The stays guide for people building something. Coliving houses and self check-in homes, lived in for a week and written down.
Cover story · Berlin · Sample
A week in a loft in Prenzlauer Berg, and what a door code changes about the way you land in a city.
Read the sample reviewFrom the editors
More of us travel the way we work now: alone or in small groups, for a week or a month, with a laptop and no front desk. The places that get this right are quiet about it. Ananda Stays is where we write them down.
Each issue follows one country. We stay a full week in every place, film it, work from it, and score it on the four things that decide whether a stay works. Issue 01 moves between Munich and Berlin.
Preview of Issue 01. The stays on this page are samples that show the format: they are not real places, and no review has taken place yet.
02 · Two ways to stay
Coliving
Chosen people, long tables and rooms for a month. Ananda's own world: a private club for people building something, at home.
Coliving stays →
Self check-in
A code before you land and a door that opens. Apartments and studios for arriving late, working early and being left alone.
Self check-in stays →03 · The stays
Check-in, design, work and calm, each out of five. 6 stays · all samples.
No. 01
Berlin · Prenzlauer Berg · Solo or two
Code by message the night before, lights that make sense, a sofa in the morning sun. The kind of arrival you stop thinking about.
Self check-in score4.5/ 5
| Check-in | 5 out of 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | 5 out of 5 | |
| Work | 4 out of 5 | |
| Calm | 4 out of 5 |
No. 02
Munich · Au-Haidhausen · Solo
Small, exact and quiet. A keypad at the street door, a second one upstairs, and every drawer where your hand expects it.
Self check-in score4.5/ 5
| Check-in | 5 out of 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | 4 out of 5 | |
| Work | 4 out of 5 | |
| Calm | 5 out of 5 |
No. 03
Berlin · Kreuzberg · Solo, for a month
Twelve rooms and one long table. Dinner is never planned and always happens. Not the place for an early night.
Self check-in score3.5/ 5
| Check-in | 4 out of 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | 4 out of 5 | |
| Work | 3 out of 5 | |
| Calm | 3 out of 5 |
No. 04
Munich · Schwabing · Solo or a small team
Linen, plaster, one paper lamp. Six rooms, a house manager on message, and a common room that empties out by ten.
Self check-in score4.2/ 5
| Check-in | 4 out of 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | 5 out of 5 | |
| Work | 3 out of 5 | |
| Calm | 5 out of 5 |
No. 05
Berlin · Friedrichshain · Solo, to work
A real chair, a real desk and a window to think at. Rare in a short stay, and worth the fifth-floor stairs.
Self check-in score4.2/ 5
| Check-in | 4 out of 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | 4 out of 5 | |
| Work | 5 out of 5 | |
| Calm | 4 out of 5 |
No. 06
Munich · Glockenbachviertel · Two or more
A members-only feel: a courtyard, a shared kitchen with good knives, and a door code that changes for every stay.
Self check-in score3.8/ 5
| Check-in | 3 out of 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | 4 out of 5 | |
| Work | 4 out of 5 | |
| Calm | 4 out of 5 |
04 · How we review
No press trips and no one-night visits. We book a week, live like a guest, and publish what we found: a reel, a story series and a short written review.
We arrive late on purpose. How clear is the code, the door, the first five minutes?
Light, materials, beds and the small things. Considered, or furnished in a weekend?
A real desk and chair, Wi-Fi we test, calls from the room. Can you build here for a week?
Noise at night, blackout, the street, the house rules. Do you sleep, and want to stay longer?
05 · For operators
Run a coliving house or self check-in apartments in Munich or Berlin? Host us for a week. We make the reel, the stories and the written review, and we show you what we noticed about running it.
Opens your email app, addressed to anandaheightsllc@gmail.com. We read every message.
