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The luxury boutique Bleibtrue hotel in Berlin. Berlin (London-Brussels-Berlin-Brussels-London) Getting the train to Paris doesn’t count as a proper rail trip, so why not start by booking a weekend break in trendy Berlin? First class on Eurostar with a double cabin on the DB Nachtzug from £252pp through Deutsche Bahn’s UK office (0870 2435363). Where to stay: The luxury boutique Bleibtreu hotel where double rooms are available from €109 per night, including full breakfast. · avantgardehotels.com (via Classic rail journeys across Europe | Travel | The Guardian)

The luxury boutique Bleibtrue hotel in Berlin. Berlin (London-Brussels-Berlin-Brussels-London) Getting the train to Paris doesn’t count as a proper rail trip, so why not start by booking a weekend break in trendy Berlin? First class on Eurostar with a double cabin on the DB Nachtzug from £252pp through Deutsche Bahn’s UK office (0870 2435363). Where to stay: The luxury boutique Bleibtreu hotel where double rooms are available from €109 per night, including full breakfast. · avantgardehotels.com (via Classic rail journeys across Europe | Travel | The Guardian)
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“In its survey, TRI Hospitality Consulting found that London and Paris were well behind Moscow with £75 and £58 profit made on each room respectively. Berlin hotels brought in only a third of the Russian capital’s profit, at £35.” Moscow makes most profit from hotel rooms, says poll | World news | The Guardian
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Mayda makes Berlin There are various localised vlogs out there, and honourable mentions go to the Brooklyn Chowder Surfer’s fearless coverage of New York seafood, and “wacky” Dave Armstrong’s Toronto nutshells. But my current favourite is Mayda 3000’s Berlin vlogs on what Berlin does best - be cooler than you. Mayda covers all sorts of avant-garde stuff; his coverage of his home neighbourhood of Kreuzberg ranges from art openings through gay pride to a night out at the “infamous” S036 club. (via Best of the travel vlogs | Travel | guardian.co.uk)

Mayda makes Berlin There are various localised vlogs out there, and honourable mentions go to the Brooklyn Chowder Surfer’s fearless coverage of New York seafood, and “wacky” Dave Armstrong’s Toronto nutshells. But my current favourite is Mayda 3000’s Berlin vlogs on what Berlin does best - be cooler than you. Mayda covers all sorts of avant-garde stuff; his coverage of his home neighbourhood of Kreuzberg ranges from art openings through gay pride to a night out at the “infamous” S036 club. (via Best of the travel vlogs | Travel | guardian.co.uk)
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“White hot, Berlin Maybe it’s an anti-grunge backlash, but in the last few years Berlin designers have been stamping their mark on the city with ultra-clean, all-white interiors. The Studio Bar (Hauptstr 159) has a long white padded tunnel interior (think Alien meets Amsterdam’s Supperclub), and white is also the dominant (make that the only) colour on view at the Bangaluu (Invalidenstrasse 30, bangaluu.com), a lounge, dance, reclining and dining affair. The snowy hues continue at Lux 11 (00 800 3746 8357, lux11.com, doubles from €105), a creamy chic aparthotel with pale stone bathrooms in the Mitte district, once in East Berlin and now a creative hub.” 10 best chic autumn escapes | Travel | The Guardian
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“1. Party city: Berlin Right now, from Mexico City to St Petersburg (both touted as nightlife hotspots in their time), the clubland cognoscenti all look to one city, Berlin. Former East Berlin is completely unique: a truly international city with non-existent licensing laws and cheap living costs which, for the foreseeable future, will remain the unruly epicenter of cutting-edge club/electronic music culture. New clubs like 103 are opening all the time, and old favourites like Tacheles, a bizarre art-squat-bar-beach complex, continue to astound anyone who has grown up in dull old Britain. Last summer, Guardian Travel ended up in legendary techno club, Tresor. At a 24-hour live electro-jam. At 6pm on a Thursday afternoon. That is Berlin in a nutshell. Free local listings magazines like Fresh and Stadtkind will help you navigate, just remember the local ravers’ cautionary motto: “Don’t forget to go home.” Where’s hot for 2008 | Travel | guardian.co.uk
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“Hotel Hansablick, Berlin, Germany A great-value hotel in a turn of the century townhouse on the banks of the Spree, with the wares of various contemporary Berlin artists dotted around the building. The rooms in the Hansablick are simple, high-ceilinged and stuccoed, with large bathrooms and bedside armoires, free wifi and a huge breakfast included in the price. The riverside bike and walking paths are on the hotel’s doorstep. · +49 30 390 4800, hansablick.de, doubles from £50 B&B.” 50 hotels under £50 | Travel | The Guardian
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“What is … sightjogging? When most people want to get to know a new city, they simply take a leisurely stroll around. But the latest trend for health-conscious or time-pressed visitors wanting to check out key landmarks and get to know their way around town is ‘sightjogging’. On running tours of Berlin, a charismatic guide will help you discover the sights and secrets of the German capital, regaling you with insider tips as you jog. Tours last for up to 90 minutes and can be tailored to all fitness levels, with a choice of routes (sightjogging-berlin.de).” Expert traveller | Travel | The Observer
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“Germany mitArt, Berlin It once housed the GDR’s National Military Printing Press, producing a ready supply of propaganda. Now it’s Berlin’s first green hotel, offering a showcase for up-and-coming contemporary artists in the lively, cosmopolitan Mitte district. The owner, Christiane Waszkowiak, started out running a modern art gallery that offered accommodation for the new artists she exhibited. Gradually, it grew into a small hotel. In 2005, she expanded the operation by moving to this turn-of-the-20th-century building, decorating the interior in contemporary style with eco-friendly paints and varnishes. The courtyard is filled with herbs, lemon bushes, fig trees and a banana palm. Rooms are stylish and uncluttered, with dark wooden furnishings, white bedding and, of course, contemporary artworks. Electricity comes from renewable sources and cleaning products and guest soaps are organic and biodegradeable. Recycling of everything from plastics to cans is standard practice, and any waste organic matter from the kitchen is collected in separate containers for composting. The cafe on the ground floor serves only organic food - sourced as much as possible from local suppliers. The hotel provides information on things to do and see in the area, and Christiane is particularly knowledgeable on the local art scene. · 0049 (0) 30 283 90430, mitart.de, €110-€180 per double per night B&B.” Go lightly: 10 eco-friendly places to stay | Travel | The Guardian
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A new unique hotel opened in Berlin - the ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN. In the setting of a magnificent building in the architectural style of the Golden Twenties, you will find refinement and quality, with simple elegance, professional and unobtrusive service and a lively and individual atmosphere. We can offer everything that you might need and have dispensed with the unnecessary. And all this at moderate prices. The ELLINGTON HOTEL, with its central location, is the ideal place for visitors wanting to explore the capital Berlin and enjoy the city life. The hotel is perfect for solo travellers, couples, family groups, business travellers, and all those who cherish that something special. The ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN – relaxed, elegant and at the heart of Berlin. (via Ellington Hotel Hotel)

A new unique hotel opened in Berlin - the ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN. In the setting of a magnificent building in the architectural style of the Golden Twenties, you will find refinement and quality, with simple elegance, professional and unobtrusive service and a lively and individual atmosphere. We can offer everything that you might need and have dispensed with the unnecessary. And all this at moderate prices. The ELLINGTON HOTEL, with its central location, is the ideal place for visitors wanting to explore the capital Berlin and enjoy the city life. The hotel is perfect for solo travellers, couples, family groups, business travellers, and all those who cherish that something special. The ELLINGTON HOTEL BERLIN – relaxed, elegant and at the heart of Berlin. (via Ellington Hotel Hotel)
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“Meanwhile in Berlin Hotel Ellington has recently reopened. Famous to rock fans as the place where David Bowie lived while writing and recording his trio of dark and experimental albums (Low, Heroes and The Lodger) with Brian Eno in the mid-seventies, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Carlos Santana are also former residents. But to another generation of music fans, the Ellington will be forever associated with the sounds of the Duke, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald Count Basie, and Dizzie Gillespie, who all played in the cellar bar.” Sleeping giants of rock | Travel | guardian.co.uk
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Top 10 Berlin hotels Kate Connolly gives an insider’s pick of places to stay in Berlin, whatever your budget * Kate Connolly * guardian.co.uk, * Thursday November 8 2007 * Article history · * Contact us Contact us Close * Contact the Travel editor travel.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk * Report errors or inaccuracies: userhelp@guardian.co.uk * Letters for publication should be sent to: letters@guardian.co.uk * If you need help using the site: userhelp@guardian.co.uk * Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 7278 2332 * o Advertising guide o License/buy our content About this article Close This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Thursday November 08 2007. It was last updated at 13:55 on November 12 2007. The Mirror room at Propeller Island City Lodge, Berlin Bright nights … the mirror room at Propeller Island City Lodge. Photograph: Lars Stroschen 1. The wackiest At Propeller Island City Lodge you can slumber in a fortress, a flying bed, a room full of clouds, or float on a raft attached to the ceiling with shipping rope (weight-restrictions apply). Situated in the western district of Charlottenburg, this surreal hotel also offers a night in a silver temple, a prison cell, a coffin in a crypt, boxes beneath the floor of a room where furniture is stuck to the ceiling or in a green-padded cell. · Room prices range from €75 to €115 (£52 to £80) for one person with a €15 (£10.45) charge for each extra person. Breakfast is a modest €7. 2. For garden lovers (via Top 10 Berlin hotels | Travel | guardian.co.uk)

Top 10 Berlin hotels Kate Connolly gives an insider’s pick of places to stay in Berlin, whatever your budget * Kate Connolly * guardian.co.uk, * Thursday November 8 2007 * Article history · * Contact us Contact us Close * Contact the Travel editor travel.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk * Report errors or inaccuracies: userhelp@guardian.co.uk * Letters for publication should be sent to: letters@guardian.co.uk * If you need help using the site: userhelp@guardian.co.uk * Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 7278 2332 * o Advertising guide o License/buy our content About this article Close This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Thursday November 08 2007. It was last updated at 13:55 on November 12 2007. The Mirror room at Propeller Island City Lodge, Berlin Bright nights … the mirror room at Propeller Island City Lodge. Photograph: Lars Stroschen 1. The wackiest At Propeller Island City Lodge you can slumber in a fortress, a flying bed, a room full of clouds, or float on a raft attached to the ceiling with shipping rope (weight-restrictions apply). Situated in the western district of Charlottenburg, this surreal hotel also offers a night in a silver temple, a prison cell, a coffin in a crypt, boxes beneath the floor of a room where furniture is stuck to the ceiling or in a green-padded cell. · Room prices range from €75 to €115 (£52 to £80) for one person with a €15 (£10.45) charge for each extra person. Breakfast is a modest €7. 2. For garden lovers (via Top 10 Berlin hotels | Travel | guardian.co.uk)
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Berlin No round-up on European art would be complete without a mention of so-cool-right-now-it’s-almost-uncool Berlin. Needless to say, the blogosphere is teeming with uber-trendy offerings from local arty types (see here and here) but, after a little sifting, two gems emerge. First up is We Make Money Not Art, a superb little number that kicked a pack of US-based blogs into touch by winning the 2005 Best Urban Arts Blog award - their “art in Berlin” tag has a great selection of hand-picked exhibitions. The Berlinista’s art tag is just as good, and with more breadth. The “exhibitions” and “artists and fairs” bits act as great listings sections, and be sure to have a look at this page for a round-up of all the big exhibitions in the city through 2008. (via Blog by blog guide to … art in Europe | Travel | guardian.co.uk)

Berlin No round-up on European art would be complete without a mention of so-cool-right-now-it’s-almost-uncool Berlin. Needless to say, the blogosphere is teeming with uber-trendy offerings from local arty types (see here and here) but, after a little sifting, two gems emerge. First up is We Make Money Not Art, a superb little number that kicked a pack of US-based blogs into touch by winning the 2005 Best Urban Arts Blog award - their “art in Berlin” tag has a great selection of hand-picked exhibitions. The Berlinista’s art tag is just as good, and with more breadth. The “exhibitions” and “artists and fairs” bits act as great listings sections, and be sure to have a look at this page for a round-up of all the big exhibitions in the city through 2008. (via Blog by blog guide to … art in Europe | Travel | guardian.co.uk)
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mitArt Hotel and Café welcomes you to its home. The listed building has 30 spacious and individually styled rooms with en suite facilities in each room. Due to its new location mitArt benefits from its quiet surround, providing our guests with an even better nights sleep! Spread over three floors, the rooms present exciting and original works from international artists. The exhibitions will change periodically over the year, giving the guests constantly new art experiences. For non-smokers, there will be two completely smoke-free floors. All floors can be reached by stairs and elevator. On the ground floor mitArt will be opening an organic café. Here, you will be offered our highly acclaimed breakfast-buffet. Business guests have the facility to use the internet with their own laptop by WLAN (internet access point). Situated in the very heart of Berlin, mitArt is in walking distance of some of the best street cafés, restaurants and bars. Here, you can find cuisines from every culture within an inexpensive price range as well as a bustling night life. To enjoy Berlins booming cultural life one should visit the Museums Island, separated from the rest of Mitte by two arms of the Spree. Here, you will find the Pergamonmuseum, one of the world’s greatest ancient history museums. The Alte Nationalgalerie has received extensive renovation and is a must for 19th century art lovers. Hamburger Bahnhof is Berlin’s foremost collection of contemporary art, with a colossal 10,000 sm of exhibition space in this (via ____mitart____ Hotel + Cafe in Berlin Mitte with organic breakfast and lunch central in Berlin)

mitArt Hotel and Café welcomes you to its home. The listed building has 30 spacious and individually styled rooms with en suite facilities in each room. Due to its new location mitArt benefits from its quiet surround, providing our guests with an even better nights sleep! Spread over three floors, the rooms present exciting and original works from international artists. The exhibitions will change periodically over the year, giving the guests constantly new art experiences. For non-smokers, there will be two completely smoke-free floors. All floors can be reached by stairs and elevator. On the ground floor mitArt will be opening an organic café. Here, you will be offered our highly acclaimed breakfast-buffet. Business guests have the facility to use the internet with their own laptop by WLAN (internet access point). Situated in the very heart of Berlin, mitArt is in walking distance of some of the best street cafés, restaurants and bars. Here, you can find cuisines from every culture within an inexpensive price range as well as a bustling night life. To enjoy Berlins booming cultural life one should visit the Museums Island, separated from the rest of Mitte by two arms of the Spree. Here, you will find the Pergamonmuseum, one of the world’s greatest ancient history museums. The Alte Nationalgalerie has received extensive renovation and is a must for 19th century art lovers. Hamburger Bahnhof is Berlin’s foremost collection of contemporary art, with a colossal 10,000 sm of exhibition space in this (via ____mitart____ Hotel + Cafe in Berlin Mitte with organic breakfast and lunch central in Berlin)
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Berlin is a beloved destination for avant-garde aficionados — especially admirers of graffiti, that illegal aesthetic practice that garnered its own task force in New York back in the 1990s under Rudolph Giuliani’s “broken window” theory of government. Thankfully, Berlin has yet to demonize its urban artists, and all forms of street art remain an integral staple of Berliner Kultur, as evidenced by both the continuing prevalence of graffiti on the city’s landscape as well as the recent publication of Benjamin Wolbergs’ impressive city guide/anthology, Urban Illustration Berlin. Street art, generally the work of the global counter culture’s more subversive agents, has also invaded the commercial gallery sphere, movie theaters, boutiques, and other locales beyond the sidewalk. Here’s an introductory sample of Berlin venues that offer multiple perspectives on outlaw aesthetics and lowbrow culture — for the street art novice to the contemporary urban art scholar and everyone in between. (via Berlin: Berlin Street Art & Lowbrow Culture 101)

Berlin is a beloved destination for avant-garde aficionados — especially admirers of graffiti, that illegal aesthetic practice that garnered its own task force in New York back in the 1990s under Rudolph Giuliani’s “broken window” theory of government. Thankfully, Berlin has yet to demonize its urban artists, and all forms of street art remain an integral staple of Berliner Kultur, as evidenced by both the continuing prevalence of graffiti on the city’s landscape as well as the recent publication of Benjamin Wolbergs’ impressive city guide/anthology, Urban Illustration Berlin. Street art, generally the work of the global counter culture’s more subversive agents, has also invaded the commercial gallery sphere, movie theaters, boutiques, and other locales beyond the sidewalk. Here’s an introductory sample of Berlin venues that offer multiple perspectives on outlaw aesthetics and lowbrow culture — for the street art novice to the contemporary urban art scholar and everyone in between. (via Berlin: Berlin Street Art & Lowbrow Culture 101)
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