{"id":105744,"date":"2025-12-12T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/?p=105744"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:11:48","slug":"metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/2025\/12\/metamorphosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/Wilmina-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wilmina Hotel\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Wilmina Hotel \u2014 Berlin, Germany<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Fourteen of our favorite hotels in Berlin \u2014 but before that, some reflections on a city that couldn\u2019t stay \u201cpoor but sexy\u201d forever. After that, a chance to give your thoughts on a changing Berlin.<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator style=&#8221;dashed&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/12&#8243;]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside><a class=\"image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM.png\" class=\"thb_image  left  retina_size attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2025-12-12 at 1.00.03\u202fPM\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM.png 319w, https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM-136x134.png 136w, https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM-20x20.png 20w, https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM-225x221.png 225w, https:\/\/magazine.tablethotels.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-12-at-1.00.03-PM-98x96.png 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;11\/12&#8243;]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1720455088433{background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>By <a>Monica Dang<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Global Marketing Director, Tablet Hotels<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:10px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator style=&#8221;dashed&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<aside class=\"gap cf\" style=\"height:40px;\"><\/aside>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<p><em><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"#anchor\">Skip down to the hotels<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ask any Berliner and they\u2019ll tell you the same thing: the old Berlin is gone. It doesn\u2019t matter which neighborhood you\u2019re standing in or which decade they\u2019re remembering \u2014 the city is so steeped in history, so practiced at reinvention, it\u2019d be pointless to dispute.<\/p>\n<p>I was in my 20s when I first visited Berlin and earned my first entry into Berghain, the legendary nightclub. To discourage people from taking photos (and encourage them to be truly present), a bouncer placed a sticker over the camera of my phone, another first for me. It was a sign of the night to come, and a symbol of my time in the city. I left Berlin with a feeling familiar to any young American abroad \u2014 European living felt freer, less commercial, more improvisational than the branded parties and sponsored cool of New York and LA.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Mayor Klaus Wowereit gave the city a new rallying cry: <em>poor but sexy<\/em>. My subsequent visits inhabited that lifestyle, mostly available in the former East Berlin. My husband had once lived there, and his nostalgia guided our visits: borrowed walk-up apartments in Neuk\u00f6lln, beers on a long afternoon in Tempelhof Park, late dinners in Kreuzberg. That version of Berlin, built on experimentation and affordability, felt like it could go on forever. The fact that those neighborhoods were technically in the West was irrelevant. \u201cThe East\u201d is an idea more than a fixed location.<\/p>\n<p>In the book <em>Perfection<\/em> by Vincenzo Latronico, a couple moves to Berlin in search of cheap rents and authenticity: \u201cIn their minds they mostly hung out in former East Berlin, because that was what they associated with the derelict apartment blocks and the feeling of abundance and freedom. But to them East Berlin included Kreuzberg and Neuk\u00f6lln \u2014 actually in the former West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On one visit, we stayed at <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-zoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Zoo<\/a>, a wedding gift from a family friend. Suddenly, we were undoubtedly in the West. Coming out of the U-Bahn, the contrast was immediate. The city felt neater, more composed, more assured of itself. Hotel Zoo sits on Kurf\u00fcrstendamm, West Berlin\u2019s grand boulevard. Built in 1891, it began as a private residence before opening as a hotel in 1911, becoming a haunt for Berlin\u2019s bohemian set. A recent reinvention pays homage to that history. The fa\u00e7ade keeps its 19th-century elegance, while the \u201cCatwalk\u201d entrance leads you to the lobby down a jade-green, leopard-laden runner.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/ZooBerlin-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Zoo\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hotel Zoo \u2014 Berlin, Germany<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I leaned into the West. I shopped the luxury boutiques of Kurf\u00fcrstendamm, promising myself I\u2019d claim VAT refunds. I ate at sleek, upscale versions of East Berlin\u2019s brunch spots and Vietnamese restaurants. Everything felt more orderly, more conventionally German than the Kreuzberg and Neuk\u00f6lln I knew better, where the Turkish and middle-eastern influence is woven into the streetscape. The feeling of anarchy and melding of cultures I associated with Berlin did not feel present here.<\/p>\n<p>On our most recent trip, we stayed in another borrowed apartment, this time a fifth-floor walk-up in north Berlin. With a toddler and stroller in tow, we spent much of our time on trains, tracing the same routes we once took in our twenties but seeing them differently. With a child, Berlin looked new in every way: the metro\u2019s accessibility, the themed playgrounds \u2014 a dragon in Volkspark Friedrichshain, an animal farm in G\u00f6rlitzer Park I\u2019d passed but never noticed. Days were planned around playground stops instead of nights that began at eleven.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor\">\n<p>We had changed. The city had changed, too. As Latronico wrote, \u201cTheir friends\u2019 indie art spaces and small ateliers either closed down due to rising fair fees, sold out to blue-chip galleries, or moved to Brussels, Naples, or Leipzig\u2026 The queue at Berghain kept getting longer, or their patience shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit a city often enough and you\u2019ll \u201cknow\u201d a place, but unless you live there, the changes only register in dramatic jolts, not the slow metamorphosis that residents observe. The change is constant, each point of interest on its way to or from being a thing you value. In a world of franchise restaurants and identical coffee shops, I value the handmade. In Berlin, it\u2019s still there for me, in the in-between spaces. That\u2019s what I keep coming back for. I just have to look a little harder now.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6f4685;\"><em><strong>See our entire selection of <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #6f4685;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boutique hotels in Berlin<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Below, fourteen of our favorite hotels in Berlin. Then, in the comment box at the end, let us know your thoughts on Berlin: how it&#8217;s changed, how it hasn&#8217;t, and how you&#8217;ve see it all as a visitor or resident.<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/patrick-hellmann-schlosshotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Hellmann Schlosshotel<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/patrick-hellmann-schlosshotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/PatrickHellmannSchlosshotel.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Hellmann Schlosshotel\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Located on a verdant, tree-lined suburban street, the only thing that distinguishes Patrick Hellmann Schlosshotel from the other mansions in Grunewald is a small sign lit subtly in white lights. Not surprisingly, it started out as a private residence in 1914. Subsequent renovations by Patrick Hellmann split the difference between reverent Bavarianism and sleek contemporary poise. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fpatrick-hellmann-schlosshotel&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-oraniaberlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Orania<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-oraniaberlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/Orania.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Orania\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally intended as an office building in 1912, the building that now houses the Orania survived the destruction of two world wars to emerge as a classic remnant of old Berlin in the city\u2019s hip Kreuzberg neighborhood. Designed by hotelier Dietmar Mueller-Elmau, owner of the famous Schloss Elmau in the Alps, the rooms are eclectic, a bit bohemian in their visual style, but verge on the extravagant in their comforts. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fhotel-oraniaberlin&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/gorki-apartments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gorki Apartments<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/gorki-apartments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/GorkiApartments.jpg\" alt=\"Gorki Apartments\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Put simply, it\u2019s the sort of hotel we\u2019ve been wanting to see from Berlin for a while. Built in a 19th-century residential building in Mitte, the district that\u2019s still right in the mitte of everything that matters in Berlin, the charmingly oddball Gorki Apartments are just what the doctor ordered: a proper hipster hotel without any of the off-putting try-hardness that sinks many a similar effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fgorki-apartments&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/telegraphenamt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegraphenamt<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/telegraphenamt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/Telegraphenamt.jpg\" alt=\"Telegraphenamt\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This neo-Baroque telegraph office was built back in 1910, in an era when even utilitarian industrial structures were expected to serve a partly ornamental purpose. Today this landmark has been put to use as Telegraphenamt Berlin, a stylish boutique hotel that freely mixes stark bare brick and exposed girders with Deco flourishes and classic modernism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Ftelegraphenamt&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/so-berlin-das-stue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">So\/ Berlin Das Stue<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/so-berlin-das-stue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/So-BerlinDasStue.jpg\" alt=\"So\/ Berlin Das Stue\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Thirties embassy building was built to convey a grand impression \u2014 and as Das Stue, the tradition continues. Its atmosphere, after a massive architectural overhaul by Annette Axthelm and an interior renovation by the renowned Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola, is about as far as you can get from the boxes-and-boxes sameness of the typical contemporary hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fso-berlin-das-stue&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/wilmina-apartments-and-lofts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilmina Apartments &amp; Lofts<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/wilmina-apartments-and-lofts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/WilminaApartments.jpg\" alt=\"Wilmina Apartments &amp; Lofts\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right next door to Berlin\u2019s Wilmina Hotel is something that shares an outlook, if not a visual aesthetic. Wilmina Apartments &#038; Lofts occupies a modern building by Gr\u00fcntuch Ernst Architects, and it\u2019s connected to its sister via a courtyard garden. But inside you\u2019ll find not conventional hotel rooms but loft-style apartments, decorated in a more decidedly modernist and minimalist style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fwilmina-apartments-and-lofts&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/wilmina-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilmina Hotel<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/wilmina-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/Wilmina.jpg\" alt=\"Wilmina Hotel\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former courthouse and women\u2019s prison in Charlottenburg is the unexpectedly gorgeous raw material for Wilmina, a boutique hotel whose renovation leaves much of its original detail intact, but turns its atmosphere 180 degrees from its original purpose \u2014 and the sheer welcoming tranquility of the place is similarly the polar opposite of the edgy, confrontational approach favored by many other Berlin boutique hotels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fwilmina-hotel&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-am-steinplatz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roomers Berlin Steinplatz<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-am-steinplatz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/RoomersBerlinSteinplatz.jpg\" alt=\"Roomers Berlin Steinplatz\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Going back to 1913, the hotel now known as Roomers Berlin Steinplatz has always had a glamorous reputation, counting Vladimir Nabokov and Brigitte Bardot among its famous guests. One hundred years later, the Art Nouveau landmark reopened as a sleek, twenties-inspired boutique hotel that helped lure visitors out of the Mitte and into an up-and-coming West Berlin neighborhood like Charlottenburg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fhotel-am-steinplatz&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/chateau-royal-berlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ch\u00e2teau Royal Berlin<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/chateau-royal-berlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/ChateauRoyal.jpg\" alt=\"Ch\u00e2teau Royal Berlin\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the exterior, it might look a bit more traditional than what you\u2019d expect from a boutique hotel in the former East Berlin, but hotels like Ch\u00e2teau Royal are a big part of what makes this city perennially hip, and not just fleetingly fashionable. It\u2019s made from a pair of historic buildings, one from the mid-19th century and another from the early 20th, and its interiors are inspired by both eras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2FGay-hotels%2Fchateau-royal-berlin&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/michelberger-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelberger Hotel<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/michelberger-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/Michelberger.jpg\" alt=\"Michelberger Hotel\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time and again we\u2019ve seen stylish hotels pitch themselves to the creative class, and then price themselves too high for their intended audience to afford. It\u2019s even more important in Berlin that the hip hotels make allowances for guests with more taste than cash. Enter the Michelberger, where bankers and lawyers are by no means excluded, but neither is anyone else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fmichelberger-hotel&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-zoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel Zoo<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-zoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/ZooBerlin.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Zoo\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A thorough renovation at the hands of the American designers Dayna Lee and Ted Berner leaves the Hotel Zoo looking better than ever. The fa\u00e7ade and basic structure have been lovingly restored to its nineteenth-century heyday, and the interiors have been completely re-imagined. 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This spot, closer to Volkspark Friedrichshain than to the Spree, is close to the heart of all that\u2019s cool in the so-called New East. The 150 rooms are as stylish as you\u2019d expect, and perhaps warmer and more richly figured; parquet floors and classic design pieces share space with Marshall bluetooth speakers. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Fsly-berlin&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/linnen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linnen<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/linnen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/Linnen.jpg\" alt=\"Linnen\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call it an urban inn, a serviced apartment, a home-stay with a little extra privacy \u2014 whatever it is, Prenzlauer Berg\u2019s five-room Linnen isn\u2019t a typical hotel. Check-in takes place in a quirky little caf\u00e9 on the ground floor, where you\u2019ll often find one of the owners chatting with local coffee-drinkers and welcoming in new guests. Continue upstairs and you\u2019ll find five homey, off-beat rooms that are positively packed with character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;View Hotel&#8221; shape=&#8221;round&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tablethotels.com%2Fen%2Fberlin-hotels%2Flinnen&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<div style=\"height:1px;border-top:3px double #ccc;margin-top:30px;margin-bottom:60px;display:block;clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-de-rome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel de Rome<\/a><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Berlin, Germany<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablethotels.com\/en\/berlin-hotels\/hotel-de-rome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.prod.r53.tablethotels.com\/media\/ecs\/global\/magazine\/story-images\/20251213-Berlin\/HotelDeRome.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel de Rome\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" data-gae=\"Magazine, Clicked, Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t get much heavier than the Hotel de Rome, a converted 19th-century bank building off the Bebelplatz in old East Berlin \u2014 its stone walls and neoclassical architecture are a perfect match for the high seriousness of the Rocco Forte house style. 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