Hotel Spreewitz am Kurfürstendamm

The location is excellent as far the access to the public transit system goes. There are bus and train stations (both U-Bahn and S-Bahn) nearby and they offer quick access to most sights and attractions. It is nice that at the end of a long day you have just a short walk from the station back to the hotel, especially if you have tired children with you. There are also enough inexpensive restaurants nearby that finding a place to have dinner is not an issue. The hotel itself is a little bit dated but it seems that the cleaning staff tries to take good care of it. Even though everything from carpets to bads is old it looked clean. We liked breakfast very much. There were enough options that even the picky eaters in our family were happy.

While everything was clean the hotel has a problem with maintenance. We were unpleasantly surprised by the state of the bathroom. Previous reviews prepared us that the shower cabin will be small but we did not expect that the cabin door will almost fell when our oldest tried to close them. After taking a closer look I've noticed that there is a missing nut and somehow I managed to get the door back on hinges for the time being. Showering with doors open it is. :-) The showering problems continued with the strange behavior of a tankless water heater. The hot water was only available sporadically which resulted in kids being either freezingly cold or almost scalded with hot water. We have discovered that the problem is probably connected to the not sufficient flow of water while only shower is in use. In the next few days, we also kept the hot water running in the sink basin at the time of showering. This solved the problem sufficiently enough. We've reported these problems to the staff the first evening. They did not manage to fix the shower cabin doors while we were there. The water heater problems were not acknowledged as the receptionist just showed us how to operate it. Maybe there was a language barrier preventing better communication as her English was not too good.