+s : Lovely breakfast
Lovely central location

-s : Too expencive for what it offers.
There is no reception
No common room after 7pm
No staff working there after 7 pm
Curtains dont block the sunlight so that you are forced to get out of bed at 6 am.

Me and my girlfriend made the booking for this hotel and when we arrived there we didn't like at all !! The hotel was empty, the room was small, cold and with furnitures that were broken. To my request that the armchair was dirty and broken, we were told that this is the old style of the furniture !!! Me and my girlfriend decided thrn that we wanted to leave and did so. But, I couldn't cancel my booking and we had to pay the total amount of the reservation.

Simpy, please don't try this horrible hotel !!!!

Payed €410 for 3 nights in a double room (no. 10).
The room and bathroom was clean and in good shape.
The beds were comfortable.

The location is excellent! There are plenty of pubs and restaurants close to the hotel. The Oranienburger Strasse offers loads of nice restaurants. The tram stops 100 meters from the hotel, and the subway station (Oranienburger Tor) is 150 m away. Hackescher Markt (half a mile away) is a great spot with pubs and restaurants. I highly recommend the Kilkenny Inn pub located at the train station.

The breakfast (8-11) was rather boring, but fair. Cross the street and have a late breakfast at one of the restaurants if you feel like having a great chicken salad (or anything else) instead.

Last year, we stayed at Hotel Agon am Alexanderplatz. That hotel was €30 cheaper pr. night, but I think MitArts location was worth the extra €30.

The bottom line: Not cheap, but with an excellent location.

However, it now calls itself Mitart Hotel but I would say it is a pension if I am being kind. So I think it should go back to that name, otherwise it is misleading at best and deceiving at worse.

Under exactly this kind of wrong impression plus the 'well selected' photos angles on the website (interestingly our room isn't featured on the website and I wonder how many of such rooms are not), we thought we were staying at a charming hotel for 3 nights.. Also at 125euros a night for a double (already discounted rates, can you imagine?) it helps give such impression too. However it is anything but.

We were highly disappointed, our room which is mainly lit with florescent lights is not given much thought in finishing and decoration. There are unsightly wire cables hanging percariously around the beds. The beds which have no frame nor bed head, slide around alot which makes sleeping at night tricky (there are 2 of us). The furniture mainly of untreated pine was put there more as a convenience than style. There are some odd pieces, like the sofa in our room, is just a monstrosity and combined with another monstrosity - a clothes hanger/cupboard, the room looks like a depot for unwanted furniture.

Moreover, just outside of our room the corridor is stacked with piles of rubbish, treated more like a storeroom/corner, it is totally unsightly! The so called art rotation exhibition in our room again looks sad, dated or just plainly miserable. The bathroom is functional, florescent light again and complete lack of flair: shouts pension, not hotel. The towels are small, rough, mangy and had seen better days. The whole place looks like it has been done up on the cheap. Ok given that sometimes under people with great taste it can be charming but not in this case.

In fact we were so depressed of such horribleness that we had to nick one of the better lamps in the pile in the hallway to add some mood lightening in the room. Yes imagine, DIY 'hotel' improvement whilst on holiday.

Also the so called organic breakfast is overrated and marred by a lack of service... there is only one middle age woman on shift, presumably, the owner. I think a pension with such high rates should be able to afford more help. I won't pay more than 80eurs in this place, so it has space and is clean (apart from the rough, sad looking towels).

I won't recommend it, Flower's boarding house mitte and Motel one Alexanderplatz down the road are much better: better rates, in a great area and you will get what you pay for. No unpleasant surprises like here.