Pros: Convenient location close to a M10 tram stop and cool playground. Easy access from the ground floor without noise from the outside. Decent amount of space for East Berlin, if oddly laid out. Very responsive owners who try to fix issues that are raised. Good guide and suggestions for local establishments to go to.
Cons: The heat is apparently controlled by the building and turned off overnight (despite temperatures outdoors being in the 40’s), and didn’t turn on some days at all, even when the highs were only in the low 50’s. That might have been ok on a higher floor, but on ours it was chilly, which was a problem for us because our youngest is too young to sleep under a blanket.
A few things were odd. For a place that claims to be kid friendly, there is no place to hang a hand towel that they could reach, and toilet paper has to be put on the radiator so kids could reach it. The place was so chilly and damp that our laundry took more than 24 hours to dry! Some of the kitchen appliances were pretty old (eg: I have never seen a microwave with a dial on it?!), but worked fine.
Also, some of the linens were missing when we arrived (though the owners fixed that within a couple hours), and the bathroom sink leaked (which they had fixed while we were there).