David's Cosy Little Backpacker Hostel Berlin

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 )

Directions

If you happen to arrive by train, get off at main station east, OSTBAHNHOF,
take bus 240 direction 'Storkower Strasse' and get off after
4 stops at 'gruenberger strasse', cross the street and have a look for number 23.
we´re located in the second backyard.

anyway, if your train arrives

at 'Lichtenberg' instead of Ostbahnhof:
U5 dir. west to 'Frankfurter Tor', walk into Warschauer Str, then 1st to the right (Gruenberger 23)

at 'Hauptbahnhof' or 'Zoologischer Garten' instead of Ostbahnhof:
take the S-Bahn ( Any line ) direction east to 'Warschauer Strase', get off the station turn right and the 'Grünberger Strasse' to the left, number 23

if you rather walk 5 minutes than change for the Bus at Ostbahnhof, or arrive after midnight when the bus might not run (here's the timetable: http://www.bvg.de/plan/images/Bus/Bus-240.pdf) , go one more stop on the S-Bahn to WARSCHAUER STR., when you get off, walk the bridge down to the right, take the 4th street to the left (Gruenberger Str.), we're No 23.
also: a taxi-ride up to 2 km (which will do) has a fixed fare of 3 Euros, ask the driver for 'kurzstrecke' (pronounced COURT-sh-track-a)


from Airport TEGEL:
BUS 109 or X9 to S-BAHN Station 'Zoologischer Garten', take any S-Bahn
direction east to 'Warschauer Strase'
turn right and then Grünberger Strasse to the left, number 23.

from Airport SCHOENEFELD:
S-Bahn ( S9 line ) to 'Warschauer Strasse', turn right and then Grünberger Strasse to the left, number 23.
OR
Train RE14 to 'Ostbahnhof' , the BUS 240 ( direction Storkower Strasse ) to 'Grünberger Strasse'

Facilities

Internet Access, Linen Included, Bar, Security Lockers, Luggage Storage, Guest Kitchen, Telephone/Fax Facilities, 24 hour reception, Travel Desk/Travel Info, Common Room, Bike Parking, Breakfast Not Included, WiFi in lobby, Web access in lobby, Breakfast