Sending my parents away for a weekend in early September, other than the obvious, anyone got any suggestions for what to do? £89pp with flights. Cracking deal at a 4* hotel
Plenty of tours to go on if that's your thing, get to the Zoo station for 10am (they also do them at 1pm I believe) and there's tour guides there offering a variety of brilliant tours, Third Reich, Cold War, A General all-purpose tour etc they take around 2 to 3 hours. Very highly recommended Insider tours in particular. If you want to sight-see independently and fancy seeing things like the Reichstag, you'll need to book in advance to get clearance to enter it, you can't just turn up on the day. Otherwise, it's best to get to the Brandenburg Gate and visit the tourist office in there, it'll have guides, leaflets and information on everything imaginable. You'll probably spend a lot of time in or around the Unter Den Linden, as it pretty much dominates the centre of the city and leads off to most things worthwhile. A lot of museums, monuments etc. As for bars/restaurants etc, it's not really my area as I wasn't that interested in all that, so Zippy or somebody else might be able to help you there. It depends what you want to do really, where in the city are they staying?
They're staying at the Ivbergs Premium Hotel in Schoneberg(?) They've got a couple of days to have a shufti round! Cheers Eezo for that detailed review, a lot of useful info!! They are quite adventurous people so they'll probably be on the tours
That's a little bit out of the way, but the trains are so good they'll get into and out of the centre of the city no problem. Insider Tours website - http://www.insidertour.com/ If they're going to go on tours, see museums and will be moving around a lot. It may be worth investing in a Berlin Welcomecard for 48hrs. Can get it in loads of places, but this is the expedia link with the info. http://www.expedia.co.uk/pub/agent.dll?qscr=tsdt&ofid=4332&loid= 179892&stat=5&wtid=28 Depending which one they choose, it'll give free train/bus/tram transport for the duration, gives you a major discount at hundreds of museums, galleries, tours etc. Well worth the investment if that's the sort of trip they're going to have.
You're welcome you may need one each, but I'm not sure, only ever got the one for myself. But yeah, it'll make things very easy.
Try : www.thirdreichruins.com/berlin.htm www.mauermuseum.de/index.php/en Potsdamer platz where some of the heaviest fighting took place near the government quarter and the Führer bunker. www.potsdamer-platz.net The Adlon hotel, the Brandenburg gate, the Humboldthain Flak tower which was armed with huge 115 millimetre flak guns to defend the city (only Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin had these massive flak towers) www.berliner-unterwelten.de/the-flaktower-in-humboldthain-park.50.1.html Alexanderplatz and Unter den Linden are a must, the lamp posts on UdL are originals by Albert Speer.
The Berlin Story on Kurfürstendamm (a couple of hundred yards from Zoo Station) is very interesting, as is the Ann Frank Centre by Hackescher Markt, you could spend a day around Museum Island with the Pergamon Museum being a favourite of mine with the reconstructed Ishtar Gate of Babylon, the DDF museum just down the road is good for an hour and the ice cream in the shop above it is magnificent, basically 2 or 3 days is nowhere near enought to do Berlin justice.
Definitely. I must have visited the Pergamon, Altes and Bode about a dozen times between them. The Neues is worth visiting purely for the Nefertiti bust but the surcharge (and accompanying queue) always did my head in.
I have to say though that it's one of my least favourite big cities in Germany, it's nice for a visit I hasten to add, there is plenty to see and do. But I wouldn't want to live there.
All of you guys have enough information about Berlin, I would like to add little bit more to it, Berlin is Germany’s capital. and there is many things to do and lots of attractions to see, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Wall, Museum Island and one of my favorite is, Aquarium Berlin I also explored all of these attraction during my Berlin tour.
Don’t know how much you’ll fancy museums on a stag do but can recommend the DDR museum if you do. Really well done and proper interesting.
