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Anyone tried couchsurfing around Europe?

  • 21-05-2010 12:56AM
    #1
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭


    Hey all, I am going to be spending a few weeks in Germany this summer and was going to stay in hostels but it would probably average out at 19/20 euro per night so it would become real expensive real fast. I had heard of couchsurfing and am just looking into it now. Anybody here got any experiences or funny stories?? What will I be letting myself in for?? Cheers.


Comments

  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I've only ever couchsurfed the net.


  • #3
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    I'd say you should couchsurf yourself over to the Travel forum.


  • #4
    Carl Sagan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Carl Sagan


    I don't think I could do it. **** that, staying in a load of freaks houses. Assuming they're freaks of course.

    Check in to a hostel for as long as you can and haggle on the price. Or stay in some real shit holes.


  • #5
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Don't mean to sound xenophobic but i wouldn't recommend travelling anywhere.

    Sure you'll only get beaten up or shot out in dem farden* places.






    *Farden (foreign)


  • #6
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    I'd say you should couchsurf yourself over to the Travel forum.

    This is good advice. Best to post this in the "Travel" forum.

    But for what it's worth I did couch surfing before. Just once. I stayed (me and one of my freinds) in an Australian girls apartment. She was cool out. She cooked us dinner during the day, mad Australian stuff like kangaroo and crocodile, but that was by request. And brought us out to all the best spots the tourists never find out about at night. Going on my one experince of it I'd reccomend it. But I have also heard good things from other people. Basically the kind of people you will be staying with are guys and girls that want to travel but for whatever reason didn't get the chance, so they bring the different cultures to them.

    Like always, it's the internet, so there are bound to be some serial killers on there, but mainly it's just cool people that want to meet cool people from far away places and have the craic with them.


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  • #7
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    I went couch surfing around Germany about 20 years ago - unfortunately, my prostate no longer works and am sure it's not related! Go Team!


  • #8
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Foreigners are dodgy.
    It's not really their fault cos they were just born foreign but they're still dodgy


  • #9
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    Yep, Travel Forum is your best bet OP


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