Straight-friendly gay hotel with two SM rooms
An inexpensive 18-room boutique hotel on the third floor of a late-19th-century art nouveau house, the ArtHotel claims to be the "grand dame" of gay Berlin hotels as well as the city's oldest, though renovated — complete with crystal chandeliers and frilly touches here and there — in 2010. Two special rooms ("playrooms") are fitted with SM equipment; one combines the sleeping and sex areas (stocks, St Andrew's Cross, sling, cage) while the other separates the two functions. Smoking is allowed in the SM playrooms but nowhere else in the hotel, which features no common area. There's no connection to the similarly named shop and club below. Location is exemplary in terms of access to several of Schöneberg's gay hot spots.

Tags: Mostly Men , Leather , Wi-Fi Internet , $$ - Standard , $ - Budget , Boutique Hotel