Berlin has long been home to a thriving gay culture, making it a fun place to travel and meet open-minded individuals. Schöneberg is historically Berlin’s gay neighborhood and one of the first of its kind in the world. Many gay friendly hotels exist on the streets surrounding the neighborhood’s central hub of Nollendorfplatz. Promising comfort and community. Here is a list of the best gay-friendly hotels to stay in. The gay capital of Germany and arguably the sex capital of Europe! Berlin has a gay scene like no other. Many gay tourists love the city because of the multifaceted and high paced scene.
Berlin’s gay life concentrates in two neighbourhoods, Schöneberg and Kreuzberg, despite the entire city is extremely tolerant and open minded. Both neighbourhoods compete in the number of gay bars, clubs, nightclubs, cafes, shops and sex shops. However, when looking for a Gay Hotel in Berlin, Schöneberg beats Kreuzberg. Maybe it is because the rise of the Kreuzberg as the new alternative gay neighbourhood is recent compare to Schöneberg’s gay life, so in a few year time, there will be plenty of accommodations for lgbtq+ community there too. Next you can find some of the main gay hotels in Berlin to suit every type of budget.
The Pullman is nicely located close to Ku’damm avenue, the KaDeWe department store, Berlin Zoo and a short walk from some of the best gay bars & clubs in Schöneberg. Splash Club, one of Berlin’s best gay saunas, is...
Located next door to the Sofitel Berlin, the Swissôtel Berlin is a great luxury option, having won a place on Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List. Each spacious room has a flat screen TV, Nespresso machine, large windows...
The newly revamped, utterly stylish Sofitel is located on the famous Ku’damm street and is close to the main gay nightlife in Schöneberg, many shops and restaurants. It combines art, design and architectural statements...
Located in Schöneberg, the heart of the gay scene in the city, Axel Hotel Berlin is fascinating for its cosmopolitan spirit, by the careful combination of design and comfort, and for excellent...
This boutique hotel is on a quiet side street between Berlin's lively Schöneberg and traditional Charlottenburg districts. Near the KaDeWe department store, the Memorial Church and the Kurfürstendamm shopping street,...
Hotel Gay Lussac is in the 5th district of Paris, in the famous Latin Quarter. Both the Pantheon and the Luxembourg Gardens are 293 m away and free Wi-Fi access is available. The rooms at Hotel Gay Lussac here will...
One of Berlin’s most elegant and renowned privately-owned luxury hotels. Hotel Palace offers 278 rooms and suites, an award-winning gourmet restaurant, a gym, spa, a pool – just about everything you need.
The gay...
The famous Adlon Kempinski, located right next to the Brandenburg Gate, offers exquisite rooms and suites that are likely to impress even the most seasoned traveller.
The hotel has its own Michelin-starred restaurant,...
The ‘all suite’ Mandala is rather special. Even the smallest of its modern rooms are at least 40 m² in size and feature a large bathroom, walk-in closet, chic kitchenette, bright workspace, minibar and free WiFi. The...
Situated in the historic building on Bebelplatz Square, Hotel de Rome offers superb gourmet cuisine, a rooftop terrace with magnificent views of Berlin, a 20-metre swimming pool and a luxury spa. Guest rooms are...
Looking for more than just a room? The Clipper City Home offers good-value, apartment-style accommodation in central Berlin.Each large, modern apartment features a fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher, Nespresso...
A stylish new hotel that’s just a few minutes’ walk from Berlin’s gay bars and cruise clubs in the Schöneberg district, KaDeWe department store, the famous Ku’Damm shopping area and the Wittembergplatz U-Bahn...
The Ivbergs Premium has an excellent location for sightseeing, shopping and gay scene in Berlin.
The Nollendorfplatz metro station is less than 2 minutes’ walk from the hotel as are the gay bars in the Schöneberg gay...
Behind the Ellington’s art deco façade, constructed in 1931 by trailblazing Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn, is a stylish, modern hotel.
The Ellington’s 285 bright, spacious guest rooms, each with...
The Novum Business Hotel City B Berlin is great for both business and pleasure, being located close to transport links, many shops and within 10 minutes’ walk to all the gay bars in Schöneberg district.
Each...
This hetero-friendly gay hotel in Schֳ¶neberg is 700 metres from Berlins Kurfurstendamm shopping area and the KaDeWe department store. The hotel's breakfast buffet is available until late, and Wi-Fi is free throughout...
Perhaps the most famous gay hotel in Schöneberg. TOM’S Hotel offers comfortable, en suite single and double rooms that are equipped with flat screen TV, DVD player and free WiFi. The hotel does not serve breakfast, but...
Exclusively for gay men up to the age of 38. Gay Hostel Berlin is located in heart of Schöneberg gay village, close to Reizbar, Scheune gay cruise club, TOM’S Bar, Mutschmann’s and Duplexx.
The hostel offers single...
Located right in the middle of the Schöneberg gay district. The great-value Hotel Sachsenhof offers clean and comfortable double and single en suite rooms.WiFi is available, free of charge. Late risers can get...
Located in a residential area of the Schöneberg and within minutes from the gay scene. The gay-friendly Stars Guesthouse offers 13 spacious, individually-styled rooms with private or shared bathroom and 10 apartments....
Design hotel chain for budget travellers in Germany. Motel One offers modern, clean and good value-for-money accommodation.
There are several branches in Berlin, but the Tiergarten (an der Urania) branch is closest...
The new Leonardo Hotel has a fantastic location for sightseeing – close to many cultural sights, shops and transport links, a few minutes’ walk from the Friedrichstraße (one of Berlin’s main stations), and within easy...
The contemporary and stylish Casa Camper is conveniently located, close to many bars, restaurants and art galleries, and a short distance to the gay district of Prenzlauer Berg. Guests have access to The Tentempié...
New design hotel nestled between fashion boutiques and galleries in Berlin Mitte. Offering 103 air conditioned, non-smoking apartments, the i31 is effortlessly cool in both design and service.
Modest-sized rooms...
The very popular, top-rated Circus Hotel offers 60 modern, spacious rooms, junior suites and well-equipped apartments at very affordable rates. Opened in 2008, this trendy boutique hotel is ideally located in central...
Café and city hotel in trendy Prenzlauer Berg area. The 3-star Schall & Rauch hotel features bright, quiet rooms which combine traditional charm and minimalist design. All 28 rooms are en suite. Daily cocktail...
Gay-friendly apartments for 2 to 6 people, located on the edge of the gay Prenzlauer Berg district. Schoenhouse offers 50 units in modern design with wooden floors and high ceilings. All rooms come with a flat screen...
Excellent budget hotel in trendy Kreuzberg area, close to Der Boiler gay sauna, Rauschgold bar and other gay venues in this area. The nearby Möckernbrücke train station provides easy connections to other parts of...
This gay hotel is located in Berlin’s Schöneberg district, a 4-minute walk from Nollendorfplatz Underground Station. All comfortable rooms and apartments feature a flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi internet access.
This hetero-friendly gay hotel in Schöneberg is 700 metres from Berlin’s Kurfurstendamm shopping area and the KaDeWe department store. The hotel's breakfast buffet is available until late, and Wi-Fi is free throughout...
Situated in Berlin's vibrant gay district, this hostel for young gay men offers free WiFi and in-room, flat-screen TVs. It is just a 5-minute walk from Nollendorfplatz square and its underground station.
Located in a classic-style building, this hotel in Berlin’s gay district of Schöneberg offers free Wi-Fi and free tea and coffee in the lobby. It is situated just 300 metres from Nollendorf Underground Station.
Exclusively for gay men, this hostel is just a 3-minute walk from the vibrant Nollendorfplatz square and underground station in Berlin's Schneberg district. Free Wi-Fi access is provided at My Gayhostel.
A medium-sized, 217-room, nicely gay-positioned hotel opened in 1967 as the privately owned Alster-Hof, which upgraded and reinvented itself in 2013. A year later it was taken over by the reputable and design-conscious...
Design-aware and not über-costly A rather sleek and moderately priced 117-room hotel in central Berlin (Mitte), purpose-built and opened in May 2013. Rooms vary in degrees of 'comfort' and 'cozy', while all conform to...
Small garden hotel Surrounded by gardens, this 23-room hotel offers clean, quiet rooms with comfort and adequate style. The building dates back to the turn of the century (19th/20th) and has been modernised. Location...
Two apartments in the SM style Excellently located Italian-owned fetish sex spaces just east of Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn. Decor favours the colour red. Apartment 1: Sling, bondage bed, equipped cell, masks, bondage...
SM hotel with bourgeois comforts
Three painfully well-equipped apartments and an SM suite for those who don't like to travel with cages, St Andrew's crosses, slings, body bags, whipping benches and gynaecological...
Welcoming pension guest house outside the city centre
A budget gay-friendly option located in Reinickendorf in Northwest Berlin, somewhere in between Prenzlauer Berg and Tegel airport. Opened in the 1990s, but the...
Contemporary and business-like Functional-plus 274-room hotel with at least one eye on visiting businessmen. From the French-owned Novotel people, part of the Accor group. Located in the northwest corner of the...
Hip, urban budget hotel A very decent 50-room hotel with a loft-style atmosphere — lots of windows — in a converted factory that once produced enamel pictures. Prices are cheap and it's located in trendy, arty and...
Very central hotel A water-themed, 427-room hotel in the Minnesota-based Radisson chain, marked by a 25-meter-high cylindrical aquarium in the foyer. Karl-Liebknecht-Straße is the extension of Unter den Linden,...
High-end mainstream hotel
Centrally located and slickly swish 400-room hotel known for its gym and pool. Located just minutes south of the Unter den Linden, and not at all far from the Brandenburg Gate. U-Bahns:...
A Holiday Inn in Berlin This late-20th-century hotel is decent value for the centre of Berlin, though the location — more than two miles north of Alexanderplatz — is not what you might call trendy or particularly...
Urban jungle stylishness Hotels don't get much more hip-casual and playful than this Berlin outlet of the 25hours chain, which opened in January 2014 and went straight into the city's buzz chart at number one. The...
Modest, central and gay-convenient Functional, unstylish but perfectly reasonable rooms belie the lovely art nouveau exterior of this 64-room hotel which in 1989 insinuated itself into an 1886 building of once-handsome...
Budget basics-plus
A no-frills but adequately attractive German-owned 230-room hotel that includes a hostel/dormitory option for even cheaper accommodation than that of the hotel's already main budget offerings....
The art of sleeping A serious novelty hotel of 50 uniquely designed, decorated and furnished singles, doubles and suites, each conceived by a contemporary artist, some pastiche-like (Warhol, Van Gogh), others not....
Super-gay-friendly hotel location A 52-room, German-owned Berlin one-off hotel opened in 2005 and renovated in 2011, with continental-style functional-designery touches. Located in the Fuggerstraße, within crawling...
Gay-appeal boutique modernity A near-ridiculously sumptuous, 78-room establishment that has operated as a hotel since 2012 but which was built in 1939 as Berlin's Danish Embassy, designed by Stuttgart-born architect...
Bright rooms and bikes
Clean and affordable guesthouses/pensions — single and double rooms and apartments — located in Prenzlauer Berg, not far from the centre of Berlin (Mitte) but not quite within easy crawling...
In the grand Hyatt tradition
Impressive outlet in the Grand Hyatt family, with 342 rooms and suites and customary excellent service, located in dead-centre Berlin, just by Potsdamer Platz. Features include a swimming...
Smart hotel just west of Schöneberg 175-room Berlin outlet of an international Barcelona-based hotel chain with a reputation for quality, priced accordingly but not exorbitant. Located just south of the major shopping...
The corporate boutique touch
A 153-room hotel purpose-built in 2012, with the design-conscious look and feel of the ever expanding international boutique-style Indigo chain, started in 2004 in Atlanta. The hotel...
In the international boutique style
An 81-room design-conscious hotel opened in 2012 as one of two Berlin outlets for the ever expanding international boutique-style Indigo chain, started in 2004 in Atlanta. The hotel...
Period B&B just a short crawl from gay Schöneberg
An eight-room hotel up on the first floor (US = second floor) of an early-20th-century building, converted from an apartment space to a hotel in the 1920s. The hotel...
14 designer apartments
Gay-friendly, well-equipped, light and spacious apartments conceived by German-born Britta Jürgens and Canadian expatriate Matthew Griffin, who transformed a fading late-19th-century building...
One of the Motel Ones
One of eight Motel One outlets in Berlin, and one with a convenient proximity for those wishing to make the most of gay Schöneberg, not to mention extensive shopping possibilities including...
Seriously good location
Three excellently maintained apartments right on the über-gay-central Motzstraße, overseen since 2007 by Andrew Bazunu, who also operates four apartments around the corner at Nollendorfstraße...
Budget but with a gay flair
Gay-owned budget guest house featuring nine rooms plus three apartments, all varying in size and decor but done with taste and attention to detail (and a bit of something extra). Located on...
Two SM-friendly apartments
The Berlin ex of Rob Amsterdam operates not only the shop R&Co (RoB Berlin) [see entry] but these two equipped apartments catering to the sexually adventurous SM-inclined leather and rubber...
Sleeping etc under Tom's roof
Despite the name, there's more than one apartment to be had here, with a total of nine available in a tiny radius in and around Tom's Hotel, located ever so gay-centrally in the heart of...
Hotel Sachsenhof - lgbtq++ Friendly Nestled in the heart of Berlins vibrant gay district Hotel Sachsenhof is a warm and inviting accommodation option popular among the lgbtq+Q+ community. Situated a stones throw away from Nollendorfplatz U Bahn Station the hotel is conveniently located near many of the citys renowned gay clubs and bars. The rooms are spacious, comfortable and equipped with amenities. Check Availability and Prices
Hotel Riu Plaza Berlin - lgbtq+Q+ Friendly Positioned on the Kurfürstendamm shopping street Hotel Riu Plaza Berlin is within walking distance of the iconic KaDeWe department store. Embracing a gay environment this hotel offers cozy rooms and features an onsite restaurant where guests can dine comfortably. Check Availability and Prices
Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin - lgbtq+Q+ Friendly Situated to the historic Brandenburg Gate, Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin exudes luxury and sophistication while maintaining its status as a gay friendly establishment. Boasting rooms and suites along with an expansive spa area this hotel also houses several enticing restaurants and bars for guests to enjoy. Check Availability and Prices
Men Only Hotels in Berlin
Hotel Sachsenhof (Men Only)- Tucked away in Schönebergs lively gay district Hotel Sachsenhof caters exclusively to male guests seeking a cozy retreat. With rooms a welcoming bar area and an atmosphere conducive, to relaxation and socializing this hotel provides a memorable experience tailored specifically for men.. Check Availability and Prices: Booking.com link for Hotel Sachsenhof
Hotel BB (Men Only): Hotel BB is a well known men only hotel situated in the vibrant gay district of Berlin. The hotel boasts rooms, a sauna and a friendly atmosphere tailored for gay travelers. Discover. Check Availability and Prices: Booking.com link for Hotel BB
Hotel Zu Hause (Men Only)- offers a men only lodging nestled in the Schöneberg area. Providing rooms a warm ambiance and a prime location near gay bars and clubs. Check Availability and Prices: Booking.com link for Hotel Zu Hause
Our recommendations
Axel Hotel Berlin Adults Exclusively Men) Axel Hotel Berlin Adults Only provides lodging in the Schöneberg neighborhood, 0.9 miles from Kurfürstendamm. It features a restaurant fitness center, garden space and rooftop bar offering vistas. Guests can enjoy round the clock front desk service, room delivery and complimentary WiFi access. The wellness zone includes hot tub facilities, sauna rooms, Turkish bath options and fitness amenities. The Urban Bar at Axel Berlin is favored by both visitors and locals alike. Located a 5 minute stroll, from Wittenbergplatz Underground Station. Various lgbtq+Q+ clubs and bars are a stones throw away. Some of the popular features include complimentary WiFi, a spa fitness center accommodations for guests with disabilities, a round the clock front desk, room service, a terrace, a bar, an elevator and breakfast options. Noteworthy highlights of the property include its top notch location highly praised by visitors (8.9 rating) and its high rate of returning guests compared to other establishments. According to guest reviews the hotel is considered pleasant, with a score of 6.7; the free WiFi specifically received a commendable rating of 8.1
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