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Holiday in Berlin with kids
By CruiseDirector | January 4, 2010
I am happy to put up our very first guest post! Tracey went to Germany with her husband and baby boy. They leased a residence for part of their stay, and they’d a smashing time. Thanks so much for sharing your trip with us, Tracey!
Berlin like a Berliner
Last year my man and I took a trip to Germany with our 8-month-old child. We had extended family there and we believed it was a great time to travel – before the small guy may well 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 tiny guy had a regular program at home and we decided the neatest thing for our trip would be to maintain two key facets of that schedule. So each day we got to have a chilled breakfast while he had a quick morning nap. In the day we saw the sites while he happily cat napped in his carrier. And each night we enjoyed a pleasant home cooked dinner and adult conversation after he went to bed. This worked especially well when visiting with friends and family.
Our trip included stops in Grunstadt, Chemnitz, Nurenberg, Munich, Berlin and Neuschwanstein in the Bavarian Alps. For most of our trip we were staying with family. Except for Berlin we were on our own.
So we prepared a goedkoop appartement berlijn instead of a hotel. This gave us a kitchen so we could have a nice breakfast each day, and make dinner each night ( although we usually had a late lunch out and did not need dinner ). An appartement huren berlijn also gave us a bedroom in which the small guy could retire each night while we ate, played cards, folk watched, for example.
It was easy to find and book an apartment at OH Holidays. There was a wide selection of residences throughout Berlin available for all kinds of budgets. We wanted something in central Berlin and close to the metro with a bedroom, washing, kitchen, crib, high chair, and so on.
Our tiny one bedroom flat was on the fourth floor of an old apartment block in the previous 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 character. The neighbourhood was a real fun eclectic mix of people and right outside our door were grocery stores, street side cafes, eateries, clubs, shops, coffee, net, etc . In the day it was just a short metro ride to all of the key sites. And we in the evening we enjoyed folks 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 washing and make ourselves actually at home – all at a lower price than most hostels. We felt like we were seeing Berlin from a Berliners viewpoint.
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