Once upon a time, 5 years ago, Tom decided to stop complaining and to start something to make it better.

He had the idea to find a big apartment for him and all his friends to live in together.

He thought about it for a long time and then he thought, screw the apartment, why not get a building where my friends can live, and then we turn the rest of it into a place where other people can come and stay, and then we can all earn some bucks too and start spreading the news.

So that was how the Michelberger Hotel came about. Once he had the idea, Tom went straight to his closest friends ...

... and together they set about finding the perfect place and asking lovely people to give them some cash to help them to do it.

After a long, long time on the rollercoaster (lots of ups, downs, screaming, laughing, vomiting etc.) they finally found their perfect place, got the dough and were ready to go.

As soon as he got the keys to the building, he started to assemble more fantastic, creative, charismatic and sexy friends help him build it.

He gave all those people the freedom to put their own ideas and dreams into every nook and corner of the place. He was lucky to find so many people at a similar point in life that also wanted to change and shake things up a bit.

They worked really, really hard and put all their heart and love and tears into it ...

... and along the way they remembered to have fun too. They had construction site discos starting out with a few friends,

... and by the time the hotel was almost done, 1000 people or more came to do the baustelle boogie.

And after all that, here you have it. The Michelberger Hotel. A place made by friends, for friends to come and stay and to feel at home at. A place that is as much a part of Berlin, as all the people who built it.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

To be continued…