Pension I

2 Chih Ying Lee - 3 years ago

If you are trying to find a place to stay overnight, it is okay. 8 rooms sharing a bath and a toilet. Have to be patient waiting for shower. When we were there, the hot water is only available in the bathtub. No proper shampoo and hair dryer, have to bring your own. The check in u0026 check-out is easy. It only has number code, so pretty flexible.

4 Anna D. - 3 years ago

Good for the cheap price, but do not expect anything over the bare minimum. Rooms are clean, therese's only one bathroom and a small kitchenette with a freezer, microwave and an electric kettle. There's no reception so you have to figure out how to use the keys and drop them in a "mailbox" when ending your stay.

Overall, great location near railway stations and lots of cheap food options around. This is a good place to stay for a short visit on a budget.

4 Nikita Kleymenov - 2 years ago

Inexpensive hostel made of separate rooms. We had a small room for two with a double bed and a nice view of Gneisenaustraße. There is a common kitchen with a fridge, shower, toilet, washing machine for clothes. We used it was quiet place to spend the night and to cook or own breakfast.

1 Paul Jones - 2 years ago

AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Where to begin?

After a long and arduous bus journey to Berlin, I was looking forward to finding the property and checking into my room as soon as humanly possible.

I found the place easy enough and I followed the email instructions to gain access to the main building, the flat door, and the key box via a series of numerical codes. The latter is where the whole thing came undone.

I successfully accessed the key box but there were no keys (as promised) inside. I backtracked my steps in case I had made a mistake with, or misunderstood the instructions at any stage. It seemed like I had done everything correctly so there was nothing left to do but contact the property and ask for assistance.

The booking reference contained two contact numbers as well as an email address, all of which were also advertised on the walls of the property. Neither number connected and the email never sent due to a problem with the recipient's address. I found a third contact number in a draw but that was also out-of-use. I asked a Germany-based friend to try the numbers on my behalf but they encountered the same issues. I sent messages on booking.com and waited for a response via one of these channels. This gave me time to have a coffee and peruse the property.

The property contains:

- One separate toilet (quite clean) and a separate shower and toilet (no hot water until further notice sign on the door).
- I counted at least eight separate rooms on the floor, all of which seemed to contain more than one person.
- There's a wall painting of a Big Mac.
- Building work going on in one of the corridors.
- Kitchen with no sink for washing.

I thought about taking some of the emulsion lying around and painting over the Big Mac. I didn't know where to wash my cup and spoon and—between thinking about setting off all the fire extinguishers—I considered microwaving them both, but I stopped when I realised that it would just make life even harder for the poor people who had found themselves in Pension I.

I booked a new hotel and left after an hour of waiting for a reply. Pension I never got back in touch via any of the four/five lines of communication, and I had to ask the good people at Booking.com to get involved and recover my payment.

While the whole experience was an inconvenience, I did get to see the sub-par facilities in person, which allowed me to book a much better (and cheaper) hotel not too far away.

SAVE YOURSELF THE HASSLE AND GO ELSEWHERE.

3 Grifzilla - 6 years ago

Large clean rooms, shared facilities are basic and scarce. More than once the bathrooms were out of toilet paper. Good restaurants in the area, but if you want to see the old city you'll have to train.

2 Jürgen “Fitzi” Fitzinger - 3 years ago

Pretty noisy environment, you can hear every step the other guests make. Also the toilet right next to our room was fixed at 7 o'clock in the morning without anyone informing us in advance - one of the workers even bursted into our room. The room was otherwise okay, as you'd expect for the price. The shared bathroom was okay, one of the other guests had questionable toilet manners though.

4 Eduardo Ramos - 4 years ago

Great space and location on Berlin. The check-in, though impersonal is quite effective and organized. The only thing it's that there are only 2 bathrooms for 12 rooms but still it works. WiFi is present and TV on the rooms. Recommended.