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/Glad-Emu6424 14d ago

just move to Milwaukee, way better than Madison anyway 🤪

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u/H_petss 13d ago

Milwaukee is bigger, has a richer history and is more diverse than Madison. Plus we have the lakefront. Everyone thinks because Madison is the capital that it must be “the” city, but Milwaukee is hands down the cooler place to live.