Hotel Zoo
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Let's be honest: No matter whether you are a tourist in the classic sense, a regular visitor of Berlin or a VIP, wouldn't you want to stay right on Kurfürstendamm, the most important high-street pitch in the city?
It used to, and will again, be the VIP hotel for the Berlinale film festival. In their day, Romy Schneider, Grace Kelly and Gina Lollobrigida stepped out right onto the red carpet. Now reopened, the Hotel Zoo only changed the colour of the carpet.
The restaurant "Grace" with two patios, a bar, a living room, a smoking room in the conservatory, a rooftop patio, a gym, spa applications in cooperation with Aveda (either just next door or in your hotel room).
The "Grace" restaurant offers a rich breakfast, and modern, aromatic cuisine without frills. Unusual flavours are carefully blended in to harmonise the gustatory experience in a novel way.
145 unique rooms and suites with industrial charm, overlooking either Kurfürstendamm or the inner courtyard. All of them feature dark parquet flooring, a Nespresso coffee machine, Apple TV, a rain shower or (sometimes free-standing) tubs. Thick plush towels in the bathrooms, and bathrobes of the brand Maison Martin Margiela, along with care products of the "Liquid Dreams" line by April Aromatics, the cosmetics brand of Berlin-based perfumer Tanja Bochnig.
Most of the staff have a background in 5-star hospitality. You will notice this in their professional, suave and friendly manner. That said, certain processes, such as the check-in, show room for improvement.
Hotel Zoo Hotel, Berlin
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For the ladies: nail varnish in the mini-bar. Together with the Berlin-based brand Uslu Airlines, the Hotel Zoo created its very own colour – a shade of jade green! For the gents: risqué photo art from a voyeuristic perspective. Just before it closed for the refurbishment, Swedish photographer Andreas Kock used the hotel's old rooms as set for his photo series "Stalker."
The small rooms of the lowest category are fitted with minute wardrobe wall units and are definitely not meant for travellers with big suitcases and aspirations.