Sly Berlin

Style

More lounge than club

Setting

Freewheeling Friedrichshain

Your induction to the capital’s in-crowd awaits at Sly Berlin, a design-savvy stay where the city’s grungy, techno-soundtracked artists’ quarter gets a boutique glow-up – and a significantly better night’s sleep. At the greenhouse-inspired restaurant, horn-rim-rocking locals bond over houseplant parenthood and robata-fired steaks. In the rooftop sauna, expect animated chats about Arflex chairs or Louis Poulsen lamps. And after a night in the bar, you’ll be on first-name terms with the beer sommelier and a convert to sage in cocktails. We’d say this place makes a fine base for forays out to find the city’s cool kids, but chances are, they’re already here…

Facilities

Rooms

150, including one suite.

Checkout

Noon. Check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability, for an extra €40 fee.

More Details

Rates at Sly Berlin are room-only, but you can tuck into a buffet breakfast including cooked options, fresh-baked treats and a full Continental spread for €28 a person.

Also

11 rooms have been specially adapted for guests with reduced mobility. All the hotel’s communal areas are wheelchair accessible, with accessible public bathrooms and lift access to every floor.

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pet Friendly

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Sauna, 24-hour snack shop, rooftop terrace and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Marshall Bluetooth speaker, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, free bottled water, air-conditioning and Molton Brown bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

There’s no bad pick when every room is packed with cool designer pieces, but for extra space and plenty of peace, swing for the Sly Courtyard Room.

Spa

There’s a Klafs sauna on the top floor, so you can unwind with a bird’s eye view of the Berlin rooftops. There’s also a fitness room in the basement, kitted out with gym equipment, weights and yoga mats.

Packing Tips

Come ready for a street art tour with some worn-in Docs and a few rolls of 35mm film.

Also

The hotel has its own Späti – a late-night convenience store and trusty snack pitstop for the city’s late-night partiers. At Sly’s version of this Berlin institution, you can pick up a curated selection of artisanal treats and tipples, around the clock.

Children

Little Smiths are welcome, and can look forward to free pick ’n’ mix on arrival. The Courtyard Rooms each have a single sofa-bed. Extra beds can be added for under-18s to the Sly Signature and Sly Courtyard rooms for an extra charge (€50 a night).

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

For the full greenhouse experience, take a pew beneath a towering bird of paradise plant.

Dress Code

No need to go the full Berghain, but the extra edge of a little vintage leder won’t hurt.

Hotel Restaurant

Between the ferns and ficuses of Sly’s light-flooded greenhouse restaurant, head chef Matthias serves up a finely spun Asian-fusion menu. Rubia Gallega steaks are flame-cooked on the robata grill, and speciality seafood dishes include sesame-sprinkled teriyaki salmon and miso cod with rainbow carrots and beurre blanc.

Hotel Bar

Claim a Bertoia chair or cherry leather sofa, cradle a botanical cocktail and ostentatiously catch up on your Camus reading at Sly’s cosy bar. Master mixologist Dennis makes the herb-infused syrups from scratch – make ours a Minus 6, a Sly classic in which gin is muddled with tarragon, lychee and Japanese plum liqueur. The alcohol-free options are just as inventive, and if it’s a craft brew you’re after, beer sommelier Sunny is your guy.

Last Orders

Sly Restaurant is open for dinner from 5pm to 10pm daily. The bar pours from 9am till late.

Room Service

There’s no room service, but you can stock up on artisanal snacks and tipples round the clock at the hotel’s Späti shop.

Planes

Berlin Brandenburg Airport is a 45-minute drive away. The hotel can arrange transfers for around €80 each way.

Trains

The city’s eastern hub, Ostbahnhof, is around a 10-minute drive from the hotel. Roll in from German cities including Frankfurt, Cologne and Düsseldorf, as well as international capitals like Vienna and Amsterdam.

Automobiles

Berlin is best seen by strolling, and is well connected with the full metro, bus and tram trifecta, but if you do bring your own wheels there’s free underground parking at the hotel.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Step out of Sly Berlin and it seems every street tells a story of Friedrichhain’s Soviet past and friendly, free-spirited present. Top of your cultural check-list: the East Side Gallery, the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall, now reclaimed by artists from across the globe with kaleidoscopic political murals. Stick with the street art theme at RAW Tempel, a gritty cultural hub where sporty Berliners skate and boulder between industrial buildings plastered with graffiti and stickers. Up your landmark quota at Oberbaumbrücke, the grand neo-Gothic bridge that once served as a crossing point between East and West Berlin. The boutique-lined streets surrounding Boxhagener Platz are always good for a stroll, but go on Sundays to rifle through the treasure-rich flea market. And for a beech-shaded breather, take a turn about the leafy trails of Volkspark Friedrichshain, the oldest public park in Berlin and, as per local wisdom, prime picnic territory.

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