Every Sunday on the green parkland area outside these apartments there is a furniture and antiques market, that's been a regular feature of the area for decades. One block away from the building is Mauer Park, which used to be part of the death strip section of the Berlin Wall, once lined with anti-tank mines and machine gun nests, that also hosts a market now every Sunday.

A high quality 3-star hotel with everything necessary provided, the rooms are simply furnished - but all offer bath/shower with WC, minibars, telephone, radio, TV and hairdryer/s. Buffet breakfast is available in the morning, not included in the price of the meal, and there's also a bar to perch yourself on inside the hotel premises.

All guestrooms at the Gates hotel are provided with free internet access, you even get a laptop to use or a desktop PC - depending on which room you stay in. Slighty more expensive than some of the other hotels in the area, but then you get the luxury that you pay for - the rooms even come with a hairdryer. Wow!

This hotel is fully equipped with 2 restaurants, a bar and room service. All the rooms at the Excelsior also come with bath or shower, WC, hairdryer, mini-bar, cable TV, alarm call service, Telephone, air-conditioning, radio and pay TV. Located only a short stroll from Zoo station, the Excelsior is slap bang in the middle of what little business and banking district Berlin actually has.

This four star hotel is as centrally located in East Berlin as you're going to get, and as you need. The 368m TV tower is only a stone's throw away, and Alexanderplatz train station (the central station for East Berlin) is directly underneath that landmark.

Located at the bottom end of Schoenhauser Allee, walking distance from central Mitte and trendy Prenzlauer Berg, Old Town Apartments are cheap and chirpy, but provide everything you need to call base in Berlin. All of the apartments have their own bathroom, kitchen and free wireless internet access. In comparison with most hotels, prices are very competitive, without sacrificing quality.

Everything in this hostel has been intimately planned to recreate the ideal DDR experience, when half of Germany was brown/grey and had images of some strange glasses-wearing gimp everywhere (Erich Hoenecker). They have 33 rooms available, all furnished in a traditional DDR style, and there's even a TV set in the reception that's playing East German television reels throughout the day.