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So far Thailand has been the cheapest. But I hear Vietnam (where I'm headed next) is even cheaper so I'm excited!!

Germany is definitely most accessible, as I learned when my buddy met me in the airport when I arrived and cracked a beer.

I looked around the airport and asked "can we drink here?"

He laughed and said, "Of course, this is germany. You can drink anywhere!"

Oh man... I don't get easily bothered by smells... but there was this one hostel in Romania. Only me and two other travellers were there when I checked in. A very quite, clean, peaceful place.

Then this girl arrived... A vegan girl from San Francisco. She had just spent a month living with sheep farmers or something in Mongolia. She must have not had access to a proper shower the whole month she was there, because the smell was horrific. Then she opened her backpack and started taking out dirty socks and clothing. She was very nice when I talked to her, but that's by far the smelliest experience.

Usually the hostels are clean, it's the travellers you need to worry about haha

I go to hostelworld.com, search by city, sort by cheapest, then compare the options rated above 80% by user reviews.

Believe it or not... 0! I've been lucky. Though I did have an unidentifiable rash on my hand once in Thailand that looked like bedbugs to me and itched like mad. Other people who had had bed bugs said mine was something different. It stayed on my hand, which was a weird place if it was actually bed bugs. I never found out what it was and luckily it cleared up within 3-4 days

She made no mention of it. Another girl from Hong Kong kept making passive comments (the hippie girl would say "I just got back from a sheep farm", hong kong girl would say "Yeah, I can tell") haha...