John's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel Berlin

Waldenser Str. 30 Mitte - Tiergarten - Moabit | Map and Directions

About John's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel Berlin

John's Cozy Little Backpacker Hostel

'This hostel is perfect for young uncomplicated people.'
Verena, 19, Austria

- Fresh Bed linen included !

- small, cozy, personal, non-smoking, quiet -
- especially designed for individual travelers,

-as well as couples and friends traveling together

but only up to 4 people.
( No groups accepted ! If groups bigger then 4 book,
we reserve the right to refuse them)!

We have a little kitchen, where everyone meets for breakfast
on the common breakfast - table.
There is as well a little stove for limited cooking, until 10 pm.

On the other side, there is our cozy Living-room with a jungle of plants, for chilling out, with lots of opportunities for talks and contacts, with nice international guests from all continents.

Here you can listen to your own CD's or to ours , play guitar or use the internet !

We have simple, quiet and smoke-free bed-rooms :

Girls-Dorms, Boys-Dorms, Mixed Dorms and some Double-Rooms

All Bed-Rooms have new swedish wooden beds on wooden floors. ( No dam'd bunk-beds ! )

Minimum stay in our place is 2 nights,
to reduce unconfortable unrest caused by too much fluctuation.

Breakfast (Self-Service) available for 2E, contains

Coffee, Tea, toast, marmalade, Nutella, honey or peanuts-butter,
Cornflakes or Musli or cereals with Milk :

Or
Israeli Breakfast
(Salate of Carots & Cucumbers with olive oil) : 2 Euro

Greek Olives and Greek cheese : 2 Euro

Boiled Eggs : 50 cents

John's German Gourmet Breakfast : 4 Euro
(Ham or Salmon, Camembert or Butter-cheese,
3 kinds of bread, boiled or scrambled Egg
( only Monday to Wednesday)

David's Gourment Breakfast
( Carot and Cucumber Salate with olive-oil,
German Fresh Whole wheat bread, Salmon,
Rheinhessen Sweet White wine )

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 !

For Internet we charge for 1 hour for 1 E, or 10 minutes for 20 cents.

Check-in- Times ( Arrival-times)
only from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. ( 9h to 23h )

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.

Please try to come at the time you said.

If you come more than 2 hours later than stated in your reservation, your beds might have been given away already.

People which do not come at all
Get charged at least the first night.

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 E off

Available:
- Free Book Swap (Exchange)
- Living-Room with Games like chess or monopoly,

- 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
Siegessaule, 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 is especially loved and appreciated
by Australians, Nr. 1 in night stayed here, followed by, by Italians 85% from Bologna suprisingly, Canada, France, then Americans, over 50% from New York or California, and 12% from Hawaii, (sorry, I am a freak of statistics sometimes) , then follow British ( 55% from London ), Brazil, Finland, Spain, Argentinia, Taiwan, Estonia, Scandinavia, Mexico, Hong Kong, Fiji-Islands Samoa, Indonesia and the Sultanate of Oman.

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

Princess Asilia & Schneemann are in holiday !
Michell Kammerer
Michel Kammerer