Domizil Familiär

Pros +

• The accomodation is in a calm part of the city, but close to the city centre, various grocery stores around. A quite richly equipeted kitchen, including dishwasher, oven, induction, regrigirator and enough knives, forks, spoons. Nice owners, helpful at the arrival and departure. Appartament is spacious enough for two people. Comfortable couch and bed (though be aware of the fact, that it is two matraces on one bed). A big and easily movable table
• -Quiet area -Big apartment -Kitchen with a lot of cutlery

Cons -

• The internet is a mistery. It worked fine for streaming, however for browsing it showed resistance, but all-in-all enough. The initial tidiness of the appartament was lower than average, indeed a lot of spider webs.
• The area, albeit quiet, is industrial and not really exciting. The apartment itself looks empty and unhomely, stains and dust being commonplace (photos attached). Walls are thin and you hear your neighbours really well. The bed, however, was our final terrible revelation. Itself questionably constructed, it had dusty covers and yellow spots on the bed sheets. When I lifted the covers, I saw a bug crawl in between the mattresses. When my partner lifted the mattress and looked under the bed, he saw a lot of spiders in between the wooden planks, including one spider crawling on the mattress itself, as well as a big cockroach-looking bug. I could not sleep there due to my phobia, and even my partner said the condition was out of his league. We had to find another hotel to spend our nights at. The accommodation certainly requires a trigger warning for arachnophobes: there are probably a dozen big spiders per apartment. Upon check-out, the response to my comment about the spiders (including the one on the matress) was: "It's a country house, what can you do", which told me everything I needed to know about the attitude of the owner. My partner and I have stayed at quite a few holiday houses, some located in much deeper countryside than the accommodation in question, in all seasons of the year. This is the first time we see a living space in such a state of neglect. Never did we have to deal with dozens of spiders and bugs on and under the bed, as well as such blatant dust and stains on the surfaces. A well-kept apartment should not look like that, especially if people are paying good money to stay there. I suspect the clean-up before and after the arrival of guests is at best minimal, if not arbitrary. "A country house" is not an excuse to barely look after the accommodation and ignore the basics of cleanliness and comfort.