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August 29, 2006
Lisboa
Chaos in Easy Hostel
Hostel World system stuffed up last weekend and Easy Hostel was overbooked by 8 people. I was one of the eight. Arrived in the late afternoon after a long 7 hours bus ride from Sevilla, and whilst having my dinner I was interrupted by a distressed looking staff asking my name. He showed me the email he received from Hostel World saying that they screw up, overbooked by 8 people and arranged all of us to stay in another place. It was around 7pm and I really hate picking up my bag to go to this place, fortunately Andre was really helpful and he genuinely want to solve rather than giving up and says that it was Hostel World fault who sold beds that didn't exist.
There was a pensao just across the road and Andre managed to negotiate several beds for all of us the overbooked people for slightly cheaper than what we paid originally. While staying there we can still use the facilities in Easy Hostel such as the lounge, kitchen, DVD room and others, so that's all work out quite well.
Barrio Alto
Despite the kicking out incidents, all of us are still in high spirit and we went out that night to see a Fado performance in Barrio Alto, the bar districts. I think it was good and I love it, but a few didn't enjoy it. After the Fado we went out exploring Barrio Alto's hundreds of small bars. This area is really awesome, I couldn't believe how small some of the bars are, this is the perfect area for a pub (or bar) crawl.
I've decided to stay a bit longer here in Lisboa, I love this city and this city seems like a really cool place to chill out especially with several good hostels around. Easy is full until the 1st September, there is vacancy at Lisbon Poets but not for tomorrow (30th August). Found a small Pensao nearby Lisbon Poets so I think I'm going to check in there for tomorrow night and move to Poets the next day. Poets seems like a nice chill out hostel rather than the easy going Easy. It'll be a good change after heaving night out several days in a row, we're going out again tonight.
Posted by vhadiant at August 29, 2006 07:00 PM
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