Would you stay at the same hostel twice in my circumstance?

I did my first solo trip outside of the USA back in April, I went to Ireland and I spent two days in Dublin at first, which were wonderful. After that, I went to Galway and stayed for five days. I spent the first two days exploring the city, and then I had booked myself on excursions hosted by my hostel into the countryside for the other three days and I was most excited to do those on my trip. Unfortunately, I went on a pub crawl hosted by the hostel at the end of my second day, and the next morning I got so horrifically sick. I woke up at 2 AM throwing up and at first I thought I was just hungover, but I ended up throwing up for five days straight. I got so sick on the second day of being ill that I passed out in the lobby of the hostel and they called me an ambulance and I was hospitalized, which was honestly one of the worst experiences of my life, but that’s not what this post is about. They did say at the hospital that I must’ve had some crazy form of food poisoning. I was so sick that the people in my dorm room understandably did not want me there and I didn’t want to be there either, so the hostel moved me into an empty dorm room at no additional cost to me. I was sick in there for days and completely miserable, but the staff was wonderful. They came to check on me almost every hour, they brought me water and fruit, they called me the ambulance when I needed one, and they were overall just so kind and made me feel so much better. Because my trip was honestly kind of ruined by this I’m trying to redo it next spring, and I really loved the location of the hostel that I stayed in, the staff were obviously wonderful to me, the accommodations were very nice, and I didn’t get to do any of their excursion trips, which was what I was most excited about. Do you think it would be weird to the staff if I stayed there again? I’m sure that even though they were so wonderful to me, they must have been very glad when I left because I was not an easy guest to deal with, and I wonder if they would think it was weird for me to show my face there again after what happened last time. Do you think I’m overthinking this? Would you stay in the same hostel again if this happened to you? --- **Post Details:** - **Subreddit:** r/travel - **Author:** u/delliamcool - **Score:** 48 upvotes - **Upvote Ratio:** 84.0% - **Comments:** 30 - **Posted:** 7/5/2025 - **URL:** https://reddit.com/r/travel/comments/1ls9jpk/would_you_stay_at_the_same_hostel_twice_in_my/