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Where a Berlin hotel is situated says everything you need to know. Berlin's rebuilt city center, Mitte, hosts opulent palace hotels—the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, the Regent, the Ritz-Carlton, the Hotel de Rome—all heavy on the marble and livery. Further east, the mix gets more interesting, with chilly design hotels (Lux 11) that clash somewhat with neighboring Socialist-era high-rises as well as warmer, more homey options on leafy side streets (Honigmond Garden Hotel). In western Berlin, it's as if the Cold War never ended: Take your pick of slightly rundown pensiones full of antique furnishings and architectural details (with concierges who wear a distinctly seen-it-all look) and 1980s glass-and-steel hotels that aren't aging well. We suggest you base yourself in Mitte for glitter, Prenzlauer Berg for post-Wall chic, and Charlottenburg for Old Europe and Cold War glamour.
Two decades before Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich made androgyny famous, Danish silent-film star Asta Nielson paved the way. This pension, in her former...more
The 170-room Ku'Damm 101, located (as the name suggests) on western Berlin's main shopping drag, the Kurfürstendamm, takes the pure, clean-lined minimalism...more
Since the advent of the design hotel, some have labored to elevate the idea to an art form. This is especially true of German artist Lars Stroschen, the owner...more
The Radisson's calling card—a spectacular 220,000-gallon cylindrical aquarium containing 2,500 tropical fish—is actually the least compelling reason...more
Unapologetic and flamboyant opulence is the name of the game at this five-star property, set across from the 18th-century cathedrals of Gendarmenmarkt. In fact,...more
This luxe tower on the edge of the modern Potsdamer Platz aspires to being a prewar grand hotel, re-created in modern Disney-style. The 302-room building is...more
Located a few miles from the center of town in the posh Grunewald district, this hotel occupies a stately home built in the late-Baroque-classic style. The...more
Set on the Kurfürstendamm, the city's prime shopping boulevard, this bean-shaped hotel with a curved facade is in "a truly fantastic location." Rooms in...more
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