Overall, I left this place feeling disappointed and frustrated with my experience there. The pros: it is in a convenient location, and it does house many people. The cons: it’s noisy at night (from the bedroom on the street), it’s basically in a basement, and there is one bathroom. However, I could have overlooked all of those things except for this: the place smelled of cigarette smoke upon our arrival and lingered the entire time we were there. I was there with my elderly mother and two children as I was running the Berlin marathon. As a non-smoker, it was disgusting. It felt like it was in the fabric of the sofas, the curtains and bedding. In fact, we found several cigarette burn holes in the bedding, and on a side table. This listing is explicitly non-smoking, so I confronted the host. He abruptly answered that it was in fact non-smoking and I was wrong. Hmmm. Air BnB was apologetic and helped me out. I think this apartment has a conflict of interest as it obviously appeals to huge groups, but doesn’t want to bear the repercussions of what a large group might do to the place. In retrospect, for the price, we would have been better off with several rooms in a hotel.