90 min
55 min
U1 · U3 · U7 · U9 · S41 · S42
5.5 / km²
0
11
412
+5% vs city
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Staying in Wilmersdorf
Wilmersdorf is the villa and apartment quarter below Kurfürstendamm: Fehrbelliner Platz, Bundesplatz, Volkspark Wilmersdorf and the Preußenpark where the Thai food market sets up at weekends. It is the part of west Berlin that stayed residential, and it is the single easiest place in the city to get a large, quiet, well-kept room for a middling price.
What you are buying is calm and space. The streets are wide and green, KaDeWe and the Ku'damm shopping are a ten-minute walk north, and the U7 and U9 put you in Kreuzberg or at Zoo station without changing. Families and long stays do well here, and so does anyone who has stayed in Mitte once and found it exhausting.
The honest problem is that nothing happens. Berlin's museums, its nightlife and everything anybody flies here for are 30 to 45 minutes away to the east, and the district's own evening amounts to a handful of restaurants and a very good Thai park in summer. Wikivoyage's own transport section is blunt about it: the stops here are not much use to a visitor. If your trip is sightseeing, this is a long U-Bahn ride twice a day.
What works
- Large, quiet rooms for noticeably less than Charlottenburg or Mitte
- Green, flat and safe at any hour - the easiest district with children
- U3, U7 and U9 run direct to Zoo, Kreuzberg and Mitte without changing
- The Thai food market in Preußenpark every summer weekend
What does not
- Nothing a visitor came to Berlin for is inside the district
- 30 to 45 minutes on the U-Bahn to Mitte, Kreuzberg or Friedrichshain
- Very quiet evenings: a few restaurants and then nothing
- Far too far to walk to Museum Island - about 90 minutes
South of the Ku'damm is the cozy residential district of Wilmersdorf, which is mostly overlooked by tourists but cherished by its inhabitants for its relaxed and comfortable living conditions.Otherwise, the stops in Wilmersdorf are not much of tourist use, although you can change to U3 and U7 along the way.