Travelling with baby in Berlin
By Advisor. Filed in Florida |
I’m delighted to place up our very first guest post! Tracey went to Germany with her husband and baby boy. They rented a home for part of their stay, and they’d a wonderful time. Thanks a million for sharing your trip with us, Tracey!
Berlin like a Berliner
Preceding year my husband and I took a trip to Germany with our 8-month-old boy. We had extended family there and we felt that it was a great time to travel – before the small guy might well walk or voice his displeasure with the choice of activities.
We knew traveling with a baby was going to be different and we’d have to make some compromises. The little guy had a regular program at home and we made a decision the neatest thing for our trip would be to maintain two key sides of that schedule. So each day we got to have a relaxing breakfast while he had a swift morning sleep. In the day we saw the sites while he happily cat napped in his carrier. And each night we enjoyed a pleasant home cooked dinner and adult conversation after he went to bed. This worked particularly well when visiting with buddies and family.
Our trip included stops in Grunstadt, Chemnitz, Nurenberg, Munich, Berlin and Neuschwanstein in the Bavarian Alps. For most of our trip we were staying with family. But for Berlin we were on our own.
So we scheduled a goedkoop appartement berlijn instead of a hotel. This gave us a kitchen so we’d be able to have a nice breakfast everyday, and make dinner each night ( though we frequently had a late lunch out and didn’t need dinner ). An appartement huren berlijn also gave us a bedroom in which the small guy could retire each night while we ate, played cards, folks watched, for example.
It was straightforward to find and book a studio at OH Holidays. There had been a wide variety of residences thru Berlin available for all kinds of budgets. We wanted something in central Berlin and close to the metro with a bedroom, laundry, kitchen, crib, high chair, for example.
Our little one bedroom flat was on the 4th floor of an old studio block in the former East Berlin neighbourhood of Friedrichshain. The building was one of the few in the area that had survived through WWII and communism and it was full of personality. The area was a real fun eclectic mix of folks and right outside our door were food shop stores, street side cafeterias, eateries, clubs, shops, coffee, web, and so on. In the day it was simply a short metro ride to all of the key sites. And we in the evening we enjoyed folk watching from our balcony.
It was naturally a long walk up those stairs with a baby in a carrier after a long day of sightseeing and there wasno hotel staff or room service at our beck and call. But we had the freedom to make our own meals, do laundry and make ourselves truly at home – all at a lower price than most hostels. We felt like we were seeing Berlin from a Berliners standpoint.
