Arte Luise Kunsthotel

The hotel is located VERY close to very busy train tracks which generate VERY noisy sounds every time a train is passing, every 20 seconds/ 24H/day. YOU NEED EARPLUGS! Reception: ok Room size: ok Bed comfort: ok WiFi: poor and slow Bathroom: small but ok Hotel location: ok

Great style, but also very comfortable, clean and in a great way somehow different from all the mainstream hotels. Great, individual interieur, artistic, comfortable bed and pillows. Good parking opportunity. - I will definitely come back next time I am in Berlin!

I don’t think I’ve ever been so contradicted about a hotel before. Overall we had a good stay but there were some signifiant negatives! Positives - great service - nice reception area with selection of drinks. Nice little patio that we sat in each evening - you’lol see why in a mo - perfect location! We love walking and from here it was about 5 mins to brandenburg gate and the reichstag. - 8 mins away walking from the main train station that we headed to from the air port - great river front bars about 10 mins away - clean room - comfortable bed Negatives - I don’t know if this was my fault but I can’t remember seeing anything about a train line. We were in room 217. Half the hotel is literally on the train line. We aren’t talking about uk trains either. I grew up near one and live on a main road so noise it’s not usually a problem. But… this is some heavy duty loud train and they are every few minutes all day every day. They stop I think between midnight and 4am but it is relentless. You do get given ear plugs and you need them. - it was hot when we were in Berlin and there is no air con. We had all the windows open and to be honest it was lovely but the noise, my god. We avoided the room until we were so knackered we passed out. We sat in the courtyard or found a nice park somewhere and had a few drinks so found a nice way round to manage. But you cannot get away from it, and as I mentioned I live on a main uk road. This was like being strapped to the underside of a train and no joke. Even saying that though, because we were walking 16 miles or so a day we did sleep well. We got woke up when the trains started again but my Sony headphones were a saver! - we booked the hotel because it looked quirky and arty. Our room was white with a few black spots and a picture of eyes. It was tired with marks on the wall etc and just didn’t look loved. I think we could have got a better hotel for the same price if not cheaper to be honest. It was a nice hotel in its own way but the charm and the location just wasn’t enough to cover the noise and the lack of excitement about staying there. I thought the hotel would be quirky and unusual and it just wasn’t. Would I stay again? No. £333 for three nights. We had a nice stay but I think that’s because we loved Berlin. The hotel itself was just blah.

I’d give it zero stars if I could. Appreciate it’s a budget hotel but the bedroom was filthy, dead spiders on the wall, old cobwebs, mould. Equally the bathroom was filthy. I wished I paid extra and got a better hotel which was clean and had aircon. Staff didnt even ask how my stay was when I left. I stayed out in Berlin all day just so I didn’t have to go back to my room.