Insiders Berlin

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 [...]

Compared with most cities in the world, Berlin is completely overrun with playgrounds and great big green open spaces. It is one of the things that make a summer in Berlin such fun for kids and their parents. One of the biggest and best is the Volkspark Friedrichshain, a huge green park that fills up [...]

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 [...]