Where to stay in Berlin - Traveplatz or Charlottenburg?

Hi, I'll be going to Berlin with a friend in June. We're trying to
decide if we should stay in Traveplatz or in Charlottenburg (near
Savignyplatz). Anyone here can shed some light on these two areas?
What are these places like? We're most concerned about safety and
convenience (must have shops and restaurants nearby, good transport
links). Would appreciate any info.

Keith Anderson wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 15:15:32 -0700 (PDT), ll_1002m wrote:
>
>
>>Hi, I'll be going to Berlin with a friend in June. We're trying to
>>decide if we should stay in Traveplatz or in Charlottenburg (near
>>Savignyplatz). Anyone here can shed some light on these two areas?
>>What are these places like? We're most concerned about safety and
>>convenience (must have shops and restaurants nearby, good transport
>>links). Would appreciate any info.
>
>
> Savignyplatz is a good choice - near Kurfürstendamm and "Centre West"
> - plenty of restaurants and shops nearby as well as the S-Bahn station
> and bus routes.One stop on the S-Bahn and you're at Zoo station, from
> where useful bus routes such as the 100 and 200 start. Both the 100
> and 200 head towards Alexanderplatz and go along Unter den Linden -
> the 200 goes via Potsdamer Platz and the 100 via the
> Reichstag/Brandenburger Tor. Under the railway bridge at Zoo station
> is Ullrich's supermarket - amazing choice of stuff (especially wines
> and spirits) and it opens on Sunday which most shops don't in Germany.
>
> Traveplatz in Friedrichshain would be good as well - Friedrichshain is
> an "up and coming" area and Traveplatz is not far from Simon-Dach
> Strasse which is full of restaurants. You're also near Karl Marx Allee
> (former Stalinallee) - built in the 1950s as a "Socialist Boulevard"
> in the Stalin "wedding-cake" style, but with neo-classical porches and
> doorways as a reference back to the Berlin architect Karl-Friedrich
> Schinkel. You're on the M13 tram route which will take you to places
> with interchange to the S-Bahn (overhead fast railway) and the
> Underground (U-Bahn).
>
> Both areas are regarded as part of the Berlin "Szene" ("scene") and
> are safe.
>
> Personally, I'd go for Savignyplatz because of the transport links at
> Zoo, but see what others say.
>
> Buy a "Tageskarte" (day ticket) at the machines at an S-Bahn or
> underground station - instructions in English too. Currently a
> Tageskarte for zones A and B is € 6.10 - if you want to go to Potsdam
> you'll need a day ticket for zones A,B and C - this is € 6.50. Forget
> the City Tour Card and Berlin Welcome Card unless you have clear plans
> of what you want to see - the CTC and BWC are more expensive but offer
> discounts tocertain tourist attractions.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
> Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
> now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen

I was in Berlin last weekend, personally I found the ex-socialist parts
of Berlin much more interesting than the western parts. The big stores
round the K'Damm are much the same as in any other big city, and much of
the city in the west was sanitized in the '70s. The eastern side has
much more of the original Berlin flavour, with cobbled streets, art
galleries and little street cafes and restaurants. We stayed in the
Prenzauler Berg area, and it was fabulous.

T.

Thanks to everyone who replied, all the info is much appreciated and
will help us plan our trip. We've decided to stay in Charlottenburg
this time....hopefully there'll be a next visit!

On May 11, 4:22 pm, "Runge11" <phi...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> You must be from the US to be concerned with safety...
> Lol !!
>
>
>

Nope, not Americans, just female!

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:18:13 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis
<erick.use-net@ardane.c-o-m> wrote:

>Tom P:
>> Keith Anderson wrote:
>> > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:53:51 -0400, "- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Keith. might I ask:
>> >>
>> >>"How long you've lived there ?"
>> >
>> >
>> > Since August last year (2007)
>> >
>> >
>> >>Was it job transfer or " just wanted to move there'
>
>> > So, started to put things in place 2006-2007 - had an operation to
>> > sort out the problems discovered in Germany, sold up in the UK and
>> > used the profits to buy outright here.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Sounds a little like the story I had years back. Faced with the choice
>> of paying off a gigantic mortgage on a suburban junkheap that left me
>> nothing to live on, I sold up and moved to Germany. I rented a fantastic
>> luxury flat right in downtown Düsseldorf for some years, then built the
>> house which I am now living in at a standard infinitely better than
>> anything in the UK. In the meantime, the doctors here correctly
>> diagnosed and treated a couple of serious health problems that the NHS
>> had completely failed to identify.
>
>If I may.....
>my story is less dramatic, but ends up in Germany as well. After having
>lived in Amsterdam until my 20th (then married Ursula) and in Hoorn and
>Monnickendam until my 45th, I was fired. The insurance company, where
>I've worked for 20 years as an ICT Project Manager, released me due to
>reorganization and take-overs.
>So, there we were. No job, a house in Monnickendam worth little less than
>300,000 (70% of which had been paid for) and a small bag of money from
>the company. What to do?
>
>For the next two years, we searched for property on the Internet. The
>whole northern half of Germany had our initial interest, from Eifel to
>Friesland, from Harz to Lübeck. Anything where we could live decently,
>perhaps find a job and create our own little B&B as a hobby, would do.
>And we went looking....every weekend, we drove to a different region.
>Until we had the proper feeling where we would like to end up: right at
>the western border, in the Emsland or Grafschaft-Bentheim Regions!
>Only then we realized, that we had learned every week, and that it has
>taken us two years to find out what our new place in this world should
>look like.
>
>The rest went pretty quickly. We found our current house with some help
>from a broker, moved from Monnickendam to Osterwald in Summer of 2006,
>invested to build a couple of guest rooms, and enjoyed. Here, live is
>great if you like neatness and order, a slightly slower pace, and respect
>for each other. What was left over from the deal with the property got us
>through our first year, until I found my current job in Nordhorn as an
>ICT Team Leader at a publishing company, little over a year ago.
>
>Ursula and I have no clue what the next 20 years will bring us. But we're
>pretty sure that we want to stay here. It has become 'home'...a wonderful
>place to live until we both need to check in into a nursing home for the
>elderly.

Monnickendam was a nice place to live too? Despite being handy for Volendam? :o)
--

Martin