[No More Mr. Soy Boy]

I have a leftish friend who is an expert in travelling in Eastern Europe and he always goes to cheap (shitty) hostels and brags how much he saves on them there right at that time in Novemberg when it's not tourist season. But he always talks about meeting people in these hostels though so I assume they're full, at least in the bigger cities.

But I don't get why you would take a hostel there when it's so cheap anyway to get a 3-5 star hotel if you just book in advance or use hotwire.com or take an AirBnb.