could spend a time around younger people from around the world.

4Ad

I stayed in a hostel in Corralejo in Fuerteventura at christmas, it was nice and I didn't feel odd or out of place. Met a few interesting people, I'm 49..
I met a Swiss girl in Poets hostel in Lisbon(lovely) and she was moaning loudly that hostels are no fun anymore as everyone is on their devices..it was funny seeing all the heads lower and squirm.
Met a woman of 74 from NZ in a kip of a hostel back in 1993, she was lovely ans interesting, she got treated like royalty.
I'm gonna keep using hostels, The Bunk in Galway is lovely..
I wont be using White Lodge in Lagos, Potrugal again, a kip and so loud, no security..No troubl, but no..too old for that.

Fred Swanson

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JohnCleary

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I noticed this especially in Vietnam / Thailand. Infact, private rooms in Hostels were often more expensive than hotels!

Yamanoto

MoonshineMonty wrote: »

How old is too old to stay in hostels?

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Cheshire Cat

Stayed in a hostel in Berlin last year. When we checked out a lady with a Zimmer frame was checking in (I assume she got a private room).
As long as you can walk you are not too old

beertons

When I go to Galway for a night or 2, I always stay in a hostel, private room, €40 a night. It's perfect.