Nothing beats a good hostel

Sup folks 🙂

This week I spent 3 days travelling Ireland with one of my best mates. As we both work and had a few days off we decided to take a bit of a local holiday. We took his car and set off for county Galway on Tuesday!

We decided previously to stay in hostels during our travels. Now most of the time people stay in hostels to save a bit of cash and go sight-seeing with minimum costs. However after thee three days I will be definitely choosing hostels from now on as my form of accommodation and it has nothing to do with the money. For Tuesday and Wednesday we stayed in a hostel in Galway called Snoozles. It was lovely! It had a kitchen , common room with pool table , a tv, sky digital and all the rooms were en suite. We booked into a 10 bedroom dorm. When we arrived nobody was in our room so we just left our stuff and decided to get some food. When we got back , we found our first roommate who was from the south of Ireland. He was a really nice guy and had just returned from travelling Spain. Sooner later we were joined by two more of our roommates who actually came from Lichtenstein. They two were extremely nice. Then we were joined by an American couple who had just finished travelling europe. So already we had 3 nationalities in our room just chatting away about our travels and plans. My mate and I took one of the roomies out with us (the dude from south of Ireland) and ended up in a pub called “Skeffs” which was a lovely spot then we followed a pub crawl which took us to a nightclub called “Central Park” which I found to be a very enjoyable venue.

Wednesday night however was our best night in Galway. More people ended up in our room and we all got chatting and ended up going out together! We only knew each other maybe an hour and yet we were all out on the town as if we were best friends since we were young. There  was 9 of us in total all coming from Brazil, New Zealand, France ,m Lichtenstein and Ireland. We found a pub to have a quiet few then went back to “Central Park” for a bit of a boogie ;). It was one of the best nights I have ever had and it was with a group of people I had never met before!

I understand completely that you could end up with a weirdo or four in your room but after this experience I would definitely be leaning more towards staying in Hostels just because of the atmosphere! Also it turns out that the girls from Lichtenstein, one of the girls from New Zealand and also the French guys are visiting Dublin next week, meaning we can do it all over again!

Anytime staying in a hostel was mentioned to me before I always laughed at the idea thinking I would rather just save the extra couple of euro and splash out on a hotel, but I take that all back now!

Maybe its just the Irish hostels that are so cool? 😉