Lux 11
- Style
- White lines blowin’ through my mind
- Setting
- Mittel Mitte
This beautiful Berlin boutique hotel, housed in a 19th-century apartment block just around the corner from Alexanderplatz, is the ideal place in which to relax and unwind amid the urban maelstrom.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 72, including 16 suites.
- Rates
- €165–€295, excluding breakfast (€12 each). There is an additional charge of €15 a night for stays of less than three nights.
- Check-out
- Noon, though this can be extended to 2pm on arrangement; earliest check-in, 4pm.
- Facilities
- Aveda hair salon and spa, garage, laundry. In rooms: kitchenettes, flatscreen TV, DVD player, fax machine, WiFi.
- Children
- Welcome: baby cots are available, and extra beds can be added to rooms for €25 a night. Lux 11 works with a nanny service to provide babysitting, from €16 an hour.
- Also
- If you suddenly get cold feet about the outfit you’ve chosen to wear to dinner, fear not: the apartments are part of a building that also contains the Ulf Haines store, home of some of Berlin’s most stylish fashion collections.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Executive suites 317 or 417, with their surfeit of windows looking out over the famous Alexanderplatz television tower, are the ones to ask for. Both come with their own living area and sizeable kitchen.
- Packing tips
- Bring plenty of super-stylish black clothes – think Joy Division photoshoot circa 1980 – so that you can see each other against the all-white backdrop.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- With Shiro i Shiro’s white, minimalist interior, it is up to the kitchen to provide the colour, which it does with aplomb. Choose sushi – freshly prepared by knife-wielding Japanese chefs at a corner counter – or delicious Modern European cuisine.
- Dress code
- Elegant black for him; Astrid Kirchherr crop for her.
- Top table
- Go for an alcove at the back of the restaurant. Sit on your curved blue-velvet banquette and peer out at fellow diners through the diaphanous drapes.
- Room service
- As Lux 11 is essentially an apartment building, no room service is offered.
- Hotel bar
- Set at one end of Shiro i Shiro, the bar is an elegant counter around which are set high stools – the ideal vantage point for watching impossibly good-looking barmen mix martinis.
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If you’d prefer to talk to someone, or you’re having trouble booking online, ring our travel team on 0845 034 0700 (+44 20 8987 4312 from outside the UK). We guarantee you’ll get the best available rates, and we don’t charge a booking fee.
