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Backpackers, ahoy! Looking for a place with international ambiance to hang out and let your dreads down? Browns Hostel is the place. One of the newer hostels in Dublin, it offers 12 Spartan dormitory rooms with metal bunk beds, clean white walls, and white sheets. Rooms come in configurations of four to 20 beds, and there's a female-only dorm for women who don't wish to mix with the other half.
But Browns's big draw is not in the barebones bedrooms or the gym-style shared toilets and showers. It's all about the grotto-esque common area whose tunnel shape and arched ceiling house a kitchen, dining tables, "slot machine" game, pool table, television lounge, and vending machines containing calling cards, candy, and cola. International flags are painted across the ceilings, and the couches are filled with lounging backpackers fresh out of the world's universities.
Rooms have nice Irish names, such as Carrick, Foyle, and Liffey. Towels, blankets, and lockers are for rent.
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