Welcome back to the Realistic Backpackers Podcast where the girls are discussing 2025 travel plans (if they actually ever go to plan).

This week's topic is accommodation, specifically hostel life .

The girls LOVE hostel life, and are on a mission to dispel the perception that they’re awful, encouraging everyone to try them at least once.

From tips on how to find the best hostels, what to bring, and hostel etiquette, the girls have you covered. 

Discussing both their favourite, and least favourite hostels, naturally, there’s some chaos in there. Sure isn’t a snake chasing a rat and getting peed on by a bat normal???

(Hostels are great, honestly).

Wrapping up as always, with a chaotic story, sticking with the accommodation theme, in Giza, and a hotel with no electricity in 50 degree heat. 

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