Some hostels will offer a big locked room where you leave your bags for free. Others have a locker room in the reception with large lockers that fit backpacks. Usually, if a hostel offers lockers rather than free luggage storage then you are required to pay a few euros to rent the locker.

The Essential Hostel Packing List

• Travel Towel. Packing a travel towel should be at the top of your list for two main reason:
• Various Padlocks.
• Sleeping Bag Liner.
• First Aid Kit.
• Packing Cubes.
• Universal Plug Adaptor.
• Mesh Laundry Bag.
• Multi-Charging Cables.

The good thing is you can find them easily on campus and you don’t need to carry them all through the way from home.

• Notebooks.
• College Texts.
• Pens, pencils, sharpener, eraser, ruler.
• Stationary holder.
• Staple and stapler.
• Electronic storage media (USB flash drive and memory cards).
• Folder with pockets.

Make the most of Free or Cheap Stuff. Most hostels will offer Free Activities and Nightly Meal & Drink Specials. Familiarise yourself with these and make the most of them. Plan your weekly eating and drinking schedule on the backpacker specials in your area.

Disadvantages of Hostel Life

• Ragging by seniors.
• Influence of bad company may draw a student towards smoking, drugs and drinking.
• At times it is difficult to concentrate on studies in the college atmosphere that is full of youth and fun.
• Living conditions are far less comfortable than that at home.

Yes, mobile phones are allowed in hostels. Yes, you’re allowed everything except cigarettes and alcohol.

Advantages of living in a hostel

• A Disciplined Life. Hostels are facilities maintained by educational institutions for students to live in, under the supervision of an administration.
• Learn to be Self-Reliant.
• Better Environment for Studying.
• Increased Cultural Awareness.
• The Benefit of Proximity.

Being at home is anyday better than being at hostel unless there’s problem at home or the child needs to be disciplined. *Parents are more sensitive to the needs of their children. *A hostel can never provide the comforts one gets at home. *It is more healthy for a child to grow up with his parents.

The furnishings in a hostel tend to range from bunk beds in the bedrooms, to old couches in the lobby. The lack of redecorating is in part why hostels can remain so inexpensive.

With my experience, I can say that while both hostel life and home life are very different and have their very own set of benefits and drawbacks, hostel life is anytime better once we get a learn a whole lot from this. It really is a great experience and shapes us once and for all.

It is all in choosing best friends and a hostel. But it’s not necessary that you will be successful in it. You will learn from experience. Experience is not just important for your resume alone, you need it throughout your life.

Independence and freedom Independence is something that most of us barely get at home. In a hostel, you are accountable for everything from getting up in the morning, to having meals, to washing clothes and what not. Hostel life gives the flexibility to fly in the open and seek things you couldn’t pursue when at home.

Life in a hostel is different from the life in a home. Generally a student stays in a hostel when his residence is located far from his educational institution. Life in a hostel makes a student self-dependent.

Hostel life can be an enjoyable journey for students. Many students of the same age live together and study in the same or different class in a hostel. Thus, students of the same nature develop great intimacy among themselves while getting their freedom and developing a sense of self-responsibility.

Apart from teaching the importance of Maggi at midnight, the value of home cooked food, the love of family members, how to bank on others for class notes or borrow interest free loans, sleeping on a chair, the unending list of funny but fundamental lessons, hostel life sure teaches a great deal more.

Tips For Hostel Life To Make Sure That You Have The Best Experience

1. Get Home-made Food As Often As You Can.
2. Share And Care.
3. Know When To Say “No”
4. Learn Subtle Techniques To Avoid People.
5. Keep Some Money Stowed Away.
6. Hang Out With Your Roommates At Least Once A Week.
7. Be Friendly With The Hostel Guards/ Warden/ Cook.

How to survive first year in a hostel, living away from home

1. Know that it is going to be difficult.
2. You will be homesick.
3. You have to share your life, your things.
4. You have to take care of the money.
5. Changes in the food.
6. Sleep disturbance.
7. The adult habits.
8. Patience.