The extended stay hotel exists for a specific reason: most vacation rentals don’t want you for more than a week. The assumption is that longer stays mean more wear, more complication, and a guest who treats the property like they own it in ways that aren’t entirely complimentary.
We’ve never subscribed to that logic at Jungle House. Some of our favorite guests have been the ones who stayed a month.
If you’re coming to Columbus for a travel nursing contract, a corporate relocation, a remote work stint, or just an extended visit that doesn’t fit neatly into a weekend booking, here’s what you need to know.
Why Extended Stay Hotels Fall Short
The math on an extended stay hotel in Columbus is the first problem. A standard extended stay property runs $100 to $140 per night. Multiply that by 28 nights and you’re at $2,800 to $3,920 for a room that has a microwave and a mini-fridge and roughly 350 square feet to exist in for a month.
The second problem is livability. Staying somewhere for a week, you can tolerate a lot. Staying somewhere for a month, the space needs to actually work like a home — full kitchen, real furniture, a bedroom that doesn’t feel like a holding room, laundry access, enough closet space to unpack rather than live out of a suitcase.
The third problem is location. Most extended stay hotels in Columbus sit off highway exits in areas that require a car for every errand. If your assignment or work puts you near Downtown Columbus or Ohio State’s medical campus, driving 15 minutes to get groceries every day adds up in a way that’s more exhausting than it sounds.
What Extended Stay at Jungle House Actually Looks Like
Our properties are full apartments and homes in the Short North Arts District — 5 minutes from Downtown Columbus and about 10 minutes from Ohio State’s medical campus, which is relevant for the number of traveling nurses and medical professionals we host.
Full kitchens. Actual bedrooms. Washer and dryer in-unit at most properties. Real closets. Living rooms with furniture that’s meant to be used. And yes, rare plants throughout every property, because a space that feels alive is a meaningful thing when you’re going to be in it for 30 days.
We price extended stays at a discount from our nightly rate — the longer the stay, the better the rate. Monthly bookings come out significantly cheaper than the per-night math suggests when you’re comparing to an extended stay hotel. Reach out to us directly at stay@junglehouse.org with your dates and weโll send you whatโs available and what the monthly rate looks like. Extended stays booked direct always get the best pricing.
Columbus for Traveling Nurses: Why the Short North Makes Sense
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital is about 10 minutes from our properties. OSU Wexner Medical Center — one of the largest hospital systems in the state — is about the same distance. Mount Carmel and Nationwide Children’s Hospital are both within a reasonable commute from the Short North.
If you’re on a 13-week contract in Columbus and you’ve been living in hotel-branded extended stay properties on off-ramps, staying in the Short North is a genuinely different experience. You walk to coffee. You have a neighborhood. The evenings aren’t just time in a box between shifts.
We’ve hosted travel nurses from all of the major Columbus hospital systems and the feedback is consistent: having a real space in a walkable neighborhood is the difference between a contract that feels like a sentence and one that actually feels like living somewhere new for a while.
Columbus for Remote Workers and Corporate Relocators
Columbus has been one of the fastest-growing mid-size cities in the country for the better part of a decade. Intel’s chip manufacturing investment alone brought a significant wave of corporate relocation and project-based assignment travel to central Ohio. If you’re working in Columbus on a corporate assignment, a consulting engagement, or testing a potential relocation, a furnished apartment in the Short North is a better way to evaluate the city than a hotel room tells you.
The Short North is walkable, dense, and full of coffee shops and coworking spaces with reliable Wifi. Industrious Sutton, a professional coworking space near our properties, offers a day pass that we can arrange for direct booking guests who need a proper workspace environment. High Street has enough coffee shops with laptop-friendly setups to vary your remote work routine for weeks without repeating.
Parking is free with direct bookings, which removes the daily structure parking cost that quietly inflates the budget on longer corporate stays.
How to Book an Extended Stay
For stays of 28 days or more, the best path is a direct conversation rather than a standard online booking. Reach out at stay@junglehouse.org with your dates, how many people, and any specific needs (specific bedroom count, in-unit laundry required, workspace setup, etc.) and weโll tell you exactly whatโs available and price it out honestly.
For stays under 28 days, you can book directly at book.junglehouse.org โ direct booking prices are at least 10% lower than Airbnb with free parking and late checkout included.
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Book direct or reach out for extended stay pricing → stay@junglehouse.org
