nhow BerlinvsArte Luise Kunsthotel
Both nhow Berlin and Arte Luise Kunsthotel are highly recommended by travel writers. On balance, Arte Luise Kunsthotel is the choice of most professionals compared to nhow Berlin. Arte Luise Kunsthotel is ranked #23 in Berlin with positive reviews from 11 sources including Insight Guides, DK Eyewitness and Time Out.
nhow Berlin
Stralauer Allee 3, 10245 Berlin
From $99/night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Michelin Guide
"No other hotel in Berlin combines music and lifestyle in such an unconventional and cosmopolitan manner." Full review
Oyster
Upper-middle-range
"The nhow Berlin is an offbeat, creative hotel overlooking the River Spree." Full review
Rough Guide
"This four-star concept hotel merges a music theme with designer hotel rooms. There’s a health club, sauna and gym, and some rooms have great views over the river. €86."
BlackBook
"Berlin's most mod-futuristic hotel, planted upon the Spree river bank."
Fodor's
"It hosts regular open mike nights, has two sound studios overlooking the Spree River, and will send a guitar or keyboard to your room anytime creativity strikes." Full review
The Telegraph
8.0
"Billed as Europe’s first 'music hotel', the nhow hotel boasts an eye-popping design, a hip restaurant and bar, a fantastic terrace that overlooks the Spree, an art gallery and a spa." Full review
Afar Magazine
"The only hotel in Europe that offers two professional music studios, well equipped with recording booth, mixing, and pre- and post-production options...located on the banks of the Spree River." Full review
Independent
"With a cantilevered structure jutting out over the River Spree, this 304-room hotel is walking distance to the bars and clubs of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain (just pray you get past the doormen at Watergate and Berghain)"
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Michelin Guide
"The building itself is a marvel, with Sergei Tchoban’s design cutting a rakish silhouette: the upper floors, with their shiny metallic skin, cantilever out over the Spree." Full review
Arte Luise Kunsthotel Show All Reviews
Luisenstrasse 19, 10117 Berlin
From $71/night
- Free Internet
- Laundry Service
- Restaurant
- Meeting Rooms
- Air Conditioning
- Accessible
Frommer's
"This hotel boasts that it is a "home for artists"... Clients from the arts, media, and even the political or business world are drawn to this unusual hostelry." Full review
Concierge
"This is a stylish place, yet it has something to offer even the most cost-conscious traveler: The cheapest accommodations are plain rooms on the top floor with a shared bath."
Fodor's
"The Luise is one of Berlin's most original boutique hotels, with each fantastically creative room in the 1825 building or 2003 built-on wing—facing the Reichstag—styled by a different artist." Full review
Insight Guides
"Close to the main train station, it is in an ideal location and is a one-of-a-kind experience."
Lonely Planet
"At this 'gallery with rooms' each unit is designed by different artists who receive royalties whenever it’s rented." Full review
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DK Eyewitness
"The 30 rooms in this small hotel were all individually and imaginatively designed by different local artists, with themes ranging from loud pop art to classic Modernism."
Time Out
"Housed in a former neoclassical residential palace just a short walk from the Reichstag and Brandenburger Tor, this ‘artist home’ is one of the city’s more imaginative small hotels." Full review
Rough Guide
"Each room here is an eccentric, and impressive, work of art: one comes with bananas all over the walls and hot-pink velvet bedding, while another is Alice in Wonderland-themed."
Gayot
"Visitors have dubbed the Arte Luise Kunsthotel as 'a gallery where you can spend the night.'."
Travel + Leisure
"What began in 2008 as an “art lab” in a palatial (but condemned) 1825-vintage residential building has evolved into a livable museum-cum-hotel near Berlin’s government district." Full review