Also a backpacker. I stay in hostels almost everywhere I go. There's no reason not to when you're rarely in your room anyway. And when you travel off-season, you can usually have an entire room (or even dorm) for you and your companion(s).

Good times.

Even though this thread is fairly inactive I'll just say that I'll be hostelling in Bangkok in late November for 2 weeks. If any backpackers from this site will be there--let's have a drink!

Here are two other sites I write for:

<a href="http://www.chatarea.com/backpackers" target="_blank">http://www.chatarea.com/backpackers</A>
<a href="http://www.eurotrip.com" target="_blank">http://www.eurotrip.com</A> (nothing to do with that stupid movie)