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Good Rate :: Art'otel Berlin City Center West

Where: Lietzenburgerstrasse 85, Berlin, Germany, D-10719

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which is better worth your hard-earned benjamins. The rates below were available on Sept. 12, 2006 and are subject to change.]

At Art'otel Berlin City Center West, you can sleep, eat, and and travel through Berlin while staying stylish, at about $172 double per night. A dedicated Warhol exhibition displayed throughout the hotel features over 221 artworks by and of Andy Warhol, including pictures taken by Christopher Makos. We'll need a translator to figure out what it means to be "close to the kurfürstendamm, gedächtniskirche, zoologischer garden, and kaufhaus des westens," but we'll assume that's a good thing.

The "Pop Art Package," is suitable for framing and is good through the end of the year. For EUR 259 (US $324), you get the following:

* Two nights accommodation
* Buffet breakfast for two both days
* One candle-lit dinner, including a bottle of sparkling house wine, for two on day of arrival
* Two Welcome Cards, which include free transportation (metro, tram, train and bus) for two days
* Pop Art surprise in the room

We're not sure about that last item. A can of Campbell's tomato soup maybe? Regardless, we love the idea of a nice hotel that actually encourages public transportation instead of predictably replying to subway requests with the stock answer, "You should just take a taxi."

Want to stay more than two nights? An extra night without amenities can be added on from EUR 99.00 (US $125) for double occupancy.

For a hotel with "art" in its name, the hotel's web site is surprisingly ugly, plus it's oddly short on photos larger than a thumbnail. They have a best online rate guarantee, but you might want to check some other sites to get more of an idea what the place looks like before booking. Expect lots of minimalist decor, plenty of amenities, wi-fi, and "architecture from dipl. ing. helge sypereck."

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