This episode Peter explores the gateway drug of travel – hostels.

Often funky, always raucous, hostels are  often our first taste of life on the road and the reason we can afford to travel in the first place.

World renowned budget traveller, Kash Battacharya, reveals the luxury hostels you need to add to your post-Covid bucket list.

Hostel manager, Linda Martinez, helps read out your hostel horror stories as well as offering her perspective from the other side of the check-in counter.

And Peter explains the perils of sharing a dorm in a Japanese hostel with an American one man band.