(Potsdam) Mercure Hotel Potsdam City ★★★★

Lange Bruecke, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

 

Well-organized with proper space and great view. Freezers are only in higher class rooms.

2023-05-18 THU

Heading to Potsdam from Berlin. Potsdam is closely connected to Berlin and you can just take metro to get there. It's like Bundang from Seoul in Korea. Still it's out of region AB, I've bought 2 ABC tickets. 4-trip ABC ticket is 14.4 EUR, so it's cheaper than 4 single trip ABC 4 x 4 = 16 EUR. However it's cheaper in Potsdam, which is 3.6 EUR, and not sure we'd use those tickets when returning to the airport. Actually the HavelHop organizing team provided a shuttle for the whole teacher group later.

* from Berlin to Potsdam

• S-Bahn : S7 (10:12, 10:32, ...) 1 hour 
• https://bit.ly/44v5yYQ
• bus : terminal is far from center 25 minutes 
• https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Berlin/Potsdam\

* Public transport in Potsdam

• https://www.vbb.de/en/tickets/single-fare-tickets/single-fare-ticket/#c20500
• Ticket prices Potsdam (from 01.04.2023)
• Ticket           Regular fare Reduced
• Single fare ticket Potsdam AB   2,50          1,70
• Single fare ticket Potsdam BC   2,20     1,60
• Single fare ticket Potsdam ABC 3,60     2,20

S7 to Potsdam is arriving in 5 minutes.

You can buy beer even in the S-Bahn platform! I love Berlin!

Many locals carried their bikes in the train.

It's only 10 minutes walk but our tickets were still valid, so we took a tram.

The hotel is facing the Zugabe - Schlosspavillion Potsdam - Florian Dombois.

Mercure Hotel Potsdam City

* Mercure Hotel Potsdam City

• https://www.mercure-hotel-potsdam.de/

I thought that we'd stay in one of the local dancer's house but the organizing team provided a hotel room. They booked 4 rooms for each teacher couples, but there were some paperwork issues and the hotel staff couldn't find our reservation sheet. From the papers I've seen Anthony's name, so I told her that the same person who booked a room for them must have also booked ours. We've got a room but it turned out that we were assigned a room that originally belong to Anthony and Irina. 

Well-organized with proper space and great view, but no freezer. I asked the front desk and she said the freezers are equipped only in higher class rooms, which was not a big problem because I didn't have to drink another beer in the room after having enough at the party.

The view is fantastic. South view from the room.

West view from the room.

North view from the hallway.

South view from the hallway.

Fabrik Potsdam also booked bikes for us, which was very convenient to move around in Potsdam. The hotel gives you password cards with bike numbers and the passwords for the locks.

2023-05-19 FRI

Fabien has been here before and mentioned that he loves the breakfast at the hotel because it has everything, which was true.

American breakfast with various selections, including some local cuisine like fish and liver sausage.

2023-05-20 SAT

It also have various types of bread.

2023-05-21 SUN

2023-05-22 MON

The last breakfast at the hotel and now I begin to feel like to try something else. Time to go home.

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