{"id":47815,"date":"2016-10-31T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=47815"},"modified":"2016-10-31T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:39:19","slug":"47815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=47815","title":{"rendered":"German guesthouse turns away Israelis: &#8216;Our apartments are not for them&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HttpHandlers\/ShowImage.ashx?id=245904&amp;w=468&amp;h=61\" alt=\"The Jerusalem Post - Israel News\" width=\"45%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/German-guesthouse-turns-away-Israelis-Our-apartments-are-not-for-them-471238\" target=\"_blank\">German guesthouse turns away Israelis: &#8216;Our apartments are not for them&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>JPOST.COM STAFF<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Group of Israeli travelers told to cancel reservation at lodging in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-main-image aligncenter\" title=\"Pastoral view of the Black Forest in Germany [File] Photo By: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS\/ADRIAN THOMALE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HttpHandlers\/ShowImage.ashx?id=359021&amp;h=530&amp;w=758\" alt=\"Black Forest Germany\" width=\"100%\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Pastoral view of the Black Forest in Germany [File] Photo By: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS\/ADRIAN THOMALE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A group of Israeli tourists looking for board while planning a trip to Germany next summer were shocked after a guesthouse in the southwestern region of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg last week urged them to cancel their reservation due to their nationality.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> While planning a vacation for next August, the four Israeli families reserved lodging at the Mattenhof guesthouse in the Black Forest town of Zell am Harmersbach, explained one of the party&#8217;s members, Igor Tsehansky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">owever, shortly after confirming the reservation, the administrators of the guesthouse contacted the Israelis with a slew of messages and notified them that they should cancel the booking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tsehansky said that he and his friends received the German-language notice less than week after making the arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t Want have Guests from Israel, because our apartments are Not for them [sic]. Please cancel the Booking,&#8221; read a Google translated message that Tsehansky posted to Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/14572988_10211483499830135_9219312785000898142_n.jpg?oh=b7b48e3a86074a94ee062738d7c9867f&amp;oe=58A3D038\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In light of the matter, the disgruntled Israeli traveler contacted the Booking.com platform that had facilitated the reservation to complain and request alternative accommodations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;It took us weeks to find the hotel and we even ordered it a year in advance,&#8221; he told Jpost.com on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Despite various attempts by the online accommodation booking website to make other accommodations or financial compensation for the Israeli group, the future tourists remained disconcerted by the ordeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Nothing has been resolved,&#8221; he said, adding that he plans to file a complaint against the booking company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to Tsehansky, Booking.com said it had lowered the guesthouse&#8217;s review score in light of the incident, although Jpost.com could not confirm the action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While Tsehansky noted that he had successfully booked a separate hotel for another leg of the Germany trip, the issue with the Black Forest lodging represented a &#8220;specific incident.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As of Sunday evening, Booking.com had not responded to a request for comment by Jpost.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German guesthouse turns away Israelis: &#8216;Our apartments are not for them&#8217; JPOST.COM STAFF Group of Israeli travelers told to cancel reservation at lodging in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. 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