Recommended Hotel (Best Buy Hotel)
This 5-star hotel provides exquisite dining and wellness facilities, high standards of comfort, pleasant ambience and luxuriously furnished accommodation all set conveniently in the very heart of the German capital. A premier convention hotel featuring a large skylighted lobby and a mezzanine-ringed atrium with pillars and ferns, with seven restaurants to choose from, multiple entrances and 24-hour room service. The large marble-floored reception area opens to a glass-roofed piano bar and a lounge with a profusion of plants and flowers. Hotel's plethora of facilities and ideal location are what separate it from the rest.
Location
The Hilton Berlin boasts a unique location on the historic and beautiful Gendarmenmarkt square, facing the Gendarmenmarkt and Stadtmitte U-Bahn station, opposite Berliner Dome, one kilometre from the Brandenburg Gate and six blocks south of Unter den Linden. It occupies a 1991 structure ringed by monumental buildings and continues to improve with age. The hotel is a stone's throw from the Konzerthaus and the French Cathedral. You can comfortably walk to the Friedrichstraße shopping street, historic Checkpoint Charlie, State Opera and Friedrichstadtpalast musical theatre.
Rooms
The hotel's 591 air-conditioned guestrooms rooms are bright and airy featuring wireless internet access and working area. The standard modestly appointed midsized guest rooms are decorated in bright yellow and teal colorss and feature large opening windows with garden or city view. Room amenities include a desk with ergonomic chair, armchair, flat-screen TV, an iron with ironing board and hot drink facilities, phones with data ports, high-speed Internet access, minibars, safes, double-glazing and bedside controls, along with tiled combination baths with hair dryers and robes. Smoke-free accommodations as well as wheelchair-accessible rooms are available. Room service operates around the clock and laundry service is available. The hotel offers 16 well-appointed, sleek and new meeting rooms holding up to 500 people for organising your important events and the ballroom can accommodate 1,200 guests.
General
Try French Polynesian specialties in the South Seas-themed Trader Vic's Restaurant. Have breakfast in the Beletage Restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Berliner Dom. During spring and summer, sit on the Dome Terrace. Further hotel outlets include a brunch room, a large winter-garden lobby lounge with live music each night, a bistro-style restaurant for German specialties, the Italian Fellini's in the dark basement, and a Mai Tai Bar. Vegetarian and allergy friendly products are available. Take a plunge into the heated pool and pamper yourself in the health club. Take advantage of Hawaiian Lomi massage and treat yourself to the Rhassoul, Thalasso, LaStone and Cleopatra baths. The pool is surrounded by a relaxation area with wooden chaise lounges and fluffy white towels and bathrobes. Further health club amenities include Finnish sauna, hydrotherapy pool and solarium and a 24-hour gym. Daily exercise classes entail everything from yoga to stair-stepping to tai chi.