Hotel in Berlin, recommendations please!

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As above, we're looking to go to Berlin in the beginning of Feb for a long weekend. I've searched and found a few threads here, but not many recommendations of where to actually stay.. we're struggling as there's just so much choice! Help please, who's been? :)

EDIT: Budget about £150 per night
 
You don't need to spend anything like £150 a night to get a half decent place in central Berlin. Are you looking for something particularly high end?
 
[TW]Fox;27423714 said:
You don't need to spend anything like £150 a night to get a half decent place in central Berlin. Are you looking for something particularly high end?
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Not really! Once you start looking under £100/night I seem to end up finding apart-hotels and places somewhere inbetwen self-catering.. :confused: I am crap at looking for places though.

And we did find the Circus, was recommended but I believe there's no availability now :(
 
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Not really! Once you start looking under £100/night I seem to end up finding apart-hotels and places somewhere inbetwen self-catering.. :confused: I am crap at looking for places though.
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In my first 10 seconds of searching for 3 nights first weekend of Feb I turned up the Courtyard Marriot Berlin City Centre for £74 a night.

I've not stayed in that particular Courtyard but I've stayed in the same brand numerous times in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia and they are almost always absolutely fine - not 5 star luxury but nicer than a budget place.

Infact looking even further there are LOADS of places - either independent or big brand depending on your thing - for well under £100 a night.

Infact you can even stay at the 5 star Intercontinental for £80 a night in the first weekend of Feb. Even the Sofitel is only just over £100 a night. Some great deals out there. Tempted myself :D

£150 is a bonkers per night - we travel a lot and I have never, ever needed to pay that much for a hotel in any city I have visited and I've never stayed in a bad hotel yet.
 
I've stayed in NHow. Quite a unique hotel next to the river and only a short walk from the station.
 
I recently stayed at the Andel's Hotel on Landsberger Alle, 4* (it really lived up to being 4*) and was absolutely brilliant.

http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/and...956d2c2c392498b6e4c1dc95dbfX1;highlight_room=

Modern refit, breakfast buffet included (great food), spa facilities (sauna, steam room, hot tub etc - note, the Germans do use these facilities in the nude! :D)

It is a little way out of the city centre, pretty industrial around it and probably more business orientated, but there is a tram stop right outside and it's only 5-10 mins into the city centre. The public transport in Berlin is amazing anyway, so getting anywhere is quick and efficient.

It's also on the main line into Berlin from Schonefeld Airport, so was just so easy to get to and from the airport by Train.

All in all can't recommend this hotel enough, booked through Expedia and for 5 nights it was £455 in total for 2 of us - and that included the flights! The hotel part was ~£335
 
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In my first 10 seconds of searching for 3 nights first weekend of Feb I turned up the Courtyard Marriot Berlin City Centre for £74 a night.

I've not stayed in that particular Courtyard but I've stayed in the same brand numerous times in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia and they are almost always absolutely fine - not 5 star luxury but nicer than a budget place.
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I stopped in that one in Berlin, could not fault it. :)

Also stopped in andel's Hotel Berlin which was also great.
 
Plus the best thing about not blowing £150+ a night on hotels is that you can justify going again and again - I'd rather have two trips in a £75 a night hotel than one in a £150 a night hotel :p
 
Have you booked flights already? If not then it might be worth checking out BA holidays as they have some pretty good deals for flights + hotel.
 
Well admittedly myself and the girlfriend are crap at looking for hotels, but I did mean a max of £150 including breakfast. Seems a lot of the places don't include breakfast which (in our opinion) is a bit tedious. E.g. I'm looking at the Marriot now and once you add on breakfast that's £122/night. It is for my birthday and our 'anniversary' so we'd like it to be fairly decent.

I'm looking at the recommendations now, thanks everyone! Keep 'em coming! Is around Mitte a decent place to stay?

Anyone heard of the Hotel Indigo? Crap name, but seems well recommended..
 
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Well admittedly myself and the girlfriend are crap at looking for hotels, but I did mean a max of £150 including breakfast. Seems a lot of the places don't include breakfast which (in our opinion) is a bit tedious. E.g. I'm looking at the Marriot now and once you add on breakfast that's £122/night. It is for my birthday and our 'anniversary' so we'd like it to be fairly decent.
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Never bother with looking for breakfast. If it's cheap take it but hotel breakfast is the biggest con going as you've found out - it's a total ripoff.

Just go to a local cafe instead for breakfast, it's more fun and its a fraction of the cost.

Don't spend a fortune on a hotel or stay in a crap hotel just because it has 'free' breakfast!

I've just come back from Cologne where we stayed in a Courtyard and did manage to get the breakfast addon for only £3 each a day extra, ok sure it was convenient but I'd never let it influence a hotel choice or pay more than a fiver each for it.

I'm looking at the recommendations now, thanks everyone! Keep 'em coming! Is around Mitte a decent place to stay?
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Berlin has an excellent public transit system so pretty much anywhere is good to stay.

'Mitte' is the name given to the centre of a German city.

Anyone heard of the Hotel Indigo? Crap name, but seems well recommended..
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Hotel Indigo is a 'boutique hotel' chain thats part of Intercontinental, who own Holiday Inn. It'll be fine.
 
Ah, I didn't know that about mitte :o Oops. In that case, friend's of ours stayed near Alexanderplatz station -- that area seems well recommended to get to a lot of sights. We''ll definitely use the subway etc. too.

I know breakfast in hotels is a ripoff but to be honest we'd end up wasting half the morning trying to find somewhere to eat. We just prefer to get fed up and head out in one fell swoop. Each to their own, of course.

Our problem in looking for holidays is we're too easily swayed by spending 'just a bit more' to get something nicer/easier etc. E.g. we live in west London so we'd rather pay more to fly out of LHR rather than trek across town down to LGW..
 
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