Things to do in Berlin?

ChazzChazz Somerset, UK Posts: 1,084
edited June 2012 in Given To Fly (live)
Hi, I'm looking for advice on stuff to do in Berlin.

We'll have 1 whole day and 2 half days free for sightseeing (maybe longer if I decide not to queue after getting 10C tickets).

Also, we're staying at the Upstalsboom Hotel Friedrichshain which I understand is not too far from the venue, but was wondering how far this is from the 'centre' / shops (cos I like to shop as well as sightsee :oops: )

Any ideas / info would be greatly appreciated :)

(PS. Hubby is really interested in history of WWI and II)

Thanks
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  • dustinparduedustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    This looks pretty interesting. I'm doing this when I'm going to be in Berlin in October:

    http://www.insidertour.com/tours.php/ca ... ourdetails
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  • claviousclavious Northern Germany Posts: 54
    There are other topics about Berlin 2012 in this forum. For example: Berlin 2012 - Who's Going? Pre-Party? Etc., Etc..

    What do you want to do in Berlin? A cheap way for a sight-seeing tour is by bus "Linie 100".
    http://www.berlin.de/tourismus/touren/9 ... llery.html


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  • zarocatzarocat Posts: 1,901
    This looks pretty interesting. I'm doing this when I'm going to be in Berlin in October:

    http://www.insidertour.com/tours.php/ca ... ourdetails

    Looks really interesting but I must say, I don't know if I would go through with this tour
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  • morellomorello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,210
    Snagging & here's my list of things I want to do in Berlin:
    -picnic in Grunewald?
    -See Berlin wall
    -Schloss Charlottenburg palace?
    -Reichstag
    -Gemäldegalerie - Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Botticelli, Holbein, Gainsborough, Canaletto, Hals, Rubens, Vermeer
    -saunter along Kurfürstendamm (Ku’damm)
    -Brandenburg Gate
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  • zarocatzarocat Posts: 1,901
    morello wrote:
    Snagging & here's my list of things I want to do in Berlin:
    -picnic in Grunewald?
    -See Berlin wall
    -Schloss Charlottenburg palace?
    -Reichstag
    -Gemäldegalerie - Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Botticelli, Holbein, Gainsborough, Canaletto, Hals, Rubens, Vermeer
    -saunter along Kurfürstendamm (Ku’damm)
    -Brandenburg Gate

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  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    Chazz wrote:
    Hi, I'm looking for advice on stuff to do in Berlin.

    We'll have 1 whole day and 2 half days free for sightseeing (maybe longer if I decide not to queue after getting 10C tickets).

    Also, we're staying at the Upstalsboom Hotel Friedrichshain which I understand is not too far from the venue, but was wondering how far this is from the 'centre' / shops (cos I like to shop as well as sightsee :oops: )

    Any ideas / info would be greatly appreciated :)

    (PS. Hubby is really interested in history of WWI and II)

    Thanks

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  • morellomorello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,210
    zarocat wrote:
    morello wrote:
    Snagging & here's my list of things I want to do in Berlin:
    -picnic in Grunewald?
    -See Berlin wall
    -Schloss Charlottenburg palace?
    -Reichstag
    -Gemäldegalerie - Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Botticelli, Holbein, Gainsborough, Canaletto, Hals, Rubens, Vermeer
    -saunter along Kurfürstendamm (Ku’damm)
    -Brandenburg Gate

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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,136
    ramones museum...enough said..for the ones knows why..
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  • PkePke Ayrshire ,Scotland Posts: 846
    Chazz wrote:
    Hi, I'm looking for advice on stuff to do in Berlin.

    We'll have 1 whole day and 2 half days free for sightseeing (maybe longer if I decide not to queue after getting 10C tickets).

    Also, we're staying at the Upstalsboom Hotel Friedrichshain which I understand is not too far from the venue, but was wondering how far this is from the 'centre' / shops (cos I like to shop as well as sightsee :oops: )

    Any ideas / info would be greatly appreciated :)

    (PS. Hubby is really interested in history of WWI and II)

    Thanks


    hiya
    me an the missus have stayed in the same hotel the last 2 year in a row in berlin at pearl jam
    ye just walk up stairs from train stop turn left at top and wander up road for five mins then left again and along road to hotel
    nothing too fancy but no problems for us when we were there
    not far from venue just wander back to train station then keep going past station and acroos bridge over river
    berlin wall and venue are then along rd on right 5 min walk so your laughing
    train into centre is 5 mins then you can shop to your hearts content

    we done zoo , walking tours , brandenburg gate, walked along berlin wall an jewish war memorial in park at brandenburg gate among other things an all were fab

    me the missus and my daughter are staying in hotel couple mins to right at bridge from train station this year so will keep ye right and have a beer if you want ;)
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  • dottlesdottles Posts: 9,136
    The museum island is great, we spent a day there last time and I would fully encourage anyone to go to the Pergamon Museum - it is amazing!
    I would also say the holocaust memorial, the visitor centre made me cry but it was something that I felt I should see.
    For shopping - Kurfürstendamm and Friedrichstraße (then pop to Gendarmenmarkt)
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  • Me and the wife are staying at the Angleterre Hotel, does anybody out there know if its in the same area as the Upstalsboom hotel (Friedrichshain), trying to get an idea how far we are from venue.

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  • kermie13kermie13 Berlin Posts: 49
    hey there... if your husband is into WW2 history I would visit these memorials:

    http://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/home/
    (German Resistance Memorial. Dedicated also to the Military Resistance who tried to assassinate Hitler "Operation Valkyrie")

    http://www.topographie.de/en/topography-of-terror/nc/1/
    (Former Headquarter of the SS and Gestapo- has a great indoor and outdoor exhibition)

    http://www.dhm.de/ENGLISH/
    (German History Museum)

    http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html
    (company that offers tours through bunkers of the WW2 and underground Berlin)

    hope that helps.
  • kermie13kermie13 Berlin Posts: 49
    for shopping:

    main shopping areas are: Tauentzienstrasse/Kurfürstendamm in former West-Berlin (closest train strations: subway station "Wittenbergplatz" or "Zoologischer Garten") and the area around Hackescher Markt in the former east (train station "Hackerscher Markt" or subway "Weinmeister Strasse").

    there are shopping malls at "Potsdamer Platz" (Potsdamer Platz Arkaden) and "Alexanderplatz" (Alexia)

    its also quite nice to walk around in the suburb of Prenzlauer Berg (from Subway station "Senefelder Platz" around Kollwitzplatz to subway station "Eberswalsder Strasse") there are lots of smaller shops (clothes, gifts etc.)
    or around Bergmannstrasse in the suburb Kreuzberg (subway station "Mehringdamm") etc. etc. depends on your time.
  • Chazz wrote:
    Hi, I'm looking for advice on stuff to do in Berlin.

    We'll have 1 whole day and 2 half days free for sightseeing (maybe longer if I decide not to queue after getting 10C tickets).

    Also, we're staying at the Upstalsboom Hotel Friedrichshain which I understand is not too far from the venue, but was wondering how far this is from the 'centre' / shops (cos I like to shop as well as sightsee :oops: )

    Any ideas / info would be greatly appreciated :)

    (PS. Hubby is really interested in history of WWI and II)

    Thanks

    One and a half day is a veeery short time for Berlin, the town is big & there are loads of things to see. Somebody has already suggested a tour with the communal bus 100 from Alexanderplatz, it's really a cheap and great idea. There are double-decker busses, be first in the queue and get the front seats upstairs with the big windows! There is no time for museums, Berlin has fantastic ones but you'd need more days for them. I think I would stop at the Branderburger Tor, you are not too far away from the Reichstag (the Parliament Building "redesigned" by Norman Foster), you are exactly between East and West Berlin. You're also within walking distance of the Siegessäule (the famous Golden Angel), the Holocaust Monument, Potsdamer Platz (you can get a guided tour about the Hitler's bunker not far from there), the Topography of Terror (somebody has already mentioned that). Near the Topography should still stand a long bit of the wall, grey, not painted.
    I would take some time to walk around Prenzlauerberg (I used to live there & I love it!) there are loads of (design) shops, restaurants from every part of the world, great cafés, Biergarten (Prater, just to mention one). Enjoy Berlin, it's a cool town!! :D
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  • morellomorello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,210
    Chazz wrote:
    Hi, I'm looking for advice on stuff to do in Berlin.

    We'll have 1 whole day and 2 half days free for sightseeing (maybe longer if I decide not to queue after getting 10C tickets).

    Also, we're staying at the Upstalsboom Hotel Friedrichshain which I understand is not too far from the venue, but was wondering how far this is from the 'centre' / shops (cos I like to shop as well as sightsee :oops: )

    Any ideas / info would be greatly appreciated :)

    (PS. Hubby is really interested in history of WWI and II)

    Thanks

    One and a half day is a veeery short time for Berlin, the town is big & there are loads of things to see. Somebody has already suggested a tour with the communal bus 100 from Alexanderplatz, it's really a cheap and great idea. There are double-decker busses, be first in the queue and get the front seats upstairs with the big windows! There is no time for museums, Berlin has fantastic ones but you'd need more days for them. I think I would stop at the Branderburger Tor, you are not too far away from the Reichstag (the Parliament Building "redesigned" by Norman Foster), you are exactly between East and West Berlin. You're also within walking distance of the Siegessäule (the famous Golden Angel), the Holocaust Monument, Potsdamer Platz (you can get a guided tour about the Hitler's bunker not far from there), the Topography of Terror (somebody has already mentioned that). Near the Topography should still stand a long bit of the wall, grey, not painted.
    I would take some time to walk around Prenzlauerberg (I used to live there & I love it!) there are loads of (design) shops, restaurants from every part of the world, great cafés, Biergarten (Prater, just to mention one). Enjoy Berlin, it's a cool town!! :D
    Thx for those ideas G2F2012!! I have 2 days in Berlin(before pre-party & then seated at concert#1) so also want to make the most. I'm going to look into he free walking tours which you can pre-book online + buying a ticket for the to of the t tower online too. Otherwise I'll be leaving from Plus Berlin Hostel for sight-seeing on the morning of the 3rd & the 4th if anyone else wants to come? :)
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  • morello wrote:
    One and a half day is a veeery short time for Berlin, the town is big & there are loads of things to see. Somebody has already suggested a tour with the communal bus 100 from Alexanderplatz, it's really a cheap and great idea. There are double-decker busses, be first in the queue and get the front seats upstairs with the big windows! There is no time for museums, Berlin has fantastic ones but you'd need more days for them. I think I would stop at the Branderburger Tor, you are not too far away from the Reichstag (the Parliament Building "redesigned" by Norman Foster), you are exactly between East and West Berlin. You're also within walking distance of the Siegessäule (the famous Golden Angel), the Holocaust Monument, Potsdamer Platz (you can get a guided tour about the Hitler's bunker not far from there), the Topography of Terror (somebody has already mentioned that). Near the Topography should still stand a long bit of the wall, grey, not painted.
    I would take some time to walk around Prenzlauerberg (I used to live there & I love it!) there are loads of (design) shops, restaurants from every part of the world, great cafés, Biergarten (Prater, just to mention one). Enjoy Berlin, it's a cool town!! :D
    Thx for those ideas G2F2012!! I have 2 days in Berlin(before pre-party & then seated at concert#1) so also want to make the most. I'm going to look into he free walking tours which you can pre-book online + buying a ticket for the to of the t tower online too. Otherwise I'll be leaving from Plus Berlin Hostel for sight-seeing on the morning of the 3rd & the 4th if anyone else wants to come? :)

    Lucky you! I'll get visitors from Italy on the 3rd already for the show in Stockholm on the 7th and I'm really glad about that but I'd love to be in my ex home town for the concert. The view from the Fernsehturm is breath-taking but you'll have to queue a long time if the sky is clear... ;-) Have a GREAT time!
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  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,859
    Ramones museum is cool.
    East side gallery/berlin wall is oppisite the o2 arena. Berlin is an awesome city
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  • dustinparduedustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    Ramones museum!!?? Thanks for the tip. I have just added it to my itinerary.
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,136
    Ramones museum!!?? Thanks for the tip. I have just added it to my itinerary.
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  • ChazzChazz Somerset, UK Posts: 1,084
    So i've only just checked back on my thread :oops:

    Thanks to everyone for suggestions, as i said time is limited and these responses have given me loads of ideas, so thanks again :D


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