Travel Tips
Packing Light for Hostel Trips
A cabin bag, a padlock, and a decent attitude toward laundromats will carry you through six weeks of hostels without checked luggage.
Aisling Byrne7 min readUpdated February 11, 2026
Traveler Tips
The habits that make a three week trip easy
Two long tips pieces on the parts of hostel travel nobody teaches you: what to carry, and how to live well in a six bed room.
Most travel advice is either gear marketing or platitudes. These two pieces are the practical residue of a lot of nights in dorms from Naples to Chiang Mai: what fits in 40 litres, where to do laundry, which bed to pick, and how to leave for a 5 am flight without waking five people.
Travel Tips
Staying Safe and Social in Dorms
Dorm life rewards a bit of quiet discipline with your valuables and a willingness to say yes to the common room, in that order.
Daniel Okoye6 min readUpdated March 18, 2026