Berlin - What to do?

SexyGreyFox · 22 Oct 2017 at 13:54

I'm off to Berlin tomorrow with the wife for one of our WWII breaks so where is there to go over 3 full days?
Obviously will do Hitler's car park, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate etc but what other interesting places are there to go?
Will also accept non WWII suggestions.
Any good places to go in the evening, we love food and rock music?

Thanks for your time.

Dave

Entropy · 22 Oct 2017 at 14:19

The Berlin Wall Memorial in Bernauer Strasse is well worth a visit, spent a few hours in the visitors centre a truly staggering part of history. Would recommend it over the East Side Gallery, most of the artwork is in a sorry state these days.

NoobCannon · 22 Oct 2017 at 14:21

Actually thought check point charlie was increadibly dissapointing. But walk along the river by thier goverment buildings and theres loads of fantastic restaraunts.

Also make sure you try a currywurst

Uther · 22 Oct 2017 at 14:24

http://www.neweuropetours.eu/Berlin/en/sandemans-tours/tour-view/Third-Reich-Tour

I'm jealous, love Berlin.

UTmaniac · 22 Oct 2017 at 14:30

Do some really intensive exercise, so much so you're gasping.

TallPaul1878 · 22 Oct 2017 at 14:31

Sex shows obviously.

Berlin is the degeneracy capital of Europe

Arazi · 22 Oct 2017 at 14:43

SexyGreyFox said:
I'm off to Berlin tomorrow with the wife for one of our WWII breaks so where is there to go over 3 full days?
Obviously will do Hitler's car park, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate etc but what other interesting places are there to go?
Will also accept non WWII suggestions.
Any good places to go in the evening, we love food and rock music?

Thanks for your time.

Dave

I actually watched this yest on TV, it has a lot of things to do in Berlin, i good watch to.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b079w1jx/rick-steins-long-weekends-3-berlin

Em3bbs · 22 Oct 2017 at 15:31

I hear Led Zeppelin are playing there on Tuesday evening?

SexyGreyFox · 22 Oct 2017 at 16:02

Em3bbs said:
I hear Led Zeppelin are playing there on Tuesday evening?

Sold out but not the same without Bonham.

SexyGreyFox · 22 Oct 2017 at 16:07

NoobCannon said:
Actually thought check point charlie was increadibly dissapointing.

I accidentally went on Street View but I still want to walk past the shed

Uther said:
http://www.neweuropetours.eu/Berlin/en/sandemans-tours/tour-view/Third-Reich-Tour

I'm jealous, love Berlin.

Thank you so much, I can see us doing at least a couple of these.

Thanks for the other suggestions.

gort · 22 Oct 2017 at 16:15

Hitler's car park / bunker..... That'll take up all of 2 minutes of your day!

We did a 3 hour Segway tour and covered all what you mentioned and more. Got told more on the history of each place and Segways are great fun! It was well worth it IMO.
If it interests you, do something like this on your first day as you then get to know the layout of the city a lot better then take your time on foot the rest of the days you're there. Possibly go back to places that you'd like to spend more time at.

Jim99 · 22 Oct 2017 at 16:27

There's a museum of communism in the East which was hilarious. I've no idea whether any of it was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but came across that way. <EDIT> https://www.ddr-museum.de/en

Tracing the old Berlin Wall and the remaining guard towers was good as well (though not many left).

Also Alexanderplatz for the tower is well worth it.

Super Tigers · 22 Oct 2017 at 18:31

We spent 5 days in Berlin a couple of years ago, it was excellent.

The Stasi museum is excellent, get an U-bahn train from Alexanderplatz on U5 line, the place is awesome, pure cold war nostalgia. http://www.stasimuseum.de/en/enindex.htm If you are lucky, there maybe old time Stasi sympathiser there telling their stories, countering the tour guides.

Also head to museum island, if galleries and museums are your thing The Egyptian collection in Neues Museum was superb. http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museumsinsel-berlin/home.html

We stayed in the Mitte area, we stayed at the Radisson Blu hotel next to Museum Island, great hotel and amazingly €90 a night.

iamdjdz · 23 Oct 2017 at 09:50

It's worth going out to Orainienberg to see the concentration camp, very sobering experience especially so near the capital.

And on a lighter note the Zoologisher Garten zoo is brilliant.

SuperTeeJay · 23 Oct 2017 at 11:18

SexyGreyFox said:
Thank you so much, I can see us doing at least a couple of these.

Thanks for the other suggestions.

Definitely do the general 'Free Tour of Berlin' (bringing cash to tip the guide, of course). It's several hours long and covers a lot of the city centre.

If you're into historic buildings, take a half-day trip to Potsdam. The palaces are unlike anything we have in this country.

The Yorckschlösschen is a really good pub/jazz bar for the evening.

mid_gen · 23 Oct 2017 at 11:31

There's plenty as already listed, depends what you're after really.

Checkpoint Charlie is crap though, just a couple of dudes posing in costume in the middle of a busy road surrounded by tourist tat shops. Kinda out the way as well, so many better and more interesting things to see.

Craig R · 23 Oct 2017 at 13:02

SexyGreyFox said:
I'm off to Berlin tomorrow with the wife for one of our WWII breaks so where is there to go over 3 full days?
Obviously will do Hitler's car park, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate etc but what other interesting places are there to go?
Will also accept non WWII suggestions.
Any good places to go in the evening, we love food and rock music?

Thanks for your time.

Dave

Museum Island, I went to the Neue Museum which was good, the others look decent too.
The outdoor Eastside Gallery.
Topographie of Terror.
Reichstag building

Burnsy2023 · 23 Oct 2017 at 13:54

I have spent literally days at the Berlin Science Museum: http://sdtb.de/museum-of-technology/623/

hughtrimble · 23 Oct 2017 at 14:04

Craig R said:
Topographie of Terror.

meths · 23 Oct 2017 at 16:09

Book one of the walking tours of Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

If you get a good guide it's excellent.