We stayed at the Yes Wow Museum with our two babies. Mikki set up two pack n’ play travel cribs for us. It was unusually hot outside the day we arrived (38C) but she set up a couple powerful fans in the apartment. There are a few flights of stairs, so we used a bike lock to lock our stroller under the stairs at the ground floor level. But a lock probably isn’t necessary - there were often other strollers there, and none were locked.
Mikki referred us to a friend of hers who is a babysitter, which worked out great and enabled my husband and I to have some free nights and days to explore the city. The location is extremely convenient, right in front of the Kurfurstenstrasse U Bahn station. And there were always at least a dozen rental scooters available within a hundred meters of the building.
There’s a mosque on the ground floor of the building, and even though we always had the windows open, the calls to prayer were never loud enough that anyone would be bothered. Sometimes the entrance was a little crowded if we were coming/going at the same time as the congregants, but they were always friendly and polite and made way for our double stroller to get through the doorway.
Previous reviewers have mentioned that this street has a reputation for prostitutes. We usually saw at least one or two if we looked for them, but it never bothered us. There are quite a few brand new expensive condo buildings in the area, as well as a Rewe grocery store and a DM drug store within a 1 or 2-minute walk from the building.
The only thing we felt was lacking was the restaurant scene on Potsdamer Str., the main road to the east of the apartment. It seemed to have a lot of low-end fast food sort of places, and a few newer fancy restaurants, but not much in between. But the area seems to be changing quickly enough that in 2023 or 2024 this advice will likely be obsolete.
We’d recommend the Yes Wow Museum for groups of friends, or for families. The spiral stairs to the upper level might be a little tough for older people. But the beds are all comfy, the bathrooms are great, and the space is enormous.