which area of Berlin to stay in?

On Jan 10, 4:04 pm, dwl wrote:
> We're looking to book an apartment for 2 adults & 2 young children in
> Berlin for a few days in April. Our ideal spot would be close to
> restaurants, shops & public transport, not over-run with tourists &
> not too noisy but not miles & miles from the sights. Can anyone help
> with advice?


Prenzlauer Berg.
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:04:48 -0800 (PST), dwl
wrote:

>We're looking to book an apartment for 2 adults & 2 young children in
>Berlin for a few days in April. Our ideal spot would be close to
>restaurants, shops & public transport, not over-run with tourists &
>not too noisy but not miles & miles from the sights. Can anyone help
>with advice?
>
>I had thought about Charlottenburg or Wilmersdorf (possibly near
>Bundesplatz U-Bahn) - any comments about these areas?
>
>Thanks

This agency

http://www.coming-home.org/

found me a small but excellent furnished apartment when I first moved
here in August last year.

It was in a quiet street just around the corner from Winterfeldtplatz
in Schöneberg - great outdoor market in Winterfeldtplatz on Weds and
Sats (more stalls on Sats) - German, Turkish, SE Asian, Indian, Korean
(etc) eateries around Maassenstr, U-Bahn at Nollendorfplatz.

Charlottenburg is great too - although beware of Charlottenburg Nord -
I was looking for places to buy there: waited 30 minnutes for an
estate agent to turn up and the most exciting thing I saw was a cat
chasing a wild rabbit.

Wilmersdorf is good too, although quiet.

If you contact an agency, tell them you want to live in a "Kiez" - a
district where shops and eateries are all within walking distance of
where you live. Your post above describes a "Kiez" perfectly!

Good luck!

If you have offers and you're not sure about the district, do get back
to the group and I'll do my best to help.


Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen
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Thanks guys, that's helpful
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On 2008-01-10, dwl wrote:
>
> I had thought about Charlottenburg or Wilmersdorf (possibly near
> Bundesplatz U-Bahn) - any comments about these areas?

No, I would prefer to talk about Friedrichshain. I had walked through the
area on one visit, and thought it looked like a good place to stay, with
loads of restaurants. So, on the next visit I booked a hotel in Friedrichshain.
At dinner time we went out, expecting to have a vide selection of
restaurants to choose from. First place we came to turned out to be a bar.
Next place also a bar. Then a lounge. A club. Another bar. A cafe/lounge.
And so on...

Finding a place with a focus on eating, not drinking, took forever, and
we ended going into the first restaurant we found.
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On Jan 13, 6:35 pm, Jesper Lauridsen
wrote:
> On 2008-01-10, dwl wrote:
>
>
>
> > I had thought about Charlottenburg or Wilmersdorf (possibly near
> > Bundesplatz U-Bahn) - any comments about these areas?
>
> No, I would prefer to talk about Friedrichshain. I had walked through the
> area on one visit, and thought it looked like a good place to stay, with
> loads of restaurants. So, on the next visit I booked a hotel in Friedrichshain.
> At dinner time we went out, expecting to have a vide selection of
> restaurants to choose from. First place we came to turned out to be a bar.
> Next place also a bar. Then a lounge. A club. Another bar. A cafe/lounge.
> And so on...
>
> Finding a place with a focus on eating, not drinking, took forever, and
> we ended going into the first restaurant we found.


Friedrichshain is a cool area for nightlife, but is inconvenient for
seeing the sights.
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On 11 Jan, 09:37, Keith Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:04:48 -0800 (PST), dwl
> wrote:
>
> >We're looking to book an apartment for 2 adults & 2 young children in
> >Berlin for a few days in April. Our ideal spot would be close to
> >restaurants, shops & public transport, not over-run with tourists &
> >not too noisy but not miles & miles from the sights. Can anyone help
> >with advice?
>
> >I had thought about Charlottenburg or Wilmersdorf (possibly near
> >Bundesplatz U-Bahn) - any comments about these areas?
>
> >Thanks
>
> This agency
>
> http://www.coming-home.org/
>
> found me a small but excellent furnished apartment when I first moved
> here in August last year.
>
> It was in a quiet street just around the corner from Winterfeldtplatz
> in Schöneberg - great outdoor market in Winterfeldtplatz on Weds and
> Sats (more stalls on Sats) - German, Turkish, SE Asian, Indian, Korean
> (etc) eateries around Maassenstr, U-Bahn at Nollendorfplatz.
>
> Charlottenburg is great too - although beware of Charlottenburg Nord -
> I was looking for places to buy there: waited 30 minnutes for an
> estate agent to turn up and the most exciting thing I saw was a cat
> chasing a wild rabbit.
>
> Wilmersdorf is good too, although quiet.
>
> If you contact an agency, tell them you want to live in a "Kiez" - a
> district where shops and eateries are all within walking distance of
> where you live. Your post above describes a "Kiez" perfectly!
>
> Good luck!
>
> If you have offers and you're not sure about the district, do get back
> to the group and I'll do my best to help.
>
> Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
> now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen

Isn't a "Kiez" a red light district?
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On 2008-01-14, Iceman wrote:
>
> Friedrichshain is a cool area for nightlife, but is inconvenient for
> seeing the sights.

Why? We were near the Warschauer Strasse station which is on the main
S-Bahn axis.
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:42 -0800 (PST), dwl
wrote:


>
>Isn't a "Kiez" a red light district?

The Reeperbahn in Hamburg is certainly referred to there as a "Kiez"
but the word is used differently in Berlin and elsewhere in northern
Germany..

Dictionary search:

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?o=3021;service=deen;iservice=de-e...x;query

http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?stri...kiez&no




Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen
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non-smoking restaurants in Germany
http://www.smokefreeworld.com/germany.shtml
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:59:10 -0800 (PST), Jean1
wrote:

>non-smoking restaurants in Germany
>http://www.smokefreeworld.com/germany.shtml

Bit behind the times, aren't you?

Non-smoking law came into force on 1st January and applies to cafés,
restaurants etc. Few exeptions.



Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen
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Keith Anderson wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:59:10 -0800 (PST), Jean1
> wrote:
>
> >non-smoking restaurants in Germany
> >http://www.smokefreeworld.com/germany.shtml
>
> Bit behind the times, aren't you?
>
> Non-smoking law came into force on 1st January and applies to cafés,
> restaurants etc. Few exeptions.

I thought the states were implementing this differently? I'd love to be
wrong- I'll be Cologne in a few weeks!

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onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:10:31 +0000, d4g4h4.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Keith Anderson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:59:10 -0800 (PST), Jean1
>> wrote:
>>
>> >non-smoking restaurants in Germany
>> >http://www.smokefreeworld.com/germany.shtml
>>
>> Bit behind the times, aren't you?
>>
>> Non-smoking law came into force on 1st January and applies to cafés,
>> restaurants etc. Few exeptions.
>
>I thought the states were implementing this differently?

They are. Apparently in Berlin you can have an indoor smoking
area......but it has to be totally hermetically sealed from everywhere
else, and there is to be no service there. I haven't seen such a place
yet.

In Saarland, small, one-person owned and operated bars can decide
their own policy.

> I'd love to be
>wrong- I'll be Cologne in a few weeks!

Hmmm - ban is (apparently) being phased in between January and July,
but you shouldn't have a problem finding somewhere smoke-free.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauchverbot








Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
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