Insiders Berlin

For anyone who grew up listening to The Eagles album, Hotel California, the idea of actually checking into a hotel of the same name seems a bit spooky (you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave). Yet since the mid-1980s thousands of people have checked into the Hotel California Berlin [...]

The Circus Hostel Berlin has more or less taken the city by storm. It is in a great location and gets rave reviews from everyone who goes there. It is not the cheapest hostel in town, but it is certainly one of the nicest. The beds start at  €19 or so for a dorm room [...]

Music and hotels have an ambivalent relationship. Countless hotel suits have been trashed by drunken rock stars throwing wild, drug-ridden parties. That doesn’t put off the nhow hotel Berlin, which has combined a hotel with two recording studios in a gorgeous waterfront location right down the road from EMI’s studios on the river. They have [...]

Hostels and other cheap backpacking places usually come in two varieties; cheap, cheerful and fun to be in or horrible, dirty and flea ridden. There is seldom a middle ground. Fortunately the Baxpax hostels in Berlin are of the clean and fun variety. Their Mitte Hostel is really close to some of Berlin’s best unofficial [...]