A hostel in London lets voyeurs peek into a fourteen bed dorm. Whooo…huh?
St. Christopher’s. Photo: Skrivanet
St Christopher’s Inn Hostel at London Bridge has flipped on a few webcams, hoping to shed light on what really goes on inside of a dorm room. The thing is, most of us already know what happens – not much. Here are ten things that we expect to see on the hostel’s live cam:
1. The dazed glee of a person who has the room to themselves from 8:22-8:34pm and their sigh as three girls from Bakersfield show up at 8:35, like, ready to p-a-r-t-y.
2. People realizing that they left their toothbrush at the last hostel – again.
3. BIG fights between traveling couples on such exciting topics as the amount of time spent together, differing sightseeing agendas, Irish guys, why one bag is so damned heavy and who has to carry it, PMS – who has it and who’s a jerk for stooping to mention it, lost items and lack of funds.
4. A girl named Roberta furiously highlighting her Lonely Planet but never leaving the room.
There’s always one. Photo: Hollyswayne
5. The silent, unspoken struggle for electrical outlets, wherein an absent boarder has his iPod unplugged from the wall.
6. Young people vomiting cider, too inexperienced to know that it’s way too sweet to consume nine pints in one evening.
7. The tossing and turning that comes when the room has an early riser, most likely somebody in a panic because their flight leaves from Heathrow in sixty minutes (no chance).
8. Just exactly what the cleaning staff takes out of the garbage and keeps for themselves.
9. A condom accidentally flying onto the floor as a dude digs through his shower kit for something else, then the scramble that ensues to cover it up before anyone notices.
10. The solo sulking that happens when everyone in the room bonds with the exception of one traveler, who will be half-heartedly invited for drinks and not accept. This person will sit alone and read The Memory Keeper’s Daughter for three hours, then go to sleep.
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Hoping to see something more nefarious on St. Christopher’s webcam? Let’s hear about it in the comments below!
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What about the plastic bag travelers that try to keep quiet but their stuff is all wrapped in damn plastic bags? That would be some RIVETING live hostel action.
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Hahaha…I’m so glad you wrote this one Tom! Didn’t see that one coming
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Wow. This is a brilliant anthropological study. Number 4 rocks.
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I have tried to break out of my hotel funk and add some hostel stays into travels! I did Aspen a week ago and Jackson Hole a few days ago in a hostel and was pretty proud of myself. There is no way I could do a 14 person dorm – that’s crazy! The 4 person rooms aren’t too bad though and I’ll be doing more stays in those probably.
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The traveler who is so terrified of losing his luggage that he actually sleeps curled around it, as if it were some sort of chunky body pillow.
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Depending on the hostel, the need to put several layers between you and the bed/sheets, and therefore meticulously spending at least 30 minutes creating a barrier to hopefully keep away whatever is living in the mattress.
Tom, you’re a funny man.
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haha… this is really funny, and number 1 is scarily true. nice article!
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SPOT ON, I’m having uncomfortable flashbacks at this very moment
I’ve totally been Number 1 more than once… sigh↵ -
Gah! Funny funny, I can’t wait to experience traveling.
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Nite Cam– with sound meter.
The Snorer, see objects -Rolled socks. toilets rolls,plastic spoons thrown at them.
don’t leave out the kitchen–
watch as someone takes another s food from the fridge. and the angry screams the next morning.
or the raged person screaming how someone stole his ipod and will sue the hostel, while we watchers realize he stashed it under his pillow and has forgot.↵ -
An American girl wearing ‘I’m Irish’ pyjamas.
The scary Norwegian guy who never ever leaves the hostel.
The 55 year hiker who eats organic dried fruit chips, folds her socks and goes to bed at 8.15pm.
The English girl that accidently gets hammered, slips into bed really quietly without waking a soul at 4am and then is woken up 3 hours later by a loud group of friends who are,like, going to church you know? (This has happened to me more than once. Grrr).
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