Weirdest place you have stayed the night? - TravelPUNK Backpacker College Student Budget Travel Message Boards!

**joe7f** · 06-13-2011, 07:08 PM

Hey Tpunks,

We all have been there. It is late, you either missed your transportation, or you have such an early train, plane, bus that you aren't going to fork out for a hostel much less a hotel.

Where was your weirdest place?

I think mine was on a picnic table in Galicia or in a homeless shelter/red cross in Frankfurt.

My the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree but I think Dad has me beat. He has stayed in a hay loft in Voss, a graveyard in Sofia, and a garbage dump near Dubrovnik.

--Joey

**pinknic38** · 06-13-2011, 10:38 PM

I had a flight into Dortmund, Germany from Krakow, Poland and I was taking the train from Dortmund to Frankfurt to catch a plane home. Didn't know that Germany in like June was frigid cold at night and froze the whole effing night. I slept on the bench on the platform cos the place underneath me was filled with people trying to stay warm. Looking back it was prolly kinda sketchy, but oh well, I made it haha.

**mish99** · 06-14-2011, 01:53 PM

I had a night on a bench in Salt Lake City. Had the most random conversation with a homeless man. Apparently South Africa and Israel have *the* atomic bomb. Or something like that....

Ive been fortunate enough to not let this list grow!

**ajb3000** · 06-16-2011, 11:36 AM

A Brothel in Addis Ababa (I didn't realise it was a Brothel when I checked-in, and only found out at 1am when I got back from a bar). I had girls knocking on my door all night long and couldn't sleep for the noises from next door :s.

I pitched my tent outside a police station in Sudan as it was shut and the only hotel wouldn't accept me without a police registration.

Outside a shanty house in a "village" of 5 shanty houses in the mountains in northern Iraq. It belonged to the "other mum" of a guy I met in the city. His dad has two wives.

Next to the motorway while hitch-hiking through Europe.

**expatben** · 06-19-2011, 09:08 AM

That rail shack in Belgium was pretty odd, especially as I woke up to find an old woman staring at me in place of my friend who she told me had gone to the toilet.

**Dig** · 06-20-2011, 07:58 PM

You guys all have me beat. Best I can come up with is the back of a pickup or something lame like that!

**ChasinJason1313** · 08-04-2011, 01:34 AM

"I didn't realise it was a Brothel when I checked-in, and only found out at 1am when I got back from a bar"

---There is a high class joke in there somewhere. I think I might have some people beat and some of our T-Punks were even witnesses. I have to admit my falling asleep while standing up during the festival de San Fermin should count as something.
But I also have interesting stories involving unitentionally renting a room in the red light district in Amsterdam and a couple of train station fuck ups in Germany that resulted in overnight stays. Also the attempting to stretch a 6'2" frame across a few benches in the Venice airport. If you've been there you know what I mean.

**travelpunk** · 08-06-2011, 06:59 AM

I got nothing. Guess I always had my accommodations planned! hahaha...

But, I did shell out $105 in Barcelona for a nice hotel room that I only used for about 5 hours. It was like 2am, I couldn't find any available rooms anywhere in walking distance from the train station except for this nice hotel across the street. After hours of walking, I got the room, slept for 4 hours, got up and ready and checked out. Waste of money..

jordan · 09-12-2011, 10:51 AM

Spent the night on a grassy knoll in downtown Toronto, that's more or less it, well other than the rare one night stand here and there haha

Pangaea · 09-13-2011, 05:01 PM

Mostly some sketchy hostels or floors of people I hardly know...

**ChasinJason1313** · 09-17-2011, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by travelpunk

I got nothing. Guess I always had my accommodations planned! hahaha...

But, I did shell out $105 in Barcelona for a nice hotel room that I only used for about 5 hours. It was like 2am, I couldn't find any available rooms anywhere in walking distance from the train station except for this nice hotel across the street. After hours of walking, I got the room, slept for 4 hours, got up and ready and checked out. Waste of money..

Tony, you're so....so lame, and uh, responsible and stuff...... boooo!

**ChasinJason1313** · 09-17-2011, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jordan

Spent the night on a grassy knoll in downtown Toronto, that's more or less it, well other than the rare one night stand here and there haha

--I stopped reading after "grassy knoll" and you are now under 35hour surveillance, ENJOY!!. HAHAHAH!!!

/

**Canadian Bacon** · 09-20-2011, 02:39 PM

I'm going to go in the opposite direction and name a high-class place: The Burj Al-Arab, the world's only 7 star resort in Dubai. I stayed in the club suite for one night. It cost me $3000 and I was there less than 24 hours

I should also mention this is the same trip that I slept on a hut on the beach in India for $5 a night.

**joe7f** · 09-21-2011, 07:56 PM

^Wow?! 3k for one night!?!?

--Joey

PhilBill · 10-01-2011, 05:52 AM

Only 4 hotels / guest houses in town of Hakkari when I woke up had no plans of going but as buses to other destinations were fully booked or didn't leave for several hours and local I'd bumped into at a street Kebab barbecue eating had recommended as beautiful I asked and was sold a seat to Hakkari leaving in one hour. Within an hour after arrival I found out the two budget hotels at 25 to 35ish Lira (U$14 to U$20 )were fully booked and the other two charged 60 / 70 Lira ( U$32 to U$40 ) I decided late in the afternoon I wouldn't pay, especially since I was leaving at 7AM the next morning. So what to do? no homestays or hostels or guest houses like the past 8 weeks in Armenia and Georgia so noticed several internet cafes and asked around if any were open all night- yes one was so after wandering around town after stashing my backpack and daypack in the bus ticket office I went on-line and got to know a half dozen young Kurdish university student night owls and more or less shared some laughs while resisting nodding off after 4AMish.

Became Facebook "friends" , took a couple group pictures, and was shown a live video ( YouTube? ) of PKK Kurdish rebel separatists killing a dozen Turkish soldiers and blowing up one of their tanks. Amazing such a scene was not banned or censored and I learned that the nationalistic cultural identities in this region of the world went back 1000s of years and not likely to be diplomatically changed by any New World power like the USA or alliance like the European Union. Before leaving on the bus found that even the bus ticket office staff were watching the same PKK video at 6:45AM!!! Even when being invited to sit down and share a chai ( tea ) with shopkeepers the political issues and Kurdish nationalism were the main topic of conversation.

Good Choice! I'm glad I made it.

rather than over paying for an overpriced room with Cable TV alone in my room.