Berolina Haus

“Inappropriate behaviour by one employee ”

We stayed here for two nights in two different rooms. The lady at the reception was pleasant and helpful. The hostel was a 20min walk from train station. Our first room was nice and clean but a bit difficult because we needed a key to lock the door both inside and outside and the toilet, which als… more

We stayed here for two nights in two different rooms. The lady at the reception was pleasant and helpful. The hostel was a 20min walk from train station. Our first room was nice and clean but a bit difficult because we needed a key to lock the door both inside and outside and the toilet, which also needed the same key to lock and unlock was on the corridor shared by another room. Our other room had the bathroom inside it and it was just lovely, nothing bad to say. We reduced a few stars because of the other receptionists behaviour (male). After our first morning one of us had a brief normal and minimal exchange with the male receptionist but in the evening when we got back, the reception was closed but he was there and seemingly drunk and excited to see our friend. This was funny for that moment. Later in our room, about 11.30 pm he came knocking at our door and called out it was reception and as I opened the door (in a towel mind you) he pushed two sparkling wine bottles in my hands and a small box with five wine glasses (we were a company of four). We wondered what it was all about and he said it was from the hotel. We did not order anything and neither does the hostel service include this. We did laugh about this for a while even though it was borderline inappropriate until 30mins later (at midnight!!! We were going to sleep as you could assume from me being in a towel) he knocked again, again claimed reception (reminder that he was not working) and pushed in my hands a warm plate of food and insisted we took it. We tried to deny it and close the door but he pushed the plate in and did not stop until I took the plate reluctantly. Then he turned around and gave us two more bottles of sparkling wine. I told him not to knock on our door again and not bother us. We closed and locked the door and turned off the lights and slept anxiously since he had definitely crossed the line and made us very uncomfortable with his (drunken?) Behaviour. This really stained our otherwise good stay in dusseldorf /hostel.

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