Travel to Berlin - Your 1STOP guide to Berlin

From EUR €19.50

An evening cruise is the perfect introduction to Berlin's famous sights and varied architecture. You'll be surprised to discover that Berlin has more bridges than Venice! Test out your German as you listen to the live commentary.

Dinner is also available on board for approximately EUR18.50 per person. If you would like the meal option, you must call the operator at least 3 days prior to travel (contact details will be provided on your voucher) to advise.

Please note: Tours are operated in German, with English written commentary available.

Evening Cruise on Berlin's Waterways

Departure Point: Cruise departs from ours departs the boat harbor/landing stage at Jannowitzbrucke. The meeting point is easy to locate.
Departure Time: 7:15pm
Return Details: Returns to original departure point at approximately 10:00pm

The Reichstag by night

Inclusions:
• Evening cruise

Exclusions:
• Guide
• Gratuities (optional)
• Hotel pickup and drop off
• Food and drinks, unless specified

Additional Information:
• Confirmation will be received at time of booking
• Tours are operated in German, with English written commentary available
• Dinner is available on board for approximately EUR18.50 per person. If you would like the meal option, you must call the operator at least 3 days prior to travel (contact details will be provided on your voucher) to advise.

Itinerary: Optional Dinner - Sample Menu
• Tomato cream soup
• Pork Medallion with cream sauce, broccoli and hash browns OR Norwegian Salmon cooked with Riesling wine, spinach leaves and Basmati rice
• Raspberry tartlets

From EUR €14.00

Travel into Berlin's past, from 1920s Friedrichstrasse to today's Potsdamer Platz, on this enlightening half-day walking tour. While walking, your guide's superb story-telling skills will weave the themes of Prussian, Imperial, Nazi, Cold War and 21st-century Berlin into a detailed narrative, using the latest historical research.

This fascinating walking tour begins with an account of how Berlin was founded. You'll go for a stroll along the famous Unter den Linden boulevard, passing the University and Opera House, and find out where Nazi students burnt books in May 1933.

The walking tour also takes you to the War Memorial (Neue Wache) and State Library, where Albert Einstein once worked. You'll see where the 1920s Cabaret Mile, Friedrichstrasse, once stood and how this area is being reinvented as Berlin's luxury shopping street. To find out how public transport worked in a divided city, you'll visit a Ghost Station.

After walking through the Brandenburg Gate and seeing the Reichstag (Parliament) with its famous new dome, you'll take a walk past the new Holocaust Memorial and visit the site of Hitler's bunker. Listen as your guide explains what happened here at the end of the war, and why there is nothing left to see.

You'll then see how 21st-century Berlin is taking shape on Potsdamer Platz, and find out where the Nazi SS and Gestapo HQ stood. You'll see the Berlin Wall and follow the 'death strip' to Checkpoint Charlie. While you walk, your guide will explain how the Wall was built, as well as the momentous events of its fall in 1989.

The tour ends on one of Europe's most beautiful squares, Gendarmenmarkt, not far from the Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

Departure Point:

DEPART EAST BERLIN:
Outside restaurant Weihenstephaner opposite Hackescher Markt S-Bahn station.

DEPART WEST BERLIN:
At the taxi stand at Zoo station (Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten)

Departure Time:

DEPART WEST BERLIN:
* 10:00am (all year round)
* 2:30pm (April to October only)

DEPART EAST BERLIN:

* 10:30am (all year round)
* 3:00pm (April to October only)
Return Details: Tour concludes at Gendarmenmarkt

Inclusions:

• Local guide
• City map, including information regarding public transport and the best of Berlin's museums and nightlife

Exclusions:

• Optional gratuities
• Food and drinks, unless specified
• Berlin Transport AB Zone ticket (approx 2.10 Euros) that is available from your guide on the day, this is NOT necessary if you join the tour at the meeting point in East Berlin
Additional Information:
• Confirmation will be received at time of booking
• Not wheelchair accessible

Itinerary:

See the sights listed below:
• The Berlin Wall
• Checkpoint Charlie
• Nazi Air Ministry
• Brandenburg Gate
• Holocaust Memorial
• Reichtag Dome (new home of the Bundestag)
• Pariser Platz (and the new American Embassy)
• Museum Island and Pleasure Garden (Lustgarten)
• Bebelplatz, scene of Nazi Book burning
• Potsdamer Platz (21st century architectural marvels!)
• Unter den Linden
• Friedrichstrasse (1920s cabaret mile!)
• Russian Embassy
• War Memorial (Neue Wache)
• Royal Hunting Grounds (Tiergarten)
• Humboldt University

From EUR €11.00

This Berlin walking tour will lead you into two active civil shelters from the days of the Cold War. The first one is beneath the Blochplatz and is part of the Underground station Gesundbrunnen. Originally an Air Raid Shelter from the days of the Second World War, it was renovated completely in 1983. Theatre Performances by the "Berlin documentary theater" take place in the shelter and insights into the backstage of the production will be given.

The tour details the history of this construction, especially after the Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The "Wall in the Underground" is discussed including plans by the authorities of the GDR to separate the Berlin Sewer System beneath the border. Hear about the so-called "Ghost stations", underground stations beneath the streets of East-Berlin which were closed to the public but used by the transit lines on their way from the West through the East and back again to the West. Also, your tour guide will discuss the question of how safe such anti-nuclear bunkers in a case of a serious blast atomic stroke really would be.

From the Civil Shelter beneath Blochplatz you will walk through a dark passage, directly into a transformation station of the Berlin Transport Authorities. Here, some information is given of how the electricity supply for the Underground network functions. The last part of the tour will lead you to another shelter, just one underground station away at Pankstrasse. This modern air raid shelter was opened in 1977 and more than 3,400 people can be protected in the fourth biggest installation of this kind in Berlin. In case of a potential nuclear disaster, the whole underground station Pankstrasse could be closed and converted into a shelter. Pass the big steel gas locks and get an idea of what it means to be isolated from the outside world.

Departure Point:
Underground Station 'Gesundbrunnen'. The meeting point is easy to locate and your guide will be waiting for you.

Departure Time: 1:00pm
Return Details:Returns to original departure point

Inclusions:
• Walking Tour
• One free ride on the Berlin Underground

Exclusions:
• Gratuities (optional)
• Food and drinks, unless specified
• Hotel pickup and drop off

Additional Information:
• Confirmation will be received at time of booking