This new, third addition to the Mittes Backpacker Hostel empire is an excellent place to stay, with a brilliant location. Clean, contemporary and well designed, it has all the...

This second hostel by the owners of Mittes Backpacker has a rather more refined aesthetic than its predecessor, but the English-speaking staff is just as friendly and the party...

On a small, quiet street, but as central as you can get, this is a great modern hostel for the price. The rooms are clean and simple, and there are showers on every floor....

Smack bang in the middle of a newly invigorated Schlesiche Strasse, this former telephone factory - hence the name - with turn-of-the-century charm intact, has 50 clean and...

Berlin's first 'hostel boat' is moored on the Spree by the East Side Hotel, across the river from Kreuzberg. The rooms - or, rather, cabins - are clean and fairly spacious...

The prime location aside (it's only 50 metres from Oranienburger Strasse), this member of the Backpacker Germany Network (www.backpackernetwork.de) is an enjoyable place to...

Right behind the Friedrichstadtpalast in the historic Kalkscheune ('chalk barn') cultural centre, this centrally located hostel is a wonderful, relaxed place to stay, with an...

Just off the Helmholplatz, this small hostel has new floors and bathrooms, and a beer garden in the back for summer barbecues. There's free tea and coffee but no breakfast,...

Open since 1994, Mitte's oldest hostel has something of an antiquated 'student feel' about it, when compared with more contemporary hostels springing up all over Berlin. But...

Down a dark wooden corridor and up the backyard stairs, this is the metal and tat version of a good old-fashioned youth hostel. The place has a little edge to it, with a dimly...

A 'Design-Hostel' of absolute 1970s DDR perfection, and retro-suave down to its bathroom scales. 'The "design" in the name is important,' explains Guido Sand, who, with his...