annhig

that too, bilbo. infant mortality rates were probably very high.

marvelousmouse

How did you like the hostel? Pros and cons? Was it the one you couldn't take food into or did you book a different one?

michaelpianko

I stayed at SoHostle, on Dean Street, near Soho park and Oxford Street. I think the reason the rules say that no food is allowed in the hostel is because they have a cafe in the Hostel. But they didn't care that I brought food into the hostle bedroom. The con of eating my own food is that exposed myself to fellow youngish or cheepo travelers less by not eating in the cafe, but I typically am not good at talking to strange people I don't know. I did briefly talk to another man from Chicago, three man friends from Singapore who who had slight knowledge of English, and two women friends from the town of bath who pronounce "Bath" with a sort of low mid or low back vowel similar to the o in "con".

The hostel provides bunk beds, a fitted sheet over the matress, and a quilt but no top sheet. There were 4 bathrooms per section of the hostel, and the showers are in separate rooms than the toilets. And in England they bathrooms are called "the toilets", not bathrooms. I actually rarely talked even though the country speaks lamost the same language I do. It would have felt too silly to stay in a hotel that costs $200 or more per night, given that I am just traveling alone. And if wasn't such a health nut I still wouldn't sit alone in restaurants. I took what I will call a Young Person Cheep Trip, while other people in these forums seem to take what I will call Middle Aged Expensive Trips. I could have spent a little more, but I only spend money if I can really justify the cost.

Havana128

And in England they bathrooms are called "the toilets", not bathrooms.

Isn't diversity a wonderful thing?

Actually the brutal truth is that if a room has a toilet, but no bath, it's a toilet.

annhig

Actually the brutal truth is that if a room has a toilet, but no bath, it's a toilet.>>

or "the loo" [though those ladies from "Both" might refer to it as the lavatory].