Reviewed by Will Hide
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KU' DAMM 101 HOTEL - REVIEW
It’s always good to have expectations surpassed. From the outside, Ku’damm 101 (at one end of the Kurfürstendamm, West Berlin’s main shopping street) looks nondescript, housed inside a grey building that nearly became a car park. Above the door, an oversized apostrophe (the hotel’s symbol) is a clue that inside it’s a different story. Slipping between a curving reception desk and oversize Chinese light-columns, I found myself at a lime-green-lit circular bar in the high-ceilinged lobby, staring at what I thought were two stuffed pandas. (Turns out, they’re horses.) Beyond lies a small library with a retro TV cabinet; in summer, can sip a beer in the decked courtyard with clipped box trees.
The common areas have a rare feeling of space: the lobby, the wellbeing area on the 1st floor, the wide corridors. Many of the 170 rooms do too: mine, an 'Upper Class' on the 6th floor, had great views of the city, all the way to the former communist Fernsehturm (TV tower) in Alexanderplatz, in the east. |
