Mercure Hotel Berlin City

"The hotel looks very new, is very clean. Little window between bedroom and bathroom was unique. The staff was very nice. Breakfast solid. Metro station is just around the corner, supermarket Rewe as well. Right outside the hotel is a tram stop M5, M10 which take you to main train station, Alex or Uber arena. 3,80 Euro for a single ticket is daylight robbery. I can recommend this hotel."

"Well located hotel. Excellent friendly reception staff and well appointed room with new bathroom. Nice restaurant for dinner. The only improvement I would ask for is the choice in the breakfast buffet which doesn’t cater enough for non-German guests as there was too much of a focus on bacon, sausage and other pork products."

"My family and I have stayed at many hotels across various countries in the last few decades. Our recent stay at Mercure Hotel Berlin City during the Berlin Marathon was by far the most disappointing guest experience we have ever had - not just because of the accumulation of failures at the time and subsequent lack of reaction by the local hotel management team, but also because of the dismissive response from Accor’s corporate team at every level afterwards. Upon checking in, the receptionist was neither particularly welcoming nor helpful, advising no room was available for us yet and we should come back from 15:00 - not the best start to our stay, provided other guests checking in at the same time were getting their rooms immediately. Only when another staff member intervened did we learn that a room had been available all along. A few days later in the breakfast area, I also experienced a frustrating interaction with the staff member in charge of room number check that day : after giving ours and proceeding to the buffet, the same employee caught up to me, insisting - wrongly - that the room number was incorrect. I had to follow him back to the reception area, where it took several minutes to clarify the situation. This was both embarrassing and unnecessary, and clearly the result of poor training and internal miscommunication. Not reflective, again, of the standards expected from a Mercure establishment. Our room on another note, while visually pleasant, also felt cramped. Finally on marathon day, we encountered a far more serious issue : a full blown sewage "waterfall" in the reception area (see pictures in attachments), accompanied by an overpowering smell. While on my way to / back from the breakfast area that morning, I noticed a terrible (sewage) smell. Half a day later in the evening, that situation had gotten out of control : we were met with a horrendous smell and a full blown sewage leak from the ceiling and live lighting fixture onto the flooded reception area, with the obvious health and safety risks posed by the combination of live power and water, while staff were discussing the food items contamination in the adjacent catering space. Again, hardly the kind of issue one would expect from a Mercure chain hotel or international standard establishment. Given the accumulation service failures, a serious sanitation incident, and clear safety risks we experienced, we requested a partial refund of our stay. Despite the extent of the inconvenience and the clear deviation from the standards expected of an international Accor brand such as Mercure, the General Manager at Mercure Hotel Berlin City insisted they would not consider our request. Furthermore after escalation to the highest level at Accor’s corporate team, and to the executive level (Guest Service Executive Department, Chief Loyalty & E-Commerce Officer, and finally Chairman & CEO), we were again met with a template-style dismissal. This position obviously did not acknowledge the accumulation of failures and the accumulation of missed opportunities for corrective actions since then. So much for customer care, accountability and brand standards, Mercure Hotel Berlin City and Accor Group levels of professionalism and accountability ..."