# Is Friedrichshain a Good Area to Stay in Berlin? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/friedrichshain
Every Berlin district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin.md

The cheapest central beds in Berlin and the loudest nights. Book it if the trip is Berghain, the RAW-Gelaende and the East Side Gallery. Do not book it to sleep.

Facts: 45 min walk to Museum Island; 45 min to the airport; price €€; best for nightlife, budget, solo travellers; lines U1, U5, S3, S5, S7, M10, M13.
Safety: Mixed after dark. Warschauer Strasse and the RAW-Gelaende draw drunk crowds and pickpockets until dawn. Keep your phone away there, and stay clear of Rigaer Strasse and Boxhagener Platz on the night of 30 April.

Friedrichshain is where the club map is. Berghain sits at its western edge, the RAW-Gelaende halfway along Revaler Strasse, the East Side Gallery along the river, and Simon-Dach-Strasse is an unbroken run of bars. Rooms cost less here than in any other district in this guide, hostels included, and Ostkreuz puts BER under thirty minutes away without a change.

The cost is your night. Simon-Dach-Strasse and Revaler Strasse are audible from the flats above them until dawn, seven days a week rather than at weekends. Warschauer Strasse station is the messiest interchange in Berlin after midnight, and it is where phones go missing. Rigaer Strasse, ten minutes north, is the front line of the city's long squat conflict, with police operations, burnt cars and reliable trouble on the night of 30 April.

If you book here, book north of Frankfurter Allee or east towards Boxhagener Platz, five minutes further out and a different volume of street. Ask for a courtyard-facing room and check the address against the bar streets before you pay.

What works:
- Berghain, the RAW-Gelaende and the East Side Gallery are all inside the district
- The cheapest rooms of any district in this guide, hostels and hotels alike
- Ostkreuz reaches BER in under 30 minutes with no change
- Boxhagener Platz has a Saturday food market and a Sunday flea market
- U5 and the S-Bahn ring, plus the M10 and M13 trams all night

What does not:
- Simon-Dach-Strasse and Revaler Strasse are loud until dawn, every night of the week
- Warschauer Strasse station after midnight is chaotic and worked by pickpockets
- Forty-five minutes on foot to Museum Island, so every sightseeing day starts with a train
- Rigaer Strasse brings police operations and burnt cars, reliably on 30 April
- Very little in the district is aimed at anyone over thirty-five

Hotels in Friedrichshain: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D345%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Berlin

- [Mitte](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/mitte): Recommended. Everything on the first page of your itinerary is inside one 25-minute walk. You pay the highest rates in Berlin for it, and half the district is asleep by 21:00.
- [Prenzlauer Berg](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/prenzlauer-berg): Recommended. Whole streets of unbombed 19th-century apartment blocks, a playground on every corner and no club scene at all. That last part is why people book it.
- [Kreuzberg](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/kreuzberg): Mixed. Berlin's best eating and its best-known drug park are four blocks apart. Kreuzberg 61 is calm and residential; Kreuzberg 36 around Kottbusser Tor is neither.
- [Neukölln](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/neukoelln): Mixed. The northern strip above Hermannplatz has the cheapest rooms and the newest bars in Berlin. The rest of the district has nothing for a visitor at all.
- [Charlottenburg](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/charlottenburg): Mixed. West Berlin's old centre has the most hotel rooms, the widest streets and the quietest nights. It is also twenty-five minutes from the Berlin you came to see.
- [Schöneberg](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/schoeneberg): Recommended. Quiet 19th-century streets, Europe's oldest gay quarter and rates below Mitte's. You trade a twenty-minute U-Bahn ride for a night's sleep.
- [Moabit](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/moabit): Mixed. The budget chains behind Hauptbahnhof are five minutes from the platform and thirty-five from anything you want to look at. Good transport, no reason to walk out.
- [Tiergarten](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/tiergarten): Mixed. Berlin's biggest park, the Philharmonie and the embassies, with Potsdamer Platz on its eastern edge. Superb to look at and nearly empty of ordinary streets.
- [Wilmersdorf](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/wilmersdorf): Mixed. The quiet half of City West, south of the Ku'damm. Good value, safe, leafy, and a district almost no visitor has a reason to walk around.
- [Gesundbrunnen](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-berlin/gesundbrunnen): Mixed. Wedding's eastern half: cheap beds, a major rail interchange and the Berlin Wall Memorial. Also the area Wikivoyage names for robbery risk.