This apartment was absolutely perfect! It was clean and comfortable and felt like home for the five weeks we were there. We wouldn't bother staying anywhere else anytime we return to Berlin. Gerda was very easy to contact by email, with quick, helpful responses. She wasn't in town when we arrived but her niece met us and was also really helpful and quick to respond to any inquiries we had.

It's a lovely, bright apartment. There are five rooms off a central hall. The kitchen and bathroom are almost new and nicely appointed (note - no bathtub). The other three rooms are; a large bedroom with windows overlooking the interior courtyard with a large two twin mattress bed (like a King); a living room with a couch (that can turn in to a comfortable double bed), dinning table and a small balcony that overlooks the front street; and a sitting room with a single bed with a large window overlooking the front street. Each of the rooms can be closed off from the rest of the apartment so the space offers a lot of privacy.

The apartment is on the ground floor of an older apartment building that has been nicely kept up. There is a lovely garden in the central courtyard that was in full bloom while we were there. The roses outside the kitchen window were a treat every morning! Even though there are lots of windows and two of the rooms face the street there was no issue with light or noise (Except when the garbage men came. They have to drag everything through the foyer from the courtyard which results in a brief period of noisiness some mornings.). If you want light/noise then open up the shutters. If you don't you can drop the shutters down for peace and quiet.

We found the location to be perfect too. It is in a West Berlin neighborhood full of quiet, tree-lined streets. It's around the corner from several restaurants and shops, within four blocks of several groceries and a multi-block pedestrian shopping plaza, and three blocks away from both a U-bahn and S-bahn station and bus stop. It was quick and easy to get to most places in the city as the S-bahn got you to the center of the city very quickly.

* For the tech addicted - the wifi covered the whole apartment well and was fast enough to stream Netflix without a problem. The only annoying this is that it seems to drop its signal a few times a night and has to reset itself before you get a signal back.