Youth Hostels

[Principessa]

Hey, actually, can any one mention the hostels where there are communal showers? Sounds like fun.

Just join your local YMCA.

100% straight, yeah right. :tongue:

 

[Narcisse]

When in Rome...

do like the romans





didnt want to leave you hangin

 

[D_Raynor Scheiniglans]

i traveled in youth hostels when i was a college student on a trip to Italy for 3 weeks. most of the hostels had rows of curtained showers.

But it was a little misleading. because most of the guys at the hostel had no problem standing around nude waiting their turn. most of us American guys tended not to shower until things thinned out in there a little. (the hostels as a rule were usually pretty crowded.) but even if we did have to be in there with the crowd to keep on schedule, it was easy enough to be modest yourself, with your towel on the curtain bar and drying off before opening the curtain.

bottom line, i wouldn't worry about it. its no big deal. if you feel modest, just cover up. but be prepared to be around others who have a different standard of modesty. there was some HS/university Spanish group there when we were there and they were all running around nude and horse-playing in Spanish. (first time seeing uncircumcised dudes for us Americans too. lol) Nothin you can do about it.

 

[horneyoldguy]

Europeans are not as prudish as we are so don't worry about it.

 

[discreetman90028]

I spent an entire summer cruising the bathrooms and showers in youth hostels my first backpacking trip after graduation...

 

[ballsaplenty2156]

Before you go......watch the movie!!! Showering will be the last thing you'll worry about.

 

[mrdjx]

Hi, I found communal showers in Busapest (two opposite raws of open stalls); it was about a University Residence, open to tourists in the Summer.

In Stockholm (I went to 2 different hostels in two different trips) I found curtained stalls, but common changing area where I find a lot of naked guys going in and out of showers and searching for their towels.

In Paris I found a hostel with an open shower stall in each of the dorm.

As I'd like the communal showers, if you know eurpean hostels, we can exchange the coordinates.

what's the name of the hostel in Paris?

 

[effedi7]

it was 1998, I can't remember the name, it close to Sorbonne University