What DOES make that youth hostel/cheap hotel smell?

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Is it really just what I think it is?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 16 January 2003 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

wee

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 16 January 2003 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

wee & bleach

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 16 January 2003 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

youth

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 16 January 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Eggy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 16 January 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

It's sort of a warm smell, if a smell can be warm. Which obv it can't. But this one is.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

is it the hostel or is it you? BAHAAHHA!!!

― doom-e, Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that it's hard to smell yourself unless you really stink. Maybe not, but it can't be me. I'm REALLY clean.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 16 January 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Mildew, pee and puke.
Mostly its just hippies though.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

death

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

mothballs and air freshener

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

travel-trash.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

And in the bathrooms - an off-lemon industrial bulk bought cheap cleaner.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

Here is the review I just wrote for TripAdvisor.com regarding the Hillside Inn in Ithaca, NY. It will not be published on that site, because I don't want to sign up to become a member, thank you very much.

Blood on the Pillow

I will offer three anecdotes:

1) I had to bargain with the desk attendant over the phone to give me the price that they had quoted online. Three different times I said "Umm...the online ad said that the lowest priced room was $30." By doing this, I ended up lowering the price from $75 a night to $40.

2) The bathroom they provided me was missing the bottom 2 feet of the door. This made sitting on the toilet more than slightly uncomfortable.

3) On the morning after the last night of a 4 night stay, I noticed THERE WAS BLOOD ON THE BACK OF THE PILLOW. It looked like it had been through the wash a few times, at least, but still, blood on the pillow is a pretty bad sign.

Avoid at all costs.

Rating: 1 out of 5

― Z S, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

That smell is raging fratboy hormones, incidentally.

― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

feet. and wee

― electricsound, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

I imagine it as a heady combo of sex, feet and weed.

― milo z, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

bad air conditioners and lack of open windows

― Zeno, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

cause the rest mentioned also exist in good hotels

― Zeno, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

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