GreatStay Apartment - Danzigerstr.

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The location is great. Near eberswalder strasse, near 2 tram lines, near lovely children's parks and restaurants. There are several supermarkets nearby as well as plenty of places to get takeout as well as spatkaufs and bakeries. The balcony is really nice, lovely views of Berlin. The flat has a lovely open plan living area and was very clean. There is enough equipment in the kitchen to cook with as well as a coffee machine and a nespresso. The washer and dryer were very useful if you don't want to pack loads of clothes, and there is also a dishwasher. We stayed for a week and the host gave me some cleaning products as it was nice to clean the bathroom and toilet once or twice. There was also a vacuum cleaner which was helpful as the kids got quite sandy in the parks. Lovely to have a bath for them and the shower is not as annoying as some have suggested. The lift was also great when coming in and out with strollers. The beds were comfortable.
  : At the time of booking I requested either 2 cots or a cot and a toddler bed (as we were traveling with a baby and toddler). I also sent a separate message to the host to emphasise this. When i arrived there was only one cot and the host told me it would not be possible to get a toddler bed and that there was only one cot per flat. Luckily, the people in the smaller flat did not need to cot so the host was able to get this for us. It was annoying that I requested this twice and he didn't indicate that he had seen this message. The beds are fine for adults or older children but would have been too high for a toddler to sleep in. There were also no sheets on the cots (which were plastic travel cots), so we had to take pillow cases off the beds to use as sheets so they didn't have to lay on cold plastic. One of the cot mattresses had a stain which should have been cleaned. The high chair did not have a tray table and was too low against the bar area for the baby to eat from. Probably not obvious to someone without children. This is a fantastic flat to rent if you are people without children, but the sleeping situation is not great for babies and toddlers, especially if you travel with more than 1. Better book a hotel. The rooms were also quite hot (we turned off all the radiators but there seemed to be underfloor heating which we couldn't work out how to turn off). Opening the windows cooled the room down but the trams can be noisy if you are noise sensitive.