Is it common that hostels charge more for woman only dorm rooms?
When I was in Tbilisi (Georgia), during my one week trip, 3 months ago, I found out in some hostels the women only dorm rooms have higher prices than mixed dorm rooms with equal numbers of bed or room size, while there was no men only room!
Is it common in the other countries too to find women only dorm rooms with higher prices than mixed dorm rooms(I do not mean Muslim countries)?
P.S: I didn't write all because I was not able to search for all hostels in a country or a big city rationally! In this situation, common easily means finding such samples in the other countries more than rarely and as an accepted readable or unreadable rule. There were some women only dorm rooms which were smaller with less beds than mixed dorm rooms but there is no reason to give the smaller one to women to get higher charges.
Best Answer
Yes. It's obviously natural and logic way to do.
If you have women-only dorms, you risk being not able to take extra backpacker even when you technically have free places (if they happen to be in female dorm and the backpacker is male) so they actually costs you more. You don't want to have a lot of female-only dorms so you want to discourage girls from using them and encourage them to choose mixed dorm instead (because it's cheaper).
Many women don't want to sleep in the same room with the unfamiliar men (for any reason), and it's why the hostels have the female-only dorms anyway.
It's not a discrimination that single-sex rooms are more expensive, because women are allowed to choose mix room if they want. Only because some of them don't want, hostels provide single-sex rooms as the extra service. I haven't ever seen a male-only dorm in a hostel, but it's simply because (generally speaking, in european culture) men wouldn't be interested in paying more only to have the guarantee to have guys only in the room (and probably more mess and more snoring).
Please note that my remark is for, generally speaking, 'Western-culture' countries. There are some countries which object unfamiliar men and women in the same dorm for religious grounds.
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