Call Summary - What We Discuss With Guests

✨ What to Expect

Important

Welcome to our unique shared living space! Our home offers a challenging but rewarding experience for short-term guests.

This is not a traditional hostel or hotel experience. It's a hard/difficult but fun experience. Don't forget that it's also going to be hard! Adjust your expectations.

Living with many people in a shared space is very intense
You'll need to do the basic requirements of living together with others
It's mainly your decision if you can survive such a demanding environment

We're being honest about this - it's completely fine if this isn't for everyone! We want you to have the right expectations.

🏠 Length of Stay

For 1-3 Night Stays

Separate for people who are coming for 1-3 nights

If you confirm with us, it is possible to stay for 2-3 days, unless you are really rude, disrespectful, or discriminatory
We would love you to stay longer, and most of the time this is definitely possible (95% chance 😉)

This way of living together with so many people is very intense, and it's mainly your decision if you can survive such a demanding environment for longer than a few days.

Most people adapt well to our community living style and enjoy staying longer!

⏰ House Rhythms - May Be Hard For You

Daily Schedule

These are examples of things that might be hard for you, especially if staying longer:

We all shower before 9 pm (Bring your own towel 🚿)
We don't arrive after 9 pm (and definitely don't ring the bell after 9)
We're in bed at 10 pm 😴🛌🏻

We wake up together between 6-8 am
We do basic living together tasks (clean, tidy, air out the room, water the plants) for 1-2 hours
Don't go and have breakfast when everyone is doing these tasks

These aren't optional "contributions" - they're the basic requirements of living together in our space.

📱 Before You Arrive

Required Steps

Please complete these steps before your arrival:

Send the link https://stayinginbern.ch/chat-link
Say hi in the group and when you're coming
Add your name to the sleeping plan
Watch the 1-minute video on how to get into the house - very important to watch and follow!

We have a group for the people who are in the house: https://tiny.cc/thehousepeople

Please join this group a few days before you arrive
When you leave, leave this group and stay in the main group 😍

🌿 Difficult But Important

Honest Talk

This is difficult to hear but we have to say it to everyone because some people need to hear this - don't take it personally:

Don't ask too much.

In a hostel there is usually a receptionist that gets paid to answer questions and even they don't have all the time in the world. We don't have that here.

Before asking for an exception, try to offer your help with something so we feel better about making an exception for you 😍
Maybe you can ask us about easy tasks that you can do before you arrive 😎
Before you don't ask at all, it's better that you do ask, but if you can find the information somewhere else before you ask, that'll be great!