Five-star One MICHELIN Key Tiergarten, Berlin
SO/ Berlin Das Stue
The Royal Danish Embassy of 1940 on the edge of the Tiergarten, now 78 rooms with Egg chairs, and windows that look into Berlin Zoo.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.
- MICHELIN
- One Key
- Rooms
- 78 rooms and suites
- Building
- Royal Danish Embassy, 1938 to 1940
- From the airport
- About 40 minutes from BER, our estimate
The hotel
A Danish embassy by the zoo.
Denmark had to leave its chancellery on Alsenstraße in the late 1930s, when the site was set aside for Albert Speer's plans for Germania. Johann Emil Schaudt, who had designed KaDeWe, built the new embassy on Drakestrasse between 1938 and 1940: a curved limestone front some sixty metres long, with two bronzes by Paul Eschert at the door. Germany invaded Denmark in April of the year it was finished.
After the war it housed the Danish military mission, then a consulate from 1949. It opened as a hotel in 2012. The architect Annette Axthelm reworked the listed building and Patricia Urquiola did the interiors, keeping a Danish feel. Stue is Danish for living room. Rooms face the courtyard, the Tiergarten or the zoo. Accor plans to rename it Sofitel Berlin Das Stue early in 2027.
- The zoo next door Some rooms look straight into Berlin Zoo, others over the Tiergarten or the inner courtyard.
- Danish design Arne Jacobsen Egg chairs in the rooms, set in Patricia Urquiola's interiors.
- Spa and pool A heated indoor pool, spa treatments and a gym inside the old embassy.
Dining
A French brasserie in a Danish house.
Venues as listed by the hotel; MICHELIN listing from the MICHELIN Guide Germany 2026. Shown for information.
- CARTE BLANCHE MICHELIN Guide French and international Beef tartare, entrecôte, moules marinières; a good-value set lunch
- Stue Bar Bar Next to the restaurant, with a terrace
Good to know
Before you go.
- New name Accor has announced that the hotel becomes Sofitel Berlin Das Stue in the first quarter of 2027, with work on the rooms, lobby and corridors. No closure has been announced.
- Location On Drakestrasse in the embassy quarter, a few steps from the zoo and the Großer Tiergarten, near the Spanish Embassy.
Getting there
Flying to Berlin.
Berlin Brandenburg (BER) is about 30 kilometres away by road; allow around 40 minutes by car, our estimate. Private jets use the General Aviation Terminal at the same airport, with its own customs and security.
- Munich 55 min
- Zurich 1 h 10
- Paris 1 h 30
- London 1 h 35
- Dubai 6 h 25 long-range jet
Questions
What guests ask first.
- How many MICHELIN Keys does Das Stue have?
- One. The MICHELIN Guide lists SO/ Berlin Das Stue with one Key.
- Is Das Stue changing its name?
- Yes. Accor announced in September 2026 that it will become Sofitel Berlin Das Stue in the first quarter of 2027.
- What was the building before it was a hotel?
- The Royal Danish Embassy, built between 1938 and 1940 by Johann Emil Schaudt, the architect of KaDeWe.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Berlin?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Berlin, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Berlin
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Hotel de Rome The Dresdner Bank head office of 1889 by Ludwig Heim, 146 rooms, with the pool and spa in the old vault and a terrace on the roof.
- Waldorf Astoria Berlin On Hardenbergstrasse in City West, new to the Keys in 2026 with two of them, with the Library Lounge on the fifteenth floor and ROCA downstairs.
- The Ritz-Carlton, Berlin One of the five Berlin hotels holding two Keys, on Potsdamer Platz.
- Roomers Berlin Steinplatz, Autograph Collection A small house on Steinplatz in Charlottenburg, now run as Roomers, with one MICHELIN Key in the 2026 selection.
- Telegraphenamt Built between 1910 and 1916 as one of the largest post office buildings in Germany, with ninety-seven rooms behind the brick and beams.
- Patrick Hellmann Schlosshotel A private residence built in the style of an Italian palace before the First World War, in the villa streets of Grunewald, furnished by the designer whose name it carries.
- Hotel Adlon Kempinski Rebuilt by Kempinski on the site of the 1907 original, 385 rooms and suites facing the Brandenburg Gate, with the starred Lorenz Adlon Esszimmer.
- The Mandala Hotel Studios and suites on Potsdamer Straße, with FACIL and its two stars in the courtyard and the ONO Spa upstairs.
- Château Royal Berlin Ninety-three rooms in two buildings off Unter den Linden, the older one from the nineteenth century, with contemporary art in every one of them.
- Hotel Luc, Autograph Collection Ninety-two rooms and suites on the Gendarmenmarkt, done in Prussian blue by Oana Rosen, with the restaurant YOU.
- Grand Hyatt Berlin Its pool is on the roof, above a large wellness area, with a view across the city.
- Orania.Berlin An office building of 1912 on Oranienplatz, now 41 rooms with a MICHELIN Key and a salon where a grand piano serves for soul, funk and jazz nights.
- Louisa's Place A town house of 1904 at Kurfürstendamm 160, run in its present form since 2003, with 47 rooms and suites.
- Bristol Berlin Opened as a Kempinski in 1918 and rebuilt in 1951 and 1952 to designs by Paul Schwebes, it is the first German hotel in IHG's Vignette Collection.
- InterContinental Berlin Between the Tiergarten and the Kurfürstendamm, with the starred Hugos up on the fourteenth floor.
- Hilton Berlin Two of its restaurants look out over the Gendarmenmarkt to the Deutscher Dom.
- Titanic Gendarmenmarkt Berlin Close to the Gendarmenmarkt, with a grill restaurant and a Turkish hamam in the spa.
- Sheraton Berlin Grand Hotel Esplanade On the Landwehr Canal by the Tiergarten, a short walk from Potsdamer Platz.
- Steigenberger Hotel am Kanzleramt Its name comes from the open view of the Chancellery and the Bundestag.
Staying at SO/ Berlin Das Stue?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Berlin, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.