The Bottom Line:
Luxury hotel offering an indoor pool and fitness center walking distance from Potsdamer Platz Arkaden shopping.
Rooms and Rates:
302 guest rooms, including 39 suites, 37 Club-level rooms andone Ritz-Carlton suite. Rooms start at $250.
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Concierge Level:
The Ritz-Carlton Club level takes up the 10th and 11th floors and requires a special key. Views are of the Tiergarten park, the Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz. A Club room on the 10th floor offers a dedicated concierge, three meals a day, and private check-in.
Notable Services:
Special butlers are available to take care of important needs, including a Technology Butler, a Bath Butler, and a Shoe Butler. The hotel also offer two "allergen-free" rooms with special pillows, carpet-free floors, and amenities geared for those with allergies.
Dining:
Five restaurants include the Brasserie Desbrosses, a 19th century brasserie with a show kitchen, and Vitrum, featuring Venice-inspired gourmet Italian.
Meeting Space:
19,370 square feet of meeting space, a ballroom for up to 800 people, and a business center with secretarial and translation services.
Fitness Center/Spa:
Complete fitness center; indoor swimming pool and whirlpool; sauna; full-service spa with massages and facials. Jogging trails can be found in adjacent Tiergarten; the hotel provides a "jogger's station" with maps, towels, water and fruit.
Contact the Ritz-Carlton Berlin:
Potsdamer Platz 3, 10785 Berlin Germany
phone: 49.30.33.7777, from the US and Canada: 800.241.3333; fax: 49.30.33.777.5555
web site: Ritz-Carlton Berlin
Description:
Location, style and service come together in a beautiful way in the new (January 2004) Ritz-Carlton Berlin. In the heart of Potsdamer Platz, centerpiece of the German capital city, the Ritz-Carlton takes its place amid such diverse, culturally important neighbors as the über-modern Sony Center and the historic Brandenburg Gate. The exterior Art Deco styling is offset with the Peter Silling-designed classical interior.
Spanning two levels, the lobby welcomes guests with comforting, classic touches such as a winding marble staircase, wood-burning fireplace and mahogany-paneled library. Rooms and suites are also finely traditional with Italian cherry furnishings and large windows with views of Potsdamer Platz architecture or Berlin's "Central Park," the Tiergarten. Rooms also boast modern luxuries such as heated bathroom floors, touchscreen bedside control panels and CD players.
Of special interest is one of the hotel's five restaurants, the Brasserie Desbrosses. This brasserie, which since 1875 called home a small village in France, has been moved to Germany piece by piece, and has been recreated inside the hotel. Featured are freshly baked pastries and charcuterie. A terrace affords diners views of bustling Potsdamer Platz.
