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# why the age limit?
you sods
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 10:51, archived)
# So I can be surrounded by young, beautiful, tanned aussie lasses:)
Well it's a youth hostel innit:p
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 10:55, archived)
# bit unfair on us older backbackers
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 10:57, archived)
# But more and more older folk are going backpacking now
90,000 working people over 25 take a gap year every year, and that's not counting the 200,000 retirees.

(Source: Mintel)
(Pachey, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 11:06, archived)
# How can these people take a gap year every year?
jammy b*stards

/bitter working man blog
(I helped save b3ta! RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 11:11, archived)
# Ha ha
I didn't write that properly, did I?

However, if you do wish to take a career break, I can recommend an excellent website...
(Pachey, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 11:18, archived)
# Ah but they tend to have more calateral
Those who do stay in hostels don't find an shortages of places that will take them.
We target a specific market and many of those that do stay, especially in the 18 to 21, feel
uncomfortable drinking or partying when there are people the age of their parents around.
Also if you run a hostel that is available to any age you do get a small number of people
that are staying in hostel for the wrong reasons like substance abuse.
This is when you start finding bodies passed out in the corridors or find needles in the bathroom.
I know from experience as when I took this place over it pretty much was a crack house.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 11:18, archived)
# It's a house for young louts and layabouts
and, um, actually, yeah - what Mongy said!
(I helped save b3ta! Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Thu 11 Oct 2007, 10:57, archived)