Brandenburger Hof, Berlin: road house review

By Lucinda Baring 1146AM GMT twenty-two March 2010

Previous of Images Next The commanding opening juxtaposes high ceilings and white pilasters with English mustard-coloured walls, green�carpets and � la mode sculptures The hotel"s Japanese courtyard, a�green summer oasis Rooms underline high, stuccoed ceilings and normal Bauhaus seat

Location

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In Charlottenburg. This road house is located down a quiet, tree-lined travel a monument in a city dominated by bustling roads and punctuated by far-reaching open spaces and grievous new buildings, both hangovers from Allied bombing.

Character

Classical meets modern, to distinguished effect. The commanding opening juxtaposes high ceilings and white pilasters with English mustard-coloured walls, immature carpets and � la mode sculptures. A array of community rooms, from superb breakfast bedrooms flashy with poetic wallpaper to a small sitting room full of armchairs and books, lead off a executive loll and Japanese courtyard.

Rooms

There are 58 bedrooms and fourteen suites, all of that have high, stuccoed ceilings, normal Bauhaus seat and German ash floors.

Food

Die Quadriga restaurant, declared after the chariot atop the Brandenburg Gate, has enjoyed Michelin stars. The German-only booze list offers 850 wines, a little some-more than a century old.

We similar to

The murals in the restaurant, the accessible staff and the beautifully illuminated loll and Japanese courtyard, a immature summer oasis.

Not so penetrating

Although bedrooms are in vogue and colourful, they are far from wealthy or cosy.

Essentials

030 214050; brandenburger-hof.com. From �250, together with breakfast.

Getting there

Until the new Berlin-Brandenburg airfield opens in late 2011, Berlin is served by dual airports Tegel and Schönefeld. Tegel is the closest to the city centre, buses run each five to twenty mins and cost less than €3 (�2.70); a cab costs nearer €25 and takes half an hour. The most appropriate approach to get in to locale from Schönefeld is by train, that runs to the centre, Mitte, in twenty-five minutes.

British Airways (0844 493 0787; britishairways.com) flies from Heathrow to Berlin Tegel fives times every day from �107.50. BMI (0844 848 4888; flybmi.com) flies from Heathrow and countless informal airports to Berlin Tegel from �150. EasyJet (0905 821 0905, calls cost 65p per minute; easyjet.com) flies from Gatwick, Luton, Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow to Berlin Schönefeld airfield from �49.98.