chumley wrote:
didn't think to ask on here until now but who knows a good hotel for Berlin and what to do for a few days please? thanks.
I stayed here last year -
http://www.hotel-luetzow.de/default.aspx?lang=en Functional clean and quiet rooms in a residential area. Great little bakery round the corner and an Italian and a Greek restaurant up the road. Nearest U-Bahn is about 10 minutes walk away.
Quiet hotel in a side street, but 5 minutes walk from Berlin Zoo, Gedächtniskirche and Kurfürstendamm.
Loads to do in Berlin - Museum Insel (Island) is where the main museums are. The Ramones Museum is ace - it's a little cafe rammed with Ramones memorabilia about 400 yards from Museum Insel.
The area around Checkpoint Charlie is tacky but essential - head along the street at 90 degrees to Koch Strasse and visit the Topography of Terror - the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin wall.
Hansa Studios where Bowie and Iggy Pop and many others recorded is near to Potzdamer platz (There's a great ice-cream restaurant nearby too). You can get tours of the studios but only on certain days - not sure which. The Helmut Newton photography gallery/museum is interesting. The Sony centre is quite modern but is OK in a humungous mall type way.
It's a great city for "bummeln" - wandering, taking in the scenery.
My photos from last summer