by Jordan Burchette, Jane Leung
Hostels are great places to cultivate friendships and share your experiences abroad.
It's just a shame you can't always choose your neighbors. No matter where you are, you'll yearn to be any place else.
Meet the 10 people you never want to find sleeping above or below your bed.
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1. The one-man eating band
How to identify: He dines on only the most pungent, debris-yielding, noisily packaged foodstuffs ... at all times. His bunk is no more a sleeping quarters than an ogre's lair of gnashed pork byproducts and discarded nut husks.