If you want convenience in the liveliest neighborhood in Berlin, this is your place. At the same, time, if you want privacy and quiet in the liveliest neighborhood in Berlin, this is your place. You are steps from dozens of restaurants, Saturday market, and Sunday flea market. Transport abounds with trams, U-Bahn and S-Bahn within 10 minutes. Yet the apartment sits in the back portion of the building across a courtyard and up two flights of stairs. There is no noise from the street to disturb your beauty rest, and we were there during Euro Cup championship, when all the restaurants outside the building’s front door pull out large TVs for crowded, drinking diners on the sidewalk.
The apartment itself is roomy by Fredrichshain standards for two people. A large comfortable living room and main bedroom made time at home very enjoyable. A much smaller bedroom is available but would be used only for sleeping.
The kitchen was well equipped, including dishwasher and washing machine. The bathroom, which I don’t believe is pictured, was very adequate and clean. There is room to store toiletries, a great shower and tub, and plenty of hot water.
We also had an unprecedented heat wave in June when we were there. Cross - ventilated windows and fans kept us comfortable throughout the apartment when paired with the drawing of heavy curtains if the sun streamed in the windows.
Tina, the host, was thousands of miles away during our visit, but you would have thought she was next door. Her communications by email arranged everything with her German assistant, Gosia, to make our check-in and check-out convenient and painless. She also checked on us from time to time to make certain all was well…and of course, it was. We were there for 5 weeks. This is long enough to find something we didn’t like about staying here, but we never did.