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Nearby Hotels & Hostels
Wawik:
By the way, the Park Hotel Blub has been sold this year and is now called "Centro Park Hotel Berlin-Neukölln".
Wawik:
Two more things to consider if you fancy a fast and frequent connection between your overflow hotel and EF:
Generator Hostel Prenzlauer Berg
https://generatorhostels.com/destinations/berlin/prenzlauer-berg
and
Vienna House Easy Berlin
https://www.viennahouse.com/de/easy-berlin.html
andel's Berlin
https://www.viennahouse.com/de/andels-berlin/
The Generator is a large hostel with over 850 beds in rooms ranging from 1 to 14 beds, the Andel's is a 4-star hotel (similar to the Estrel) with 550 rooms and suites. The Vienna House Easy is a three-star boutique hotel with 155 rooms, directly opposite the Generator Hostel.
All three are situated directly next to the S-Bahn station Landsberger Allee, which has fast and frequent connections to S Sonnenallee via the S42 and S41 trains (running every 10 minutes during the day, every 20 minutes in the evening). Rooms at the Andel's are between €70 and €90 per night for the period of EF.
There is a small caveat to these two places, however. During weeknights, there is no train service between 01:20 and 04:20. There is a night bus / tram connection, but it takes an hour to get there (or 59 minutes, to be pedantic.) On weekends, i.e. the nights Friday/Saturday and Saturday/Sunday however, there are S-Bahn trains every 20 minutes throughout the night.
It's literally a 200 meter walk from the Estrel, a few minutes on a train and a 100 meter walk from Landsberger Allee station. If you haven't booked a bed yet, give these two a consideration.
o'wolf:
Thanks! I've updated my interactive map at https://woelfisch.de/blog/eurofurence-overflow-hotels I mentioned above.
timoran:
Word of advice from a seasoned EF-er: The buses in Berlin are TERRIBLE, especially the M41. The last 2 times (EF21 and 22) when I journeyed into Neukolln on that bus, the inbound leg was fine but the return was 15+ minutes late and absolutely packed full of (loud, noisy, stinking) people.
I will in the future only use the Bahn to get around the area, even if it means having to transfer between trains, and that's my advice to anyone else going beyond walking distance. The Bahn rarely keeps you waiting and doesn't get quite so crowded.
Wawik:
Performing some serious thread necromancy here...
Just note that the information in this thread is severely out of date, many of the places mentioned have either changed names or stopped existing entirely and with Covid-19 the whole situation still is rather dynamic.
An up-to-date list of options always can be found on the EF web site. 8)