Posts Tagged ‘hostels’
A Party Hostel That’s Clean and Comfy…Is That Even Possible?
In conquering the world one hostel bed at a time, backpackers are often faced with a difficult decision: A good party hostel usually rides on the fun factor and neglects to wash all the splooge of its sheets, while a clean hostel is often too stuck up to throw a decent party. We’re here to [...]
Vancouver: The New Amsterdam
If you haven’t heard the news by now, you may have to sit down for this. Starting 2013, the high holy land, better known as Amsterdam, will be airing out the hotbox and closing its doors to toking backpackers. A new law promises to make purchasing and smoking ganja in cafes only available to card-carrying [...]
First Flight-A-Phobia: America’s List of Excuses for Not Traveling
Browsing travel sites, clicking through friends’ amazing travel photos and hearing people talk about their international adventures gets all of our travel juices bubbling. Some let themselves boil over, drop their jobs, let go of cars, apartments, pets and other material bullshit and hop on the next flight out. Others…well you tell us. Why haven’t [...]
Running of the Bulls: Preparing for the Ultimate Week of Your Life
Clearly the most famous of Spain’s outrageous celebrations, Los Sanfermines (the Running of the Bulls), is a weeklong alcohol and danger binge intended to honor the patron saint of Pamplona, San Fermín. The festival kicks off midday on July 6th every year and goes until nightfall on July 14th in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. OTP brings [...]
Travel Dork: Barbara Weibel, Hole in the Donut
Travel Dork: Barbara Weibel To remind us that it’s not all resorts and guided tours for our middle-aged nomadic counterparts, Barbara Weibel hits the travel blog scene in a big way. She left her 70 hour a week job (which sounds more like a tumor than employment) in search of the finer things in life. [...]
Top 10 Free Things to Do in Bangkok (That Won’t Suck)
Bangkok is an experience as mind-blowing as the city’s world-famous massage parlors (and they definitely blow your mind—or something like that). Compared to other places, Bangkok is fairly cheap. But if you’re splitting sandwiches in 6 for future meals and repeatedly checking for change in your hidden backpack pockets, cheap may not be an option. [...]
The Top 10 Hostels Around the World
Now that sufficient time has passed since the movie Hostel scared the shit out of you, and you may have given our article “Hostels vs. the movie “Hostel”a read, OTP has gathered a list of the best hostels around the world. We’re not talking about hostels that try to be hotels: mints on your pillows, [...]
Backpackers Guide 101: Hostels + Couches
As a backpacker, you’ll be sleeping at hostels, on strangers’ couches or possibly camping out. Although hostels are not as common in the United States, they are a popular option in most places around the world. And now, with the ever growing world of couch surfing, you have the option of sleeping at the homes [...]
Are Hostels like the movie Hostel?…The Truth about Hostels
There is a nasty rumor going that Americans equate their idea of hostels with the movie Hostel. Say it isn’t so! Sure, there are a few things to be cautious about when staying in a hostel, but getting sold to a human organ trafficking trade should be the least of your worries (granted that eye [...]
10 Step Guide to Backpacking Europe – What you need to know right now!
Entertaining the idea of traveling to Europe but don’t know where to get started? Well consider yourself lucky. OTP’s 10 step guide below breaks it down for you to get your travel juices flowing. 1. Hostels/accommodations: While the idea of spontaneously backpacking around Europe with no plan is tempting, it can also leave you with [...]
