I unfortunately did not have a good experience. The photos looked nice, but it wasn't how it…read moreseemed. Check-in. It was so slow, and the receptionists were so chatty with other hostel guests they could barely focus on my check-in and kept forgetting I gave them extra money for towel deposit. Room. I stayed in 4 bed dorm. My guest mates were so loud, it was so hard to sleep. One of them was a smoker who got up so frequent at night to smoke and open the door, making the room cold. Also my guest mates were stinky, unlucky me. But also the bed was sooo uncomfortable. The cleaning of the room appears questionable too. This is not a quiet hostel. Everyone stays up late and you can hear them talking from the lobby at night. Also this place is next to Berghain, a 24hr party rave club on the weekends, so you have a lot of people staying here to go to this club. The bathroom was actually decently clean. However, there was no hooks on the shower walls so it was hard to put your stuff anywhere. Location, 10-15 minute walk to transit, a little inconvenient. You need to rent bikes is the best way of transportation.

3.5 stars Pros:…read more-Despite first impressions of the lobby, our room was very clean and modern. It felt like a completely different hostel compared to the lobby. -Up on the third floor is was very quiet at night, as long as we kept our window closed. -Nice room darkening curtains that helped us sleep in. -Friendly staff -Good beer at the bar, although I wish they had it on tap -Close to a very good metro station with multiple lines to take you anywhere you'd want to go, including Potsdam. Meh: -Our room was very small, but no smaller than hostels we've stayed in throughout Europe. (We had a double with private bathroom). -The neighborhood is extremely hipster, as is this hostel. Cons: -The room was stifling hot. A small standing fan would have made the experience 100x better. -Washers and dryers were broken and/or barely operable. -For us, we'd have probably chosen elsewhere had we known more about the neighborhood and grunge hipster vibe. We didn't have much in common with the other guests. -The location, although well connected on the metro, is not walking distance to many tourist attractions.

One of the oldest hostels in Germany offering a unique atmosphere instead of just a bed. Easy going…read moreat breakfast and a friendly/Rocky bar vibe at night. As long you don't make a wish to the playlist and you accept the way things are - you have a new home. 1.4.2008 celebrating 10 years.

This was a fantastic place to stay. We had two beds in a five bed unit. All of our roommates were…read morerespectful. You will get more than you pay for here.

Honestly for a hostel this place was really good. The rooms were pretty big and they had big…read morelockers for you to keep your stuff in. The guy at the front desk when we checked in was super friendly and helped explain a lot to us about the city, public transportation and such. This place was more than I expected for what the price was. Happy with the decision to stay here.

Impressive hostel, very quiet, large rooms and a good breakfast spread…read more I stayed here for 4 nights in July with my partner. We got a double room with ensuite. the room was great! Huge and very clean. The bathroom/shower was really great, felt like a minimal hotel room. Our room was very warm however, an although there was large windows there was no airflow. A fan would have been ideal. The reception is great, really pretty decor, bar(with happy hour) and pool and games tables(2). The breakfast each morning was €5 each and was buffet style. Really good spread, cheese, meats, fruit, cereal, yogurt,eggs, coffee and herbal teas. This was extremely good value and sets you up for the day of playing tourist. 2 things I dislike about the hostel is its location. As a tourist I found its location pretty sketchy. The u ban is a 10 min walk away and from there until the hostel you have to walk on a very dark long road and then through a high rise housing estate. I would not have felt comfortable making this journey alone or in a small group late at night. After 10 at night you must use the side entrance which walks you through the hostels smoking area which as a non smoker is a really unpleasant welcome back when you've had a long day of huffing it across the city. There is also a guy who sits outside the hostel all night reminding people to keep the noise down, I *think* he's a security guard from the hostel, either that or a concerned local neighbour. Just be aware that he may jump out on you if your talking too loudly coming home. He gave me a bit of a fright! Lol

6 bed in famale room , only one toilet/ shower room. other 5 must wait untel she leave the…read morerestroom/ shower. it is hard, reception was not friendly , location is bad . have to walk 15 mins to get supermarket . bus stops are convinant . but U\S was too far. around there is no good place to offer lunch or dinner . i won't come back !

Absolutely terrible. Truly sucked the whole time I was here. The elevator was broken the whole time…read moreso I was walking up 8 flights of stairs everytime to go to my room. The outlets in the room were broken the whole time and they said they'd fix them but never did. The doors were broken, the credit card machines were broken, the atm was broken, the vending machines were broken etc. The staff had no clue what was going on and couldn't use common sense for the life of them. One short lady with short black hair was also completely rude to me. Treating me extremely disrespectfully. Overall I am pissed and going to try and get a refund. Don't come here.

Always a GREAT stay! Front desk guy from Miami Gen AMAZING!…read more Clean Neat Great location

Joao at the bar was lovely and personable, as for the rest of my stay, if left much to be desired…read more The plugs and hairdryers and the bathrooms did not work which was very annoying. When my friend and I arrived, they told us they could not accommodate us staying in the same room, although we had booked and requested to stay in the same room. The beds themselves were okay, but the air in the room definitely was not working as the room was very hot and humid. Overall, would reccomend other hostels in the area!

Everybody was so nice and helpful, rooms were clean and comfy…read moreDefinitely will be staying again

Not my favorite hostel but no hard feelings. There's not much going on here and the rooms are a bit…read moresad and dark. My biggest gripe was that the showers will turn off after about 15 seconds so you keep having to press the button over and over. Towels are 1.50€ and you have to pay for wifi. I did appreciate the 24 hour reception and friendly staff though.

Plus Berlin is more hotel than hostel, which speaks to its excellent service, relative cleanliness,…read morequality of amenities, and breadth of activities and services offered with local businesses. Small things like the extremely courteous service (24 hours, by the way), free towels, sleak building design, spacious rooms and hallways, TONS of pub crawl tours each day of multiple varieties, ample selection of daily activities, and more separate Plus from the pack. Sure, some of these things sound like things every hostel offers, but I think what's different about Plus is the sheer number of activities going on both inside and outside the hostel. It's also very affordable (roughly $20 USD/night for a 6 person room), located close to the trains/clubs, has a pool/sauna, and very fast wifi.

Excellent hostel in a great location! Just a few minutes' walk from the East Gallery section of the…read moreBerlin Wall. I stayed here with a Contiki group, and we had a great time with the fabulous courtyard and Matrix nightclub across the street! Some of the best hostel-prepared food I had in Europe: the cooks whipped up an excellent traditional dinner, and breakfast was plentiful each morning. Would definitely stay here again! This hostel was one of the reasons I fell in love with Berlin.

Literally had bed bugs so gross. Management was not very helpful with the situation probably don't…read morestay

The hotel/hostel is more hostel than hotel. Private rooms (at least in my case) share bathrooms…read more Not a big deal, as there seemed to be enough bathrooms, and they were cleaned daily and seemed to stay pretty clean throughout the full week of my stay. Pros: courtyard, lobby seating, quiet hours enforced, friendly staff (exception: Sunday-AM girl was working harder than anyone I've ever seen to ignore a queue of guests, requiring us to verbally interrupt her to get her attention even for a moment - everyone else was superbly kind and helpful!). Cons: as in much of Germany, the wifi infrastructure for the bandwidth demands are outstripped by the needs of the customers - consequence: internet was spotty except for in the lobby, and sometimes it crashed altogether (it seemed frequently to emit dead signals to the room areas of the hostel/hotel). The cost (at €43/nt) was competitive with all comparables but is not an amazing deal for the overall picture. It depends: The beds are firm, which I prefer. If you like a soft bed, this is not a comfy situation for you. And no AC, but plenty of air flow, so it didn't matter for me in mid June.

The worst hostel I ever stayed in europe. Not a good experience. Bad Design is everywhere. This is…read more They repair the bathroom during the day time, big noise. Heaters are turned off in day time, crazy cold in the room. Staff are rude impatient and seems racist. My comforter(quilt) had been took away when i was in sleep in the morning without asking me. Only mine was took away. And staff said bc i didn't use it. What??? Never meet any one treat a customer like this! Something seriously wrong with this place. I will NOT come back even getting paid!!!! I might have a high bar for customer service which this hostel doesn't have any. And I am a very honest person and try my best to be fair to everyone. I will not be surprised the hostel will response to my review.

Great for young people! I loved the liberal attitude of this…read moreplace. Very friendly (friendly as in "Good to talk to about why it's never a good idea to mix beer and MDMA", and not "Robot Bank Teller" friendly) receptionists, as well as 24hr coffee, techno, and wonderful people! They helped my stupid Canadian ass get situated in Berlin, as well as offered a functional, well maintained, laid back hostel!

I want to like this place, I really want to. The people who worked there were nice enough, and the…read morepeople who stayed there were fantastic, but there was so much that was wrong. First off, the things that were alright: It was tucked away off the street, but that was really alright because it seemed like an extra means of security. After a certain time at night you need to get buzzed into the courtyard to be let into the building, where you also have to be buzzed into. That's fine, I'm ok with it. The hostel is on the third floor of a building with no elevator. Didn't love that, but I could manage fine. There are 2 common rooms--one open to the public and another that takes a key card to get into. Beer, liquor, coffee, and water are available for purchase, as are S-Bahn and M-Bahn tickets, and for a discounted price to customers. Wifi is available, the rooms are large, the bathrooms and showers are enough that I was never waiting for shower or toilet. Sheets are new and clean for every bunk. Second, what was wrong with all of this: The stairwell and open common room reeked of cigarette smell, even though the windows were thrown wide open. So it wasn't smoke clogged, but the smell was pungent. I'm sure this is fine for some, as plenty of the residents were smokers and taking advantage and having a blast drinking and partying to the blaring music on the speakers, but for someone with asthma like myself, this was not OK. The second common room that required the key card was a buffer between the smoking and the dorm rooms, so that one didn't smell, and the dorm rooms were completely smoke free. There were plenty of couches, a foozeball table, and a TV that played movies on a loop, so this was a fun spot to just sit and talk with the other residents, charge our phones and computers, or jump on the wifi because it was fairly strong here. The wifi was incredibly temperamental, so that was frustrating, and I couldn't even get a signal from my bunk. Our room had eight bunks and two outlets, hence we sat out in that second common room to charge our stuff. It was also uncomfortably muggy. We opened our windows, but as they opened into a courtyard, there was absolutely no way to get a draft moving through our room. The air just hung still and hot, as there is no fan. The showers were push showers, which is fine and I can deal with them, but after about 3 pushes the water is incredibly hot; dare I say scalding? That's an exaggeration, but it is uncomfortably hot. And I was worried they wouldn't be warm. The place was clean, but smelly. The people were great, but it was obnoxious. Nothing was stolen and the hostel served it's purpose. For the price, I suppose it should get more stars, but I really can't bring myself to do it. I wouldn't stay here again, but I'm not this kind of hostel's ideal clientele, either. If you're a smoker and aren't relying on staying connected with the world, this place is probably perfect for you. For me, not so much.