The Hotel is in a great location, the room was quite nice and overall it was very good value.
I may have been unlucky, for two reasons:
Firstly, my room smelled like sewage the entire time, which was very unpleasant. It was clean so I am guessing it was related to the pipes.
Secondly, the host Fabian chose to ignore every message and call made once my money had gone through. This would not have been such a big deal if we had not made arrangements around my arrival that meant that being ignored left me in Berlin late at night with nowhere to stay.
I arranged late check with Fabian, as my flight was arriving in the evening and the information available on air bnb stated that reception closed at 5pm.
Fabian confirmed that late check in was absolutely fine and we agreed I would contact when I landed to make the final arrangements.
I did this, earlier than planned as the flight landed early, but received no response - after several messages with no response I attempted to call several times with no answer. Worried that I would not be able to get in if I just turned up (based on my conversations with Fabian) I ended up waking a friend up and sleeping on their floor.
I have messaged Fabian several times since but still have not received any response. He has left me a review, suggesting that the issue was not to do with Fabian not being in a position to respond, but rather having chosen not to