I was the same way for years, always booked private rooms because I assumed dorms meant bed bugs and some dude snoring at 2am. Then I crashed at a hostel in Krakow for 22 bucks and it honestly beat the hotel I paid 70 for the night before. Clean sheets, lockers, actual hot showers, and the people running it gave better tips than any front desk ever did. The trick is reading the recent reviews and skipping anything that mentions noise or sketchy parts of town. Cheap bunks in the right spot flat out win.

Two years of plugging in those things and the roaches were probably throwing parties back there, using the buzz as background music while they multiplied. Forty roaches behind one fridge is wild, that poor guy probably needed a trash bag and a strong drink after that pull. Funny how a ten dollar box of boric acid from back in the day does more than a gadget that costs twenty bucks and just eats your electric bill. Pat's right too, bugs don't hear half that stuff anyway, they just shrug it off and go find the crumbs. Gel bait in the hinges is the move, that's what actually got mine under control too.