Q! Hotel, Berlin, Germany
Hotel Overview
Review of Q! Hotel, by Jeroen Bergmans
Hotel Q! is Berlin's best boutique hotel for clubbers who want a hassle-free glimpse of the more glamorous end of the city's nightlife. Berlin's legendary club scene is such a slave to the zeitgeist that venues and the latest DJ in favour changes virtually every week. But every Thursday and Friday night local glitterati from the Hotel Q!'s 1,500-strong members club flock to the small restaurant and bar downstairs as top DJs take to the decks.
The rooms
The futuristic interiors created by LA-based Graft Architects (who built a dream pad for Brad Pitt) favour fluid lines and a white palette funked up with custom-made, bright red furnishings. Hard architectural angles have been banished with beds seemingly emerging from the floor and morphing into baths. Beautifully-crated sex toys by Jimmy and Jane, cheeky erotic toiletries by Anatomicals and pixelated details from the nude muses on the hotel's home page which are used as wallpaper leave little room for doubt that this is a hotel for torrid affairs and rock star love-ins. Many a mega-celebrity has taken the bait and checked into the Hotel Q!. Some of them even brought their dogs as pets are more than welcome - they're even given a complimentary treatment and special menu.
The facilities
Post-party detox is catered for at the subterranean spa with its sauna, steam room and mini fake beach complete with heated sand. On Sundays the popular Q! brunch includes hangover-busting, protein-rich dishes and a chocolate fountain.
Facilities
Rooms
72Awards
"Hot List", Conde Nast Traveller 05Come for...
- Spotting Brangelina in the bar
- Quirky 'beach effect' spa
- The popular hangover-busting Sunday brunch
- A holiday with your pets - they're so welcome they even get their own beauty treatment on arrival
Not Suitable for...
- The conservative
- The unflexible - you need to be supple to slip into the quirky baths
- Peace and quiet
Children
Baby-sitting services and extra beds are available on request. This family friendly hotel can also arrange a kids menu.Eating in
Q! restaurant offers eccentric fusion fare with alcohol-drenched dishes including rack of lamb marinated in Pimms No 1 and fried monkfish in saffron and champagne sauce. Main dishes will set you back around €20 and cocktails come in at around the €10 mark.The Press Say
"An audacious, fluid space of curves, slopes and acute angles" Guardian 06"Perhaps best of all is the basement spa complete with a reconstructed beach area with underfloor heating." Independent 06
"Original and striking" Conde Nast 05
Reviews
Review of Q Hotel, by Caroline Major
Just off fashionable Sauvigny Platz is the West's most interesting hotel. It's deeply moody and somewhat club-like - totally focussed on selling a lifestyle. Once the slick staff buzz you into the tiny reception (modelled on those fronting the most glamorous of nightspots) you're into an opulent world.
Beyond the reception is the club, with it's sexy interior, sporting a personality which changes with the hours. For day, it's light and bright with sunlight flooding through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the terrace. (on good weather days!) The alcoves and tables are occupied by creative types in meetings. As night falls, the scent of Thai food and the sounds of shared meals fills the room. Lights change and the alcoves become cosy cocoons. he door queen guards her post fiercely, letting only hotel guests and bar members past the velvet ropes. Berliners take membership for access to this hip bar and for the gym facilities down stairs.
Hit the gym and it's not hard to see why.
Heavily influenced by Japanese design, the wet areas rival those of the world's best spas. The Japanese washing station with its low set basins is the prelude to sauna and steam, but perhaps the most decadent feature is the sand relaxation corner. Fine white, heated sand set with rattan mats and heated lights has got to lift the soul on a cold winters afternoon.
The rooms: After an evening in such a sexy scene it's only appropriate that the studios continue the theme. Wooden floorboards, big windows and dark tiles are melded with curving lines to soften the mood. All are designed as open plan spaces with wet areas denoted in dark tiles, heated from underneath. Lush.
Iconically, in the rooms with bathtubs these are coupled with the bed. Do make sure to request a tub if you want one. On one side of the platform, a gently rising wave peaks at the deep tub. It looks fabulous but be careful just how much splashing you do or risk a wet spot on the duvet! Then again, does it really matter when there's someone else to clean up?