Mark Hotel Meineke

Berlin is not as high society and upscale city as Paris. So, don't look for funny, toll box-toilets put on the streets :-). I didn't find any in Berlin. Signs of New Europe? Maybe Parisian ladies and gentelmen are thin enough to get inside not too roomy toilet, brave enough not to worry whether the automatic doors open and exact enough to have always change by themselves. But not Berliners. They have enough cafes, restaurants, bars and metro (U-bahn) stations with toilets which were much more roomy than Parisian toilet-boxes - more like American sterile and free of charge rest-rooms than European "taxed" and not always fragrant of violets toilets. Or maybe I used them in former American sector of Berlin, hmm... Charlottenburg (rather upscale district) sounds more French to me. Never mind, "managers" of the toilets were kind enough neither to ask me for any "toilet-fee" or "toilet-tax" nor to ask me to order anything. They just showed me the way although sometimes in hard German. Btw whenever you hear word "zurick" (tzurig) = back you are on wrong way. Berliners seems to be thrifty enough not to waste euros when the nature calls, me too :-)