Stayed here in April 2011 for five days. It was the first time I stayed in the Kurfuerstendamm area, which proved to be an ideal location. It was close to all public transports.
Rooms were large, clean and beds comfortable. I found the hotel staff friendly and very helpful. The breakfast was surprisingly good, but the dining area a bit small.
Just remember to inform the hotel that you want a non-smoking room, which we forgot. But but as professional as they are, they solved the problem.

My wife and I spent three night at this hotel recently. I'm pretty soft when it comes to rating hotels compared to most people, but the unusually persistent high review of this hotel seem way out of line to me.

The facility is indeed reasonably well located near the central part of West Berlin, but the overally quality of the facility and the very obvious need for it to be remodeled and redecorated, seems to have escaped the notice of the average reviewer, and that just doesn't feel right to me. I've never, not once, made this claim before but it seems to me that the reviews of this facility may very well have been cooked. Obviously one should always view ratings (this one included) with a grain of salt because, with a little on-going effort, one could rather easily generate numerous good review to bury negative ones. I'm not a cynical person, but after giving the matter careful thought I decided to write this review a few minutes ago after reading in the New York Times that the going rate for writing a five star review is $5.

In spite of its good location this hotel was in my opinion more of a two star facility badly in need of redecoration and updating. The elevator only stopped on half floors meaning that one always has to lug their luggage either up or down one flight of stairs. Our room was the European standard (a bit on the small side) and the bath room was especially small with a shower control overly intruding into the limited space within the shower stall.

Most significantly, there is no air conditioning and the hotel location does not allow for good natural air flow. We were fortunately at the hotel during very mild weather but this could be a real problem when the weather is hot.

The carpeting on the floors both in the hall and in our room was badly worn and somewhat stained and not particularly clean. Wood or stone or ceramic flooring rather than carpet are more standard flooring materials in European hotels.

The breakfast buffet offered generous hours but the food was average at best. I've stayed in about ten other Berlin hotels and other than location would rate this hotel in the bottom 10% rather than the top 20% which seems to be to be the collective rating of this hotel on Trip Advisor, Expedia, and one other rating site I checked.

In summary, call me nasty or just plain wrong, but if you book this hotel don't be surprised when you find that it simply does not live up to its reviews.

Astoria Berlin is situated 5-10 minutes walk from the Zoologischer Garten and, therefore, the named-after S-Bahn station (where you can get a train to Postdam, for example). The room was large and comfortable, and a had very good shower / bathtub. The street is quiet enough for a good night's sleep and close to the Kurfürstendamm, where you have plenty of shopping and restaurant options; there is also a good supermarket two blocks down. The staff was very friendly and helpful, able to give good information and directions on sightseeings and train stations. All this for a reasonable price. No complaints at all on this hotel. I surely recommend it!

We stayed here with 3 of my friends and we had 4 person room. Room was not huge, but large enough. It was clean and quiet when windows were closed. The ventilation was not perfect as sole source of fresh air was in bathroom. Thus it got little stuffy in the room during night. Breakfast was good and staff friendly. I can gladly recommend this hotel to anyone.