I thought I should start writing about something easy and something that I was super positive about in these dark times of social distancing and pandemic craziness. So I'm here to write about my excellent experience in early March at the Goodmorning Solo Traveller Hostel in Lisbon, Portugal. When I first booked my plane ticket across the Atlantic to visit Portugal, I immediately went on Hostel World to book my private rooms ASAP. Luckily, I booked them both with free cancellations which ... VIEW POST
A Solo Traveler’s Review of Goodmorning Solo Traveller’s Hostel in Lisbon, Portugal
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While I visited Budapest and Vienna, I ended up staying at the Wombat's Hostel in each city, so I thought I should leave a Wombat's Hostel review in case you're visiting those cities in the future. After I booked my trip, I started looking at actual hotels. I'd lost faith that there were any good hostels left out there (besides the Hostel Safestay in Warsaw) and I was going to spend the money on actual hotel rooms, and not just the shittiest, cheapest ones I could find - but decent ones. But ... VIEW POST
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