breakfast

we now also offer our guests breakfast!!

Although there are a lot of good breakfast places close by the hostel, and even some of them offer a discount to EastSeven guests only (Memory Cafe, In aller Freundschaft), we decided it would be cool to prepare our guests a small breakfast anyways!

It is always cool to eat something before leaving the hostel and doing a lot of sight seeing is easier with a filled belly!

Our breakfast buffet is daily from 8am till midday! Come to the reception to get your plates and a hot drink. The breakfast costs 2€, including a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. You can eat as much as you like!

Hope to see you all soon at our place !

666 Pubcrawl

Go on the 666 Anti Pub Crawl!

They come to pick you up from the EastSeven Berlin Hostel, every day at 8.45 PM!

The 666 anti pub crawl is a different kind of pub crawl. Visit some of the most amazing, original spots in the city and actually meet some of the locals.This is what our alternative bar tour is all about.

Price of ticket, 10€, gets you free entrance to all bars & clubs along the way and free shots at select (!) locations. We visit exclusive clubs and expect you to know your tolerance and act accordingly.

Perfect way to the discover the Berlin night life!!

Enjoy!!

free food party!

EastSeven Berlin hostel is cooking for her guests, every Monday and every Wednesday!

where can you find  a hostel like that? A cheap stay with a fantastic dinner on top of it, for free!
Don´t look any further, EastSeven Berlin Hostel offers it!

Twice a week the hostel kitchen is turning into a fun time cooking event. Guests who want to eat a long can also join in on the cooking, and take part in a cooking-workshop with Florian.  He knows how to slice onions without getting tears in your eyes!

Eating together is the perfect opportunity to meet other travelers, share travel-experiences and stories, and  getting your belly full while you are at it.
Usually the food is 100% vegetarian. But in summer we also organize BBQ´s.
Then we provide salads and bread, and the guests can bring the meat they like!

Here is in short how it works. We meet up at the hostel kitchen around 19h, anyone who wants can help. If you want you can bring your own ingredients too. Around 20h the food is ready! During the dinner party we have a happy hour! All our fantastic beers ( 0,5L) for only 1€!

Here is a video to illustrate it!

So that´s all for now, hope to see you soon in Berlin!!

Pierre testing the beds

ONLINE NOW!!!

It´s been already a couple of months since Leonie came up with the fantastic idea of making a video about the EastSeven Hostel staff, inspired on the ´Amelie Intro`.
I found the idea magnificent and that´s when we started brainstorming together! The intro of Amelie is where all characters are being introduced, showing the likes and don´t likes that are typical for them.

At that moment the EastSeven Berlin Hostel counted 12  staff members, including the 2 managers of the hostel. So for each character we were imagining what he or she desires or dislikes the most. Some of our staff members came with their own idea. For instance Caroline, who really really enjoys making coffee and she just loves the smell of our Italian coffee beans!! Or Lena, who in real life really is allergic to the sound of chalk on a black board. In the end, all of us show something really personal, although it still only is a small feature of our characters. It does give the viewer an impression on who the individual staff members of the EastSeven Hostel are.
Our special thanks goes out to BRM for making the music and to Frank Dukowski for the voice-over, thank you guys!!!

So if you are coming to Berlin, and if you are still looking for a nice and friendly, relaxed hostel in a great location…you are more than welcome to check in at the EastSeven Berlin Hostel!!

Here is the video, have a look!!

Festival of Lights Berlin

Come to Berlin and experience  fantastic light shows all through the city center.
This year more than 60 sights, squares and buildings in Berlin will be amazingly illuminated during the coming two weeks. If you visit Berlin during this time, go for sightseeing by night!!!!

All major sights like Brandenburg Gate, Berliner Dom and the TV Tower are being put in a different artistic light. For a list of all illumated sights and buildings klick here.

The Festival kick off will be held at Potsdamer Platz, at the new festival centre. The city Mayor Klaus Wowereit will be there to open the festival.

This is a must do for all (hobby) photographers wo will be strolling around the Berlin sights at night with camera and tripod to shoot some really unique pics of Germanys beautiful capital.
More than 60 Berlin buildings and landmarks are atmospherically illuminated during the Festival of Lights 2010. The festival centre DomAquarée, the TV Tower, the boulevard Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate and the Funkturm are just some spectacular highlights in the Festival of Lights 2010. Many more unique illuminations at a high artistic level are waiting for you to see!
From the 13th until 24 October, Berlin will sparkle as a range of illuminations and projections light up more than 60 famous landmarks and spaces.

Special “lightseeing” tours on the Light-Liner bus, by boat on the Light-Ship, on foot with the Light-Cruso or by rickshaw with the Light-Velo will give locals and visitors alike the chance to experience the creative compositions up close.
Complementary to the festival, there will be numerous cultural events dealing with the subject “light”. On the 16th of Oktober, for instance, the night of open doors takes place. This offers visitors a chance to actually go inside some of the illuminated buildings and offers a look behind the scenes. Klick here to find out which buildings will be open for a visit. For a programm of the festival check the festival homepage HERE.

Furthermore there is an amazing Jazz Feast, Jazz at the Minister Gardens, on October 22nd and a spectacular Finish on Oktober 23rd, the CITY LIGHT RUN!

Have fun exploring Berlin by night!

Still looking for a nice place to stay in Berlin, stop looking and check out the EastSeven Berlin Hostel website.

Alexanderplatz

Opening ceremony 14 October, 7.00 pm, at the Berlinische Galerie

This fourth edition of the European Month of Photography Berlin presents itself as a festival in transition. This time the ‘month’ of photography lasts for six weeks, starting – in response to the rhythm of Berlin’s cultural autumn – in mid-October. The biggest change however is the experiment of confronting all participating institutions with a mandatory set theme. The objective was to have all the exhibitions and events focused on a single topic, so as to make the festival more prominent in the public eye and give it a higher profile.

‘Modern times, new pictures’ is the phrase that sums it all up – a theme focusing on photography as an instrument of modernisation. Museums and cultural institutions, galleries and exhibition organisers have been invited to dedicate their exhibitions to this modernising function of the photographic medium, taking different aspects into account. After all, it has long been a matter of general knowledge that photographs do more than just ‘reproduce reality’. What the camera registers, and the way in which the result is reproduced, is rather a matter of interpretation and so can be seen as the creation of new and additional realities. Several specific fields relating to this theme were proposed to participating institutions by way of example, and all these areas reappear in the festival in the form of historic, and – even more importantly – contemporary samples of the art.

Anyone who wishes can organise the website following these different thematic areas, or bring up a display of the outstanding highlights. For the first time the festival includes a central point – in the form of the Berlinische Galerie – one offering a wide range of events.

The curious visitor can expect to find pictures that are surprising and disturbing, controversial and simply breathtaking. The Fourth European Month of Photography Berlin 2010 is more than just a feast for the eye.

(text: mdf-berlin.de)

If you are coming to Berlin book a bed in one of the cosiest places in town, the EastSeven Berlin Hostel

Berlin

Come to Berlin and celebrate with us!!

The 3rd of october, the day Germany was officially reunified is now a public holiday. This reunification is of course a good reason to throw one heck of a party! If you want to celebrate together with the Germans you must head to Brandenburg Gate. Here you will find live entertainment, music, dancing food and drinks.

The celebration is not only for the locals, who have been sperated for over 40 years by the  Berlin Wall. The organisers of this big celebration empashize the pan_European dimension of 1989,when the breaching of the Wall showed that the cracks in East European Communism were starting to split wide open, letting unity between East and West flood through.

Festivities will be organized from october 1st till october 3rd. The party is on all day and free of any charges!

What is to be expected? There will be a huge stage at the Brandenburger Tor. On this stage some really cool artists from all over Germany will perform!

For more up-coming events and insider tipps please check out our online staff-recommendations.

Hope to see you soon in Berlin!

EastSeven

new video new video new video!!!!

Our latest video is all about checking in at the hostel. You´ll see that you need to fill out a form, we need to see you passports, you can pay in cash or with creditcard. And most important we will give you insider information on what to see and do in europe´s most exciting capitol.

enjoy watching the video, sure hope to welcome you all really soon to our friendly hostel:

by Marcel steinmann

EastSeven Berlin Hostel has got new pictures!

A couple of weeks ago we arranged a photoshoot with Marcel. He came by at the hostel to take pictures of several rooms, the reception, the garden, and ofcourse from the other common areas!
So now we can update our pictures everywhere and people from all over the world can see what the hostel looks like, before making a booking!

It was such fun to have Marcel around! I showed him some rooms where he could take pictures, and I even ´modelled´ for him!
Also he made a lot of pictures from the guest who where staying here. Especially at night, during the monday evening cooking event, where there were a lot of hungry guests around.
Marcel made pictures, and I walked around with the hostel-camera, making a new hostel-video.

We uploaded pictures already to myspace, facebook and Flickr….
Please take a look! Hope you like them!
If you have made any pictures of the hostel, during your stay here, please send them to us!! Thank you!

free food party!

there is a free dinner party at the hostel kitchen

it´s always a great thing to be staying in Berlin @ the EastSeven Hostel on a monday!

For over a year now the EastSeven Berlin Hostel offers her guests a free meal on mondays….So there is no need for a monday evening to be boring!!

Our cook Florian is simply the best! He knows the best recipies and makes every vegetarian dinner tasty and delicious.

If you want to learn some of Florians cooking-tricks then make sure to meet up with the cook at about 7pm at the hostel kitchen! Because then the cooking WORKSHOP starts!

It´s a lot of fun, and it´s the best way to meet other travelers.

At the reception, our friendly receptionists sell the best german beer, between 8 and 10 pm  for only 1€, it´s amazing!

To give you an impression of the Dinner party check out the VIDEO we recently made:

After the dinner party go to one of the nice clubs and bars that surround the hostel! For instance you could go to DR.Pong…That´s always fun! Here you can play table tennis all night long, drink  beer and enjoy the great electronic music!

If  you are coming to Berlin you are more than welcome to stay at the EastSeven Berlin Hostel! Please check the website to find out about availability. Also check out our online staff-recommendations to see what´s going on in the capitol of germany!