Mumbai Hostels

Hi all, Welcome to our travel journal which we aim to keep up to date with all our stories of dodgy hostels, iffy food and long, hot bus journeys - and plenty of good stuff too. As most of you know already, we are going to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, ...

... a couple taxis and headed down to Colaba, the main tourist area, where we were told there were a lot of guest houses, hotels and hostels. We spent an hour or so checking out rooms and places to stay, without much luck, but finally picked a place, with the ...

... 's walk away. What made it worse was that we now had a drug dealer following us trying to get us to stay in one off his hostels, which he would get commission to buy more drugs, but he would not take no for a answer. After having to go back to Red Shield ...

... Mumbai are incredibly expensive and I am trying to stick to a budget, however I didn't feel that India was the place to stay in hostels.... So I found a budget hotel that seemed to get good reviews. And it does what it says on the tin. It is very old and ...

... Morgen damit verbracht, mit vollen Rucksaecken durch die Strassen zu laufen, nur um im Endeffekt doch herauszufinden, dass alle Hostels und Hotels ausgebucht waren. Deshalb haben wir uns entschieden die 8 stuendige Fahrt nach Mumbai auf uns zu nehmen. ...

... train, nailed! 40 minutes later after a small detour from getting off at the wrong station, we rock up at Mumbai CST to try and find our hotel. Hostels and hotels aren’t cheap out in India anymore, well at least not in the cities. However its, ...

... hotel....think that was the name....its basically everything india isnt in a building....im not gonna knock anyone staying there cos hostels arent amazin and if i had the chance to stay there i would...but there was dior and louis vuitton shops in ...

... the long hot bus journey (naturally I took a shower first) I made immediate use of the main reason we travelers like hostels. Meeting other travelers. It may seem strange actually that when faced with the mystery of a country as foreign as India travelers ...

... later dat wij het minst betaald hadden voor ons ticket. We zijn ook langs het Taj Mahal hotel gelopen, dat zit vlakbij de hostels waar wij zaten. Het staat er van buiten nog prachtig bij maar we hebben er wel over gehoord van behulpzame Indiers. ...

... -In begann jedoch leider erst um 9 Uhr, es war jetzt aber erst kurz vor 6. Netterweise durften wir im Speisesaal des Hostels warten, in dem noch zwei Mitarbeiter am schlafen waren. Nach ewiger Warterei bekamen wir ein Doppelzimmer zugeteilt. Und das war ...

... for 2 months.  This theme of migrant workers was very common throughout our Indian experience with workers in hotels/hostels, drivers and many others working and living away from their families.   There were many positive aspects to this ...

... the station we got to in Mumbai was like miles from anywhere and it would have cost us a 10er to get into the city and then hostels were expensive there aswell so we thought we'd just get a train to Goa instead. So we got a train to another place and got ...

... much it would cost to stay in a 4 bed dorm, 6 bed dorm, mixed dorm, double room, twin room, single room in atleast 10 hostels in each of the cities. I could tell you where you could get beer for a Euro... After this intense research, I had excel sheets ...

... tagsüber Uni hatten. Abens wurden dann von den Indern zur Feier des Tages Menschenpyramiden gebaut. Zwischen zwei Flügeln des Hostels wurde eine Leine gespannt, mit einem Sack voll Süßigkeiten in der Mitte. Aufgabe war es dann diese Kugel herunter zu ...

... with them and they showed me their guide books and I was able to jot down the name and number of a few other hotels and hostels in the area. They finished their meal and then left. I was eating my omelette and drinking my coffee when I saw this woman ...

... , as Mirte decided to carry on directly. I finally checked into a guest house ... it took me around 10 tries, since the hotels/hostels/guest houses fill up very quickly during the season. Goa is a beautiful state in India, with a lot of palm trees, and ...

... round the river for the sunset! absolutly incrediable! we then went for a rooftop dinner, which over looked the lake! today we moved hostels to a cheaper one (100rps a night) and we've booked a cooking lesson for later which i cant wait for! anyway we're ...

... or groups of people living on the sides of the road, in shanty towns, or under bridges.  After checking a few inhospitable hostels we found ourselves climbing up some stairs to a 'reasonable’ shoe box sized room with nice thin wooden paneling ...