Relaxed Familiar Private Unique.
With just 18 beds ! Like in a house of a bigger family.
5 minutes from the railway-station 'Zoo' only !!!!
24 hour access after you checked in.
It is the ideal place for those, who don't mind simplicity, and desire a cozy, personal, private atmosphere, with friendly people of character.
This place has lots of opportunities for talks and contacts with nice international guests from all continents.
And it is the perfect place for relaxed and laid-back people, who are tolerant enough to accept students as well as Hippies, Punks, all sorts of nationalities, from Africa to Europe, Asia and America.
It's not a noisy Party-hostel, and our smoke free bed-rooms are quiet, and for sleeping only, with private lamps for everyone.
In our cosy little living-room, you can always meet some nice people, or listen to music.
Please bring your own CDs or cassettes. We are more than happy to play them.
Special DJ's on Saturday !
Or you can read in our Berlin-books, or play chess or monopoly with someone, or use the computer.
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.
2 little bars are acoss the street, one is called 'Subito', open until 5 in the morning, and a very old traditional German bar 'Stammtisch'
STATISTICS:
Most of our guests are from ( ordered by the number of people stayed with us) :
Australia, Italy, Finland, Canada, UK, Sweden, Israel, Japan, France, Denmark, Sloveniya, USA, Switzerland, Greece, Argentina, Spain, Ireland, Austria, Taiwan, NZL, Mexico, Singapore, Brazil, Malaysia, Iceland, South-Africa, Samoa, Bahamas
NO FIVE STAR HOTEL
We are a cozy, simple, nice, and heartful little hostel for backpackers, but no 5 star hotel.
FREE : Book-swap
FREE : Library with Berlin Guide Books in English, French, Italian and Japanese language, with information about sites and history
FREE : 4 different weekly program-papers,
Tip-magazin, Zitty, and the gay Siegessäule, Andere Welt and Sergei.
and night-life-maps, museum-maps
FREE : luggage storage , but only very limited, especially in the high seasons.
Lockers at the station are 1 �
LAST CHECK IN : 11 P. M.
Please note: the latest check-in is at 11 p.m.
Exceptions are possible by extra appointments only,
which cost 3� extra per each hour later than 11 p.m / 23h.
BED-ROOMS :
Our Bed-rooms in mellow peach colors are simply furnished, with tiles and carpets, and have cozy quality matraces, but no beds, especially non of this horrible bunk-beds !
David speaks beside German and English, as well French, Egyptian Arabic and Indonesian.
AVAILABLE EXTRAS:
- Internet for 1� per hour only, 1 PC inside the hostel,
and 25 outside, 2 minutes away !!!
- towels to borrow 1�
- Soft drinks 1 �
- Laundry service 7�
- Phone from 10 cents
- Museum-tickets from 2 �
- maps 1� and 3�
- trips and picnics to the country side, from 10 �
including Potsdam, Brandenburg,
and the Baltic Sea, 100 km north of Berlin
OUR PHILOSOPHY
This hostel is designed for single travelers,
who like to meet other people on their trip,
preferable those, who do not regard them thelves as a part of the main-streamers,
who haven't much else in mind than drinking beer and smoking dope all day.
David is especially interesed in people who are Film-Makers, Anthropologists, adventurers & explorers of Africa or Asia, and last not least Gay men.
As well as students of film, theater, arts music, web-design and languages,
not to forget vegetarians and Arabic bally dancers, entertainers, guitar players and magicans !
It would be so nice to see you soon !
David and John
Special regards and thanks to:
Stefan König, Mainz
Jürgen Bergler, Mainz
Gert Hennig, Mainz
Michael Scherer, Wiesbaden
Thomas Bohl, Mainz
Peter Hochheiser, Wiesbaden
Dr. Dietrich Plath, Frankfurt
Rudolf Braun, Mainz
Thomas Spurzem, Mainz
Ralph Misske, Wiesbaden
Jasmin Ghazali, Wiesbaden
Christiane Burkhard, Berlin
Hanggoro Wuryontoko, Yogyakarta
Peter Krug, Mainz, Hamburg, Berlin
Rüdiger Reitmeier, Berlin
Gisela Ruppel, Berlin
Hu Shin Chou, Taipeh
Fabian v. Hessen, Berlin
Mohamad M. Ahmad Ali Al Kirba, Cairo
Hassan El-Gerethly, Cairo
Jürgen Gilg v. Kuenheim, Berlin
Asiya Albualy, Mascat, Oman
Fabian Saladin, Berlin
Bouchaib Belfassi, Hamburg
Lee Kyang Jin, Seoul
John Seidel, Berlin
Dr. Nina Zimmer, Hamburg
Schüler und Studenten sind seit Hundert Jahren unterwegs zwischen deutschen Städten. Sie machen dann in Jugendherbergen halt. Das sind ursprünglich auf Schulklassen und Wandergruppen eingestellte Übernachtungsplätze.
Mit solchen Worten lässt sich Davids Hostel in der Moabiter Bredow-Ecke-Birkenstrasse nicht umschreiben.
Wenn man an der Aussentür klingelt, kommt gewöhnlich ein ungewöhnlich freundlicher Einlasser zur Tür, um den Rucksacktouristen herein zu bitten.
Man tritt unmittelbar in den Salon der Herberge mit Polsterstühlen und Teppichen auf dem Boden, alles Requisiten aus dem bürgerlichem Leben, gezielt und mit größter Sorgfalt zusammen getragen, um dem aus der Ferne Anreisenden einen Begriff von deutscher Gemütlichkeit zu geben.
Einzelne Reisende finden schnell einen kuscheligen Platz in einem der drei Schlafraeume, sie werden im Salon von Landsleuten angesprochen und ehe man sich versieht, ist man mitten im Erlebnisaustausch. Oft werden gemeinsame Erkundungstouren geplant, gemeinsam in der Herbergsküche gekocht oder ferngesehen. David der Padrone kommt manchmal aus seinem nahen Domizil herüber, um seine Gäste mit Geschichten aus seiner eigenen Anhalter- und Rucksackreisenderzeit zu amüsieren.
Die gebuchten Tage in David's Hostel vergehen meist so schnell, dass der Berlinaufenthalt verlängert werden muss. Wenn jemand mit extrem eingeschränktem Budget, sowie weltoffenem Anspruch, in Europa unterwegs ist und keine umsorgende Familie in Berlin hat, dann ist er bestens beraten mit David's Hostel als Homebase.
Rosita & Georg in Berlin, Februar 2006
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