We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Raffaela's apartment. Raffaela is very responsive to messages and helpful. She met us personally at the apartment and provided some thoughtful provisions to aid our stay.
The apartment is spacious and very clean. The apartment faces on to a quiet courtyard and there were no disturbances from the neighbours for our entire stay (we stayed for one week). Our children (aged 6 and 3) loved playing with the toys Raffaela kindly left accessible to them. The apartment is on the third floor without a lift and it is quite a hike but we got used to it soon enough!
We have visited Berlin many times previously but had never stayed in Schoeneberg before - we really like the area and the apartment provided an ideal base to explore the whole city due to the fantastic transport links just around the corner including the M48/M85 buses going direct into the centre (Potsdamer Platz) in 10 minutes, the S1 around 7 minutes walk at Julius Leber Bruecke (also goes to Wannsee which we did as a day trip) and the U Bahn at Kleistpark less than 5 minutes. This meant we could come back to the apartment for our evening meal before going back into the centre again for the evening very quickly and easily. There are many supermarkets and bakeries close by (including an organic supermarket directly across the street). We highly recommend "Zimt und Zucker" an ice cream parlour a few minutes walk from the apartment - lovely gelato!
There are numerous lovely children's play parks in the local area (within 10 minutes walk or less) and for adults Double Eye coffee shop on Akazienstrasse around the corner was the best coffee we had the whole trip!