We told you we would tell you when we find a real ****hole. Well we are staying in one for sure. Singapore is not in the business of catering to budget travelers. Hotel rooms of good quality are way north of 150$. So hostels are our only option here.
Our private bedroom isn’t the worse. We can live with a bunk bed. What isn’t acceptable is the whole shower/bathroom thing.
Here’s how this place is set up: the washer and dryer are in the room left of the (disgusting) shower. On the right side of the shower is the bathroom.
The first day Ania and I couldn’t figure out why the bathroom floor was always watery. We soon understood why. Basically someone washes his dirty clothes in the washer, which spews out the dirty water on the floor of our shower through a drain. The drain seems to overflow quite easily because much of the water that goes through the drain in the shower finds itself on the floor of the bathroom, which is also connected to the same drainage system. Truly, truly repulsive.
As you can imagine we are constantly wading in disgusting water as we shower. Our shower is in fact so disgusting that Ania and I both agreed that taking a shower every other day was acceptable in this situation. :)
Oh, and there is no toilet paper available in the bathroom. There is a pot next to the sink to help clean the fingers. After all, our hostel is run by Indonesians (many have long fingernails on the left hand…no wonder Indonesians find it insulting when a visitor presents the left hand for shaking), who couldn’t care less about toilet paper. All one needs to wash up the fingers properly. I am NOT making this up.
I am wondering if Ania prefers pit toilets with red-back spiders in Australia to our zero star shower in our 0.5 star hostel? :)
I've had to change the name of the hostel (slightly) so that we don't get spam from hostel management or anyone interested in advertising.
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