Snorers

Usually I am just so tired that nothing could possibly wake me up. My boyfriend snores worse than anyone I have run into while traveling. I'm sorta getting used to it.

Luckily I dont have a problem with noise when im going to sleep, and once im asleep a bomb wouldnt wake me up lol (only problem with that is getting up in the morning >.O )

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Originally posted by Justin7199:
Snorers--you know who you are. I am one, unfortunately. What do you do when you stay in a dorm? Warn your roomies and remind them to use their earplugs? Get those strips? Get a single room instead? Say, "Screw them; I sleep just fine?"

And non-snorers, how do you deal with those who snore? Ever resort to throwing random items within arm's reach?


I know we snorers can be an annoyance in the dorm setting, but we gotta sleep somewhere!


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I've only stayed in a hostel once (for seven nights though), so I won't pretend I'm experienced, but I did have to deal with the "snoring" problem, as I expected, without earplugs (why? why does there need to be a reason?). One night I turned up the volume of my scanner (I was listening to the NYPD, NYFD, etc. through earphones) to try to get rid of the sound of a snorer. This guy proceeded to snore louder and louder, causing me to turn it up and up, until the guy above my bunk said "Could you PLEASE turn that thing OFF?".

What I hate is the in-bed cell phone talkers.

I wish I were kidding.

Not only did her phone audibly ring, not only did she audibly answer, she had a conversation with the person! I was too surprised and exhausted to say anything. She didn't even make the attempt to leave the room. No one said anything, but she work everyone up...

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Originally posted by Keppie:
What I hate is the in-bed cell phone talkers.

I wish I were kidding.

Not only did her phone audibly ring, not only did she audibly answer, she had a conversation with the person! I was too surprised and exhausted to say anything. She didn't even make the attempt to leave the room. No one said anything, but she work everyone up...

How rude!!!!! Dorm + night-time = QUIET!! That means turn the damn thing off. What is message bank for if not those times when you can't be talking on the phone. If you must take a call - have it on vibrate then leave the room to talk. At least your bunkies will be more amused than angry.

I don't think I've ever laughed this hard reading a thread. I did the Camino de Santiago which meant 4 weeks of refuges with 50-200 beds, and given the odds that 1 in 20 snore, the possibilty of insomnia is endless. I use earplugs always, carry those little strips to hand out to people, and have thrown and poked snorers from my bunk before to no avail.

The best snorer story was an Italian whom we called 'el roncador.' His snoring vibrated the walls, the beds nearby, and throwing slippers at the guy wouldn't wake him up. We actually have video of it. The upside to travelling with Gofredo's group of rowdy Italians was that Gofredo was a chef in Italy, so every night after he made an unbelievable dinner we forgave him.

Earplugs are godsends. There was a club below my hostel once that played very bass-heavy music. Very hard to sleep through. Popped in the earplugs (finally, on my 4th of 4 nights...im a genius) and slept like a baby.

guilty as charged. I have had shoes thrown at me! Next time I will pack those nasal strips

I am a deep sleeper, normal snoring doesn't normally bother me. I don't need a normally warning. Once a someones snoring was bothering me so I gave her bed a little shake (I was on a top bunk next to her bunk where there was no one on the top bunk) and she quit right away but didn't seem to wake up. I got to keep my pillows and other too! YUS!

I do sometimes talk in my sleep which can get strange but people shushing me apparently always makes me stop...

I get really hammered everytime i stay at hostels so i usually pass out into a deep sleep as soon as i hit my pillow

What can you really do in this situation, besides wearing ear plugs? I dont think anyone intentionally snores or chooses to keep people awake. I think its one of the sacrifices of staying at a hostel. I found earphones worked well as earplugs too for the nights when I was listening to music but didnt want to get out of bed and rummage through my bag for earplugs once the symphony started up.

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Originally posted by smoothwndrnk:
I get really hammered everytime i stay at hostels so i usually pass out into a deep sleep as soon as i hit my pillow

Winner

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I did the Camino de Santiago which meant 4 weeks of refuges with 50-200 beds, and given the odds that 1 in 20 snore, the possibilty of insomnia is endless.

The odds were much higher than 1 in 20 when I went.

Most snorers I've met are older and slightly overweight, barring the skinny person with sinus problems.

When I went, the Camino was full of older walker-types, usually from German or French mountain areas. For them, the walk was a walk in the park. They woke up before dawn, rustled like rats in their packs, and were out before I, a late sleeper, was still trying to sort out the gummies in my eyes. For all their good condition, they were overweight, as many 50+ people tend to be.

They walked for hours, did 30+ kilometers a day, and arrived to eat, then pop to sleep around 7:00 pm. Anyone daring to make any noise past this hour was given a slow stare torture by seemingly comatose pilgrims, arms at the side, on their backs.

They eventually did fall asleep, and when they did, one in 6 or FOUR were snorers. There was no escape, because by the time I wanted to sleep, there was a chorus going, sometimes as bad or worse than the Three Stooges, and twice as loud.

I managed to sleep without earplugs. More valuable was the facemask that cut out the lights when someone was looking around their back, or putting the lights ON at 5 in the morning, in the dark.

Oh.. the stories. One time we were surrounded by early rising packrats, all scurrying and crinkling their packs at the same time. We were so tired of the furtive nature of their packing, we got up and turned the light on. That way they'd be out sooner. I don't think they liked not being able to pretend they disturbed no one.

Oh yes, I've encountered the snorer from hell. Not only did he snore, but he'd also stumble into the room at 3 am and turn the fucking lights on.

Earplugs couldn't hold back this guys snoring. It was that bad. Painful even. The next morning I was sent to another room.

I was kicked out of a hostel in Hanmer Springs (not a YHA) because I snored. Mind you, I had already paide for three nights and was on crutches! I only spent opne night there.

When you stay in hostels in a dorm share you have to give and take. If you cann't take then get a BLOODY SINGLE ROOM.

Snoring ,like the "Breaking of Wind" which is very often worse when you have to inhale and cannot open a window, are things which are not deliberate. Give me a snorer any time over a farter. At one hostel the GAS problem was so bad it sounded like she was playing Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4 (Rondo). For those familiar with classical music you'll understand what I mean.

It's the phone-talking-in-the-middle-of-the-night and the
I-get-up-early-and-I-don't-understand-how-you-can-still-
stay-in-bed-after-seven-o'clock-morning types who annoy me.

But even worse are the Go-to-bed-every-night-before-nine-
thirty ones. I mean man! You're on holiday. You want to have a good time. You want to party/get sloshed/have fun/talk about the state of the world around us with other travellers. And you can bet your bottom dollar, every dorm I've ever stayed in. THEY GO TO BED BEFORE NINE THIRTY.

But, as I said, if you stay in dorms, you have to give and take. So I do. Just realised this rant has gone somewhat off-topic from snorers, but thanks for listening to me people- it feels good to get it off my chest. And believe me, I've got a big one to get it off!


Have a nice day, Whistler.


If you can keep a sense of humour and see the funny side of life, you will never be old. SMC.