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INTERVIEW

An Exclusive Interview

with Kolja Stegemann, Managing Director of Suite.030

Suite.030 provides luxury hand-picked VIP serviced apartments in Germany with a dedicated concierge team, ensuring that your stay in Berlin will be as stress free and relaxed as possible. Therefore Suite.030 is this year’s winner of Luxury Lifestyle Awards in the category of Best Luxury VIP Serviced Apartments in Germany. We spoke with Kolja Stegemann, Managing Director of Suite.030 about his company’s journey and the successes that have allowed him to be recognized as one of the best in the hospitality industry. Luxury Lifestyle Awards: Kolja, thank you for taking the time to speak to us. Please, give us an introduction about yourself. What was your position before you started at Suite.030?

We work in the nicest and most exclusive apartments of the city, and we host guest which are one of kind – if this doesn’t motivate, I don’t know.

Kolja Stegemann: I’m grown up in the advertising industry and the last years before Suite.030 I worked as Strategy Consultant with the focus on brand development and business model design.

LLA: Tell us about your journey as managing director of the company?

Kolja Stegemann: Lead by my own experiences, I decided to build a platform for design and luxury furnished apartments and bring the serviced apartment industry a bit closer to the hotel industry. Our core promise:

• quality – we check every apartment according to the international star classification standards (4+5*) • style – each apartment is handpicked, and we know it by heart • service – our concierge services make the stay easy, comfortable and the apartment a real home away from home

The political and legal changes of the last years challenged our business model but we’re now very confident to stand on stable ground.

Our focus moved from letting luxury private homes to manage and rent out commercial luxury serviced apartments.

Today we’re less a platform and more a management service company.

LLA: You have been crowned a Luxury Lifestyle Award Winner in the category of Best Luxury VIP Serviced Apartments in Germany. How do you feel about this title?

Kolja Stegemann: It is a great honor to us. The luxury serviced apartment market is very young in Germany and we’re proud to be recognized as one of the first movers. This encourages us to grow and move on to new cities.

LLA: In your opinion, what sets you and your team apart from other luxury serviced apartments in Germany?

Kolja Stegemann: All our apartments are individually selected, and we know each apartment personally. This is a big difference to all bog platforms.

In addition we personalize the stay with our concierge service and make it that easy and comfortable like staying in a hotel, bit with three big advantage: more space, more privacy and more individuality.

According to our internal claim: “the whole city is your hotel, you chose the location and the style, we ensure consistent quality and service.”