Novum Hotel Franke Berlin am Kurfürstendamm

Convenient location, about 700 meters to metro or less to a bus. Facilities are newly remodeled. The room is small but certainly ok for two people. Like most of Berlin, no air-conditioning, so it can get a bit warm during a heat wave.

Designer interiors of the room are quite bad for everyday's use. Glass walls to the toilet and zero insulation of the sound and smells from the toilet and shower from the main room is terrible. Zero shelves or other flat surfaces in the bathroom for the amanities. Very fragile stool in the room was already broken by our chek-in and it took 3 days to get it fixed, but it's so fragile it's better to not use it at all. Very few shelves and zero drawers, no wardrobe add to the impracticability of the room overall. VERY loud door of the elevator needs immediate oiling, but all our complains to it were ignored during 5 days stay. The beds though are very good and comfortable. Ecerything is so far new, but looks of very cheap and bad quality and extremely fragile.

I spent a few days at the Franke in April 2019. I was impressed by this hotel:it was very clean,as was my room which was en-suite and had a tv (no British channels.) The reception was friendly and efficient. The hotel is located a short walk from the Kurfurstendamm,not far from the Adenauerplatz ,where there's a number of bars and restaurants and an Underground (U Bahn) connection to other areas of Berlin and a line U7 (via Rudow) to Schonefeld airport (change at Rudow and take bus 171 or X7) to the airport.

Recommend to people visiting witb family and wants to stay good and safe area

Low cost, very low standard, never again! Most of the time you only get what you pay for, take my advise, pay more and stay somewhere else