Only four words: “do not go there”. It’s bad, it’s worse, it’s terrible! Actually the terriblest hotel I’ve been in.

The bathroom had no curtain … so people on the street were perfectly able to watch us on the toilet *and* in the shower.

The toilet reminded me of 70’s GDR design … I thought we’re over this …

Yeah, no shower curtain … but moldy walls :-/.

Other things:

– it’s expensive (165 EUR, I guess we get 10 EUR rebate)

– the rooms are extra tiny

– there isn’t even real soap or something …

– there is a scaffolding in front of the window

– of course, construction noises (drilling, hammering) starting 8am

– we have only one key-card (oh, and it began to stop working every evening … and the clerk was making fun of us *grrrr*)
– the key card is needed to have electricity in the room
– there are no spare outlets … wanna connect a laptop – disconnect a lamp, wanna connect two laptops – sit in the dark

– the automatic door is blocked with a piece of wood in the early morning (so you can’t get in even if you have a card)

– the breakfast is ok … but expensive (10 EUR)

– the shower (or what looks like a shower) is amazingly bad!!!! There is no water pressure at all, it feels like a very light rain :-(.

For all that don’t know it yet – I’ll be in Germany (Chemnitz) between the 11th and 24th of October! I have some things to do (I’ll of course bring work :)), but the evenings should be free to party! So let me know if something will be on during this time!

I booked my flight to the states through Orbitz.com because is was cheap at this point. But yes, cheap … and nothing more. I tried to change the flight back to Germany yesterday. It took me 45 minutes on the phone, talking to many different people and half of them couldn’t even speak a proper English. It was amazingly bad. Anyway, it seemed fine at the end and the fees were 100 EUR to change the flight and $30 service fees for orbitz (I am wondering which service!!!). They told me that I shall call back when it does not change in the online system in 24 hours.

It did not change … of course not. I called them back, again, people who could not communicate properly (I suspect an Indian call center). The only thing they could do was to undo yesterday’s transaction and tell me to call United Airways (after another 45 minutes on the phone!!!!).

So I called United, expecting that I will just loose my ticket. And they have been surprisingly competent. It was awesome! They changed everything in 10 minutes, sent me confirmation emails and charged only 100 EUR. I’m deeply impressed by their service (actually this should be normality, but I was used to Orbitz).

I’m not going to use their “service” again!