The Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge appears in the world of *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy* as part of the real-life backdrop to Douglas Adams’ London. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was one of the city’s most fashionable hotels, known for its modernist flair and the kind of luxurious absurdity that might have amused Adams.
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Adams was not directly connected to the Berkeley, but its presence in his London — a place of champagne receptions and cosmic-scale pretensions — makes it emblematic of the kind of Earthly excess that *The Hitchhiker’s Guide* gently mocks. In the universe of improbability, it could easily be the sort of hotel where Zaphod Beeblebrox might park his stolen spaceship.
# See
- the-berkeley.co.uk 
- The Berkeley on Wikipedia