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New Hotels in Berlin The Number of Hotels in Berlin Continues to Rise Berlin, September 2017 Berlin has one of the most modern hotel landscapes in Europe. From the luxury segment to the low-budget end, visitors to Berlin can currently choose from more than 140,000 beds in 781 establishments. In 2017, new large hotels are springing up at Alexanderplatz and in the City West. More than 1,800 rooms are being built there. Hotel Openings in 2017: Developments in Mitte and City West Hotel Provocateur on Brandenburgische Straße in Wilmersdorf opened in March. With its 59 rooms, it focuses on elegant design in black and red. The foyer and bar are adorned with impressive chandeliers. Micky Rosen and Alex Urseanu, Frankfurt hoteliers and initiators of the project, are promising a burlesque-sensual, urban design hotel. Its appeal is further enhanced by an Indochinese-French restaurant. www.provocateur-hotel.com The world’s largest hotel in the Hampton by Hilton chain, the Berlin City Centre Alexanderplatz, opened on the corner of Otto-Braun-Straße and Mollstraße mid-May. It offers 344 rooms with a modern design over nine floors. Breakfast is free for all guests, and both the HUB bar and the fitness area are open around the clock. www.hiltonhotels.de/hampton-by-hilton/ The Hotel Capri on Petriplatz on the Spree Island offers since May thiy year 144 rooms to long-term guests on a historical site: The glass floor in the foyer provides a view of the remains of the cellar vaults of old middle-class houses. www.capribyfraser.com/en/our- properties.html The Yard opened this summer. The 4-star boutique hotel with 55 rooms is located in the alternative district, Kreuzberg, directly on the border with the scene district, Mitte.At the centre of the hotel is the specially designed garden: Idyllic with tall grass, lawns and a terrace, inviting you to relax in the natural green environment. In addition, the hotel has a restaurant and a spa area with a large indoor pool. www.the-yard.de In the trendy Kreuzberg district, the Orania.Berlin open just a few weeks ago. The classy hotel has 42 subtle but rather luxuriously furnished rooms over five floors. http://orania.berlin In October, the Danish hotel chain Guldsmeden will open its first hotel in Germany - in Berlin. For this purpose, the Danes bought the family-run Hotel Altberlin in Potsdamer Strasse, which is currently one of the most sought after neighbourhoods in the city. A number of hip restaurants and art galleries opened in recent months between Kurfürstenstraße and the New National Gallery. Following the reconstruction of the hotel, the Guldsmeden will have 80 rooms. Emphasis is placed on sustainability, both in the culinary experience and in the room facilities. www.guldsmedenhotels.com In 2016, work begins on the Amano Friedrichstraße: Just a few minutes’ walk from the Friedrichstadt-Palast and the exclusive shops on Friedrichstraße, the three-star hotel will

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I Research Text offer 100 rooms and a modern hotel bar with an extensive cocktail menu from 2017. www.amanogroup.de/de/ In the last few years, the 118-metre-high Upper West was built on Breitscheidplatz right next to Zoologischer Garten railway station. The bottom 18 floors of the building house the Motel One Berlin-Upper West with 582 rooms. The terrace of the breakfast restaurant on the tenth floor promises a breathtaking view of the vibrant metropolis. The 60-metre-high Motel One Berlin-Alexanderplatz on Grunerstraße is scheduled to open in autumn 2017. With its 708 rooms, it will be the biggest Motel One in Germany. The highlight is a sky bar on the 19th floor. www.upper-west.de, www.motel-one.com/de/hotels-destinationen/unsere-standorte- neueroeffnungen/ Three new hotels will open next to the longest standing piece of the Berlin Wall: The Meininger Hotel Berlin East Side Gallery will be finished by December 2017. The fifth Berlin establishment of the hotel group will offer 245 single, double, and multi-bed rooms with a total of 833 beds over ten floors. Travellers are also provided with a lounge, bar, game zone, and guest kitchen. www.meininger-hotels.com The other two hotels will be located at Mercedes Platz: The boutique hotel Indigo Berlin City – East Side with 119 rooms and the Hampton by Hilton Berlin City East with 254 rooms will celebrate their openings in late 2017/early 2018. Right next to them, a new city quarter is being created with the Music Box event hall, a cinema, a bowling alley, and restaurants and bars. www.hotelindigo.com, www.hiltonhotels.de/hampton-by-hilton/ Outlook: Hotel Openings in 2018+ The Lindner me and all hotel is to offer around 165 rooms in the newly built “Volt Berlin” shopping and experience centre at the southern end of Alexanderplatz. Along with this urban-style boutique hotel and shops and restaurants, the Volt will also contain a surfing wave and a wind tunnel. The four-star hotel is due to open in 2018. www.lindner.de Barceló is coming to Berlin: The Spanish group’s second hotel in Germany is to be built by 2018 on the corner of Invalidenstraße / Clara-Jaschke-Straße at Berliner Hauptbahnhof. The four-star hotel will offer 283 rooms and suites to business and private travellers, some equipped with expansive balconies. Also planned is a conference centre on the first floor and a restaurant and bar on the ground floor. www.barcelo.com The Campus Hotel – a four-star modern congress and conference hotel with around 320 rooms – is to be completed by 2018/2019 in the Adlershof technology park. An expansive convention area with conference rooms and a hall for up to 1,000 participants is planned, as well as a multi-functional hall for receptions and exhibitions. The highlight will be the sky bar on the top floor of the 54-metre-high hotel tower. A fitness centre with spa can be used by guests for training or relaxation. www.immexa.de/projekte/campus-hotel-adlershof.html

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In 2018, the Japanese hotel chain Toyoko Inn will open its first hotel in Berlin at Alexanderplatz. The new building will offer more 500 rooms. Another hotel in the capital is planned for the coming years. www.toyoko-inn.com/eng/ In August 2016, work began on a hotel at Nollendorfplatz 2 in Schöneberg. It is scheduled to be completed in 2018, offering 85 rooms over ten floors. Some of these are long-stay apartments for visitors spending a number of weeks in Berlin. The interior design of the hotel is inspired by Japanese tea rooms. The in-house breakfast café connects to a gallery exhibiting works from the collection of owner Felix Gädeke. Also set to be finished by 2018 is the Schultheiss Quartier on the grounds of the former brewery of the same name on Turmstraße in Moabit. Along with a shopping centre offering a range of leisure activities, there will be a hotel of the Meininger Group with around 250 rooms. www.schultheissquartier.de A further 814 rooms will be added to the existing 1,125 rooms of the Hotel Estrel upon completion of the 46-floor Estrel tower. At 176 metres, the new tower will be around 2.5 times as high as the present Hotel Estrel, making it the highest hotel tower in Germany. Building will commence in 2017, and the opening is scheduled for 2020/2021. www.estrel.com/de/ For more information, go to visitBerlin.com. (7,408 characters)