For years backpackers had to rely on staying in hostels to keep their travel expenses as low as possible, but there’s a new service in town. AirBnB has steadily become one of the most-used travel companies as it allows people to open up their homes to travelers. That means the costs are much less than hotels, but can be just as comfortable. So what’s better for backpackers? Hostel of AirBnB?

Hostel

Let’s start with the old favorite, the hostel. One of the best things about staying in a hostel, especially if you’re traveling on your own is the social aspect. In hostels you can meet like-minded people all staying in the same place, looking for the same experiences. That means you can all head out on the town and arrange to travel together to some of the major sights you’ve traveled to see. In these hostels, you can make friends for life as you share in some life-changing moments while enjoying everything the world has to offer. There is another benefit to hostels, and that’s how little they tend to cost. For less than $10 per night, you can find a comfortable bed, a warm shower, and shelter.

AirBnB

For some people, the idea of staying in a hostel just isn’t for them. They’re going to be sharing their space with people they don’t know which can put them on edge and stop them from sleeping well. Staying in an AirBnB means you get your own bedroom in someone’s home, or if you’ve got the money, you can rent their entire place. This can help put you at ease when traveling because it feels as though you’re staying in a home from home. If you want to immerse yourself in the culture of the place you’re staying in then what better way of doing that than staying in a local home? Perhaps if you’re lucky, your hosts will be at your home to welcome you and give you some expert local knowledge you might not get anywhere else.

There is no right or wrong choice when it comes to staying in hostels or AirBnBs, it’s all down to personal preference. AirBnB’s tend to be a little more expensive than hostels, but they both offer different experiences.

While wedding cakes are delicious, sometimes they cause more trouble than they’re worth…

It is very important to focus on the positives in life, no matter how dire things might get. Take this couple, for example, who witnessed their dream wedding cake crumble before their very eyes. Surely that’s a sign, right? Well, they managed to see the funny side of the calamity, and so did their family. Despite what happened, their parents helped keep the cake standing while they cut the first piece. The power of family.

Look, when a high school student is writing a 10,000-word essay, you can expect a couple of small spelling and grammar errors, here and there. However, when you are a fully grown adult and all you have to write on a wedding cake is a small congratulatory message, we expect nothing but perfection. We just spent the last three hours trying to find out what the word “breat” means. Amazingly, we came to the conclusion that it’s not a word and they actually meant “great.”

If you’re not a Star Wars fan, then move along. For those of you who are still here, the cake that these newlyweds ordered is basically in the shape of the villain from Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt. Why you would like to have your cake designed like one of the most disgusting creatures in cinema is beyond us. However, the heart wants what the heart wants. Let’s just hope that Jabba the Cake doesn’t taste like what he resembles…

Every bride has the right to try out their wedding cake before anyone else does. However, you’d expect that first bite to be done with some more class. Apparently, this particular bride bit off a little more than she could chew and ended up covering half her face with the delicious dessert. She did her best to wipe it off. At one point, it looked like she had done a really bad job at brushing her teeth.

At your own wedding, you should be able to…Oh, what’s the expression, have your cake and eat it too? It seems that this is the mantra that this newlywed couple lived by as they sat down and enjoyed their first, second, third, fourth, and many other pieces of cake. In fact, they actually bought two cakes for the occasion: one for the guests and another completely for themselves. If you can’t treat yourself on your big day, then when can you?

You know you have got some serious issues when you start taking your frustrations out on your own wedding cake. If there was one day that the bride shouldn’t have any negative feelings and enjoy every second, it should be the day she gets married. Instead, she took the knife, ran over to the dessert, and started stabbing it repeatedly! All we want to know is this: what did that cake ever do to her?

When you have a dog, it’s probably best not to leave your wedding cake on the floor on the morning of your big day. The bride woke up and saw her dog sitting there, with half the cake completely devoured. Despite her disappointment, she simply couldn’t be angry. She looked into his gorgeous eyes and enjoyed the wedding anyway. In fact, the story ended up going viral and this little cake criminal is now something of a minor celebrity in the wedding world.

Could there be a more egotistical thing to do on your own wedding day? Why on Earth would you have a cake made that looks like you? What is the symbolism there? Sure, we are aware that for many, the wedding day is all about the bride, but this is surely going too far! Or, maybe the bride wanted to eat herself because it was symbolic of her destroying her own ego. In that case, maybe this isn’t a cake fail!

Many wedding dresses have long, over-the-top skirts. However, what if the skirt is actually the wedding cake as well? In ways, this is semi-logical. Maybe this family was on a tight budget and wanted to kill two birds with one stone. From this angle though, it appears that the cake is completely made out of gummy bears. This begs the question: what’s the point of wearing your cake as a skirt if the cake is nothing short of absolutely exquisite?

Why have a traditional wedding cake when you can have burgers instead? Because let’s face it: burgers are the key to a bride and groom’s heart. So many newlyweds struggle to sit down during their big day and enjoy their meal they have meticulously prepared. So why not kill two birds with one stone and turn your wedding cake into the main course? As you can see, theדק newlyweds were thoroughly happy with their Big Mac-tastic decision.

Not all wedding cakes have to look the same. This was proved when one couple discovered that their epic dessert was actually three cakes for the price of one. However, that’s not the best part of this unforgettable moment. As the bride went to cut a piece, the groom decided that he wasn’t having enough fun on his big day. So he took the top layer and shoved it in his wife’s face. This photo was taken a millisecond before it happened.

No one wants their spouse to become like a third parent. However, this seems to be what happened as soon as this couple tied the knot. Not only does the bride cook for her husband, clean after him, and even tuck him into bed, she also fed him his wedding cake. She even gave him a bib! Moreover, she forgot that her husband was even an adult, turning the cake into liquidy mush because she thought it would help him digest it better.

You’re enjoying your wedding – an event that you have spent months, maybe even years, planning for. Everything seems to be going to plan. The bride and groom look amazing, all of the guests arrived in good time, and the entire schedule is going to plan like clockwork. Then you get to the big moment when the newlyweds cut the cake for the first time. However, the couple thought it would be fine to pick up the upper half of the cake. They were wrong…

While wedding cakes take many forms, we are going to say right now, plain and simple: this is not a wedding cake. If a couple orders a banana split and insists on “cutting it,” then you might as well not show up. However, if you’re the groom and you decide to wear a cowboy hat with your three-piece suit, we should’ve known what we were signing up for. This isn’t your typical wedding, by any means.

When you have your wedding at a medieval castle, you can forgive yourself for feeling like you are in Middle Earth or an episode of Game of Thrones. However, when this bride saw a sword hanging on the wall, she couldn’t help but steal it and use it to cut the cake. With one vicious swing, she knew as soon as she performed the callous act that she made a big mistake. Needless to say, she didn’t just cut a piece, she executed the poor thing.

As previously mentioned, not all wedding cakes have to look the same. As far as these newlyweds were concerned, they were perfectly content with cupcakes instead. However, as they went to cut the first one, they suddenly realized that they weren’t happy with their choice. Subsequentially, the couple started blaming each other for the decision and before they knew it, they had engaged in a full-blown food fight. Although no one else joined in, most people were in the bride’s corner.

While some are more forgiving than others when one ends up dropping the cake, this is one couple that couldn’t get past the embarrassing faux pas. As soon as that upper section slipped through their fingers and plummeted to the floor, they knew that they weren’t meant to be together. There were too many signs on that fateful day. Not only did they drop the cake, but a thunderstorm happened and the wedding venue went up in flames.

Every wedding has that distant cousin or random friend who shows up even if they weren’t invited. Sometimes, nobody even knows who the person is! They even made a movie about the strange phenomenon – Wedding Crashers! However, there are times when the unexpected guest in question isn’t even human. If you don’t have someone constantly watching the cake and you leave it outdoors, a squirrel might just come along and take a chunk out of your precious dessert.

There have been many occasions when someone has dropped the wedding cake, completely sabotaging the couple’s big day. But when have you ever seen something like this before? As one of the waiters carried the cake over to the cutting table, it flew out of his hands and did a 180 spin. However, the cake didn’t fall. In fact, it turns out that the chandelier was magnetic and the metallic base stuck to it. The newlyweds still had their cake, albeit an upside-down one.

Lo and behold, we found another dog who simply couldn’t say no. Here’s a piece of advice – think very carefully about bringing dogs to a wedding. While they are man’s best friend and all that jazz, they are not human. They don’t think the way that humans do. If they see a cake, they don’t understand that its wrong to jump up on the table and take large chunks out of it. They don’t understand the consequences of their actions.

When you start making big promises on your own wedding cake, you might want to fulfill those promises with the actual cake. Sure, the groom might be “kind, unselfish, respectful and trustworthy” as he states on the cake’s message. However, we are struggling to buy the part where he talks about a “beautiful future” when we can’t even bear to look at the cake. Really? Beautiful is underlined? Yeah, we give this marriage a couple of months – maybe.

Why spend hundreds of dollars on a wedding cake when you can simply take a trip down to your closest Krispy Kremes store and buy a few dozen boxes of donuts? There is no denying that this batch will be eaten in the next five minutes and it will be one of the highlights of the wedding. With all that said and done, we now pronounce you donut-devourer and donuts. You may eat the donuts.

There’s no one who wants happiness for the bride and groom more than their parents. When this couple’s big day arrived, the father of the bride had been given the job to carry the cake over to the newlyweds to cut. However, he was a little overwhelmed by the occasion. Not only did he unceremoniously drop the entire cake, but the horror show was recorded on film. This means that daddy will never forget his epic “mis-cake.”

It might be an unconventional cake, but you know you are winning in life when your wedding cake is made up of pastries and a couple of chocolate penguins, all of the components for a match made in heaven. But we can’t understand why the bride lifted up the upper section. It’s a thoughtless decision that will haunt her forever, especially since nobody got a chance to eat the profiteroles.

Sometimes, it’s best just to go professional when it comes to ordering a wedding cake. This is clear evidence that sometimes, it is best not to take up Aunt Meg’s offer to bake the cake for your big day? Whatever idea you presented to her beforehand, something must’ve been lost in translation. What sane person would want a yellow cake for their wedding? It looks more like Spongebob Squarepants had a bad experience in the bathroom!