About John's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel Berlin
Johns Hostel , the coziest hostel on earth ! It is a dark, old, wired house with ghosts and spider-webbs, little dwarfs under the iron beds and frogs and ducks in the bath-rooms! And then the fairy-tales's staff.
Rübezahl might open you the door or Rotkäppchen (Red-riding hood) , Schneewittchens Step-mother, (snow-white mother-in-law ) or even the cruel woolf.
But it could be the prince as well, and you become Cinderella, hehe.
***** Free Internet, day and night, watch the stars!
***** Fresh bed linen, included ! prepered for you by Frau Holle
***** Breakfast-buffet, for 1 , 2 . 3 or 5 uro !
1 The Italian Coffee, a dry toast & marmalade
2 The American : Cornflakes & Milk & the Italian
3 The Swiss: Fresh Cottage Cheese & Müsli & The American
4 the German: Smoked Ham, Orange-Juice & The Swiss (mit Musik)
5 The French : Champagne & The German
***** A little kitchen for cooking
***** A cozy living room for chilling out.
Check-in- Times ( Arrival-times) from 9 in the morning to midnight
Our hostel was best rated, loved and appreciated by laid back Australians from the out-back, Hippies from Israel, Italians from Bologna , Gay Canadians after surviving Egypt, English from London, especially Finsbury Park, Scolars from Finland, Iranian-American from New York, Artists from Argentina or Drunk Swedish Party girls. And Sibirians never complaned.
Taiwanese gets free Champagne
Worst rated by Chinese from Shanghai, and Russians from Moskou.
People who prefer the Hilton, might stay away, it's not for them.
***** Quiet bed-rooms with private lights.
***** Individual beds, No damd bunk beds!
***** No Smoke inside at all!
***** Many single travelers, no Groups at all !
'It's unique ! It's better than home ! Less boring at least.' Sarah, 17, Basel, Switzerland
It felt like you were staying at a friends house! Relaxing! atmosphere, Susanne, 21, Mainz, Germany .
'The place feels more like a home than a hostel. Cool living room, nice staff, clean, small and intimate.' Jimmy, 20, Canada
***** Favourite Hostel of the Year of Young Gays & Lesbians, Easygoing Hippies, Non-smokers, Vegetarians & Philosophers!
***** Berlin's German Language Student's Favourite Long stay Residence for just 200 Euros for a month,
Johns Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel
With a fast growing reputation for its unique, homely atmosphere, this hostel for travellers and backpackers has a very friendly multi-cultural atmosphere.
It is in the ground floor of a historic house of 1895.
Perfect for people who love a romantic atmosphere.
The Reception and the living-room is separated from the kitchen.
In the morning our common breakfast - table in the kitchen provide a nice atmoshere to meet people, as well as the living-room.
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.
This hostel is perfect for young uncomplicated people.'
(Verena, 19, Austria)
'A very small & cozy home-hostel, non-smoking or trying to quit.
Quiet. No loud party hostel.'
We have simple, quiet and smoke-free bed-rooms :
Girls-Dorms, Boys-Dorms, Mixed Dorms and some Double-Rooms
All Bed-Rooms have new german iron beds on wooden floors. (No bunk beds)
Each bath-room is shared
Minimum stay in our place is 3 nights, in high seasons 3 nights, in order to reduce uncomfortable unrest caused by too much fluctuation.
John's is t h e Hostel for the passonate Playstation & XBox Junkys on holidays. Ask John for support and mental advise on how to get even rid of PSP fever while abroad.
Beer & wine only in reasonable quantities permitted. No dope at all ! Tea-junkies welcome.
Music instruments welcome.
Playing musicians get a free drink!
Single travellers esp. welcome - groups not alllowed !
Welcome as well couples and friends traveling together, but please no groups bigger than 4 at all...
Owner: John Blackknight, 25 years
John's Hostel tries to offer a friendly, romantic, cozy place
with a lot of possibilities for communication with other travelers.
It is supposed to be an ideal place for those,
who love to be in a cozy, private house,
who don't mind simplicity and
appreciate the laid back atmosphere of a student community.
Single travelers are especially welcome,
as well as explorers of culture & night-life
and students of German language.
We only accept bookings of little groups of 2 up to 4 persons.
( Groups bigger than 4 are kindly asked to go somewhere else. )
Gays and Lesbians are welcome.
Favourite Hostel of Young Gays & Lesbians, Easygoing Hippies, Non-smokers, Vegetarians & Philosophers !
Check-in- Times ( Arrival-times) in the summer
only from 8 a.m. morning to midnight ( 8h to 24h )
Everyone gets a key or key-card.
After 11 p.m. we offer a special late night service.
Therefore we charge 3 Euro extra per guest and per each started hour for waiting.
We speak German, English, Dutch, and Italian, French! Arabic, Israeli / Hebrew, Indonesian,
Guitar-players with own guitar, who like to play for us, might get brief reductions / discounts.
People from Korea and from Indoesia get 1 off
Available:
- Free Book Swap (Exchange)
- Living-Room with Games like chess or monopoly,
-CD player for your own music, but definitely no TV.
-a guitar to play
- Info-Display with Information & flyers,
about Museums, Sights & Night-life,
including 4 Berliner Program- Magazines with
Berlin's Events, Clubs, Exhibitions, Street parties,
Cinemas, Theatres, Festivals and Flea-markets :
Tip, Zitty, and the 2 gay magazines
Siegessäule, Sergej
I think we represent a cozy, simple & easy-going, small hostel with personality,
more like a private home of a bigger family, for friendly & open-minded young backpackers, students and experienced globetrotter, explorer & adventurers as well.
Our hostel was best rated, loved and appreciated by Australians, Italians from Bologna , by Canadians, English, Finlandians, USA from New York or California, Scandinavians und Taiwanese,
worst rated by Chinese from Shanghai, Turkish, Russians & people of the former Sowjet Union.
Berlin is a city, where it makes not much sense to spend 1 or 2 days here.
It is a metropolis of the size of London and Paris or New York, but very much affordable, cheaper than any town of western Europe.
So plan to stay longer ! You will not regret it.
The new Hostel with just a few beds is in a typical Berliner building of 1895,
The house has the charm of a typical Berliner building from the Kaiser-Time ( 1895), with 'Stuck' everywhere, and high ceilings of 4 meters.
In the 2. world-war, there were fightings in this house, tracks of this could be seen in the back-yard of the house, on the wall, holes of bulits from the street-fightings in 1945..
The rooms have wooden floors and the 4 meter high walls are painted in in desert orange of Egypt's deserts,
combined with the nile-blue door and windows..
The bath-rooms remind on the
Arabian built Alhambra of Granada (Spain).
some oriental elements,
originating from the owners' favour for North-Africa & Asia,
especially of Egypt, India & Indonesia.
This hostel is designed for single travellers, who like meeting other people, while they are travelling, preferable those who do not regard themselves as a part of the main-stream tourists.
It is a small place, with an atmosphere of a big family's home or of a nice students-share-house, quite relaxed, where you can feel like at a home.
Most of our guests are at the moment from Canada, Sweden, Italy and France, Japan, Denmark Sweden, Japan, England, Austria, and California / USA,
At least we are completely free of noisy groups or school-kids,
so we attract especially individual travellers with character, students, many of German language, anthropology and arts.
Groups bigger than 4 we do not want to see here,
because they might destroy our cozy atmosphere.
We try to offer a friendly, romantic , human, cozy & a bit artistic hostel, with a lot of communication among the travellers .
Since the owners are fans of Arabia, esp. Egypt,
and Asia, esp. Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand ,Malaysia, Singapore, there is some flavour of it present.
Due to Johns special interests, fans of play-station 2 and x-box are especially welcome, as well as adventurers & explorers of Africa or Asia, Arabia or Iran, which are John's special hobbies
Some plants and paintings will provide a cozy atmosphere with a touch of an artists private home, which is open to individual backpackers, students, world-travellers, artists, and explorers of culture, history or night-life.
Happy to see you soon ! John, Asilia & David
The Crazy Home- Hostel
*** Linen included ! *** No Bunk beds !
*** Cozy Livingroom! **** Common breakfast-table !
****German Breakfast buffet for just 3 !
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
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
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.
The german breakfast buffet costs you 3 only, and includes Cornflakes, Müsli & Cereal with milk, orange-juice, r a boiled egg or a yoghurt extra or 2 slices of German Smoked or cooked ham!
C o m m o n K i t c h e n
Kitchen use all day & night,
except the stove can only be used from 3pm 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:
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 cooka 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 )
Prominent permanent VIP- guest is there in the moment: the legendary
Yahav Ger, from Rishon