DO NOT STAY HERE! NOT AS ADVERTISED!
Problem #1 - There is no check-in information anywhere. Most hosts have a binder of info, this place had nothing. No paper, email, text message, nothing. The automated system we used to punch in a code and get our keys has no information. We only got a key to an empty room.  We find our apartment in what feels like an empty hotel, and immediately need wifi. I have work to do, and we need to plan out the next leg of our trip, buy tickets to events, etc.   Some background: I’ve been travelling through Europe with my girlfriend, working remotely from Airbnbs, and enjoying beaches and city life when I’m off the clock. As we’re driving to Munich during the day, I have work that I need to get done once we arrive and check in.  Problem #2: There’s no wifi. We can’t use the internet. We can see that WiFi networks exist, but we don’t know the password. (See Problem #1)  We don’t have travel SIM cards with enough data to do all that, so we use our phones to ask the host about the wifi.  We don’t get a response within the first hour, so I head across the street to steal wifi from the hotel for the most important stuff I need to get done.   After waiting a few hours - unable to work, research activities in the city, or anything really - we decide to go to bed and get up early. Hopefully, our host will have sent us instructions by then.  Problem #3 - It’s hot as fuck. Tiny apartment, Munich in the summer. We’ve got the window fully open, and it’s still super hot. I remember that the airbnb has an air conditioning unit, so I get up to turn it on. It’s disabled. There’s a little “closed” icon on the screen.   There’s no documentation (remember Problem #1?) that shows how to unlock or enable the system, so while the unit technically does have “an air conditioner in it” … there was no air conditioning.  Problem #4 - This bed is terrible. It’s possibly the hardest bed I’ve ever slept on. It feels like a piece of plywood with a sheet thrown over top of it. I would have rather slept on a carpeted floor with a few Lego bricks.  So it’s hot as fuck, there’s no air conditioning, the window is wide open to the traffic of the busy street, and I’m trying to sleep on this plywood bed.   *** Day 2 -   After 13 hours our host’s brother (?) sends us the wifi code.
(Problem #5, incredibly slow responses from hosts)  We requested information about the AC unit from the host. We never got it and had to endure another night in hell.  Problem #6 -We also realize that we’re in a different unit than the one listed here. See that couch? There’s no couch in here - the unit is too small for a couch to have ever been there. It’s a completely different apartment they’ve put us in.  Problem #7 - That TV? Sure, it’s a Smart TV - but pretty hard to watch anything when there’s nothing plugged in and no internet connection. (Remember Problem #1 and 2?)   ***  Day 3   Checkout is at 11am. 9:45, there’s a banging on the door. It’s the hotel staff (or whatever they were - they’re pushing a cart of cleaning supplies?) telling me to check out. I tell them checkout is at 11 and show them on the AirBNB app. 15 minutes later, they’re there again. And again at 10:30. Each time I show them the app, and that our checkout is at 11. We leave at 10:40 and are thankful to have left the worst airbnb I’ve ever stayed at.