Berlin · Germany · Ordinary hotel, well placed
Staying in Berlin — Charlottenburg or Prenzlauer Berg
Berlin has no single Jewish quarter to stay in. The largest shul is in Prenzlauer Berg and most of the kosher shopping is in Charlottenburg, and the two are a long way apart — so this entry is the choice rather than an answer.
No kosher kitchen — listed for where it stands, not for its food.
- Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf, in the west, is where most of the kosher shopping and the community services are. Prenzlauer Berg, in the east, has the big shul. Berlin is large enough that this is a real decision and not a detail.
- Whichever you pick, check the distance to the other on a map before booking — a hotel that is a walk from one is a journey from the other.
- Listed as an ordinary hotel district rather than a Jewish quarter, because Berlin does not have one in the sense that Antwerp does.
- Everything on the things-to-do list for Berlin — the Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island, the Jewish Museum — is central and reachable from either.
Distances measured from Rykestrasse Synagogue, Prenzlauer Berg — Germany's largest shul, not from the building itself.