If you are to stay with Annelie on your trip to Berlin, you are in for a spectacular stay.
Extremely welcoming and trusting, Annelie let my boyfriend and I stay in her home for the first night without her as she was staying with a friend. She ensured we got the keys to her apartment, and informed us that anything in her kitchen and bathroom were for our use. The place was very clean and homely.
On the coffee table in our room she had left a binder with advice on where to visit/eat, and two bottles of German beverages with little notes on saying 'Enjoy!'.
Apartment is in a perfect location, the Prenzlauer-Berg district is a lovely quaint and quirky area, we had a lidl down the road, and a 20 min walk/10 min tram journey away form Alexanderplatz. Annelie's home is wonderful, small and cosy, it had everything we needed, and our bedroom was the best bit, with a mezzanine bed, as well as comfy sofa and chill area and lots of cool antique furniture.
She was very understanding with us coming and going as we please, and let us use her home as though it was ours.
Annelie is wonderfully chatty and charismatic, and we ended up chatting for hours to her on the two nights we stayed with her, smoking cigarettes out of her kitchen window and drinking beer. She made us feel very comfortable and took an interest in where we had come from and what we did with our lives. I will remember my first Berlin experience and Annelie and her home for a very long time.
Couldn't have asked for a better host or air bnb, I will be going back again and again!