I’m familiar with hostels like onefam chain in Europe. But I’m not familiar with SEA at all. Anything I need to know? What’s the demographics of the hostels like? The atmosphere? I work part time.
I noticed some hostels attract people who just want to get drunk or fuck. I’m not into that. I’m more into genuine sober interactions with people who aren’t interested in drinking or sleeping with randoms. I’m a straight guy for context.
From my recent experience, it typically skews pretty young (25 or younger) and mostly Brits and Europeans for the most part. So can be pretty party-centered, especially around island areas in Thailand etc.
But you can find quieter places everywhere - as others have said, best approach is to just do your research, read and compare reviews on multiple sites (hostelworld, agoda, google etc), they’ll usually give you a good idea of whether its going to be a non-stop party or not. I stayed in mostly women-only dorms wherever I could over mixed dorms, that typically meant a quieter experience, but can’t say if it’d be the same in male only.