The Mandala Hotel

Elegant, beige-embracing 144-room hotel offering a quintessentially calm and tranquil experience – the vision of designer Lutz Hesse and hotelier Christian Andresen, who launched the hotel in 1999 (as the Madison) and continue to oversee the operation. Chinese antiques figure among the many visual touches. The 11th-floor rooftop ONO spa recognises that its busy customers "need to feel Zen on every front". The space includes an Iyashi Dôme: "an infra-red wellness-couch, based on the traditional Japanese sauna". Other features include the inner-courtyard 2 Michelin-starred FACIL restaurant ("an oasis of culinary extravagance"). The hotel underwent a major renovation in 2013. Owned by the exclusive and boutiquey Design Hotels chain. U-Bahn + S-Bhan: Potzdamer Platz.