In Germany you can stop in the hotel of the GDR epoch and to plunge into the atmosphere of that time. It is interesting that the new direction in the hotel business of the country has found many admirers. It is not a secret that the tourists, starting a travel, search new impressions, and many of them are already bored with the residing at the chic hotels with the refined design. Therefore, the owners of the small hotels and boarding houses change the style of their institutions so that the visitors could move in their imagination in the GDR times. The rooms in the hotels are arranged with the dark gray sofas and wall units, decorated with the portraits of the state heads of that epoch. The guests can sit down on the rigid armchairs in front of the Soviet TV, and they will find out a grey soap instead of the habitual bottles of foam in the bath.
The most popular hotel of such type became the Berlin Ostel in which there are no queues. The residing cost here is quite democratic: 35 euros from a person in four-room GDR-apartments per five places, from 38 euros - in a standard single room. The room such as a "pioneer camp" (a simple room with six beds) costs from nine euros. The breakfasts - 3,5 euros.
The German tourist organization carried out the researches which showed that Berlin during the first half of 2007 had been visited by 11,4 % more tourists, than for the same period of 2006. In opinion of the organization representatives, there is a merit of the original Berlin hotels in it. It is necessary to note that 40 % of the tourists staying at them are people who are younger than 35 years old.
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