HOTEL OTTO - Berlin, Germany     

We stayed at Hotel Otto for five nights at the end of June 2008 and had a great time. I spend quite a lot of time in corporate type hotels and this was such a refreshing change! Our flight was delayed but by chance I had emailed the hotel directly a couple of days before to say that this might happen (wish I had the same luck predicting the lotto numbers). We arrived well after 23h in the end. They emailed me a code which I punched into the door and out came my room key - genius! The room was enormous - 35 sq meters by all accounts and had a micro balcony (not one of the ones that you can stand out in) and also a separate dressing room which was great. The room was very well presented and a real change to the normal corporate box. The feeling of space was a real plus in a city centre hotel. Breakfast on the seventh floor was superb with fresh fruit, coffee and all the normal euro style breakfast goodies. What I did like was the waitress knew what type of coffee I wanted after the first couple of days - good customer service! The location of the hotel is second to none. It is close by a U and an S Bahn and the S Bahn takes you straight to SXF airport too. There are loads of really good eateries on the door step - don't miss the Italian and Greek ones about 100m down the road. The only downside to the hotel is that it was quite warm. We could have asked for a fan (but we didn't) and to be fair Berlin was experiencing exceptionally warm weather (33 plus). I would recommend that they try and install aircon, but for 99% of the days in the year it will be fine. This was our third time in Berlin (a great city for tourists) and was by far the best time too. All in all, if you're going to Berlin, don't miss the Hotel Otto - you won't regret it.