Berlin hotels offer inexpensive option for travelers on budget

Berlin's Mayor Klaus Wowereit once famously described his eternally broke city as &#8220poor, but sexy.” A new crop of sleek budget hotels are betting that economy minded tourists and business travelers like it that way. On a cloudy autumn morning, the breakfast buffet is buzzing at Motel One, which has been booked solid since it opened near the city's tourist hub Alexanderplatz in June - the newest addition to a growing number of design-oriented budget hotels. The breakfast of German bread, cold cuts and cheese before Marilyn Stotts seems rustic in contrast to the hotel's minimalist gray interior accented by flashes of color in the turquoise seating and silver globe light fixtures. &#8220It certainly has the Berlin sense of what's sexy now