Hotel good, clean and comfortable. A little out of town but OK if you have transport or use the metro. the cost was €30.00 for a taxi back from town. food was good and there was a good choice. bedroom walls are a bit thin we could hear everything that the people were saying in the next room.

We stayed at the Globus City Hotel for three nights in December 2011 as part of a National Coach Holiday ‘Berlin Christmas Markets’ tour on a half board basis. The hotel is located in the old East German part of the city and thus the views from the rooms are not exactly awe inspiring, just your normal boring former Communist architecture. The rooms in the hotel are spacious and come with en-suite facilities, a TV and a hair dryer. Soaps come from a wall dispenser and the towels are a tad tired and rough. There is no mini-bar, fridge or coffee making facility. There are seven floors and two lifts which, can occasionally be quite busy, with coach parties arriving and departing. Reception and maid service are efficient and friendly. The half board option of buffet meals was satisfactory although on one morning the breakfast demand overwhelmed the staff and for quite a while, the tables were left uncleared and the food offer was not replenished. The hotel is located about a fifteen minute direct walk from Magdalenenstr U Bahn Station from where you can catch the U5 to Alexanderplatz for a single fare of 2.30 Euros. From here you can start your tour of the more architecturally rewarding centre of Berlin or catch onward trains, trams and buses.

if you have a car, I'd definitely recommend staying here because the hotel is affordable, comfortable and clean. however, if you're prepared to travel to the center by metro (around 25 min), it's well connected and we didn't mind it. our room was spacious and clean. breakfast was too expensive for our budget, but there are supermarkets across the street which was great. a kettle in the room would have been great. internet in the room is also pretty expensive, but at least it's free in the lobby.

Booked a twin room in this hotel through Booking.com for a last-minute city break.

Price-wise, the room was extremely competitive.

That may be explained by the hotel's somewhat peripheral location - assuming that one is visiting all of the touristy places in West Berlin. However, it is pertinent to consider that the hotel is around a 10 minute walk from an U-Bahn station on Frankfurter Allee, which will take you into the City in around 30 minutes. Taxis, comparative to the UK, are also cheap. The sheer reliability of the public transport does mitigate the hotel's location.

The interior of the hotel could be described as 'comfortable'. It was nice, nothing more, nothing less. The other guests were also of a respectable standard that there was no trouble, or excessive noise.

Very good value for the money that I paid for it, and if I were to book a budget city break to Berlin again, then I would consider staying here!