BonjourCava
Traveller
9 comments
Posted 14 years ago
Hey everyone,
I'm planning on doing Interrail this summer, during July, and I have a few things I'm unsure about. Any help/advice is more than welcome.
1. How easy is it to access the internet while travelling? Is it feasible to book hostels a few days ahead, while travelling, so you can have some freedom but still have a place to stay? Would I have to use an internet cafe, or would a hostel let me borrow their PC for a few minutes?
2. Is it possible/safe to leave your main bag at a hostel during the day, and just take a small bag with valuables to go exploring? Would you be able to leave it at reception/in your room? Where else can you leave luggage, and for how much?
3. If travelling alone, would you reccommend staying in small rooms with a few people, or larger dorms? And is it quite noisy, or can you get to sleep pretty easily? I like my rest :D
I'll mainly be in Western Europe, if that affects the answer at all. Thanks everyone! :D
Head
Traveller
101 comments
Hi,
1. Not all hostels have public internet access, though they normally know the address of internet cafes around, if there are any. Another solution is bringing a netbook or some other mobile device. Fast-foods in many coutries have free Wi-Fi (for instance, McDonalds does in UK, France, Switzerland, Hungary, etc. - in Germany it doesn't).
2. Normally it's safe - otherwise it would have been little sense to stay in hostels at all ) some have lockers as well. You can also use station lockers if needed - they cost several euros.
3. Usually it's not much noise. Though in cities like Amsterdam there is a possibility that some group of drunken guys would return to hostel at dead of night and fail to keep quiet )
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Head
Traveller
101 comments
And remember that some hostels may lack a proper separation between rooms, so noise from one room can be heard in another. Or simply access to one room can be via another )
BonjourCava
Traveller
9 comments
Thanks :)
Any further replies still welcome :)