No deposits, no payment pages, no money in the thread, the entire financial life of a booking happens in one moment at the doorway. Here is why.
The economics of an evening with us can be written on a coaster. You read a price on the site. You book. Nothing happens financially, nothing at all, until a woman is standing in your doorway, at which point you settle the exact figure you read, by whichever of three methods you named in the thread, and money is never mentioned again. That is the entire system. Its simplicity is not laziness; it is the most carefully defended feature we have.
Cash is the classic and still the majority. Euros ideally, but this is a port city and we honour the fact: pounds, dollars, francs and the rest of the major currencies are taken at the day's rate, so the notes from the airport exchange you never got around to spending have a purpose after all. Card works when you say so in advance, she brings the reader, the descriptor on your statement is bland to the point of amnesia, and the whole thing takes the fifteen seconds it takes anywhere. Crypto serves the guests for whom neither notes nor statements appeal; say it when you book and the transfer is confirmed at the door alongside everything else.
We are asked occasionally why we take no deposits, it would protect us from the rare no-show, after all. The answer is that a deposit protects the house by taxing the guest's trust, and trust is the scarcer currency. A first-timer who has read horror stories elsewhere can verify our entire financial model in one sentence: if no one knocks, you have spent nothing. There is no payment link to judge, no card number resting in a stranger's thread, no advance sum to argue about against a cancelled flight. The risk sits with us, where it belongs, because we are the party claiming to be trustworthy.
The same logic bans surprises at the far end. The figure at the door is the figure from the site, the night rate is the day rate, the weekend is a week day, and travel inside the ring was always included. A guest counting out notes at 3 a.m. should be doing arithmetic he already did at midnight, and nothing else.
One practical line to end on: name your method when you book. It is the difference between a doorway that takes ten seconds and one that takes a phone call, and doorways, in our trade, are meant to be the smooth part.