What a nice Hotel.
It's really new, and it's kind of high…read moreend, that's why IHG are always my first choice when i look for hotels, there's hardly something you can do wrong.
Even though the rooms are really small, kinda like a Holiday Inn Express, they're big enough to fulfill the purpose of sleeping there.
I had a double room with one bed, because they luckily have a smoking floor.
The bed was really comfy and i love they have the soft/hard pillows.
Enough for 2, lucky me, the girl i was with just needed about 1/4 of it. LOL
As i said, new hotel, so new bathroom, really nice, as usual many white soft towels, they carry here Dove hand soap & shampoo dispensers in the shower, nice touch.
The bath has a color patterned frosted glass wall towards the room, that was a new thing for me.
I really liked the new locks with RFID or NFC they have, and not the usual "swipe-the-card" kind which BTW always give tons of problems.
It's great cause i didn't even had to take the card out of my wallet for the elevator or to unlock my room, really cool!
I was on the first floor, so not much of a view though, but still i got to see the Berlin Wall and the Spree as they're located just a couple of 100 meters away.
On the check in the girl in the front desk wasn't that good, they either don't have a Priority Check in counter or she just didn't care, even though i had my Reservation on my Passbook, she asked again for my name, and all kinds of stuff, well you know Germany and its service.
The Restaurant is nice, with a big glass facade from top to bottom and the Hotel has even its own Starbucks inside where you can get drinks charged to your room, really convenient.
All in all i'll definitely consider this Hotel the next time i go to Berlin.
The Location for me, at least this trip, was beyond amazing, as other friends where staying at the Michel Berger, and the Warschauer Str. Station is within 5 minutes walk. So connections where really good.
The Internet was superb, and as usual Free (don't know if for all, but at least for Priority Members it is) and i got pretty good speeds, 25 Mbps symmetrical, for business customers amazing if they need to reach a Server or VPN.
I hope other locations get some of the new things they have here upgraded soon, like the locks, elevators and internet.
It's pretty nice to have a flat screen hanging on the wall and not on some kind of chest of drawers.
Check out was really easy as i did it thru the iOS App and when i got to the front desk this nice guy greeted me, saw on the screen i already checked out and handed me an envelope with my bill.
Great, i was out of there in 1 minute, and he actually fulfilled the Priority Club protocol, not like at the check in. Kudos.
Oh and of course as a Priority Club member you get 2 extra hours to check out.