Brandenburg Gate - adjacent
Tiergarten park - one block
Reichstag Building - 2 blocks
Potsdamer Platz - 0.75 kilometers (0.5 miles)
Berlin Philharmonic - 0.75 kilometers (0.5 miles)
Checkpoint Charlie - 1 kilometer (0.5 miles)
Museum Island - 1 kilometer (0.5 miles)
Alexanderplatz, center of former East Berlin - 2 kilometers (1 mile)
Kurfürstendamm shopping area - 3 kilometers (2 miles)
Schloss Charlottenburg palace - 5 kilometers (3 miles)

Airport buses and taxi cabs are available for transfer from the airport to the center of Berlin.

The U-bahn and S-bahn train networks connect the hotel with the rest of central Berlin within 5 minutes. The U-bahn station closest to the hotel is Unter den Linden. There is also a wide choice of buses. The hotel can order cabs on request.

This hotel has 336 guestrooms, all of which have views of Unter den Linden boulevard or a manicured inner courtyard - some have views of Brandenburg Gate. Wooden floors are paired with pale Art Deco-style carpets and richly brocaded bedding in gold, scarlet or royal blue. Some rooms are specially fitted for guests who suffer allergies or have wheelchairs. Rooms feature CD players, laptop-compatible safes, cell phones and high-speed Internet access.

Lorenz Adlon - Fine French dinners are served in this 28-seat restaurant, where every table is decorated with a bouquet of red roses. Cream brocade tablecloths and heavy gray-and-gold silk drapes add to the intimate, warm atmosphere provided by a corner fireplace. On long summer evenings, guests have a view of the floodlit Brandenburg Gate.

Adlon Stube - Traditional German dinners are served in a suitably rustic atmosphere.

Quarré - Breakfast, lunch, dinner and Sunday brunches are served in this ground-level international restaurant overlooking Unter den Linden. Buffets are arranged around a giant marble urn in the green-marble-lined dining room under frescoed ceilings. Amid the columns, guests sit on green-and-red striped chairs or lounge on wicker by the windows.

Lobby Lounge & Bar - Drinks, snacks and traditional afternoon teas are served from tea-trolleys wheeled by tuxedo-clad waiters. A full bar provides cocktails to the always-occupied sofas of the lobby and the quieter mezzanine Belle Etage.

What to expect: A perfect recreation of the 1907 Hotel Adlon, this landmark building attracts a range of clientele from celebrities to families to business travelers. The airy marble lobby is topped by a stained-glass dome, and a piano player on the mezzanine Belle Etage accompanies guests taking tea by the Art Nouveau fountain. Tuxedoed waiters glide trolleys of cakes between the rust and lavender-colored sofas.

Amenity highlights: The Adlon Spa is decorated throughout in classical Greek style - its indoor pool, jetted tubs, saunas, plunge pool and showers are all tiled with mosaics and presided over by frescoes. A beauty salon treats guests with La Prarie products. The intimate Lorenz Adlon restaurant serves French cuisine in the room where the German President gives his New Year speech.

Insider tip: Before the Adlon was destroyed in World War 2, its winter garden hosted some of Berlin high society's finest balls. These days the faithfully recreated conservatory, with its checked black-and-white marble floor, statuary and wrought iron and velvet furniture is one of the hotel's quietest spots, a perfect place to have a peaceful drink and watch the clouds pass over the glass roof.

Mosaics, frescoes and statuary give the Adlon Spa its classical Greek feel. The spa includes an indoor pool, jetted tubs, saunas, plunge pool, solarium and fitness room with free weights, machines and yoga mats. Swedish, aroma, reflexology, deep tissue and lymph drainage massages are all available. In winter, infra-red lights over poolside lounges keep guests warm. A beauty salon treats guests with La Prarie products.

Every floor of the hotel has its own lounge where guests can read newspapers or make fresh-brewed espresso. Deep armchairs surround fireplaces which burn in colder months.