So you’ve decided to move to Berlin. Good choice. Your going to need to find a place to stay – a long term apartment – but in most cases, the best way to do this is to visit the apartment before parting with any cash. Therefore you are going to need to already be in Berlin when you start looking for your [...] Continue Reading…
A company’s logo is an important part of its corporate identity.
It creates an impression of the company, a small icon or symbol without a single descriptive term, it should stand out and be refreshingly different and at the same time exude an image of quality,of stability and trust.
It is in fact the image people see in their mind when they think of a [...] Continue Reading…
After 125 years of tumultuous Berlin history, the present mayor, Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit and the city has started a 6 month-long celebration/marketing campaign to show that the famous street Berlins ‘Kurfuerstendamm’ still has lots of life left in it.
As it is, with the Friedrichstrasse being too narrow, the Unter den Linden being too pompous, and the Karl Marx Allee having all [...] Continue Reading…
The district of Berlin called Friedrichshain, or officially known as is a part of the Berlin borough of ‘Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg’ is slowly becoming known as an independent tourist destination – alongside its better known neighbours Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg.
The name ‘Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg’ - rarely used outside of Berlin municipal government offices – and like Kreuzberg across the river, is becoming to take on its [...] Continue Reading…
Thanks OTA-Berlin for a wonderful little vacation in a sunny and very interesting Berlin!
The apartment we stayed in (a fantastic, newly renovated 3 bedroom apartment) was located on Metzerstrasse, a quiet and nice area close to a U-Bahn station, only 2 stops from Alexander square and thus very good accessibility to all the interesting sights.
Interesting sites yes, there are lots of them [...] Continue Reading…
Since 2007 Germany has surpassed France as the most popular holiday destination for Dutch tourists, other than their own country, and it did so again last year.
According to figures published by the state-owned ‘German National Tourist Board, Dutch toursists stayed over 10 million nights in Germany in 2010 – that being an increase of nearly 6% over 2009.
This is the first time [...] Continue Reading…
This article is contributed by the blogs Berlin-based Irish writer Diarmaid O’Meara and is copyrighted to its owner OTA-Berlin GmbH. OTA-Berlin ……the intelligent Apartment Alternative to Hotels in Berlin – with affordable serviced apartments and Berlin accomodation in the districts of Berlin Mitte / Prenzlauer Berg – areas where much ‘squatting’ was and is still taking place!
This article may be reproduced or copied – but only with the prior written permission of OTA-Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
This articles about night life, bars and music in Berlin by night owl Mr Evo Lucian is copyrighted to its owner OTA-Berlin GmbH.
It may be reproduced or copied only with the prior written permission of OTA-Berlin GmbH. www.ota-berlin.de
The illustrations added to the written
article are from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of OTA-Berlin but of the contributor.
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How [...] Continue Reading…
Air Berlin disclosed today that it managed to increase its 2010 cumulative passenger boardings, carrying circa 34 million airline passengers – an increase of almost 4% over 2009 -so a good year for Germany’s 2nd largest aviation company after state controlled Lufthansa.
Air Berlin, is presently headquarted in Berlin and employs 8,300 people , many of whom are based in Germany’s capital. We wrote about their partnership with the ONEWORLD [...] Continue Reading…
This is the 600th Blog article written – on this 31st of December, the last day of year in 2010.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our contributors – and especially our permanent contributors, Aant Elzinga, Ms Cindy Su, Evo Lucian and Emil Hoogenstijn.
In 201o OTA-Berlin strengthened its market position in the Serviced Apartments Market place in Berlin adding its [...] Continue Reading…
Schnee, Schnee, Schnee soweit das Auge reicht.
Als Berliner ist schon einige Jahre eine Besonderheit zu Weihnachten Schnee zu haben, vor allem wird den Kindern immer noch viel von weisser Weihnacht erzählt.
Dieses Jahr gab es schon sehr lange Schnee, doch an Heiligabend war es morgens auf einmal sehr warm, die Fußgängerwege waren frei und der restliche Schnee war grau statt weiß.
Ein hässlicher Anblick [...] Continue Reading…
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