Crap Hostels - Your worst travel stories...

Originally submitted by misscat

Showed up in Milano on a whim between visiting friends in the Uk and Germany. Arrived at Bergamo airport, took a shuttle to Milano, and hopped on the Metro to try and find the hostel I had booked online. The online description had looked decent and at 20 Euros a night who was I to argue? besides, it said it was 2 stops on the Metro from the Duomo. "Great! I can walk EVERWHERE!" I thought. Turns out, 2 stops was a typo and it was actually 12. An extra hour and a half. When i got off the metro and fought my way through Italian people-traffic and made my way past Italian men trying to sell me fake Versace and yelling "Ciao, Bella!", and finally found the right steep million-step staircase up to the street, I realized I had no idea where I was or where I was going. I stood on the corner staring at my now-tattered map of milano under a streetlight, and trying to read the faded street signs on the sides of the old buildings, while nearly getting run over by half a billion vespas and little buzzing european cars.