im 32 right now, did roadtrips around america and traveled around europe in my 20s. does age ever become a factor??

i remember the old men in hostels, they were always cringe, the only things that have changed when i got older is.
>i have to have a private room + bathroom
>avoid economy class flights or shitty airlines.
i just dont want to be seated next to an indian or something

>>2807035 (OP)
>i remember the old men in hostels, they were always cringe
Not this shit again

>>2807035 (OP)
is it already time for our monthly "old people in hostels" thread?

>does age ever become a factor??
yes and always will be

a 40yo will be severely misplaced at a party hostel with majority high school grads
you go on a e.g. group wine tour - older crowd, same purpose

for most things it doesn't matter though

usually you grow out of the uncomfortable stuff though
meaning you change your style of travel
like you said, having a private room or better airplane seat
but hostels are completely fine and I regularly see old people in some hostels (like 50y+) and they're alright

I'm 36 but I tell people I'm 61 just to fuck with them.

>>2807035 (OP)
>i remember the old men in hostels, they were always cringe
Virtually every "creepy old man" I've met in a hostel was some late 30's Brit or Euro lying to everyone about his sex life, importance, and most importantly age. In asia and europe though I've met +50 year old couples just traveling and using hostels just fine no one cares.

No one cares if you bend you're age a few years women do it all the time but fuck me if euro's don't go full retard mode with it. No dude you're clearly not 24 with that hairline just straight out of uni, stop it's very creepy to lie about age of all things when you're that old.

>does age ever become a factor??
If you let it become a factor 100%, the body language retards give off who are trying to lie and fit into a decade or so younger crowd gives off bad vibes. Most people genuinely go overboard with it. If you're 35 but tell people you're 30-21 probably going to get away with it, if you're 35 and tell people you're 25 it's going to scare people off.

>>2807035 (OP)
I'm 31 and I don't stay in hostels any more. Last one I stayed in was in Vientiane, Laos for the New Year.
>hostel guys can be so cringe
Any stupid faggot can rent a hostel bunk, including lazy slobs who spend all day laying in bed staring at their laptop.
>seated next to an indian
Last flight I got seated next to a female for a change, and she never brushed my arm with her sleeve once. Every male passenger constantly bumps and brushes my arm instead of keeping his appendages contained within his designated seat space.

>>2807098
>if you're 35 and tell people you're 25 it's going to scare people off
Only if you look like a geezer

>>2807098
this is kinda it. haven't stayed at a hostel since i was 19 but i spent very little time there.
some older guy showed me some coffee table book he bought, that was the only interaction i can remember.
i was super anxious, travelling alone for the first time and mostly concerned with myself though.

>>2807245
>Only if you look like a geezer
No there is clear distinctions between someone 35 and 25 in body language alone. is picrel u?

People who try to pull off 10 years their younger are often hilariously bad at it and everyone gives them the "wow you look so young" as a way to not make the weirdo mad.

BS'ing about 1-3 years younger, no one will no, 4-6 eh if in shape probably doable, 6-8 really pushing it unless small figure and baby faced+thin, 8-10+ you either are full asian mode or fooling yourself.

>>2807035 (OP)
Nigger, there is no point in you asking the same question over and over again.
1. Only women care what others think about them.
2. You’ll never be a woman, so why the fuck do you care?

>>2807354
This guy is unmistakeably in his late 30s early 40s. You cannot conceal the “weathering” look of your face as your age, as I’ve tragically figured out getting a hair transplant.

Like pic related, hair doesn’t stop your face from developing the turkey neck that makes your face look like a melting candle which any woman instantly sees and registered you and an expired old fucking creep

That taught, smooth youthful face is the treasure of life and its intention is to secure a procreative mate. Once you become the melting candle without procreating the rest of your life is a humiliating endless spectator mode

>>2807035 (OP)
I haven't felt ageism really until I went to Korea. Some clubs will not let you in if you're over 30, and if you're over 40 pretty much no club or party will let you in.
Enjoy it while it lasts :^)

>>2807375
>You cannot conceal the “weathering” look of your face as your age
what is deep plane facelift

>>2807521
South Korea is basically a petri dish for the collective neurosis of America. You faggots post here, fear about how you are too old to go to an hostel because you are 22 while none of us give a single shit, but in South Korea, they actually do enforce these neuroses as rules. This is great. Americans, you have finally shaped a foreign country according to your whims, now go enjoy it.

>>2807375
>>2807529
im about to be 40 but someone clocked me at 22 a few months ago. no one ever guesses my age correctly. ever. usually guess 10 years younger. i stayed at hostels all over asia. one time my bank cards were blocked in cambodia and i just needed to trade my paypal balance for some cash to eat. guess who helped me? a zoom nigger? no. a 49 yo brit who was staying in my hostel.

zoomers think youth equals righteousness because they are soulless narcissists.

What is considered old in a hostel?
I'm 25 and about to go to my first one and I'm scared I'll be cringe

>>2807035 (OP)
I am 47 today and travel like Bald and Bankrupt type of adventures, let me say I used to roll my eyes when people said life is short. I said I am living until 80 and I am 30, its 50 more years and I am tired at work leave me alone.

I just mean to say they were right REAL life is short YOUTH is short. If you aren't living for your dreams now, you won't at 47 or 50+. Its just you will always be looked down upon and spat upon in youth circles where all the fun is.

What I am able to do is have more money to finally go where I want is why being old is okay but I can't just go find some teenager and bang her anymore without paying a lot haha special innocent fun times are over.

>>2808102
Allow me to recount for you the first and only time I have ever set foot in a hostel. I only did it because I was trying to be cheap and didn't want to pay the exorbitant resort fees in Vegas one time. I was maybe 37 at the time. Most of the other people staying there looked to be in their early 20's. One girl said she was in her early 30's. There was a group of Aussies and Irishmen, both of which were probably early 20's. I sat and talked with my fellow Yanks for a bit, also mostly early 20's. I quickly experienced what "cringe" means. In all honesty, that was a turning point for me. I thought I could still somehow relate to that age demographic. But when I started talking to them, they all looked at me with this look, like I was coming off sounding like their dad or something. I realized then, wow, I'm not young anymore. Oh well.

So anyhow, one of the friendliest guys there turned out to be this other middle-aged guy who looked to be of Indian (country) descent, but was from The Netherlands. He generously shared his whisky with me and some other travelers. Friendly gentleman.

Anyhow, all that to say that unless I am dead broke and there is no possible other way for me to travel, I will, under no circumstances stay in a hostel again.

But hey man, do you. If you want to stay in a hostel into your 40's, do so. The Indian dude didn't seem to care. If you are doing an extended trip, there's no denying that it's going to save a lot of money by staying at hostels, especially in high-cost locations.
But for me, priorities definitely shift in middle age. Comfort and more security start to become a factor.

Do you want to save a few bucks or do you want to risk having your stuff stolen in the middle of the night by one of your roommates? Do you want to smell the guy in the next bunk's cheese whiz socks all night or would you prefer a room to yourself. Up to you.

>>2807529
Respectable Americans are averse to the whole idea of sleeping with strangers, breathing their exhalations and body odors, listening to their snuffling and sighing. It's disgusting poverty-tier shit. This means that the mutts you encounter in hostels are always the weird brokefag degenerate types.

>>2807522
wow, you can go from 60 to 45, nobody cares except other old women with too much money

Met an old guy in his 60s at a train station in Milan. Said he was from Brazil and had lived in Australia for 10 years. Also said he was travelling to Switzerland to meet his sister. Old flecktarn camo jacket. Colour faded pants. Looked homeless. He had the chiseled face and aquilline nose of a Renaissance painter. While listening to him talk I couldn't make out whether he was a hippie aristocrat or a down on his luck vagabond. I thought he was cool and interesting though, until he started telling me about houses he'd bought and sold worth more than $600-800k. At that point I just wanted to stop talking to him. Thankfully my friend had realised we were on the wrong train platform and we had to get up and go. I offered him a handshake and said it was nice talking to him and left. Age is never a factor, the only thing that matters is if you're cool or weird.

>>2808461
>this guy looks like a hobo, cool
>oh wait he's actually rich, I gotta go
retard

>>2808478
The more he talked the more obvious it became that he was just a bum with delusions of grandeur.

This site has become bots, jews, jeets and faggots. Are there any good chatboards these days?

>>2807035 (OP)
>i remember the old men in hostels
Hostels are for young people with no money. You're 32 anon, I trust you have the income to justify frivolous expenses like travelling?

>>2808278
>YOU CAN NEVER CONCEAL YOUR AGING
>w-wow y-you can only l-look f-FIFTEEN years younger

I was in hostels numerous times between 16 and 21.. out of necessity (short money, short stay).

They are ghastly places, cringe is not the term, desperate is more like it. People trying too hard. Everyone there, regardless of origin seemed to be overthinking everything they did an said and you could smell the insecurity of most people in there. Then you get the odd asshole who overdoes it and substitutes personality for jester behaviour of being brash and loud to everyone else's chagrin.

Glad the hostel life is behind me.
In all my stays I've met only a handful of other residents who were secure and stable enough to chill with. Whatever their age.

you're not actually mandated to sit around the campfire and sing kumbaya when you stay at a hostel.

>>2808756
my point was it only works from very old -> a bit less old, it never gets you to a point of reasonably young looking

>>2807354
>there is clear distinctions between someone 35 and 25 in body language alone
Sounds like BS

>>2807035 (OP)

Age is always a factor and when you're young you don't notice as much because you're a pompous asshole, but everyone older than you thinks you're an annoying shitter.

When you get older you notice it more, but it's only a big factor if you let it get to you. Just accept your older and if people mention it just go yeah, I'm here because it's fun/cool/etc, same as you, stop being a buzzkill. Basically throwing the "buzzkill" shitfling back at them gets them to stop if a young faggot it giving you grief because underneath all the attitude they're afraid, because their young pussies.

>>2808827
You wont have the right 'vibe' as the kids say. Plus the old man smell.

>>2807076
where should a 26 year old go

>>2808873
Maybe if by "kids" you mean 16 y.o. and younger. Also:
>the old man smell
What are you, 70+ y.o.?

>>2807245
Yeah this I'm 35 and just did the euro hostel circuit. If it wasn't for my weird behavior I would have blended in just fine