BE WARNED!!!!!!! And BEWARE!!!
There are extremely strict and strange noise restrictions after 9pm. On the first night, we took a shower around 10-11pm, and were met the next evening with a “warning message” in which the host said we would be EVICTED without any refund if we had a noise complaint. It was extremely anxiety inducing, as we obviously had no other place to stay in a foreign country with a tight budget. When I asked for clarification about the noise (if it was our voices or the shower) they never replied. This place would be fine if you go to bed at 8pm, but that’s not exactly what people come to Berlin for. The extreme noise restrictions were not advertised on the listing when we booked, we absolutely would have booked a different place if we knew this airbnb would be so tense. We were a group of 4 friends on a graduation holiday, obviously wanting to enjoy each other’s company, and we felt unable to do that in the place we had spent good money to stay in.
Getting in was also difficult, there were 2 sets of keys and we had to meet up with the hosts to get them. If you can find somewhere with a keypad I would recommend that instead.
The location was amazing, it was very close to many wonderful restaurants and bars. 10/10 for location, right on the canal. That was the one redeeming factor of this stay.