Leonardo Hotels acquires the Crowne Plaza® Berlin – Potsdamer Platz
Rebranding as The Posthouse Berlin – Leonardo Limited Edition to take place in the spring
Berlin/Frankfurt am Main, 2. January 2025. Leonardo Hotels is beginning the New Year with an acquisition. The group has taken over the Crowne Plaza® Berlin – Potsdamer Platz with effect from 1 January 2025. The hotel will initially bear the name Hotel Berlin Potsdamer Platz by Leonardo Hotels during a fully operational transitional period which will be used to carry out renovation and redesign works. From spring 2025, it will be known as The Posthouse Berlin and will form part of the Leonardo Limited Edition brand.
The hotel is situated at the very heart of Berlin, next to Potsdamer Platz and opposite the Tempodrom events venue. 256 elegant rooms and suites, a gym area complete with a sauna, a restaurant, a stylish bar and eight conference rooms will all provide attractive facilities for business and leisure travellers alike.
The Posthouse Berlin will become Leonardo Hotels’ seventh venture in Berlin and is also set to be the first Leonardo Limited Edition in the German capital. Across Germany as a whole, the group’s portfolio encompasses a total of just under 70 hotels and five brands. The Leonardo Limited Edition brand comprises a carefully curated collection of individually styled hotels, each of which boasts its own character, a stand-alone design and a separate history. The spectrum ranges from a small suite-based hotel all the way to a Grand Hotel in a beach location. Leonardo Limited Edition includes iconic hotels such as The Grand Brighton. In Germany itself, the collection thus far extends to The Nikolai in Hamburg and the Mannheimer Hof.
“I am delighted that we are launching a Limited Edition hotel in Berlin,” said Yoram Biton, Managing Director of Leonardo Hotels Central Europe. “Once the renovation works have been completed, The Posthouse Berlin will fit seamlessly into the exclusive and individual Limited Edition portfolio, which embraces wonderful hotels such as The Alden Hotel in Zurich, The Midland in Manchester and The Dilly in London. The Posthouse adds a further premium segment option to our selection of hotels in Berlin. It will offer our guests unforgettable experiences at the highest level.”
The Posthouse Berlin also has its own story to tell. The listed building in which it is housed once accommodated Berlin’s most important postal centre, which remained in use up until the 1990s. The renovations will meticulously stress the building’s former life as a post office. Symbols and exemplars which are reminiscent of this previous function will be left intact in many cases. The style of the works incorporates elements of the 1920s and 1930s whilst deploying elegant materials to update them for the modern age. The renowned interior designer Andreas Neudahm has assumed lead management responsibility for the restoration programme.