Most girls trips default to Nashville or Scottsdale. Both are fine. Both are also crowded, overpriced, and increasingly identical to each other.
Columbus is different, and not in a “settling” way. In a genuinely-surprised-by-how-good-this-was way that your group will talk about on the drive home.
Here is why it keeps showing up on people’s radars.
The Short North Is Built for This
The Short North Arts District is the neighborhood that makes Columbus worth the trip. High Street is a mile-long stretch of restaurants, cocktail bars, rooftop patios, wine bars, boutiques, and coffee shops dense enough that you never need a rideshare to find the next thing. Everything is walkable. The energy on a Friday and Saturday night is exactly what a girls weekend should feel like.
Brunch on Saturday morning is a whole culture here. Plan for a wait at the good spots or go before 10am. Either way it is worth it.
Staying Together Makes It Better
Hotels split your group across rooms and charge you separately for the privilege. A Jungle House property in the Short North keeps everyone in one space, with a full kitchen, a living room to get ready in together, and enough room that nobody feels like they are living out of a suitcase for three days.
Our properties also happen to be full of rare tropical plants that make the getting-ready photos and the “where are you staying?” Instagram stories look completely different from every other girls trip in your feed. That part is never the reason someone books, but it is always something they mention afterward.
What to Actually Do
Beyond the bar crawl and brunch situation, Columbus has real range for a girls weekend. Spa days, drag brunch, axe throwing, paint and sip, boutique shopping on High Street, the Franklin Park Conservatory for a beautiful Saturday afternoon that requires zero planning. You can build a packed schedule or let the neighborhood pull you around organically. Both approaches work here.
Book Direct and Save
Booking at junglehouse.org instead of Airbnb saves your group at least 10% on the same property. Free parking is included, checkout is at noon instead of 10am, and our team is reachable around the clock if anything comes up during the trip.
22,500 guests. 5,800+ five-star reviews. The plants will be there when you arrive.
