This place is calm, quiet, safe and in a great location. It is nicely decorated and there are a few great amenities on the premises, such as the large pool. If anything, the flat itself could have been a little cleaner, but this is a minor issue.

However, we’ve had a bit of a trouble during our stay. We left a bike in the courtyard for two hours, and Brian asked us rather unpolitely to remove it, as it wouldn’t comply with the house rules – which hadn’t been issued to us in the first place. The janitor only slit them under our door later in the night (they didn’t say anything about bicycles, by the way). It must be noted though that Brian always communicated promptly, and I have the feeling that we resolved this case to everyone’s satisfaction.

I am just mentioning this here because I assume that there is a general problem with Airbnb guests in this building. The janitor always stared at us very uncourteously after the bike incident happened, and at one time he even wiped the faintest residue of my fingerprints off a glass door in the hallway literally seconds after I passed the door, which I didn’t exactly find an inviting gesture. Being German myself, I felt the janitor fulfilled all the worst stereotypes of a typical German janitor – and then some.
To mee it seems the regular/long-term residents in the building expect an extremely high level of orderliness, according to their exacting standards, which cannot always be met immediately by short-term guests, especially if they aren’t being introduced to the house rules upon arrival.

The good side of all this is that the courtyard / pool area is very neat and tidy indeed, but it comes at the price of a rather compulsive atmosphere.

I wouldn’t even go so far and not recommend this place, but nonetheless this is something I felt like sharing.