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Across the road the old East German Parliament building is well on its way to complete demolition although the argument still rages as to what to replace it with. The River Spree alongside the hotel is full of tourist launches and a new museum is emerging in the old Royal church across the river from the hotel. The new extension on the roof has provided function and conference rooms with spectacular views across the city,and some bedrooms too look outwards with balconies above the riverside walk.
Reception workstation (see them in the bottom part of the picture below) in detail. Click to see a part of the concierge desk
The function floor has access via the lift up the centre of the fish tank if required as well as its own dedicated lift. Outside rooms look across the city - click to see the view from a business room balcony Standard bathroom has its door hingeing back to provide the door to the toilet area. Click to see a suite bathroom	The whole of mittel Berlin has changed dramatically over the last five years (indeed the whole city is going through the pains of a spectacular rebirth as the capital of Germany) and now throbs with life. Tourists throng the streets and riverside walks, and cafés that three or four years ago had a few tables outside are now expanding and colonising the squares and becoming more sophisticated in their food and drink offerings as their market grows. The hotel occupancy has grown strongly and it must now be one of the most popular hotels in Berlin with the business community as well as the tourist industry. Easily accessible by public transport the hotel has its own secure underground car park, making life easy for the guest. "the whole city is going through the pains of a spectacular rebirth as the capital of Germany" The water theme is not just continued in an obvious way through the artwork of waves and water that is all through the hotel, but also in a carpet pattern of gold spots on blue that echoes the dappling of sunlight on water. The lifts and lift doors are glass so facing them again enables the view of the tank, fish filling the sightlines. The incessant movement of the fish constantly fascinated and guests responded to the sense of theatre and visual excitement. Whilst I was there two guests rode up and down in the lift in a kind of mini art event of their own, wearing their dressing gowns and standing side by side unmoving to the amusement and applause of the other guests in the atrium. At night the lighting to the tank slowly changes to simulate night time and this gives bedrooms looking into the atrium a vista that changes from more than just the ceaseless swimming around of the fish. Do fish stay still when they sleep? Certainly sleep is easy for guests in the comfortable bedrooms. Of course the bedrooms themselves have the usual high standards one comes to expect from Radisson, and the provision of free Wifi throughout the Rezidor hotels only enhances their attraction. In common with other groups Radisson now try to create a toilet separate from the other areas of the bathroom (see our Review of Novotel Greenwich for another hotel group’s solution), although in my view the addition of a separate shower would do more to raise standards in this area, something Accor’s neat replanning achieves. In this case the toilet is closed off from the rest of the bathroom by the bathroom door hingeing back 90 degrees to form the toilet door, a device I first saw in the 1970's in a Mercure. In that case the room door also formed a door to the shower.....

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