AIRPORT HOTELS WITH FREE PARKING

some suggested a few in black and white, so I gave it a try ;)
From its opening in 1907, the Adlon was as stately a grand hotel as any in Europe and a magnet for the glitterati of the day. Its fortunes rose and fell with those of Berlin but, remarkably, it almost survived the second world war unscathed until a fire gutted it at the end of the conflict.
The first Hotel Adlon was built in 1907 on the site of the Palais Redern, which had been designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The Adlon was one of the most famous hotels in Europe between the two World Wars and hosted celebrities including Louise Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Herbert Hoover, Josephine Baker and Marlene Dietrich.

The hotel continued to operate throughout World War II, although parts were converted to a military field hospital during the final days of the Battle for Berlin. The hotel survived the war without any major damage, having avoided the bombs that had levelled the city. However, on the night of 2 May 1945 a fire started by carousing Soviet soldiers in the building's wine cellar left the main building of the hotel in ruins.
Following the war, the East German government reopened the surviving service wing under the Hotel Adlon name. The main building on Pariser Platz was demolished along with all the other buildings on the square, which was now in the no-man's-land between East and West Berlin.

In 1964, the building was renovated and the facade was redone. However, in the 1970s what remained of the original Hotel Adlon closed to guests and was converted to a lodging house for East German apprentices. Finally, in 1984 the building was demolished.

Adlon family signed the name and site over to the Kempinski chain in the hope it might one day be resurrected. After the wall came down, the hotel was rebuilt on its original site and reopened in 1997 in an event heavily symbolic of a city reborn.
film called The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel in 1996. It is available on video from the hotel giftshop.
Greta Garbo's 1932 film 'Grand Hotel' is set in a Berlin hotel inspired by the Adlon. In one of its rooms, she first utters her trademark line 'I vant to be alone'.
A fictional half-ruined pre-war luxury hotel in East Berlin (also inspired by the Adlon), is seen in Billy Wilder's film One, Two, Three.
The hotel features prominently in numerous fiction and non-fiction books about the Third Reich, including Joseph Kanon's novel The Good German, Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels, and William L. Shirer's memoir Berlin Diary.

Michael Jackson infamously dangled his son, "Blanket," out one of the hotel's windows during a visit to Berlin in November 2002. The third-floor window – the second longer balcony, is located on the Northwest side of the building overlooking Pariser Platz and the Brandenburg Gate.

From its opening in 1907, the Adlon was as stately a grand hotel as any in Europe and a magnet for the glitterati of the day. Its fortunes rose and fell with those of Berlin but, remarkably, it almost survived the second world war unscathed until a fire gutted it at the end of the conflict.
The first Hotel Adlon was built in 1907 on the site of the Palais Redern, which had been designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The Adlon was one of the most famous hotels in Europe between the two World Wars and hosted celebrities including Louise Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Herbert Hoover, Josephine Baker and Marlene Dietrich.

The hotel continued to operate throughout World War II, although parts were converted to a military field hospital during the final days of the Battle for Berlin. The hotel survived the war without any major damage, having avoided the bombs that had levelled the city. However, on the night of 2 May 1945 a fire started by carousing Soviet soldiers in the building's wine cellar left the main building of the hotel in ruins.
Following the war, the East German government reopened the surviving service wing under the Hotel Adlon name. The main building on Pariser Platz was demolished along with all the other buildings on the square, which was now in the no-man's-land between East and West Berlin.

In 1964, the building was renovated and the facade was redone. However, in the 1970s what remained of the original Hotel Adlon closed to guests and was converted to a lodging house for East German apprentices. Finally, in 1984 the building was demolished.

Adlon family signed the name and site over to the Kempinski chain in the hope it might one day be resurrected. After the wall came down, the hotel was rebuilt on its original site and reopened in 1997 in an event heavily symbolic of a city reborn.
film called The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel in 1996. It is available on video from the hotel giftshop.
Greta Garbo's 1932 film 'Grand Hotel' is set in a Berlin hotel inspired by the Adlon. In one of its rooms, she first utters her trademark line 'I vant to be alone'.
A fictional half-ruined pre-war luxury hotel in East Berlin (also inspired by the Adlon), is seen in Billy Wilder's film One, Two, Three.
The hotel features prominently in numerous fiction and non-fiction books about the Third Reich, including Joseph Kanon's novel The Good German, Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels, and William L. Shirer's memoir Berlin Diary.

Michael Jackson infamously dangled his son, "Blanket," out one of the hotel's windows during a visit to Berlin in November 2002. The third-floor window – the second longer balcony, is located on the Northwest side of the building overlooking Pariser Platz and the Brandenburg Gate.