I am happy to put up our very first guest post! Tracey went to Germany with her partner and baby boy. They rented an apartment for part of their stay, and they’d a wonderful time. Thanks so much for sharing your trip with us, Tracey!
Berlin like a Berliner
Last year my hubby and I took a trip to Germany with our 8-month-old boy. We had extended family there and we felt it was a great time to travel – before the tiny 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’d have to make some compromises. The little guy had a regular program at home and we decided the best thing for our trip would be to maintain 2 key sides of that schedule. So every day we got to have a chilled breakfast while he had a quick morning nap. During the day we saw the sites while he happily cat snoozed in his carrier. And each night we enjoyed a pleasant home cooked dinner and adult conversation after he went to bed. This worked particularly well when visiting with acquaintances and family.
Our trip included stops in Grunstadt, Chemnitz, Nurenberg, Munich, Berlin and Neuschwanstein in the Bavarian Alps. For almost all of our trip we were staying with family. But for Berlin we were on our own.
So we scheduled a goedkoop appartement berlijn instead of a hotel. This gave us a kitchen so we could have a pleasant breakfast every day, and make dinner each night ( although we frequently had a late lunch out and did not need dinner ). An appartement huren berlijn also gave us a bedroom in which the tiny guy could retire each night while we ate, played cards, folk watched, and so on.
It was simple to find and book aresidence at OH Holidays. There was a wide selection of flats thru 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 little one bedroom flat was on the 4th floor of an old apartment 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 neighbourhood was a real fun eclectic mix of people and right outside our door were grocery stores, street side cafes, eateries, clubs, shops, coffee, web, etc . During the day it was simply a short metro ride to all 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 cheaper price than most hostels. We felt like we were seeing Berlin from a Berliners point of view.
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