Enjoy a guided tour of the parliament quarter in Berlin and learn more about the troubled and eventful history of the capital. Visit the glass dome…
Explore Berlin at your own pace with a 48-hour, 72-hour, 4-day, 5-day, or 6-day Berlin WelcomeCard. Ride public transport in the AB or ABC zones,…
Enjoy an exciting 2-hour tour of the government district and the Reichstag building in Berlin. Learn more about the history, architecture, and…
Jam-pack your time in Berlin and see all the attractions with a hop-on hop-off bus tour. Simply choose between the two lines, and begin exploring for…
Visit the Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie. Founded shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall, this museum had a vital role in…
Explore Berlin’s dark past on a tour of its former Nazi buildings, Soviet war memorials, and the site where Hitler’s bunker stood. Learn how Hitler…
Explore Berlin on a comprehensive 3.5 to 4-hour walking tour, starting from our meeting point in central Berlin. See all the major sights, from the…
Drive through Berlin in the official car of the DDR! Squeeze yourself behind the wheel of a Trabant of your choice and putter around the capital. See…
Enjoy an exciting journey through the history of Berlin by bike and discover the most famous sights in the city. On this 3.5-hour bike tour you ride…
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For 28 years the Berlin Wall symbolized an ideological stalemate and its fall was swiftly followed by that of the Soviet Union. It's shaped the contemporary life of a city and the attitudes of its residents, so here are some things to know before your trip.
Berlin was the main route for the 3.5 million East Germans emigrating to the West prior to 1961. The 155km wall was intended to stifle a hemorrhaging workforce!
An estimated 100,000 still escaped East Germany after the wall went up. In the first two years, 1,300 of them were border guards!
Crossing wasn't easy, of course. At least 98 people were killed as a result of trying to sneak through, although some counts put the death toll well above 200!
East Berliners devised many daring ways of entering the West, from tightropes, zip-lines, and hot air balloons to crashing through in a speeding train!
Misinformation about relaxed regulations spread across East German news, driving citizens to gather at the wall hoping to cross. Outnumbered, the border guards eventually gave way!
Most of the wall has been demolished, but tourists can still visit preserved segments, such as the Eastside Gallery (so-called for its large graffiti murals running along the Spree River's east bank between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain). A notable section is also visible at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse. City tours should cover most of the sites, including Checkpoint Charlie – the famous American checkpoint on Friedrichstrasse.
Berlin is a true summer city and there are few better ways to spend a sun-soaked visit than to tour its sights by foot or by bike! If your visit has been cursed by cold or rainy weather, however, visit the segment at the Berlin Wall Memorial. It can be viewed from the top floor of its Visitors' Center, which also provides fascinating insights into life behind the wall.
This was a very good tour if you have just arrived in the city or have been there for a few days. Our tour guide Jules was very friendly and helpful. The tour covers a lot of the main sites in Berlin.
Our tour guide Lizzie was exceptional! She knew everything about the history of Berlin, and took us to all the main attractions as well as a few attractions that easily could’ve been missed, had we not gone on the tour, such as Hitler’s bunker and the previous headquarters of the German Air Force. In January in Berlin , walking around the city for 2 hours and 45 minutes is not exactly ideal, but Lizzie kept the whole group in high spirits with her jokes and sense of humor. She also provided us with recommendations of things to see in the city and places to eat which was very useful! She was always open to any questions throughout the tour.
Our tour guide Nathan is really extremely knowledgeable! it was a really amazing tour!
Swen was great with our group. Our group were mostly blind/partially sighted but this didn't phase Swen, as it had done with other guides we have had in Berlin. His description of everything was clear, and the many various food stops along the way were wonderful. Some food tours flatter to deceive, but we were well and truly stuffed by the end and impressed all the way through. I would recommend this tour, and Swen, to any future groups.
Becs was a fantastic host, she was professional, informative & organised. I can certainly recommend her. My experience of doing the booking was not so much. After booking at night for the next day, my booking went through as accepted, then I received an email to advise there was an error in the booking & there was no tour. It asked me to reschedule. I was unable to reschedule as I was flying out the following day. I then received another email from someone else to advise it was going ahead. This created some confusion for me as to whether the tour was proceeding. Luckily it did. It was also lucky that I had internet at that time & was able to get these emails.
