We checked into a hostel in Leon, Nicaragua once to find our bed wasn’t yet ready.

The mattress was drying thanks to the previous occupant wetting the bed.

Made for a great nights rest you can imagine, and we woke to an even better sight of balls (yes, testicles) in our face!

Some drunk guy had thought it a great idea to strip his kit off and jump into the bottom bunk opposite (it wasn’t his), thinking he had a chance with the passed out lesbian occupant…

Thank you Ben. I agree with your take on this situation and sorry about your health issues. What a pain! Sounds like they truly do limit your ability to travel. That’s stinks!

Of course what happened to Matt is totally gross and not something anyone would want to go through, but every comment here is condemning the Brazilian when he really could have some kind of disease or syndrome that makes him just susceptible at times to an uncontrollable colon. Who knows. Maybe he has some disability or disorder or something. Like you said, it’s pretty impossible to believe that this guy WANTED this to happen, so I too kinda feel sorry for him. He shouldn’t have denied it, not clean up after himself and went to sleep leaving Matt to clean up after him though. He certainly is a jerk for that. That would have sucked.

My dormmate came in tonight wasted, fell asleep and just sleep walked over and peed on top of my backpack! A massive long Austin Powers pee! Right onto the clothes for the morning sitting on my bag! So glad my bag was closed and waterproof but the sponge in the straps and the other steps absorbed a lot of it. We are literally hundreds of miles from somewhere he can by me a new one and we part ways after this destination.

Rinsed it off and shampooed it really good but damn it could stink when it dries! Also trying to figure out how to handle the morning as he was genuinely sleep walking when it happened… Tricky.

Back to sleep for now.

I’m Brazilian and I always read your blog.

You haven’t told us the name of the hostel, but told us the nationalities giving a negative feedback about mine. Well, we speak loud because our language is loud, we do have a great time when we travel because we always have great times in our country and some of us drink a lot… but it’s not normal for us (and I belive for anyone) to shit sleeping.

I’m not offended at all with your story and I understand that you are relating a specific situation.

Just as an example I spent some nights in hostels during my trips to europe and already cought american roomates in Russia opening my backpack while I was in the shower, disgusting czech girls in France bringing up some random african guys inside the room at 4am, and bizarre spanish people waking up in the middle of the night and fighting each other in Ireland, but I also had a lot of fun with american, african, czech and spanish friends in other situations..

Ok, nobody ever shit the room I was sleeping.. so maybe you’re right if you got a little bit scary with us, but you’re gonna be welcome in brazil and the hostels here are very nice!

Ewww…that is gross!