Heading to Berlin

DipStick McSwindler

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Apanachi

Take a trip to Oranienburg just outside of Berlin and visit the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Maybe check out the Holocaust memorial (there's a museum type thingy underground)

Don't waste your money on the "Hop on Hop off" tours on offer, take the regular bus 100, that takes you to all the attractions and if you buy a day pass (or have one of the Berlin transport passes for tourists / week ticket etc...) you can use that. The only disadvantage is that you don't have commentry on the various places, but you can buy a traveller's guide / check the internet for that

Speaking of buss/train passes, be sure you have the right one, the conductors are strict and take no excuses.

Gendarmenmarkt is worth taking a look at if you're into nice old buildings as is the Berliner Dom and Gedächtniskirche and Museumsinsel (check out Potsdamer Platz if you like new ones )


The Nikolaiviertel is beautiful (OK more so in Summer)

Maybe take the steps up to the top off the Siegessäule

While you're at the Reichstag, you can catch a look at the Kanzleramt - Merkels humble abode (OK she doesn't live there but that's where she does he business - her home addresse is no secret if you're interested )

The Brandenburg Gate is close to the Reichstag and from there I'd just take a walk doun the streer "Unter den LInden" there's loads of nice stuff (buildings) to be seen.

I'm sure I'll think of other things later on.

How long will you be staying btw?

EDIT:
Have a look here:

http://www.berlin.de/international/attractions/index.en.php

hinault

IrishFeeney92 wrote: »

Alright guys,

So next week im heading to Berlin and just wanted to get your opinion on where would be interesting to visit

so far I have

-Checkpoint Charlie
-Brandenburg Gate
-Reichstag
-Berlin Wall ( whats left of it)

Berliner Unterwelten, Brunnenstraße 105, 13355 Berlin tickets sold beside Kaufland : this is a tour of the underground shelters throughout Berlin used during WWII

Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße is the location of where hitler's bunker is.

Wilhelmstraße and Leipziger Straße is the location of the old Nazi buildings.

Topography of Terror display is worth seeing.

Holocaust-Mahnmal (Holocaust-Memorial) at Eberstrasse.

Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse 111/119

A visit to the Olympic Stadium is well worth a visit : take a guided tour (approximately 1 hour) and get to stand on the 1936 viewing platform, visit the Bell Tower etc.

DDR Museum is a must http://www.ddr-museum.de/en/

Finally a 40 minute train ride to Potsdam is highly recommended.
Get to see the Prussian Army buildings and where the European HQ of the KGB was.

All the above is easily accessible by public transport. If you buy a Welcome Card (5 day public transport ticket for €35) you can hop on and off all public transport throughout Berlin and wider Berlin.
You'll also get entrance fee discounts to many public building and services if you present you card.

One final thing.
Air Berlin host balloon rides that give you a sky high view of Berlin. You will see the Die Welt balloon from central Berlin.
http://www.air-service-berlin.de/index.php/englisch/tickets-airmaschines/balloon/captive-balloon-hiflyer.html

BlaasForRafa

I visited Berlin quite a few years ago and visited some of the places that Hinault mentioned. I didn't manage to get out of the city itself unfortunately but I'd love to have a look at the OKH headquarters in the bunkers at Zossen, south of Berlin http://www.buecherstadt.com/en/bunker/

Apanachi

hinault wrote: »

Berliner Unterwelten, Brunnenstraße 105, 13355 Berlin tickets sold beside Kaufland : this is a tour of the underground shelters throughout Berlin used during WWII

+1 for this and while you're there, check out the Flak Tower in Humboldthain Park - a visit inside is included in some of the tours, but if you take a walk to the top of it, you get a spectacular view of Berlin

More information here:
http://berliner-unterwelten.de/files/buev_flyer_eng-spa_2013_web.pdf

Speaking of views, take a visit to the Reichstag dome, you need to book in advance for this though (ID required), or grab a coffee in the Panoramacafé in Potsdamer Platz

Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse 111/119

Also the East Side Gallery (a 1,3 Kilometre long piece of the Wall and close to the Oberbaumbrücke"

Maybe the Platform 17 memorial at Grunewald train station

You could also visit the Berlin Airport visitor centre (the one for the new "chaos" Airport was supposed to be opened ages ago, but is constantly being delayed and basically an embarrassment to the Berliners )

A visit to the Olympic Stadium is well worth a visit : take a guided tour (approximately 1 hour) and get to stand on the 1936 viewing platform, visit the Bell Tower etc.

Once again +1 for this

Oh, and if you're in Berlin, you have to have a Currywurst, probably the most famous Currywurst stand in Berlin is Konnopke's Wurst Imbiss in Schönhauser Allee 44a.

Hmm, anything else...?

Zitadelle Spandau maybe

While walking around Berlin, keep a look out for "Stolperstein"(stumbling stones) on the footpaths, these are cobblestone-sized memorials for Nazi victims placed outside where they used to live

DaveyCakes

Soviet memorials in Treptower Park (on the S-bahn route to Schonefeld airport) and Tiergarten (a few minutes walk along Strasse des 17 Juni from the Brandenburger Tor).

Tempelhof airport

Deutsches Technics Museum

Flakturm in Humboldthain

Pergamon museum on Museuminsel

I think the Deutsches-Russiches museum in Karlshorst (where the surrender was signed in 1945) is closed for renovations at the moment..check

Currywurst and doner kebab

ollaetta

+1 on the trip out to Potsdam. Well worth a look.

Another option is the Sachsenhausen camp north of Berlin in Oranienburg easily got to by train.