Hotel-Pension Reiter

close both to the Alexanderplatz and the Warschauer Strasse, in a usually quiet, safe neighborhood.

where do I begin. We've stayed here several times before, mostly because of the low prize and the nice neighborhood, but this definitely was our last time. We reserved two rooms back on the 6th of February. The prizes were a bit higher now, but we didn't mind: we really liked the area before, and it was really close and still comfortably far from the Karl Marx Allee (where the International Beer Fest took place - really fun, bit loud and ends every day after midnight). Upon arriving on the 30th July, the receptionist said that our rooms are in the other building on a different adress, about 200 meters away. There was only 2 things wrong about this: it was 500 meters, and it was not "the other building".It wasn't even a proper pension, but an apartment is a high rise building, the rooms now separated - but not so well, since we heard EVERYTHING about the other guests, even woke up to hearing them arrive home around 2 AM, turn on the lights, chat, search for the key, open the door, slam the door, and leav the lights on on the corridor (which we could even see under our ill-fitting door). Things, that seemed great first, but was definitely not: 1: our room had a terrace - directly facing the festival. Even opening the window was not an option, because of the noise. 2: fridge on the corridor - the food we placed there simply disappeared on the first day. 3: sink in the corner of the room, looks weird, but yey, we don't always have to visit the common bathroom - and source of daily weird, blurping noises and water splashing (from the upstairs neighboors using the washing machine..?). TLDR: We regularly travel to Berlin and almost always stayed there, but definitely not risking another stay, as it seems like russian roulette: you either get a fair place to sleep on low budget (in the real pension on Palisadenstrasse) or really overpriced days of nightmare (in an apartment room on Karl Marx Allee).

The hostel is close to an U-bahn, which is convenient if you want to travel to other parts of the city. If you walk 15 minutes, you can already reach another big station and the Berlin wall.

Not recommended for a group of friends or if you like to socialize. Walls are thin and the place is not inviting. It is located close to a cementery and the vibes of the place are quite spooky. It may be clean, but not a place we felt comfortable in.