“Slick urban styling on the ultra-cool Rosa Luxembourg Strasse make for an unapologetically fashionable boutique hotel.”
As boutique hotel Lux 11 is located in the heart of Berlin’s fashionable Mitte district, it’s a perfect pied-a-terre for shopping and clubbing as well as site-seeing. Fully equipped for long-stay guests as well as fleeting visitors, Lux 11 is the favourite boutique hotel in town with film producers, pop stars and sex kittens (several Playboy centrefolds were shot in its suites). Housed in a former banana warehouse and army officers’ residence, the building has bags of historical charm, but interiors are resolutely contemporary.
The facilities
The sleek, white reception desk of Lux 11 is flanked on one side by a full Aveda spa and on the other by trendy, designer restaurant Shiro I Shiro where breakfast is served to guests of the boutique hotel.
Next door, Ulf Haines fashion boutique sells frocks, shirts and accessories by Europe’s most cutting-edge designers hand-picked from the latest season’s catwalk collections.
As this boutique hotel is aimed at the savvy, independent traveller, don’t expect the full-frills service of a five-star hotel. Lux 11’s front desk shuts at 10 p.m. and 5 p.m. on the weekends.
The rooms
All 72 rooms and suites at Lux 11 have the hallmarks of a classic design hotel. Minimal white interiors, smooth polished concrete floors and clever layouts give even the smallest Value Rooms a feeling of space. Fur bed throws give them a decadent twist whilst large tubes of hot-pink Lux 11-branded toiletries in the slick, slate bathrooms add a welcome dash of colour.
As all rooms at Lux 11 have elegant kitchenettes equipped with a microwave, kettle, toaster and dishwasher it’s easy to see why fans of this trendy boutique hotel tend to stay a while.
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Address: Rosa Luxembourg Strasse 9, Mitte, Berlin, D 10178
Rooms | suites: 72
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Address: Rosa Luxembourg Strasse 9, Mitte, Berlin, D 10178
Rooms | suites: 72
Booking info
Arrival:
Sun 7 Sep 2008
Departure: Mon 8 Sep 2008
No. adults: 2
Departure: Mon 8 Sep 2008
No. adults: 2
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Who stays here
Hipsters from the worlds of fashion, design and film and the people from Playboy shooting centrefolds. Jared Leto, Thomas Kretschmann and German mega-DJ Musti have stayed at Lux 11.
Come for
- Great Mitte location
- Aveda spa
- A hip crash-pad
- Fantastic deals for long stay
- Celebrity lifestyle holiday
Not suitable for
- Big services: it's run on apartment-style lines
- Fans of colour: it's an all-white affair
Awards
"Hotlist", Conde Nast 06
Children
Extra beds and baby-sitting services available on request.
Eating in
Breakfast is served at the deeply funky restaurant Shiro i Shiro next door, but Lux 11 has no official restaurant or room service.
