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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.
The cold, modernist design hotel look is getting a bit long in the tooth, but the Weinmeister reinvigorates the formula. Opened in June 2010, there's a dash of...more
This curved glass hotel's perfect-scoring location is "in the heart of the bustling city," near the Kurfürstendamm's shops and "only steps away from the...more
The April 2010 debut of Soho House was met with a storm of news articles and threatened protests far out of proportion to the property's modest size (40 rooms)...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
Formed from an interweaving of glass and steel with an existing prewar structure, the Miniloft brings new glamour to the apartment hotel category. Its location...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
A design hotel in a period 19th-century patrician building, the Bleibtreu (which means "stay true") was Berlin's pioneer boutique property when...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
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