Location was good, property had space and was clean and light

excessive house rules revealed after booking, together with additional costs for laundry. Poorly worded forms to sign within an hour after arriving and threats of more costs if not completed on time. No warning of the noise of U-Bahn in appt 11c throughout the night (U-Bahn vent located just outside the building). No hot water on one morning.

lovely building, great location.

great aspartame

Space. Size of property. Response of hosts before arrival and on arrival day.

Fridge/freezer not working. No TV signal. Regular buzzing of door entry from people trying to get access to the building.

Very comfortable and cosy apartment well equiped and centrally located. The host was very helpful, I highly recommend to stay there !

Apartment was big and had everything

I felt like there was a lot of fine print with the rules and it was hard to relax. Everything had a rule.

Location

Most of the photos were of a completely different apartment. Ours was accessible by a small back staircase of 50 steps and not that shown in photos. There are a lot of rules - two pages -which are not very friendly. There is also what appears to be a motion detecting camera inside the apartment which flashes whenever you arrive or leave. An authentic GDR touch… The flat is nice enough - I do not understand why the owners cannot use genuine photos.

Nice location.

Appartment was OK - but the beds/linnen were not great. There was a weird lightbulb telling us the airquality was bad and soundlevel was too high. Lightbulb was even switched on when we arrived in the appartment - so not sure how the soundlevel could be too loud? Turns out the neighbor is extremely sensitive to sound. Even just arriving in the evening having a normal conversation was considered noise. Price also ended up quite high in the end for an appartment, because of a lot of extra expenses.

This very spacious high quality 2 bedroom/2 bathroom apartment with a nice courtyard-facing balcony is strongly recommended for 2 couples/4 adults. It is part of a meticulously renovated landmark building from the late 18th century, centrally situated at the end of the Friedrichstrasse (of which some sections have recently been turned into car-free zones) near Checkpoint Charlie and the Konzerthaus. We very much enjoyed our stay here and look forward to our next visit.

Beautiful place, quite historic courtyard building 3 blocks from the underground. The photos show the true rooms, no surprises.

3 flights of stairs, no lift

This spacious apartment is located close to a lot of major attractions and in walking distance to U- and S-Bahn as well as bus routes. There are a lot of restaurants around and you find shopping possibilities all around (Potsdamer Platz, Alexander Platz). The apartment is furnished with modern appliances, comfy beds (hard as we like them) and a balcony. It has 2 bathrooms and three bedrooms. An open kitchen/living concept is the heart of it.

We only received an email with instructions how to get into the apartment an hour before arrival and only after we asked by telephone for details. When we had problems accessing our email (international visitors my not have a data plan easily available!). Thankfully, my sister who live in Germany, could access my email. We phoned the landlord again and he was not that friendly by just saying that he had send the email with codes and information. Finally we managed to get into the house. Next surprise was that the apartment is on the (German) second floor which for Americans is the third floor with no elevator. This was not in any information I saw on Booking.com so far. In the apartment there was a 5 Page Long List of House Rules but no instruction on using any of the appliances. We stayed there for 2 weeks and had each 2 towels (1 small, one large) no change of bed sheets and one towel for the kitchen. The washer and dryer unit costs 3 Euros per hour. Overall all of this didn’t hamper my good opinion of the apartment but a bit more friendliness, a bit more welcome, an extra change for bath towels and bed sheets would have been nice. Without that I am giving an overall 9.

The apartment was huge and beautiful. So much was preserved to maintain the integrity of the character that was built before WWII. Plenty of space with 3 large bedrooms and two nice size bathrooms. Location allows you to walk to many tourist sites and an underground to take you wherever you want to go. Owner was very kind!

So many emails once we booked the place with so much in depth descriptions regarding the apartment and rules. Also, was surprised about the extra fees that came up regarding towels and my kids staying with us.