Like a suite in a five star hotel - very comfortable, very spacious, very well designed, and with what we all agreed was the best bath we had ever had - but in mega-block on the extraordinary and historically significant Frankfurter Allee, a continuation of Karl Marx Allee. Anyone interested in the old East Germany and its architecture will be fascinated. With the old Stasi headquarters around the corner it is a bit spooky to imagine who might have lived in this apartment in soviet-era Germany, and twenty minutes walking gets you to the East Side Gallery and the remains of the wall. Street life is not buzzy but five minutes will get you to Boxhagener Platz with its burgeoning cafe society and the absolutely fabulous Datscha Restaurant (the lunch menu is mind blowing) or to the UBahn and the rest of Berlin. Please take Heike's advice and visit Clarchens Ballhaus at Auguststrasse 24: it is straight out of 'I Am A Camera'.
Heike was a great host - quick to respond, very helpful - and the apartment was superb.