[3] The hotel also featured steam heating and pneumatic elevators/lifts, and the kitchens used, for the time, state-of-the-art gas stoves.

[4] The hotel also operated a so-called city kitchen, a catering service that delivered individual dishes as well as entire menus for larger parties away from home.

Early scenes in the 1943 movie The Life and Times of Colonel Blimp took place in the Hotel Kaiserhof.

Joseph Goebbels, Ernst Röhm, and other Nazi officials met in the Kaiserhof as Hitler was being sworn in as Chancellor.

Dr. Ludwig Roselius had a luxury suite in the Hotel and Barbara Goette cared for him for many months until he died there on 15 May 1943.

From 2004 until its closure in 2020,[7] the annex on the south half of the site was leased to Cityhostel Berlin, which paid the North Korean government an estimated €38,000 per month.