Ursula’s apartment is completely INFESTED with FLEAS. Under no circumstances should you even CONSIDER staying here. Aso, Ursula is a deeply unpleasant person whose reaction to this whole parasite horror story was completely unapologetic. Again: THIS APARTMENT IS DANGEROUSLY INFESTED. DO NOT STAY HERE.
On the first morning, I awoke with a couple of bites on my legs. I was immensely busy and Vienna was almost entirely booked out so I had few options but to HOPE that it was an isolated case. But next day when I returned in the afternoon, four vicious bites immediately appeared on my arm - at which point I knew that I was in trouble. I contacted Ursula, who went into full, aggressive defensive mode, insisting that: ‘I am even quite Sure there are no flees in my Apartment unless the last guest? or you? brought them.’ (Later, she admitted on the telephone that she knew the insects were there but didn’t want to pay the €500 it would cost to eradicate them.)
At this point, the insects were in full attack mode and there were bites all over my body. Some of these had produced deep red weals that looked like bubonic plague. But by now, moving somewhere else was problematic. There was nothing at all in Vienna, unless I wanted to pay €250 a night or commute from Bratislava. Even hostels were booked out. In the end, I booked into separate hostels for each of the final nights of my stay. It was the only solution.
This has been by far my worst experience on AirBnB. It entirely ruined my trip to Vienna and made the job I was doing there unbearably difficult. Unless you want to experience the nightmare I have endured: DO NOT STAY HERE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.