Am considering staying at one of these places as they look clean and modern. We will arrive from San Diego on April 12 and leave for Gdansk on the 16th. I wonder if the location is good for transport connections, subway, etc while we are there? Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
SMARTments business BERLIN KARLSHORST
Treskowallee 115
10318 Berlin
or
Mondrian Suites Berlin am Checkpoint Charlie
Markgrafenstraße 16-16a, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, 10969 Berlin, Germany –
Hi,
I'll answer that on Berlin-Karlshorst.
There is a bus running from the S-Bahn station "Karlshorst" along Treskowallee. The S-Bahn # 3 from that station goes directly to Berlin Hbf, I've taken both these routes, that of the bus and S-Bahn 3 many times. So, no need to concern yourself whether the area is well connected by public transport.
Instead of walking the 20 min or distance from the S-Bahn station, that bus goes also right to the Museum Karlshorst, ca. one minute away, used to be known as the German-Russian Relations Museum, focusing on the Nazi-Soviet War. I've seen that museum a few times, the last time in 2016.
I would suggest this area on Treskowallee. In recent years pre-pandemic, Karlshorst went through some gentrification which regrettably knocked out the old milieu of the area. I saw evidence of that compared to what I had seen in earlier years. The Museum has changed too, not merely adding the tech advances but also pertaining to the exhibits (if one's area of interest is on the Eastern Front in WW2) and the focus. I first the Museum 1999, quiet a change by 2016.
Staying in Karlshorst means the second to the last station on S-3 line , the terminus is Eckner. You'll get a quite a different feel in Karlshorst, one most easterly former suburbs of Berlin until these suburbs east and west joined together in 1920 to make Groß-Berlin.
Karlshorst is interesting, life style wise, sociologically. Don't expect to see any international tourists, let alone Americans, I don't think I ever saw or heard any in streets. If you run into tourists, visitors, they'll be Germans.
part 2 here....Getting from Karlshorst to Berlin Hbf is no problem.
Back then 2016 or so, there was construction going on which meant I had to change S-Bahn lines coming from Berlin Hbf to reach Karlshorst. Can't remember at which station but a main junction one in the East, either Warschauer Straße or Ostkreuz. Because of this transfer, that station was packed, everyone was doing likewise.
I would assume you won't have to do this change of stations.
