Arte Luise Kunsthotel

Loved this hotel! Centrally located and well kept. Not a lot of amenities, but you don’t need many when there’s this much around the area. Very clean and full of history. Will choose this place if in Berlin again!

This hotel is in a great location and the lobby and the room were beautiful. I was on the first floor next to the shared bathroom, with windows facing the courtyard. I saw no other guests in the hallway, so I effectively had the bathroom to myself. The service staff was lovely. The only suggestion would be to add a mirror to the room.

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 always read bad reviews about a hotel first- usually I can tell if it was one disgruntled traveler, vs. a real issue with the hotel. Unfortunately, a friend of a friend had liked it here, so I did not do my usual due diligence past the first several reviews which were all positive. First the positives: Fun concept, with each room having its own funky art theme. The location is great, walking distance from most museums, Reichstad, trains station, etc. The staff we dealt with was lovely, although first telling me where the stairs are when we are obviously an older couple with large suitcases…I assumed we were just up the 6 stairs he showed me, not up three flights after that! Luckily I only did that when we could not figure out how to get the door to unbolted so we could close it, and the front desk person kindly helped. Now, the negatives: No air conditioning-This would have not been awful if the hotel was not right next to train tracks which are constantly active. (When we arrived, they told us they were upgrading us to a better room so that we were not “right next to the train tracks,” but instead facing the courtyard. I can only imagine how much worse that would have been, especially with having to keep the windows open!) Added to that, there is a lovely garden, but if people are in it talking, the sound carries as though they were next to you. Right now, someone is watching a video in the garden, and laughing loudly and we have a very early taxi. And of course the windows have no screens. It felt one step away from a youth hostel. The shower was tiny, so my husband who is 6’3” felt like he could barely move in it. When they cleaned the room, we had left the one tiny bar of soap in the shower on the water controls, (There was nowhere in the shower to put anything) and whomever cleaned got rid of it but did not replace it. I would not stay here again, and only recommend it to someone who wanted a fun place to stay and did not care about the constant train noise.

The hotel was just what I needed for my brief stay I. Berlin. My room was basic but perfectly fine and the bed was comfortable. I appreciated the air con machine! Bathrooms etc were clean. The location was quiet despite the railway nearby and I had two excellent nights of sleep.

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.

Art inspired boutique hotel well located and well managed.