I stayed here when I was visiting Berlin for my second time. The hotel consists of two parts in…read moreseparate buildings across from each other in a great location, right off Friedrichstrasse train station and next to the Spree. For the first time visitor to Berlin it's a very nice 3 star hotel to begin your journey in Berlin. All the major sights are within walking distance, and there are a lot of dining options in the neighborhood (hint: Kartoffel Keller down the street has great lunch specials). I got a hotel room in the hof so it was extremely quiet, internet access was also available and the staff are well versed in English. The breakfast was also very good!

Nice hotel in Berlin. It is a ways out from the main city, but it is close to a U bahn and an S…read morebahn. There are also lots of restaurants around the hotel, so you will have a lot to choose from. There aren't too many sights near, so you will have to take some kind of transportation into the city. The rooms are very comfortable. They also have a good breakfast as well.

The service was unfriendly and disappointing, and the food was only average. They also only accept…read morecash, with no card payments available.

Breakfast - 5 stars, all you can eat, and you don't have to be staying at the hotel to eat there…read more IIRC it was roughly $24. Only complaint was that there was no decaf coffee, and it gets pretty crowded if you don't go early. But tons of options - muesli of various kinds, many kinds of pastries, bread, plus there's fruit, all kinds of sliced meat, and there are mini pancakes, hard boiled eggs, etc. almost anything you can think of for a German breakfast. Accommodations - 4 stars. Quiet room, comfortable bed, temperature control. The shower is small, and the towels weren't great, but overall it was fine. Clean, they give you a kettle and some tea bags (and powdered coffee if you drink it). There's an Apotheke and a small grocery store about a block away. Close to the subway and several bus lines.

We booked this hotel for a one-night stay in Berlin. We'd expected the typically friendly Novotel…read moreservice but were surprised by the newness of the building (evidently it'd been renovated) and the spaciousness of our standard room with modern bath and two chairs - too often doubles only have one chair. The floor-to-ceiling windows were nice, even if the view of the office building on the other side of the street wasn't so special. A neat touch was the semi-hidden space to hang up our clothes, so much more practical than big closets (see photo). Wifi was fine both in the room and in the lobby and of course free (hotels seemed now to have learned not to charge for wifi). Since we're no fans of buffets and since our very reasonable rates didn't include breakfast, we didn't have the chance to eat in the friendly lobby/breakfast room/bar combination area. As others have mentioned, this Novotel is centrally located not far from two of the main plazas: Potsdamer and Alexander. What we realized later was that the address, Fischerinsel, is exactly accurate: the hotel is really on an island as we can testify having walked over bridges in both directions. And without crossing any bridges you can visit northern part of the island, which appropriately enough is called Museuminsel and has UNESCO World Heritage status.