You have the following options:

		We recommend accommodation in our own residence with 24 rooms (all en suite) next door. NEW: We have 14 new rooms (4 double rooms) at the school since May 2004: 1 single room apartment 3 2-room apartments with one bathroom 1 3-room apartment with 2 bathrooms 1 4-room apartment with 2 bathrooms Each unit has its own kitchen. Please let us know your favourite type of room, we’ll try to meet your wish. Please tell us also, if you absolutely want your private bathroom.
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		with a family/homestay (with use of kitchen, with breakfast, with half board)
		in a student hall of residence (always with cooking facilities)
		shared flat (some student residences are also organised like this, too)
		in sommer only: Guest House of DB

Available accommodation varies according to the time of year and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

Homestay accommodation is not like being in a hotel; you have to adapt to a different way of life and family routine.

Both, student residences and families are located in residential areas and usually not farther away from the school in the city centre than 20 minutes by bus or bike. Some rooms (few!), homestay and residences, are available in the city centre, too. Usually, we cannot guarantee you a place in the city centre or at walking distance.

If you book a room in our residence or in a student residence: We’ll be waiting for you on Sunday evening between 5 and 7 p.m. at the school.

If you want us to book homestay for you: We send you your homestay address and phone number or e-mail before the beginning of the course. You are suggested to arrive on Sunday evening and to contact your host about your exact arrival time.

Please use our address for your mail
“your name”,
c/o HORIZONTE
Rote-Hahnen-Gasse 12
D - 93047 Regensburg
and give our phone number/e-mail address for emergency calls/messages.

You need not bring any sheets or bed linen along, please bring your towels.

Let us know if you want us to book a hotel room for you.
(see : www.regensburg.de).

Which accommodation?
We are often asked: Which accommodation do you recommend? Our standard answer is: It's hard to say as we do not know you, what kind of person you are, etc. But, generally speaking, in our experience during the past 14 years our students liked the student residences most. The general opinion is that homestay offers the best possibilities if you want to learn and practice German in authentic surroundings. This is certainly true for 12, 14 or 16 year old but not necessarily for young adults between 18 and 30. They want to - and should - be with people their age.

We are happy to be able to offer rooms in the student residences (student halls of residence) of Regensburg University where German and foreign students live together. There are very few schools like ours which can offer their foreign students this excellent opportunity. What do these residences look like? They are appartment buildings (reserved for university students) with single rooms (doubles sometimes available on request ). Some of them have their own bathroom. The others are organised like shared flats where 3 - 5 students share 2 bathrooms (one for men, one for women). There are always fully equipped kitchens at the student's disposal. There is also a laundry in every residence and, don't forget, the many social events going on like pingpong, jogging, volley ball, soccer and parties.

Also, they are quite close to the University Restaurant (for midday and evening meals) which is also open to our students. There they find a great variety of excellent food (vegetarian, Bavarian, ...) at very low prices: a full meal incl. a beverage is about 2,50 EUR and thus less expensive than half board with a family.

In such a setting it is very easy for foreigners to establish contacts with other people their age. These are the reasons why we recommend student residence accommodation.

Family accommodation/homestay (without meals, with breakfast or with half board) is the other type of accommodation we offer. The families serve the local Bavarian food they eat and the foreigners usually enjoy this. So, the half board places are the earliest to be booked up. Then there is still the possibility to book homestay (without meals but with breakfast) and occasionally to make individual arrangements on the spot with the family. Thus, you can come and go when you want to, you are not bound to a certain meal time and you are free to join any leisure time activity we organise or which arises spontaneously amongst the students.
Our families offer homestay mainly because they like to have people from other countries in their home, not to profit from them. And they enjoy having meals together with them, yet they don't want to be obliged to offer a full meal every day.
Our typical family pattern: Parents between 30 and 40 with small children or parents between 50 and 70 without children. Young people in Germany usually leave their parents' home and have their own flat when they are 18 or when they go to university.