Industriepalast Hostel

Industriepalast Hostel in the 1906 Red Brick Building

The Industriepalast Hostel is located in a red brick building from 1906 on Warschauer Straße, designed by Johann Emil Schaudt, the architect of KaDeWe. The name says it all: the interior design picks up on the building’s industrial look. Around 90 rooms with approximately 400 beds make it the largest on this list, which is significant when accommodating multiple classes simultaneously. The Warschauer Straße S-Bahn station serves lines S3, S5, S7, and S9, while the adjacent U-Bahn station serves U1 and U3; trams M10 and M13 run across the street. Oberbaumbrücke and the East Side Gallery are about a two-minute walk away, while Mercedes-Benz Arena, RAW grounds, and East Side Mall are around five minutes away. The entire building is barrier-free: communal areas are fully wheelchair accessible, as are individual rooms, toilets, and showers; needs should be registered in advance. The size of the house has a practical side effect: several classes of the same year group can be accommodated simultaneously without being spread across different buildings.

Seminar Room as a Classroom and Basement Hall for the Evening

The hostel area has triple, quadruple, six-bed, and eight-bed rooms, while the hotel area has single and double rooms with private bathrooms. Single, double, triple, and quadruple rooms have a private bathroom with shower and toilet; larger multi-bed rooms share a bathroom or use the floor bathroom. For groups of ten or more, there is a special offer specifically aimed at school trips, courses, sports clubs, and choirs. Two rooms are particularly useful: a seminar room with a projector, whiteboard, and flipchart that can be used as a classroom, and a basement hall with table tennis, a large foosball table, and a sound system for the evening. A checklist for teachers is available as a PDF. Packed lunches must be ordered at least 48 hours in advance, and a three-course group menu for twenty or more people two weeks in advance. Bed linen costs 2.50 Euros per person, a towel 2 Euros. The house has a guest kitchen, washing machine and dryer, a bar with a café, and a backyard with BBQ facilities. Payment is exclusively cashless.