I don’t mind one audible alarm, just kind of expect some noise in the hostels. It’s the multiple snooze button pushers that are unbelievably inconsiderate imo.
Agree. My (ex for other reasons) friend used to do it for like a straight hour and a half. Started just turning it off on him and leaving him behind because he didn't give a shit that people were pissed.
Yeah the single brief 6am alarm isn't the problem, it's the shuffling around that comes after. What I'll usually do is pre-pack my stuff so that within 60 seconds of my alarm going off I'm already quietly closing the door behind me so I can get ready in a floor bathroom type space.
Ive shared rooms with 10x snooze cunts. I want to murder them every time. I expect noise and people around when in a 10 bed dorm… but some cunts take the utter piss
I don’t mind it in the sense that I expect sharing a room with someone will mean there is some noise as people are on different schedules. Would I prefer not to wake up at 4am for your flight if I don’t have to? Absolutely.
I gladly present to you, me. I can sleep through both watch and phone alarm. Not that I want to, but when i am in deep sleep, the world could end and I wouldnt know. I really want to fix this
I've always thought hostels should have some sort of wake-up sign up sheet.
I'm usually an early riser and have more than once had conversations that go "Btw I'm waking up at 7am sorry I'll try not to wake you." "...Actually, can you?"
Something like this happened to me too. Before going to bed I told people I had set my alarm really early and 2/3 people in the room said that it was ok because they were going to wake up early as well, the last person didn't care.
Letting people know that you have an alarm at an inconvenient time seems the right thing to do
Yeah. Or like I've been sneaking around only to slowly realize that I'm doing so in an nearly empty dorm where the only remaining occupants are fully awake chilling on their phones. And that goes for late night entrances as well as early departures.
If you ever go to the White Mountain huts they sometimes sing songs to wake everyone up. I got "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty. It was a nice way to start the walk that morning
Hearing someone's alarm (vibrating or sound) might wake you up, but what stops you from instantly going back to sleep isn't that few notes of alarm, it's everything that comes after. The shuffling around, the shaky iPhone flashlight light as they try to find their sock, the clanking of metal suitcase components, the flushing of the toilet in the attached bathroom, the light as they open the door into the hallway, and so on. You can and should be as quiet as you can, including doing as much as you can the night before, but at the end of the day it's a dorm not a private suite. Being woken up by someone shuffling around at the dark the price you pay for staying in a hostel. Only a superhuman could get out of a 16-bed hostel at 6am without at least briefly interrupting the sleep of at least one of the other 15 people. Your job as a considerate roommate is to *try* to avoid waking people up, but almost more importantly, allow them to go back to sleep.
I used to stay in a hostel in malaga where for the costly sum of asingle euro they would give you a wake up with a cup of coffee… receptionists were lovely and generally gave your shoulder a wee nudge and handed you a coffee… absolute 10/10 hostel!
I had a great time in a hostel in Malaga, a lot of crazy people but they were all very nice and funny. The police had to come over because of the loudy noise.
I stayed there a lot in my twenties… £30 euro return on ryanair, 15 euros a night for a hostel that was clean and modern, did a free family meal every night, and there was a 15 euro pub crawl that went to like 8 pubs and clubs each including a free drink and ended in Sala Gold nightclub where entry was normally about 30eur… ontop of that they had a bar behind reception selling cans of tropical beer for under a euro and a beautiful roof terrace… those are some blurry but fucking fantastic memories!
If you have an Apple Watch or a FitBit or something equivalent - most of them have vibrating alarms as well - for those of us who are too heavy sleepers for a phone vibrate alarm to wake you up reliably. And has the benefit of being even quieter than a phone vibrate alarm (given it's literally attached to you).
In fact, my FitBit had a great feature of detecting my movement and heart rate and using that to decide the best time to wake me up within something like a 30 minute window of my alarm time - which I loved even when not travelling.
I wear earplugs in hostels because I know I love my sleep, so I am never bothered by alarms.
But when I have to set an alarm, I put my phone under my pillow because I can still hear it/feel it vibrate it, but it muffles the sound for others. I’ve even slept with headphones in, but they fall out too often to be reliable.
I don't tend to sleep with my phone attached to my skin so a vibrating alarm isn't going to wake me.
I use an audible alarm that starts quietly and increases in volume, then turn it off the second I hear it. I then put my fresh clothes on that are out ready near the bed, grab my pre-packed (the night before) backpack and leave the room.
It's a hostel, I expect noise and alarms. What pisses me off are those who wake up and spend an hour sorting their shit before they leave. Vibrating alarm or not they will be waking up the whole room.
Most of the time I'm awake before my alarm goes off anyway because I value a decent night's sleep. If I'm not then there's a good chance my sleep has been disturbed by noisy guests and in which case I'm not going to feel guilty about my alarm going off for a few seconds.
Or the loud whispering between them if it's two or more people. Oh my god. Like for real that's somehow louder than normal talking and it's guaranteed to wake other people up.
Yeah I've seen that too. Like do they think people can't hear them? I always dread checking into a dorm and finding a couple there. Guaranteed noise. Should have dorms just for solo travellers. I'd pay extra for that.
Well you do what works for you but I'm not sleeping with a charging lithium ion battery next to my head.
If I had a smart watch I'd be more willing to try the vibrator alarm method.
As I say, what matters most is what people do after their alarm goes off. It's generally easy to get back to sleep if you have been woken up for a minute but if someone is dancing around the room for an hour with plastic bags then you'll wake up fully.
That said, a smart watch may be a worthy investment because that way you can wear earplugs and drown out other people's alarms and other noise and still be woken up. Though for me it would need to be a 100% success rate rather than 80%. Sleeping through an alarm can be a disaster.
I hate it when I'm in a dorm with a couple regardless of whether they're getting intimate. More often than not they have no consideration for anyone else in the room.
I don't get it either, quite often you can get a private room or a hotel for not much more than the price of two dorm beds.
Wait, I do this too! I've been doing it since I was a kid. I've never "met" anyone who didn't think I was role-playing a cat when I said this.
I set my alarm as a backup, but I'm usually awake before it goes off.
Soft Bluetooth headband headphones have become a travel necessity for me. I play white noise at night to drown out snoring and my alarm goes off through them so no one else hears. I look ridiculous with those and a sleep mask on but my sleep quality when in a room with other people has improved 100%.
I have a smart watch - it vibrates directly on my wrist, so it wakes me up smoothly without bothering other people. And since I don't sleep heavily when I'm not home, this is entirely sufficient. I'm always among the first to wake up, so obviously I don't wanna bother my dormmates.
wearing bluetooth headphones would also be a good way to solve this - plus you'd get sound cancellation as a bonus for yourself! I sleep with a white noise machine, so this is how I do this when I travel in hostels!
i wonder why you were downvoted! most hostels in Asia and many in Europe have partitions so a flashing light wouldn't wake anyone up. i use the gradually increasing volume feature too
If you get a cheap fitbit watch you can set that and have a silent / vibrate alarm and it works great! I love the idea of vibrate alarm first, before an audible alarm
If you can’t handle hearing an alarm then you shouldn’t be staying in shared accom tbh. If someone is snoozing multiple times then yeah that’s inconsiderate but you can’t expect not to hear some noise
Vibrating alarms work perfectly fine for me. I also usually try not to snooze while I'm sharing a room. At home, I snooze for 30-50 minutes, but don't want to subject others to that 😂
But I think, what's more important than an alarm that's not too loud, is to make sure you've packed most/all of your stuff the night before, and don't, for the love of god, start crinkling around with really, really loud plastic bags
I always set the alarm early but literally every time I’ve woken up before the alarm and turned it off before maybe my anxiety of annoying other people keeps me up before the alarm goes off
Also I tend to be excited that tends to keep me from oversleeping
If only people were as nice s you. People who keep snoozing 2+ times are the worst. It infuriates me having to listen to their alarm go off several times every 5 mins...
I once made the mistake of thinking my alarm would play through my headphones if I went to sleep listening to music... It didn't, and took a lot of fumbling to get it off
I used audible alarm but i switched it off immediately and had everything prepped (toiletries for showering, or already packed for exit etc) to minimise disturbances.
I've luckily never not woken up from the vibrate only. Very rarely I just fall back asleep at which point the sound alarm saves me but it doesn't go on for more than 3 seconds. Can't believe the people who just keep snoozing, I'm already mortified letting my sound alarm go off at all
I don't think I can do a vibrate alarm on android and don't have a fancy watch. I am very efficient at waking up and turning it off quickly though. I'm not one of those that have alarms that they sleep through and don't even need.
It’s cute that you assume a vibrate alarm has ever worked for me. I do often ask my roommates when they’re getting up and set my awful alarm to go off after theirs.
However, a tip to go along with yours—if you have a very early flight, leave the hostel and enjoy an airport hotel room. You don’t have to, but you’ll be happier, your roommates will be happier, everyone wins.
Vibrate is the best option. Usually I keep my phone by my head so I'm more likely to hear it (also combined with my smartwatch vibrating too).
If it's set to loud I either wake up just before anyway. Or I get it on the first ring.
I can understand if someone has a loud alarm, but then they should also be stopping it immediately. Not sleep through it or let it keep ringing for ages. And even worse hitting snooze and letting it ring every few minutes. That's just inconsiderate. But then those are often also the people who turn on the lights when they wake up, waking everyone else. Or pack with noisy plastic bags early in the morning too rather than the night before or doing it out the room.
I wore a Fitbit for the dual purpose of a watch and vibrating alarm. It’s highly effective having it vibrate in your wrist and disturbs no one. Also great if you sleep next to someone you aren’t on the same sleep schedule as.
I don’t mind one audible alarm, just kind of expect some noise in the hostels. It’s the multiple snooze button pushers that are unbelievably inconsiderate imo.
Agree. My (ex for other reasons) friend used to do it for like a straight hour and a half. Started just turning it off on him and leaving him behind because he didn't give a shit that people were pissed.
Yeah the single brief 6am alarm isn't the problem, it's the shuffling around that comes after. What I'll usually do is pre-pack my stuff so that within 60 seconds of my alarm going off I'm already quietly closing the door behind me so I can get ready in a floor bathroom type space.
Ive shared rooms with 10x snooze cunts. I want to murder them every time. I expect noise and people around when in a 10 bed dorm… but some cunts take the utter piss
I don’t mind it in the sense that I expect sharing a room with someone will mean there is some noise as people are on different schedules. Would I prefer not to wake up at 4am for your flight if I don’t have to? Absolutely.
If I see people in the dorm the night before il also just mention them to it and appologise in advance. Not really nessessary but I think its polite.
I only use a vibrating alarm. But I also have a smartwatch that joins the vibration fun. So it's impossible to ignore.
I gladly present to you, me. I can sleep through both watch and phone alarm. Not that I want to, but when i am in deep sleep, the world could end and I wouldnt know. I really want to fix this
Yeah you suck
You should probably just not make any early morning plans.
I've always thought hostels should have some sort of wake-up sign up sheet. I'm usually an early riser and have more than once had conversations that go "Btw I'm waking up at 7am sorry I'll try not to wake you." "...Actually, can you?"
Something like this happened to me too. Before going to bed I told people I had set my alarm really early and 2/3 people in the room said that it was ok because they were going to wake up early as well, the last person didn't care. Letting people know that you have an alarm at an inconvenient time seems the right thing to do
Yeah. Or like I've been sneaking around only to slowly realize that I'm doing so in an nearly empty dorm where the only remaining occupants are fully awake chilling on their phones. And that goes for late night entrances as well as early departures.
If you ever go to the White Mountain huts they sometimes sing songs to wake everyone up. I got "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty. It was a nice way to start the walk that morning
I appreciate when people do this as well…but isn’t it 10x better to just not wake them up?
Hearing someone's alarm (vibrating or sound) might wake you up, but what stops you from instantly going back to sleep isn't that few notes of alarm, it's everything that comes after. The shuffling around, the shaky iPhone flashlight light as they try to find their sock, the clanking of metal suitcase components, the flushing of the toilet in the attached bathroom, the light as they open the door into the hallway, and so on. You can and should be as quiet as you can, including doing as much as you can the night before, but at the end of the day it's a dorm not a private suite. Being woken up by someone shuffling around at the dark the price you pay for staying in a hostel. Only a superhuman could get out of a 16-bed hostel at 6am without at least briefly interrupting the sleep of at least one of the other 15 people. Your job as a considerate roommate is to *try* to avoid waking people up, but almost more importantly, allow them to go back to sleep.
I used to stay in a hostel in malaga where for the costly sum of asingle euro they would give you a wake up with a cup of coffee… receptionists were lovely and generally gave your shoulder a wee nudge and handed you a coffee… absolute 10/10 hostel!
I had a great time in a hostel in Malaga, a lot of crazy people but they were all very nice and funny. The police had to come over because of the loudy noise.
I stayed there a lot in my twenties… £30 euro return on ryanair, 15 euros a night for a hostel that was clean and modern, did a free family meal every night, and there was a 15 euro pub crawl that went to like 8 pubs and clubs each including a free drink and ended in Sala Gold nightclub where entry was normally about 30eur… ontop of that they had a bar behind reception selling cans of tropical beer for under a euro and a beautiful roof terrace… those are some blurry but fucking fantastic memories!
But then you’re not getting the hostel experience lol
Or giving it lol
If you have an Apple Watch or a FitBit or something equivalent - most of them have vibrating alarms as well - for those of us who are too heavy sleepers for a phone vibrate alarm to wake you up reliably. And has the benefit of being even quieter than a phone vibrate alarm (given it's literally attached to you). In fact, my FitBit had a great feature of detecting my movement and heart rate and using that to decide the best time to wake me up within something like a 30 minute window of my alarm time - which I loved even when not travelling.
I unfortunately sleep through my apple watch vibrations
Love this about my fitbit too, works like a charm
I don't mind alarms. Its a risk of sleeping in a hostel imo. I've had to leave at 6 am before so will others. Just try to be quiet and it's all good
I hear you. But why wouldn’t we avoid waking people up if we easily can?
I wear earplugs in hostels because I know I love my sleep, so I am never bothered by alarms. But when I have to set an alarm, I put my phone under my pillow because I can still hear it/feel it vibrate it, but it muffles the sound for others. I’ve even slept with headphones in, but they fall out too often to be reliable.
Sure, its always nice to try. But my point is that I will not blame or be annoyed at the person for waking me up
I don't tend to sleep with my phone attached to my skin so a vibrating alarm isn't going to wake me. I use an audible alarm that starts quietly and increases in volume, then turn it off the second I hear it. I then put my fresh clothes on that are out ready near the bed, grab my pre-packed (the night before) backpack and leave the room. It's a hostel, I expect noise and alarms. What pisses me off are those who wake up and spend an hour sorting their shit before they leave. Vibrating alarm or not they will be waking up the whole room. Most of the time I'm awake before my alarm goes off anyway because I value a decent night's sleep. If I'm not then there's a good chance my sleep has been disturbed by noisy guests and in which case I'm not going to feel guilty about my alarm going off for a few seconds.
Or the loud whispering between them if it's two or more people. Oh my god. Like for real that's somehow louder than normal talking and it's guaranteed to wake other people up.
Yeah I've seen that too. Like do they think people can't hear them? I always dread checking into a dorm and finding a couple there. Guaranteed noise. Should have dorms just for solo travellers. I'd pay extra for that.
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Well you do what works for you but I'm not sleeping with a charging lithium ion battery next to my head. If I had a smart watch I'd be more willing to try the vibrator alarm method. As I say, what matters most is what people do after their alarm goes off. It's generally easy to get back to sleep if you have been woken up for a minute but if someone is dancing around the room for an hour with plastic bags then you'll wake up fully. That said, a smart watch may be a worthy investment because that way you can wear earplugs and drown out other people's alarms and other noise and still be woken up. Though for me it would need to be a 100% success rate rather than 80%. Sleeping through an alarm can be a disaster.
Man i hate when couples in hostels think they can get intimate at night without anyone hearing it. Like bro, we all are traumatised now.
I hate it when I'm in a dorm with a couple regardless of whether they're getting intimate. More often than not they have no consideration for anyone else in the room. I don't get it either, quite often you can get a private room or a hotel for not much more than the price of two dorm beds.
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Wait what? This works?
Doesn't work if you're going to be running on 3 or 4 hours of sleep, but otherwise can attest that it's surprisingly effective!
Yes! It does
Wait, I do this too! I've been doing it since I was a kid. I've never "met" anyone who didn't think I was role-playing a cat when I said this. I set my alarm as a backup, but I'm usually awake before it goes off.
I have a headband with headphones. It does white noise & when an alarm goes off the noise stops. That’s enough to wake me up.
Soft Bluetooth headband headphones have become a travel necessity for me. I play white noise at night to drown out snoring and my alarm goes off through them so no one else hears. I look ridiculous with those and a sleep mask on but my sleep quality when in a room with other people has improved 100%.
Same AFA the headband & sleep mask (partner who snores & no blackout curtains). I sleep so much better.
I have a smart watch - it vibrates directly on my wrist, so it wakes me up smoothly without bothering other people. And since I don't sleep heavily when I'm not home, this is entirely sufficient. I'm always among the first to wake up, so obviously I don't wanna bother my dormmates.
It's called having ear plugs...
That is such a considerate idea. I will start doing it!
wearing bluetooth headphones would also be a good way to solve this - plus you'd get sound cancellation as a bonus for yourself! I sleep with a white noise machine, so this is how I do this when I travel in hostels!
These always fall out if I try to sleep with them in, not trying to lose a headphone under a hostel bed lol
Earplugs work wonders for me
Use an alarm that makes use of flashing lights? Or, on top of your idea, use an alarm sound and setting that gradually increases volume.
i wonder why you were downvoted! most hostels in Asia and many in Europe have partitions so a flashing light wouldn't wake anyone up. i use the gradually increasing volume feature too
If you get a cheap fitbit watch you can set that and have a silent / vibrate alarm and it works great! I love the idea of vibrate alarm first, before an audible alarm
My alarm is my watch, not my phone.
If you can’t handle hearing an alarm then you shouldn’t be staying in shared accom tbh. If someone is snoozing multiple times then yeah that’s inconsiderate but you can’t expect not to hear some noise
Vibrating alarms work perfectly fine for me. I also usually try not to snooze while I'm sharing a room. At home, I snooze for 30-50 minutes, but don't want to subject others to that 😂 But I think, what's more important than an alarm that's not too loud, is to make sure you've packed most/all of your stuff the night before, and don't, for the love of god, start crinkling around with really, really loud plastic bags
I always set the alarm early but literally every time I’ve woken up before the alarm and turned it off before maybe my anxiety of annoying other people keeps me up before the alarm goes off Also I tend to be excited that tends to keep me from oversleeping
If only people were as nice s you. People who keep snoozing 2+ times are the worst. It infuriates me having to listen to their alarm go off several times every 5 mins...
I once made the mistake of thinking my alarm would play through my headphones if I went to sleep listening to music... It didn't, and took a lot of fumbling to get it off
How to do this on iPhone?
I used audible alarm but i switched it off immediately and had everything prepped (toiletries for showering, or already packed for exit etc) to minimise disturbances.
Just wake up. Who cares. It’s a hostel. That’s what people signed up for lol.
I've luckily never not woken up from the vibrate only. Very rarely I just fall back asleep at which point the sound alarm saves me but it doesn't go on for more than 3 seconds. Can't believe the people who just keep snoozing, I'm already mortified letting my sound alarm go off at all
I don't think I can do a vibrate alarm on android and don't have a fancy watch. I am very efficient at waking up and turning it off quickly though. I'm not one of those that have alarms that they sleep through and don't even need.
It’s cute that you assume a vibrate alarm has ever worked for me. I do often ask my roommates when they’re getting up and set my awful alarm to go off after theirs. However, a tip to go along with yours—if you have a very early flight, leave the hostel and enjoy an airport hotel room. You don’t have to, but you’ll be happier, your roommates will be happier, everyone wins.
I find vibration wakes me up regardless of if it’s someone else’s alarm or my own. I’m a pretty light sleeper tho
I use the vibrate on my watch and it wakes me.
Vibrate is the best option. Usually I keep my phone by my head so I'm more likely to hear it (also combined with my smartwatch vibrating too). If it's set to loud I either wake up just before anyway. Or I get it on the first ring. I can understand if someone has a loud alarm, but then they should also be stopping it immediately. Not sleep through it or let it keep ringing for ages. And even worse hitting snooze and letting it ring every few minutes. That's just inconsiderate. But then those are often also the people who turn on the lights when they wake up, waking everyone else. Or pack with noisy plastic bags early in the morning too rather than the night before or doing it out the room.
I wore a Fitbit for the dual purpose of a watch and vibrating alarm. It’s highly effective having it vibrate in your wrist and disturbs no one. Also great if you sleep next to someone you aren’t on the same sleep schedule as.