ToadLily House International Hostel

First off, Cody is a genuine, good person. My motorcycle broke down on my first day on a trip to Central America. I got a sweet bunk bed for $ 25 a night, which is half price of anything else around. Includes shower, full kitchen, laundry, and full access 24:7. Everyone was cool, people in PA are pretty nice. He has a super rad two person sauana, made out of cedar. He stoked it up for me and it was AWESOME! I highly recommend this place to anyone traveling through. Cody is rad. If you don’t like it, you suck, and should rent a room at a shitty motel.

There are lots of bed bugs! Now I can’t sleep and really afraid of taking some to home. There are several bites on my neck, arms. The beds are made of wood and I can see much trace trail which bed bugs leave on bed frame. I have to change another place tomorrow.

Toadlily is an excellent hostel and I definitely recommend it to any traveler looking to have a comfortable night’s stay on a budget. I have been to many hostels in Europe and some in the US, and this hostel would definitely be in my top 5 places I’ve stayed. I had many conversations with other travelers that it felt so welcoming and homey at this hostel. The owner, Cody, is very friendly and helpful. Security was a bit lacking, though, as people from the community would come in and out asking for things like to charge a phone, or to use the toaster. Still, I never felt like I was unsafe while staying here.

Don’t you love when you book a hotel reservation and have the travel arrangement made, on a budget of course (the whole reason you’re preferring a hostel), only for the owner to let you know at eight o’clock at night!!! (when you’ve passed out from exhaustion of the rest of the day) by text message!!! with absolutely no apology expressed!!! that he gave your room to someone else– but hey no worries why not change this bill from a 60 $ one to a 550 $ one and get one of the bigger rooms. Yeah no worries waking up at 4:30 in the morning and finding that some stoner is trying to swindle you, and now you have just a few hours to look for what’s left in motels with vacancies and try to figure out reservations. In short, I had the same experience as Lauren, if I were you I would steer clear of this wreck.

This homey hostel was a delight both times we stayed! The owner is incredibly welcoming, and even squeezed us in last minute when the rain changed our hiking itinerary. Plus, we loved the huge game of charades that went down with the guests one evening!

This was our favorite hostel while traveling in northwest. The owner was so friendly and helpful. A really cool place and its clean! And its not far from Olympic national park.

The proprietors could not be nicer, the accommodations are clean (the person who wrote that this place was of «dubious cleanliness» either stayed at a different place than I did, or is on some strong stuff!), charming, and inexpensive (as in, one third as much as a hotel). Some people need to put their big kid pants on and realize you’re not going to get the feckin’ Waldorf Astoria for 25 bucks.

This was my first time in a hostel & it couldn’t have been a better stay. Showed up late on a Friday night & they had a private room which had once been a trailer that was turned into a room available. It wasn’t connected to the house so to get to the bathroom we had to walk outside which was fine. The Ravens Rest (our room) was well kept & a cute little thing. A lady made coffee for people in the morning & it seemed like it would be a good place to meet people from all over! I suggest people stay at ToadLily & to enjoy it like I did with my friend!

Trip journal!
Friday afternoon:
Among things to keep in mind as an Oregonian when traveling in Washington:
1. Pump your own gas, you elitist.
2. Sales tax is a thing.
3. Pot’s legal.
I just «checked in» to the hostel in Port Angeles. This process involved walking into an empty hostel, waiting around for 45 minutes among a gathering crowd of people with a reservation for tonight, and finally being greeted by a very stoned owner who sauntered in, a bit surprised to see us. «Whoa, you’ve got a reservation?» he said. «What’s THAT about?»
Of course anything else under $ 100 a night is fully booked. Sheets of dubious cleanliness it will be.
Friday evening:
On the plus side, the bathrooms are free of antibacterial soap! On the minus side, there’s no soap in the bathrooms.
Saturday night:
I arrived back at Toad Lily House hostel this evening, after a long and lovely day of being touristy in Victoria, to find a large and lovely German family occupying my room. Apparently the owner had double booked us. The mother of the family, clearly also annoyed by this management style, showed me the bunk bed in the dorm downstairs where my things had been moved. I pricelined a room in Bremerton and called the owner (of course he wasn’t around to speak to in person) on my way out to let him know my check for Friday night would be in the mail. I am now at the Baymont Inn, which is a big ugly chain hotel, but where there is (a) soap, and (b) no ants.
I didn’t mention the ants before, did I?

I will always remember my time at the ToadLily House fondly. The communal style is perfect for meeting and getting to know the many wonderful people who come through here. The owners are genuinely kind, gracious people who will make sure you’re comfortable and taken care of.
I would stay here over a hotel any day.

Here it is, folks, the only game in town. Short of spending $ 80 or camping out in someone’s back yard, here’s your only other option. And boy does it have last resort written in big block letters across it. None of the rooms are «rooms» per se, they have doors, sure, they have beds in them, no doubt, but none of them have four walls. That is, in order to get to the bathroom, outside, laundry machine, you will have people walking through your «room». I’ve stayed in shitty hostels. But for the most part, they all had walls.
And do you like to have internet in your hostel? Great, sit by the window and hope to catch a stray bit of bandwidth from the owners’ house.
Truth is, the place is pretty comfortable and it’s a lot cheaper than staying a hotel. It just seems to suffer from a bad case of only-​game-​in-​town.

I called in advance and received verbal confirmation of a reservation for a dorm bed. When I arrived, the hosts were not there. I didn’t get «checked-​in» for about 30 minutes after I arrived, when the hosts returned home. I ended up with a cot because more people showed up than expected, and all the beds were full. I was fine with that. The hosts were very welcoming and warm people, with bright positive energy.
My night experience at the hostel left much to be desired. Quiet hours were not respected by hostel guests, and there wasn’t an attendant to monitor the hostel. At some point in the night, guests were yelling (not aggressively, just drunk), and I had to ask them to quiet down (which they did, for the most part). Early the next morning, I was woken up by the sound of water. A guest was peeing on the floor of the dorm.
The rest of my trip was spent camping, and I had much better rests during those nights than this night. Despite the personalities of the owners, I don’t think I’ll stay here again.
Other things of note:
The doors are not locked.
Impossible to wash hands in one bathroom because there’s no water in the faucet.
Interesting smell in the shower room.
I did walk into one of the private rooms with two guests while waiting for the owners. It was very nice. You can also stay in a school bus in the backyard.

ToadLily is a wonderful place to stay on the road. It’s a hostel flair with very comfortable and airy positive environment. Different roomy and comfortable choices for rooms and bunks. Shared kitchen and bathrooms, of course, are very clean and spacious.
Stocked with helpful maps, guidebooks and info about local and Olympic outdoor features and trails.
Cody and Allie are very nice, warm and helpful people. Once you come here, you will return.

This place was adorable! Very clean and cozy. Cody and Alethia were so nice and accommodating.
My only complaints were that the fridge was too small and there is only one shower.