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towel for hostels?
Mon, 06/26/2006 - 12:30
New Member
i’ll be backpacking through europe for 3 weeks staying in cheap hostels. Do i need to bring a towel? if hostels offer towels do you have to pay?
also, where do you leave your bag while you’re walking around the city in the day? do i need to bring a lock? it’ll be a huge backpack.
check out your similar post in ‘Hostels’. I responded to it there.
Me too!
I brought a thin, "cheap" towel. I just hung it on the bunk to dry, or the outside of my pack if I was leaving the hostel. I HATED the pack towel…it was like drying with a paper towel…..
I also just left my main pack in a locker if there was one, or just on my bunk if there was no lockers.
I bought a bath towel in Bath. Get it?! HAHAHA!!!
Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, and end up getting charged double.
I’ve tried a variety of special pack towels but my favorite towel to take on trips is a really thin cheap cotton towel.
The travel towels are a personal preference.
I’ve traveled with one before and it was great at first, but then it got old. I took it on another trip and it got even older…
There are some out there that keep longer and are more pleasant to dry off with but I guess the trade-off is the quick-dry and how compact they can be. These characteristics are hard to beat sometimes.
Also, mine had a little strap on one of the corners so if I was leaving my hostel and it was still wet I could just put it through a loop on my pack and button it together so I could drape it over my pack and it could dry off in the sun as I walked around.
Then again, nothing beat the beach towel I splurged for in Croatia…
Cheers
Hostels do not provide towels as standard. Make sure you take one with you.
Is a shammy? (sp?) good to take instead of a towel? When I go sept of ’07, I’m taking one of those instead. they really take the water off you and wring out instantly to about 95% dry. Just that rubbery feel to them but I’m a guy and that stuff doesn’t phase me. Ladies might be different, especially if they want to wrap their hair up after a shower.
-Chad
I’ve used one of those shammy travel towels. They work good, but beware, buy the most expensive one. I did, and my friend didn’t, and they suffered.