I stayed at this place twice. While the first stay was comfortable, the second was a complete fiasco.
It all went awry the day I asked my host if she could permit an old friend to stay with me for a day. The room, after all, had space for two people. The host agreed, but asked for a cash payment of EUR 30. EUR 30 was higher than the daily rate I was paying for the room, but I agreed nonetheless.
On the morning that my friend arrived, I was leaving the house for work when the host abruptly got out of her room and rudely asked me what time my friend had arrived. Taken aback at first, I informed her that he had reached by bus at around 6 AM. I didn’t think it would make a difference to her whether my friend reached at 12 PM or a few hours earlier especially since I had lived at the apartment for 2 weeks. She stayed silent as I said this and I left for work soon after.
Later that afternoon however, she rang my phone while I was at work and shouted at me, accusing my friend of having already stayed at the apartment for 3 days! When I asked her how she had concluded this, she said she heard the shower at 2 AM the previous night. I cooly explained that it was I who had arrived late from work the previous night and used the shower at 2 AM. She refused to listen to me and demanded that I place 4 days worth of cash on the kitchen table that very evening.
I found her demand to be illogical, unreasonable and to be honest, suspicious. Meanwhile, I ran into her boyfriend that evening and he wasn’t very polite with me either.
My friend left the house the next day (which was the second day after his arrival - he had stayed with me for 1 night). After he left, the host knocked on my door and asked me for 120 EUR. I said that I would pay only the EUR 30 that I was obliged to pay her. Now that I had lost my trust in her, I also said I wouldn’t deal with cash, and would transfer the money online after she mentioned our transaction on the Airbnb in-app chat - I wanted proof of this exchange.
The host refused and became increasingly more rude and irrational. At one point, she accused me of smoking in her house. This was completely baseless, since I have never been a smoker in my life in the first place!
After several heated conversations that went nowhere, I had enough. I informed the host that I would be leaving the house the next morning to stay at a hostel instead. I ended up leaving at 9 AM two days before my planned check-out date. I also promised her that I would transfer the EUR 30 to her immediately after she communicated clearly over the app. She hasn’t done this and hence I haven’t paid her yet. We are currently at a stalemate.
In my rush to leave, I forgot my charging plug at the house. It has been 5 days since I messaged her about going back to collect it, but she hasn’t responded to me.
Overall, Frau’s unit is clean, cosy and close to the S&U Bahn stations. I would still recommend it. However, if you have other choices available, do go ahead with them and stay clear of all the host-related problems that I had to face!