The Bar/Lounge at Soho House Berlin

"Hotel guests have access to club facilities that the hoi polloi will never see, including a bar and lounge, a screening room with red velvet seats, and a rooftop pool and terrace that feel more like Ibiza than Berlin"

"The strip crawls with fashion-forward boutiques including Happy Shop, clandestine bars such as Butcher's and celeb restaurants like Mani and Dudu (a fave of Soho House regular George Clooney)"

"Staying here also buys access to members-only areas such as the club floor with bar and restaurant, the rooftop pool/bar/restaurant and a small movie theatre"

"There’s also a lovely spa, gym, rooftop pool, restaurant, bars, screening room and private dining area"

"Requisite upscale spa, gym and restaurant, plus a swank cocktail bar and lounge done up in British countryside retreat meets bomb shelter chic, with kitsch pink floral prints, plush velvet armchairs and austere factory lamps"

"By day, fashion designers and expat writers lounge on velvet couches in The Club space, and in the evening, grungy young artists and Chanel-toting Charlottenburg ladies eye one another on flower-patterned chintz chairs at the poolside bar"

"The hotel also has a rooftop pool and adjacent bar with views of Alexanderplatz, concept retail area, a private cinema and a library room—with a bar—that host occasional events open to the public, an in-house restaurant, and a Cowshed spa that’s a popular destination in its own right"

"The main draws, however, are the communal spaces (open only to hotel guests and club members)—the library and lounge, and the city's only hotel rooftop pool, which has a magnificent view of Berlin's skyline"

"The lounge, with its red velvet sofas and rooftop terrace, is one of the city's hottest nightspots (and, in a cheeky turn, neckties are strictly forbidden here)"

")Up on top of the hotel, spread across two floors, the bars and restaurants pour pricey drinks and deliver flavorful Italian-American fare that get good reviews"