The Hilton Berlin is located in the historical center of Berlin, adjacent to the Gendarmenmarkt, and approximately eight miles from Berlin Tegel Airport. Local attractions include Brandenburg Gate, Museum of German History, Pergamonmuseum, Checkpoint Charlie, Nikolaiviertel, Potsdam Square, Berlin Wall, and Reichstag.

Hotel amenities include multilingual staff, laundry/valet service, baggage storage, barbershop/beauty salon, car rental desk, concierge, florist, currency exchange, gift shop, safe deposit box, tour assistance, shoeshine, room service, onsite convenience store, business center, fax/photocopy service, and babysitting. Guests may enjoy the new health club and 24-hour fitness center, which includes a heated indoor pool, massage and specialty treatments, sun beds, herbal baths, steam room, and sauna. Onsite dining is available at the Mark Brandenburg, the Gendarmenmarkt, Trader Vic's Restaurant & Mai Tai Bar, the Beletage breakfast restaurant, and the seasonal Dome Terrace.

Guest rooms feature direct-dial telephones, individual climate controls, mini-bars, Sony Playstation videogame console, hairdryers, bathroom amenities, bathrobes, in-room safes, dataports, cable TVs, work desks, and bathroom telephones.
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Hilton Berlin Property Information:

Rooms: 589
Floors: 8

Hilton Berlin Service

Pets allowed
Car rental desk
Family rooms
Fitness facility
Game room
Wheel chair access
Meeting room
Data port
Dry cleaning
Luxury
First class

Hilton Berlin Reservation Policies:

Check-In: 1400
Check-Out: 1200

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Berlin Events & Entertainment

Events

January

International Green Week celebrates agriculture and gardening at the ICC trade fair center and features samples of exotic foods from around the world. Tel. 303/80

Schauplatz Museum (Museum Showcase) A month long showcase of theater performances, concerts, readings, films, lectures and discussions enlivening Berlin’s museums. Includes “Long Night of the Museums” on which the museums in Berlin stay open until after midnight. tel. 28 39 74 44.

February

International Film Festival Berlin. Also known as Berlinale, the film festival attracts stars, directors, and critics from around the world. About 750 films are shown during the 2 weeks. tel. 25 48 90.

March

International Travel Fair Held at ICC Trade Center. Exhibitors highlight their countries’ attractions. tel. 303 80.

April

Festival Days An annual series of gala concerts and operas under the auspices of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden which brings world renowned conductors, soloists and orchestras to Berlin for 10 days. Concerts are held at the Philharmonic concert hall; operas are held at the opera house. tel. 20 35 44 81.

May

Carnival of Cultures

Arts and Entertainment

Classical music

Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstr.

35 030/341 0249

Good classical concerts, plus opera and ballet in a large, modern venue.

Komische Oper

Behrenstr. 55–57

030/4799 7400

The house orchestra performs classical and contemporary music, and opera productions are staged here.

Philharmonie

Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1

030/254880

The most noted and popular orchestra in Berlin.

Konzerthaus Berlin, Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt,

Gendarmenmarkt 2

030/203 092101

Home to the Berlin Sinfonie Orchester and host to visiting orchestras.

Staatsoper

Unter den Linden 7

030/203 54555

Excellent operatic productions in one of central Berlin’s most beautiful buildings.

Berliner Ensemble

Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1

030/282 3160

The official Brecht theatre.

Maxim Gorki Theater

Am Festungsgraben 2

030/202 21115

Productions of modern works.

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz

Kurfürstendamm 153

030/890023

State-of-the-art theatre for performances of the classics and some experimental pieces.

Varieté Chamäleon

Rosenthaler Str. 40–41, Mitte

030/282 7118

Cabaret and variety theatre in the beautiful turn-of-the-century Hackescher Höfe complex.

Concerts

Among the major symphony orchestras and orchestral ensembles in Berlin is one of the world’s best, the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester, which resides at the Philharmonie Mit Kammermusiksaal

Matthäikircherstr. 1

030/254-880 or 030/2548-8132

The Kammermusiksaal is dedicated to chamber music.

Grosser Sendesaal Des Sfb

Haus des Rundfunks, Masurenallee 8-14

030/30310

is part of the Sender Freies Berlin, one of Berlin’s broadcasting stations, and the home of the Radio Symphonic Orchestra.

Konzerthaus Berlin’s

Schauspielhaus, Gendarmenmarkt

030/2030-92101

beautifully restored hall is a prime venue for classical music concerts in historic Berlin.

The concert hall of the Hochschule Der Künste University of Arts

Hardenbergstr. 33,

030/3185-2374) is Berlin’s second largest.

Waldbühne

Am Glockenturm, close to Olympic Stadium

030/305-5079 is modeled after an ancient open-air Roman theater and accommodates nearly 20,000 people at opera, classical, or rock concerts.

Berlin Destination Overview

Berlin pulses with life; it is a city that never sleeps. The capital of Germany is paved with cobbled streets dating back 750 years. At the same time, it is gloriously modern. For nearly 30 years, Berlin was really two cities: East and West Berlin, with a wall in between that was meant to be impenetrable. In 1989 all that changed.

The wall came down, and the two parts of the city were reunited. In the years since 1989, Berlin has been not only reborn, but reinvented. The speed of change has been astounding, with the city’s entire center of gravity shifting from west to east. The action ( sights, restaurants and nightlife) is now found in eastern Berlin. It’s an exciting scene and, for anyone familiar with the eastern streets of a few years ago, a slightly unbelievable one.

Much of the new city is already in place: parliament sits in the renovated Reichstag; Potsdamer Platz, once leveled to a field in the Wall’s death zone, is now a bustling quarter with 110 new shops, 30 restaurants, a theater, a film museum, and a casino; and the city’s world-class collection of European art has been reunited in the Gemäldegalerie. A fresh vibrancy is everywhere: on the boulevards, in the art and flea markets, in the 300 trendy night-spots and the 7,000 pubs and restaurants. Visitors can enjoy three opera houses, two great concert halls and 35 theatres, plus cabarets, musicals and revues. Art-lovers can tour 170 excellent museums. this revitalized Berlin has been called the “New York City” of Europe. One of the most popular activities in Berlin is river cruising.

Tourist boats cruise the city's waterways, stopping at picturesque parks and castles. The city of Berlin lies in the middle of the state of Brandenburg, just a few miles from countless lakes, historical castles, stately homes, abbeys, heaths, pine forests, river valleys and tree-lined country roads. Few cities have such a wealth of unspoiled natural and cultural attractions in the direct vicinity. Berlin is linked to its surrounding areas both by the Spree and Havel rivers and by their common historical heritage, reflected in the many fascinating sights. The reunited city of Berlin is once again the capital of Germany.

Berlin was almost bombed out of existence during World War II, its streets reduced to piles of rubble, its parks to muddy swampland. But the optimistic spirit and strength of will of the remarkable Berliners enabled them to survive not only the wartime destruction of their city, but also its postwar division, symbolized by the Berlin Wall. Structures of steel and glass tower over streets where before only piles of rubble lay, and parks and gardens are again lush. Even now, in the daily whirl of working, shopping, and dining along the Ku'damm, Berliners encounter reminders of less happy days. At the end of the street stands the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, with only the shell of the old neo-Romanesque bell tower remaining.

In striking contrast is the new church, constructed west of the old tower in 1961, in a futuristic design. Before World War II, the section of the city that became East Berlin was the cultural and political heart of Germany, where the best museums, the finest churches, and the most important boulevards lay. After the wall came down, East Berliners turned to restoring their important museums, theaters, and landmarks (especially in the Berlin-Mitte or center section), while the West Berliners built entirely new museums and cultural Centers. This contrast between the two parts of city is still evident today, though east and west are more and more coming together within the immense, fascinating whole that is Berlin. It is a perfect time to join the excitement, and to experience Berlin.

The city has succeeded in moving forward, and while its entire foundation has shifted in a new direction, Berlin is again making history.


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