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Old 9th July 2009, 10:23
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Default How much of your utilities does each backpacker use?

A common question in the forum is on the costs of running a hostel.

I thought it might be useful if existing hostels could answer these questions:
  1. What country is your hostel in?
  2. Does your hostel have AC in the rooms?
  3. Does your hostel have heat? What kind? (oil, electric, etc.)
  4. How is your water heated?
  5. Do you do your laundry inhouse or outsource?
  6. How much water does each individual guest use on average? (yearly occupancy divided by liters/gallons of water)
  7. How much electricity does each individual guest use on average? (yearly occupancy number divided by unit)
  8. If water heating bill is separate from electricty bill, what is the average occupancy divided by unit?

(Did I miss anything?)

The point here isn't to determine costs, because those vary by country -- it's to try to find some clues about how much water and electricity each backpacker uses wherever they go... (which can the be converted into local utility prices by future hostels)
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Old 9th July 2009, 16:11
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Default Re: How much of your utilities does each backpacker use?

Why donīt you use Surveymonkey?

You could create a survey in a way that results are only shown if one participates in the survey.




What country is your hostel in? ī- Gemany, Austria

Does your hostel have AC in the rooms? - No

Does your hostel have heat? What kind? (oil, electric, etc.) - Central gas heating

How is your water heated? - Natural gas from Putinīs Gazprom

Do you do your laundry inhouse or outsource? - Outsourced

How much water does each individual guest use on average? (yearly occupancy divided by liters/gallons of water) - 120 Liters per bed night

How much electricity does each individual guest use on average? (yearly occupancy number divided by unit) - 3 kWh per bed night

If water heating bill is separate from electricty bill, what is the average occupancy divided by unit? - Separate. Divided by which unit???
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Why donīt you use Surveymonkey?
$200 price tag

The free account doesn't have that feature, though I'm thinking about upgrading my account in order to run polls regularly.

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How much water does each individual guest use on average? (yearly occupancy divided by liters/gallons of water) - 120 Liters per bed night
Long showers and toilet flushing? (120 liters ~ 31 gallons)

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If water heating bill is separate from electricity bill, what is the average occupancy divided by unit? - Separate. Divided by which unit???
I think I was trying to ask how many gallons of oil/etc. is used per guest. Or maybe was trying to separate hostels that use solar water heating. (I'm not sure if I remember...)

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Long showers and toilet flushing? (120 liters ~ 31 gallons)
Yes, both. Thatīs what you get if you have ensuites with hot, good pressure showers. People really indulge.

We know from own experience how much cold showers suck, so we think a good shower is a unique selling point. And water is cheap and plentiful near the Alps.
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