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I am delighted to put up our first guest post! Tracey went to Germany with her husband and baby boy. They hired an apartment for part of their stay, and they’d a wonderful time. Thanks a million for sharing your trip with us, Tracey!
Berlin like a Berliner
Last year my man and I took a visit to Germany with our 8-month-old boy. We had extended family there and we felt that it was a fab time to travel – before the little guy could walk or voice his displeasure with the choice of activities.
We knew traveling with a baby was going to be different and we would have to make some compromises. The small guy had a regular schedule at home and we made a decision the neatest thing for our trip would be to maintain two key facets of that schedule. So every day we got to have a relaxing breakfast while he had a quick morning nap. During the day we saw the sites while he happily cat napped in his carrier. And each night we enjoyed a nice home cooked dinner and adult conversation after he went to bed. This worked particularly well when visiting with buddies and family.
Our trip included stops in Grunstadt, Chemnitz, Nurenberg, Munich, Berlin and Neuschwanstein in the Bavarian Alps. For the majority of our trip we were staying with family. Except for Berlin we were on our own.
So we booked a goedkoop appartement berlijn instead of a hotel. This gave us a kitchen so we would be able to have a nice breakfast every day, and make dinner each night ( although we usually had a late lunch out and didn’t need dinner ). An appartement huren berlijn also gave us a bedroom in which the little guy could retire each night while we ate, played cards, folk watched, etc.
It was easy to find and book aresidence at OH Holidays. There had been a wide variety of residences throughout Berlin available for all kinds of budgets. We wanted something in central Berlin and near to the metro with a bedroom, laundry, kitchen, crib, high chair, for example.
Our small one bedroom flat was on the fourth floor of an old flat block in the former East Berlin neighbourhood of Friedrichshain. The building was one of the few in the area that had survived through WWII and communism and it was full of personality. The locale was a real fun eclectic mix of folks and right outside our door were food store stores, street side cafes, restaurants , clubs, shops, coffee, net, and so on. During the day it was simply a short metro ride to all of the key sites. And we in the evening we enjoyed folk watching from our balcony.
It was of course a long walk up those steps with a baby in a carrier after a tedious day of sightseeing and there wasn’t any hotel staff or room service at our beck and call. But we had the liberty to make our own meals, do laundry and make ourselves actually at home – all at a lower price than most hotels. We felt like we were seeing Berlin from a Berliners point of view.