[Hondaracer]

Had an interesting experience with my last Airbnb..currently traveling through Europe and have used Airbnb in Budapest, Vienna, and Prague, the Budapest and Prague places have been outstanding, great professional hosts, leave you with a tonne of info and help along the way with good contact.

The Vienna host Had fewer ratings than I usually go with but I risked it as it was the best location and looked like the nicest place.

Host contacts me prior to arrival says his associate will meet us at the place, I tell him the train schedule and say it will be around that time. I phone the woman when I am in an Uber heading that way and right off the bat she gives me a little attitude about being late, fine I don’t really care whatever.

We get there and she’s an older woman probably late 50’s early 60’s fairly typical Arian Austrian, she lets us in to a fairly bare apartment but in a nice secure building and our paticular apartment is fairly hard to find in the building.

She kinda has an attitude towards most things and she comes off fairly abrasive, I think part of it is she doesn’t understands how her tone comes off in English but her English is pretty good. We tell her we’re going to Prague next and she says something along the lines of why bother because Prague and Vienna were both Hapsburg empires and they are the same. Ok..

Then as I’m basically ushering her out she gets to the front door which has a huge heavy duty dead bolt and a mortis set door lock, she goes over how it all works and then says

“Yea so make sure you lock the door and do not open for anyone, you do not know anyone here so no one should knock, if they do knock it may be refugee, and when refugee open the door they spray you and come in”

Uhh..ok..

I’ve travelled far more dangers places than Vienna of all places but it was kind of unnerving for my wife. After a few days in Vienna I saw a total of zero “refugees” zero homeless people and zero resembling anything that looked like what I assume she meant as in African/middle eastern migrants..

Again she met up with us to take the keys and gave some attitude to me because I put the towels in the washing machine..

So upon leaving a review I left a 4/5 star review and decided against leaving the refugee comments in the public note and told the host directly in the private message I felt that probably wasn’t the best approach to tell people renting your place...

Later the next day the woman is power dialing me so I finally pick up thinking maybe I left somthing in the apartment..she tells me “Phillip is very angry with me because of a message you left him, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to scare you so badly I’m just calling bla bla bla”

I’m like basically bitch, I wasn’t scared at all I just said that’s not how to approach people..she kept rambling on and I just hung up..lol

Now it’s a running joke about getting sprayed wherever we go