A warning concerning "Green Tortoise": this organization is ageist, reverse-racist and mysandrist

Are you trolling?? Most of their guests are white with short hair. the place may be owned by a middle-aged hippie, but he'd go broke if they waited for hippie customers. Did you have any luggage? Arriving at a city hostel without luggage is the best way to be told its full.

Your 'conclusions' are just wild speculation.

No, I am not 'trolling', and I am disgusted by wild accusations of same in part because the original usage of 'troll' was by wealthy Santa Cruz homeowners to refer to homeless people. It has, in my opinion, no place here and it isn't in the spirit of usenet.

Am I invisible? I said I was middle-aged and you overlooked the fact that most of the guests are in their twenties. Ageism is constituted in invisibility.

And, of course I had luggage. I'd just returned as I said from Fiji. Please read more carefully in the future.

OK, most of the guests are white punks with short hair. Proves my point. Place discriminates against older people. Hmm. I wonder how they treat people of color.

If they in fact sort applicants for membership in some sort of private club, then several causes of action exist.

Under the law, hotels cannot do this. They have a bonafide right to protect themselves against disruptive and nonpaying people but beyond this, they are opening themselves to legal action, especially in California. Furthermore, the practice is as I have said given Green Tortoise's ideology.

Don't be ridiculous. It's a centuries old word from Scandinavian mythology.

You didn't say you had a backpack.