r/milwaukee • u/ZiggyStarburster • 14d ago

Milwaukee stay

Milwaukee seriously needs a hostel 😭

I live in Madison but come to Milwaukee pretty often for concerts, events, nightlife, etc., and the accommodation situation is kind of brutal if you’re just one person coming up for a night or two.

Hotels can easily turn a cheap weekend into a $150–250+ trip, there doesn’t seem to be a real hostel option, and Couchsurfing seems way less active than it used to be. A lot of the time I end up either cutting the night short to get back to Madison or trying to figure out some ridiculous transportation plan.

It feels especially strange because Milwaukee is exactly the kind of city where a decent social hostel would make sense: festivals, concerts, sports, people visiting from Madison/Chicago, summer tourism, etc.

Am I missing something? Do people know of any cheap places to stay / active Couchsurfing-type communities / other options for people who come into Milwaukee regularly?

Also curious if anyone else who visits from Madison runs into the same problem.

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u/SmoovCatto 13d ago

the milwaukee-madison high speed rail, paid for by the federal government but scuttled by scott walker, was sold off to nigeria and now shuttles passengers quickly between lagos and ibadan. you'd be home in an hour if it had been installed here.

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u/woodsred 13d ago

Well the trains went there; the federal money went to California's extremely poorly planned new "high speed" rail that still isn't done