DK Travel : Berlin

Berlin is Germany’s liveliest city and one of the most fascinating capitals in the world. You’ll find no other place where art and culture, museums and theatres, entertainment and nightlife are more diverse and exciting than on the banks of the Spree River. Once reunited, Berlin quickly developed into a cosmopolitan city, and today there is an air of energy and vibrancy about it.

Multi-lingual tourist information: www.berlin.de or: www.btm.de

Pranzo e Cena

Unbeatable pizzas from the clay oven are the speciality in this Italian venue, popular with students and always busy.
Prater

Surprises at Prater include a beer garden, a rustic restaurant in the courtyard, and free live concerts.
Prenzlauer Berg Museum

The small lively museum documents the history of the district and its poor working-class inhabitants in the 19th century.
Preußischer Hof

Pickled pork knuckle and other specialities from Berlin and Brandenburg province feature on the menu of this solid middle-class restaurant.
Prinz-Eisenherz-Buchhandlung

Germany’s oldest openly gay bookstore stocks the entire range of German and international gay and lesbian publications. Its knowledgeable bookshop assistants will track down rare or out-of-stock titles at your request. The bookshop also hosts frequent literary readings.
Propeller Island City Lodge

If you’re staying at this lodge, you will share it with the artist Lars Stroschen, who designed the rooms himself.
Propeller Island City Lodge

On an inconspicuous side of the street, just off Berlin’s resplendent Kurfürstendamm boulevard is the city’s most eccentric hotel: the “habitable work of art”, Propeller Island City Lodge.

It is home to 27 of the most radical rooms ever to have been slept in. It is a live-in gallery where even the most passive beholder happily becomes an active explorer. Spread across three floors, the hotel is a labyrinth of passageways full of quirky details like distorting mirrors, washbasins made from beer barrels and a very heavy metal lamp that was once part of a railway track.

Guests are treated to a room for every taste; ranging from the Castle, where all the pieces of furniture are buildings, to the Crypt Gallery, with coffin beds and grinning skulls, and the Symbol room, with 283 striking black and white graphic symbols covering literally everything.

But the rooms are not only designed to please the eye, they also please the ear. By pressing a button on the little control box on the wall you can choose one of six different soundscapes to fit your mood: from waves crashing on the beach or the sounds of the jungle to experimental “sound sculptures”.
Puppentheatermuseum

The small but excellent and inspirational Puppet Museum specializes in dolls and puppets. Children are allowed to perform their own puppet shows and have a go at being puppet theatre directors.
Quartier 206

Apart from the department stores, many top designer shops, such as Gucci and DKNY, are based in Friedrichstadtpassagen.
Quartiere 205–207 Friedrichstraße

The Galeries Lafayettes and the Friedrichstadtpassagen are based within these three office blocks by architects Nouvel, Pei and Ungers (see Shops) .

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Hotel price categories

Price for a standard double room per night, with breakfast, taxes and other charges included.
- under €60
- €60–100
- €100–150
- €150–200
- over € 200
Restaurant price categories

For a three course meal for one with half a bottle of wine (or equivalent meal), taxes and charges included.
- under €20
- €20–30
- €30–45
- €45–60
- over €60