Beware when making a reservation at this hotel. We booked a double room for 3 nights by email. On arrival, we discovered that the room itself was overpriced for its outdated condition & stank of stale smoke. As there wasn't much to do in Lubeck we decided to stay with a friend in Hamburg for the final night. We notified the hotelier the night before we intended to check out. He insisted that we must pay for the full 3 nights despite not requesting any deposit, credit card or statement to this effect when booking/checking in. On offering to pay for half of the final day (despite leaving first thing in the morning after the 2nd night), he insisted that we pay in full or he would call the police. We listened to continuously changing stories about how this was the law in Germany. When the police arrived he backed down & accepted part payment, but tried to make us sign a form in German that we would pay the remaining balance at a later date. A hotel that we stayed at later on during our stay in Germany was most obliging and proved that the Lubeck hotelier was simply being unreasonable!