Grand Hotel Esplanade is a high class, clean, and well-located hotel to see the sights of Berlin. Rooms are large with excellent facilities. Staff is friendly and very helpful. Guests are a mixture of business travelers and tourists. Highly recommended

It was an excellent experience and great value. We paid a low rate and got a service of a real 5 star hotel. Hotel is clean, staff is very polite and helpful, location is great. Very very recommended .

We booked this hotel through lastminute.com and was amazed at the cheap deal that we got - we paid about ?160 for 2 nights. The hotel is 5* and is completely luxurious - very modern and swanky. It seems to cater mainly for the business end of the market and we felt like a couple of scruff bags trotting in with our rucksack, whilst everyone else was making full use of the very smartly dressed porters with their enormous cases. However the staff were very welcoming and were always on hand to offer whatever service you required. Our room was enormous - however we did have a city view which was slightly misleading as it actually looked straight across the road to another hotel or office block - you can pay a little more for a river view which is probably worth it. The hotel has several bars and restaurants - there were all really nice, although quite expensive - the hotel is also home to Harry's Bar - one of Berlin's top bars which is in lots of the guide books (as is the hotel under the luxury section). It also has a really nice pool and gym. The location of the hotel is pretty good - not far from Berlin's Tiergarten and only a five minute walk from the nearest underground station. It is surrounded by embassy buildings and is close to several bars and restaurants. We had a fantastic stay at the Grand Hotel Esplanade and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone.

It's a well situated hotel with very nice staff in reception. The double room we had was placed away from the street which gave a quiet room, but the neighbourgs in the building next to the hotel have free view to the rooms up to about 3. floor where we stayed. The room needed to be renovated to meet modern standards. Bathroom was definately not designed for use for more than one person at the time. Some electrical switches and outlets were loose or malfunctioning. Confronted with this, the hotel fixed the problems within the next day. Bed was very comfortable. Breakfast was the best hotel breakfast so far in Germany. Hotel bar and restaurant was at an average level. Might go there again if they had a "hot deal".