The Wayfaring Buckeye Hostel

I have stayed in hostels all across the world, but I have never come across a place this unprofessional, unkempt, and neglected. The hostel has very poor quality service and is a complete ripoff. I paid $90 for a private room without a private bathroom. The room was very small and dirty. The windows and blinds were dusty. The bathrooms do not even have paper napkin towels. I didn’t eat breakfast for all four days of my stay because it was just bad-quality, unhealthy food that you had to “self-serve” every morning right from the fridge. The porch is dirty and dusty. During my four-day stay, I never saw any hostel staff or anyone at the reception desk. The guests have to keep waiting outside and trying the phone numbers in the hope that someone will come and open the front door for them. I have never felt so disappointed with any hostel like that! Stay away from the private rooms at least.

Beware! This place looks nothing like the photos and the listing on every site where it is advertised is false advertising and misleading. The hot tub in the photos looks very nice and well maintained, however in reality it has maybe a foot of water and is dirty, with the cover broken in half. There is also concerning electric wires on the back of the hostel that are exposed and surely not up to code. I would not recommend staying here. We never actually received the check in email to even enter the hostel at all and there was no one available to get us checked in. The owner claims it was sent, but it was not in my junk email and I looked multiple times. In the interest of time to make it to a concert that evening for which we were in town, we had to book another place at our expense. The property owner claimed the hot tub is "currently down while we wait for a part that's on back order" however as a hot tub owner myself, this hot tub has clearly been out of commission for quite some time and is not being maintained well. It's unfortunate that we couldn't get refunded what we paid to book the hostel, and that people would rather scam a family out of $100 than do the right thing. See the attached photos for the exposed electrical wiring, hot tub that does not match the listing, and the front of the hostel that is nowhere near as well maintained as it appears in the listing photos.

very pleasant and quiet area. I enjoyed my stay. the location is central. the management is very friendly and helpful. I can definitely recommend it.