David's Cosy Little Backpacker Hostel Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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About David's Cosy Little Backpacker Hostel Berlin
Internet Access Breakfast Included
Most beloved by Australians, Israelis, French, Swedish & Taiwanese!
& by Student's of German-Language, Artists, Gay boys, Non-Smokers, Play-Station& X-box fans,
***** Fresh bed linen included ! (Saves 4)
***** Free Internet (Saves 1)
***** Free Breakfast (Saves 5)
People who can speak bahasa indonesia or arabic get 1 night for free.
Orang yang berbahasa Indonesia dapat 1 malam gratis!
***** A little kitchen for cooking (from 16h-22h )
***** A cosy living room for chilling out.
***** The Free Basic Breakfast includes:
Tea, Coffee, 2 toasts, margarine, marmalades, Kräuterkäse (fresh Cheese)
***** for just 3 you can choose a la carte
-Davids German Gourmet Breakfast
( mit Joghurt, Vollkornbrot, Quark, Müsli, Cornflakes, Tomaten, Gurken, Zwiebeln, Geräucherter Schinken, Camenbert, Saure Gurken, 1 Ei, etc. )
Australians Vegemite Toast !
Japanese get Miso Soup & Rice for breakfast !
Israelis get carots & cucumber salat with baba ghanug 2 extra
***** Quiet bed-rooms with private lights.
***** Individual beds, No damd bunk beds!
Perfect for people who love a romantic atmosphere.
***** No Smoke inside at all!
***** No Groups bigger than 4 persons allowed
***** Favourite Hostel of the Year of Young Gays &
Lesbians, Easygoing Hippies, Non-smokers,
Vegetarians & Philosophers!
Davids Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel
is situated in the ground floor of a historic house of 1895.
Perfect for people who love a romantic atmosphere.
We have a Reception with a living-room , and a little kitchen.
The dorms have shared bath-rooms, the doubles share a bath-room with just one other room.
Everyone can meet the other guests in the morning
on our common breakfast - table.
From 9 to 12 we offer a self-service breakfast-buffet,
for just 3 , beside the free basic breakfast,
extra items are cornflakes or cerial with milk, 1
1 glass of orange juice, 1,
or a fruit ( banana or apple )
or a yogurt 50c or an egg 50c fried eggs 1.
fried eggs & ham 2 etc.
Moreover, we have a cozy Living-room with a jungle of plants, and sofas, for chilling out, with lots of opportunities for talks and contacts with nice international guests from all continents.
It is the ideal place for those, who don't mind simplicity, and appreciate a cozy, personal, private atmosphere of a friendly, romantic, human, artistic home-hostel.
It is designed for young travellers
and for only a small number of guests.
Single travellers are here especially welcome.
Groups bigger than 4 persons are kindly asked
to go somewhere else
Gay and Lesbians are very welcome as well.
Berlin is a city with 150.000 gays and lesbians, who are especially welcome in our city and in our place.
Those, who do not like that, should stay away. People with homophobic attitudes might get cancelled right away.
Our cozy hostel with a definete non-smoking policy is in the ground floor of an historic building built 1890.
The place offers a lot of opportunities for talks and contacts with other travellers.
We want open-minded, friendly, relaxed, tolerant and laid-back international guests,
cultural explorers, night-life-experts and german-language-students,
from anywhere in Europe, Asia, Africa & South and North-America.
Surprisingly, guests from Shanghai (China), Russia, Ukrainia and former Sowjet Union complain very often and are not happy in our place.
where as people from Australia, Japan, Belgium, England, Scotland, Canada, Taiwan, Scandinavia, Finland, Africa and Chengdu (China) are mostly always very excited and happy about our cozy set up.
Some might find our antique outfit being cool and cozy, others may prefer more the modern style. We are definitely not modern, but old fashioned.
C o m m o n K i t c h e n
Kitchen use from 16h to 22h (4pm to 10pm)
C o m m o n L i v i n g R o o m
with a jungle of plants and sofas
No TV ! No noise. Fresh Air.
Relaxed Easy going Laid back
Alcohol is only in limited quantities allowed.
Smoking only outside in the parc, please.
Simple, quiet and smoke-free bed-rooms :
Girls-Dorm, Mixed Dorms and a few Double-Rooms some floors up in quiet 2 room-apartments
The Doubles are outside of the main hostel building across the street at a walking distances of 2 minutes
All apartments have a common bath-room combined with a small extra kitchen.
The common areas of the hostel , open to everyone like the kitchen and the living-room.
Some guests Reviews:
'It's unique ! It's better than home ! Less boring at least.' Sarah, 17, Basel, Switzerland
'Fun and relaxing! It felt like you were staying at a friends house! Lovely atmosphere and friendly staff.'
Susanne, 23, Mainz, Germany .
'The place feels more like a home than a hostel. Cool living room, nice staff, clean, small and intimate.'
Jimmy, 20, Mexico
Our hostel is completely free of smoke, but you may smoke outside in the garden zone in front of our house, with some benches to sit on, under the trees.
Our bed-rooms are quiet, with private lamps for everyone.
In our cozy little living-room, you can always meet some nice people, read books from our library or listen to music.
Please bring your own CDs or cassettes to play them.
Here you can find as well Berlin-Guide-books,
program-magazine of Berlin's day- & nightlife,
or play chess or monopoly with someone,
or use the computer.
Local phone calls for just 10 cents for 5 minutes !
FREE : Book-swap
FREE : Library use with Berlin Guide Books in English, French, Italian and Japanese language,
with information about sites and history
FREE : 4 different weekly program-papers to read :
Tip-magazin & Zitty,
and the 2 gay Siegessäule & Sergei.
And night-life-maps, museum-maps
Luggage storage, for 1 per piece
STATISTICS:
Most of our guests are from
Australia, Italy, Finland, Canada, UK, Sweden, Japan, Germany, USA, Spain, Israel, France, Denmark, Schweiz, Greece, Argentina, Ireland, Austria, Taiwan, New Zealand, Mexico, Singapore, Brazil, Portugal, Indonesia & Egypt
NO FIVE STAR HOTEL
We are a cozy, simple, nice, and heartful little hostel for backpackers, but no 5 star hotel. So don't expect too much:
More details ?
BED-ROOMS :
- Internet for 2 cent for 1 minute or 1 per hour
- Towels to borrow 1 Euro
- Soft drinks 1 Euro
- Laundry service 9 Euro
- Phone from 10 cents
- Maps for free and maps for 1 Euro &r 3 Euro
- trips and picnics ( from 10 ) to
the Royal Castles of Potsdam,
the country side, like Spreewald & Mecklenburg,
until the Baltic Sea, 100 km north of Berlin
This hostel is especially designed for single travellers,
who like to meet other people on their trip.
People consuming drugs in our premises get kicked out immediately with no refund..
D A V I D ' S special interests:
Anthropology, South-East Asia,India & Indonesia,
Film-Making, Theatre & Film,
and all sorts of adventures in Africa or Asia,
David speaks German, English, some French, Arabic and Indonesian
Vegetarian cooks inviting David for dinner will get brief discounts.
Dan from Israel with his yummy vegetarian food is still in good memory.
Special discounts available for people who repair bicycles. You could maintain our always damagded bicycle armada.
Welcome drinks for bally dancers, guitar players,
Japanese singers and magicans !
We can`t wait to see you soon.
David & Son & Friends
W h e r e i t i s ?
2 minutes walk from the underground station Birkenstr.
3 minutes walk from the underground station Turmstr.
4 minutes by U-Bahn from the train station Zoo =
Zoologischer Garten
10 minutes by bus from the central train station =
Hauptbahnhof
15 minutes from Tegel Airport (TXL )
30 minutes from Schönefeld Airport ( SXF )
Facilities
- Breakfast Included
- Luggage Storage
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Bureau de Change
- Free Carpark
- Internet Access
- Towels
- Common Room
- Web access in lobby
- Air Conditioning
- Bike Parking
- Linen Included
- Guest Kitchen
- Key Card Access
- Breakfast
Photos
Important Information
Conditions
General Conditions / AGBs
Please read this, to avoid trouble.
§1) Payment, §2) Limited Arrival-times,
§3) Refunds §4) No show
§1) Payment: We take only cash, no credit-cards!
You need to pay in cash the full amount of your booking on arrival, plus a key deposit of 20 .
ATMs / bank machines are everywhere, at stations, air-ports & near from us at Turmstraße.
§2) Limited Arrival-times
Because we are a small hostel,
our reception is not open all day long.
That is why we need to know your exact arrival time.
From this time on, we wait for you for up to 2 hours.
From Schönefeld airport (SXF) to us you need 1 hour,
from Tegel airport ( TXL ) you need half an hour,
from Hauptbahnhof / the central station 20 minutes.
Our reception is generally open from
8 in the morning to midnight.
Once you have checked in, you have got 24 hours access with your own keys.
PLEASE NOTE: If you did not select an arrival time, the default (automatic) arrival time is 11 am (morning).
In that case we kindly request you to send us an
e-mail, to: davidshostel@yahoo.de,
or phone to : +49-30-39 800 792,
or send an SMS to +49 - 176 - 80 24 96 99
telling us when you actually will arrive.
Make clear if you mean morning (AM) or evening (PM)!
Please be kind enough to notify us if you are late and cannot make your check in time.
In this case call us ASAP (as soon as possible) or send an SMS).
Otherwise we think you do not come, m i g h t cancel your booking, and give your bed to somebody else.
For waiting for your arrival after midnight, we charge
1 Euro for each quarter hour (15 minutes)
§3 )
Booked days have to be paid in advance,
refunds are not given, for no reason at all.
Except you find us someone else who is willing to pay for your reserved beds.
§4) No shows are charged for the first night by their credit cards.
Location
- Address
- Bredowstr. 35 10551
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Other Options Nearby
- Amstel House Hostel (0.3 kms)
- John's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel Berlin (0.3 kms)
- Berlin Stay 4 (0.4 kms)
- Comfy Little Corner (0.6 kms)
- Fabian's - The Gay Backpacker's Cozy Little Hostel (0.8 kms)
Directions
A) Address, B) Tickets, C) Directions
A) Address:
David's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel,
Bredowstrasse 35 / Wicflefstr. 66
The e n t r a n c e is at the C o r n e r
D-10551 Berlin-Mitte-Tiergarten-Moabit NW1
G e r m a n y
Mitte = Central District
Tiergarten = Central West Subdistrict
Moabit = Central West North ( Quartier )
Phone +49-30-39885394
B) Tickets:
Until Zoo-station you can use a train-ticket, from there you only need a short-distance ticket = 'Kurzstrecke' for 1,20 Euro
From anywhere else in Berlin get a 2 hour ticket,
for Zone AB =valid for all Berlin, for 2,10
Day pass for Berlin 'AB' costs 6,10 Euro which is valid until 3am of the following day
The 7 day-ticket costs 25,40 Euro (3,5 per day )
the 31 day-ticket costs 67 Euro, 2.2 per day )
ABC' Tickets includes Potsdam and the area around Berlin, and cost 10% more.
If you buy a weekly Ticket or a monthly ticket,
you can easily sell it to our other guests ,
before you leave, and save a lot.
C) Directions:
Directions to the hostel from: ( time you need )
1) the train-station Zoo 6 minutes
2) the train-station Berlin Hbf 10 minutes
3) Tegel Airport ( TXL ) 16 minutes
4) Tempelhof Airport ( THF ) 27 minutes
5) Schönefeld Airport ( SFX ) 33 minutes
6) the central bus-station ZOB 27 minutes
7) by car from the highways
1)
From the railway station 'Zoo' or 'Zoo-station' ,
=Bahnhof 'Zoologischer Garten',
take the underground 'U 9' ( two levels down ),
in the direction of 'Osloer Strasse'.
Get off at the 3rd stop, at U-Bahnhof =
underground station 'Birkenstrasse'.
Walk upstairs and take the left exit.
Straight ahead and turn left
at Bredow Strasse, the first street.
At the first crossing of Bredowstrasse
is the entrance of David's Hostel
at the right corner .
Above the door is a big sign: DAVID'S
for ' David's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel'.
Ring the bell. If it is off, knock.
From 7 in the morning to midnight there is almost always someone around,
except for some minutes of
quick food-shoppings next door.
2)
From the new central train-stop 'Hauptbahnhof'
which means 'Central Train Station'
Take the exit 'Europa Platz',
which is in northern direction.
When you come out of the hall, cross the street,
and there, from the other side,
take the bus 'TXL', which goes in direction to TXL airport.
After 3 stops and 6 minutes,
you arrive at the Underground station 'Turmstrasse' .
From there, you walk into the direction
where the bus went to,
along 'Turmstrasse', at it's right side.
The first street you cross is
'Wilhelmshavener Strasse'.
Here, there are 2 banks at your right hand side,
with cash machines / ATMs.
Make sure, you have enough cash to pay us upon arrival,
because we only take cash as payment.
The 2nd street is 'Bredowstrasse' already,
our street.
Here you turn right.
Walk along Bredowstrasse and cross the first street.
At the 2nd crossing, you find our entrance
at the corner, on the left side.
Above the door is a big sign: DAVID'S
for ' David's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel'.
Ring the bell. If it is off, knock.
From 7 in the morning to midnight there is almost always someone around,
except for some minutes of
quick food-shoppings next door.
Airports: Berlin has 3 airports, so check first,
which is the one, you arrive at.
3)
From the airport 'Tegel' = TXL,
you just take the 'TXL' bus a few stops,
exactly 12 minutes, until
the underground station 'Turmstrasse'.
From the bus-stop, walk a few meters back,
until the Indian Restaurant at your left hand side.
There, you cross that big street, 'Alt-Moabit',
cross the little park, and the street behind it,
which is 'Turmstrasse'.
At the green building at the corner you find a bank,
the 'Berliner Sparkasse', with ATMs
Here begins our street, 'Bredowstrasse' already.
Walk along Bredowstrasse and cross the first street.
At the 2nd crossing, you find our entrance
at the corner, on the left side.
Above the door is a big sign: DAVID'S
for ' David's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel'.
Ring the bell. If it is off, knock.
From 7h in the morning to 23h in the night
is almost always someone around,
except for some minutes of
quick food-shoppings next door.
4)
From Tempelhof Airport it take only 24 minutes,
by Underground.
At 'Platz der Luftbrücke' you start,
by underground, in direction to 'Alt Tegel'.
At Leopoldplatz, you change to the underground U 9,
in direction of 'Rathaus Steglitz'.
Get off at the U-Bahn stop 'Birkenstrasse'.
U-Bahn means Underground-Train
Walk upstairs at the left Exit.
Outside, go straight ahead and turn left
at Bredowstrasse, the first street.
Walk along Bredowstrasse.
At the first crossing, at the right corner
is the entrance of our hostel .
Above the door is a big sign:
'DAVID'S'
It's 'David's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel'.
Ring the bell. If it is off, knock.
5)
From the airport 'Schoenefeld' = SXF,
you take first the free shuttle-bus
from the airport to the train station 'Schoenefeld'.
Then you take the 'Airport-Express' train, RB or RE
which leaves every 30 minutes from there
and takes 18 minutes to get to
the railway station 'Zoo' = 'Zoologischer Garten',
Do not take the S-Bahn, because is has 40 stops and takes 55 minutes until 'Zoo'.
Then, you follow the directions from above, Nr. 1)
6)
From the Central Bus station 'ZOB'
walk out left and take the underground (U1)
a few stops into direction to Warschauer Str.
until the railway station
'Zoo' = Bahnhof 'Zoologischer Garten',
Then, you follow the directions from above, Nr. 1)
7)
By car,
go on the motorway = Autobahn,
and exit the highway at 'Beusselstrasse'.
( if coming from south
drive first in direction Center, then Tegel,
and then Wedding.
At Beusselstrasse exit, go
into the direction of 'Tiergarten'.
Cross the bridge, after the S-Bahn Beusselstr..
and cross as well the first street.
Turn left at the second street, which is
'Wiclefstrasse'
Go along Wiclefstrasse.
After the Nr. 66, at your right hand side,
you find the hostel's entry
at the corner.
Above the door is a big sign:
'DAVID'S'
It's 'David's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel'.
Ring the bell. If it is off, knock.
From 7 in the morning to midnight there is almost always someone around,
except for some minutes of
food-shoppings next door or so.
Temporal Special Note:
From the 23rd July until the 30th august
there are repairs on the Underground-line U9
between 'Zoologischer Garten' = Zoo station
and 'Turmstrasse' and 'Birkenstrasse'.
In this time all Underground trains of the U9 are replaced by busses, which leave every 2 minutes,
after 8 pm every 5-10 minutes.
Look for 'Ersatzverkehr', which means 'Replacing Traffic'
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