Capitol City Hostel

This is the first review that I have wrote online about a stay at a hostel or hotel, but I feel like there is a lot of bad and incorrect information out there about this place. I do not someone to experience what I did.
My girlfriend and I booked to stay one night at this place so that we could tour the monuments. We did not realize that it was in a very bad part of town. Anything on the east side of DC is not somewhere you want to be walking around at night. I travel everyday around the country for work and have never experience such a terrible manager and place to stay.
We arrived and right away he was very hostile and aggressive towards us because my girlfriend forgot her passport (US Citizen). Apparently a drivers license is not good enough. We were both calm and told him to calm down and that is where his threats started. We decided it was not worth it to escalate him anymore, so we left and decided to stay at a hotel near the Mall.
Notes:
— This is not a safe or convenient place to stay in DC
— The Manager is not right in the head
— It is not a clean place to stay
— There is a reason the pictures of the place do not show the neighbor hood on all websites
— Many of the positive reviews on websites are fake reviews by the management

Bed bugs!!! Beware!!! I had nasty bites all over my body and had to go to the urgent care because the bites got infected.
Can’t believe that there is a place so infested. Also the place is in the middle of the ghetto and is a remodeled small townhouse.

Note: I have not been to this hostel. I am writing this review only because I’ve relied on Unilocal for hostel and hotel reviews in the past, and I’d hate to see someone blunder into something based on the only other review of this place. Check out other reviews of the hostel before staying here:

This place is great. It’s a little harder to get to than some of the hostels located along the DC metro lines, but it’s easily accessible by bus or taxi, or if you’re willing to walk about 15 blocks to the subway. It’s basically a little house converted into a hostel, and the place is usually pretty quiet. Clean towels, sheets, bathroom, in a quaint neighborhood across the street from a university for the deaf and blind. For only $ 20 a night!
If anyone tells you that this place is in «the ghetto,» it’s probably because they grew up in the suburbs and had conservative parents in the $ 150K+ income bracket. It’s actually an «ungentrified» neighborhood, or maybe even… «blue collar.» Fancy that. I walked through here late, late at night to the subway (we’re talking 3 am range) and the worst I saw was a cute cat running under a car. Scared me at first.