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This very Italian luxury hotel is in a brand new building on Friedrichstrasse that opened in 2002. Apart from its East Berlin location, the hotel’s main attractions are the spacious rooms, large lobby and inviting bar, all furnished with only the best materials.

This vast youth guesthouse is situated in an excellent spot, in the heart of Kreuzberg, and close to the Jüdisches Museum. The showers are shared, but a bed in a multi-bedded room is not expensive. The hostel is favoured by a young and international crowd.

One of Berlin’s largest youth hostels offers slightly antiquated but comfortable multi-bedded rooms. The staff are very friendly for a hostel in a large city, but the hostel is often overrun by noisy hordes of school kids.

One of Berlin’s oldest youth hostels, popular with groups of students and pupils and not the best place for visitors seeking peace and quiet. The picturesque location on Wannsee makes up for communal showers and dormitories, particularly in summer.

This very stylish hotel is in a central yet quiet downtown location on Ku’damm. It offers a luxurious, international ambience with a retro look reminiscent of the Bauhaus style. All rooms have state-of-the-art communications equipment.

This villa, near Schlachtensee and Krumme Lanke, now a small boarding house, oozes the charm of bygone days in rural Berlin. The furnishings in its 20 rooms are a little old-fashioned, but the service is very personable, making for a pleasant stay.

A central boarding house with suites of 40–100 square metres (430–1,076 square feet), elegantly equipped as offices and offering a near-perfect secretarial service.

This apartment hotel, in a great spot in Potsdamer Platz, has suites of 35–100 sq m (375–1,100 sq ft) with kitchen, stereo, fitness area, sauna, daily papers and anything else you could possibly wish for.

Predominantly styled in tones of green and blue, this modern business hotel boasts almost 300 modern paintings, which decorate the rooms. Every piece of furniture has been carefully styled.