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Transportation: No main railway station/airport
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'Mode': TO
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: There was neither one main airport nor one main railway station in Berlin. You should know which of them you are going to go before booking/buying your ticket.AIRPORTSTegel (TXL) - the frequent-flyer airport approx. 20 - 30 min north-west from the city centre;
Schönefeld (SXF) - the holiday airport approx. 20-35 min. southeast of the city centre;
Tempelhof (THF) - the city airport approx. 10-15 min. south of the city centre.
More: click hereTRAIN STATIONS For the historical reasons there isn't one main railway station in Berlin. Instead there were 9 train stations ("bahnhof"):
1. Zoologischer Garten,
2. Ostbahnhof Berlin,
3. Lichtenberg,
4. Spandau,
5. Wannsee,
6. Schönefeld,
7. Charlottenburg,
8. Friedrichstraße,
9. Alexanderplatz.
The first two were centrally located. The last three were for regional trains.
All train-stations were well connected to the public transport. Warning: whenever you go to Berlin you must know on which station to get off the train.
Tickets: click here (tickets online) or call the number below (Reservation Hotline).
European train timetable (+ booking service) by DB: click here (service available in English, French, German and Italian).
Look for DB logo on my picture. DB means Deutsche Bahn that is German Railway.
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Phone: +49 (30) 25 00 25
Website: http://www.berlin-tourist-information.de/english/anreise/index.html
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Transportation: Straße, Allee, Damm, Weg, Platz...
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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: The streets of Berlin are usually called in German typical way: a proper name of the street with German word "straße" (street) at the end like: Tiergartenstraße, FredrichStraße etc. On some maps you can find Tiergarten Strasse, Fredrich Strasse etc. instead.
Apart from "Straße" there were "Allee" (avanues) like Prenzlauer Allee, "Damm" (boulevard?) like Kürfurstendamm or Mehringdamm and Promenade like Prenzlauer Promenade. Hmm... add Prenzlauer Chaussee. More? OK, there is... Weg (like Querweg, Polziner Weg), Ring etc.
Confused?
OK, a little more names:
Platz = Square
Markt = Square (Market)Warning: there are sometimes the same names for say Straße, Allee and Damm. There is Kürfurstendamm and Kürfurstenstraße. So, always use the whole name. More: notice that there are exactly the same names for streets located in different, distant districts of Berlin. So, sometimes it's necessary to know the name of the district where the street is located.
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Transportation: Not my recomendation
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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: I found this bus on my picture parked on southern side of Kurfurstendamm (Ku-Damm) by number 225. It was 2-floor, scheduled bus line called City Circle Tour. It costed 18 euros (full day ticket with unlimited boarding) or 14 euros (half-day ticket, till 2.00 pm). The first bus started at 10.00 am, the last one at 3.00 pm. every 15-30 min. (4.00 pm and every 10-15 min. in summer = 4 April - 2 November). The full non-stop trip lasted 2 hours.
The itinerary contained 14 stops by most famous points of interests around Berlin including:
- Potzdamer Platz,
- Jewish Museum,
- Checkpoint Charlie,
- Alexanderplatz,
- Berlin Cathedral
- Unter den Linden,
- Branderburg Gate
- Palace Charlottenburg.
On Sat. and Sun. add 17 Juni Flea Market.Nice itinerary but definetely NOT my recommendation. Why?
1. One day ticket for public transportation (bus, U-bahn, S-bahn, tram) costed over 3 times less: 5.60 euros;2. Public transportation was very efficient in Berlin (which meant more flexibility and no need to wait up to 30 min. for next City Circle Tour bus);
3. There were bus lines 100 and 200 which passed by most of the tourist attractions mentioned above. Enjoy!
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Website: http://www.berolina-berlin.com/english/framestadt.htm
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Transportation: Buy a ticket here :-)
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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Subway/Metro
Getting TO/AROUND: WHERE TO BUY A TICKET?There were small newstands/ticket offices signed by BVG (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe) logo located at the entrances to U-bahn (metro/subway) stations. There were BVG ticket machines there as well.
In newstands outside the stations I usually could buy only single tickets but not for example one-day tickets.MEANS OF TRANSPORTATIONTickets were always valid both for U-bahn (metro/subway), and for S-bahn (city fast train), buses, trams (in former East Berlin).FARE ZONES:A - it's the area within the Berlin urban rail (S-Bahn) ring line;
B - the area with the city borders;
C - the area surrounding Berlin
All tourist attractions I visited were located in zone A, there were some in zone B as well, I was sure.
There were tickets for zone A+B, B+C and A+B+C available. TICKET FARESI bought one-day-ticket for A+B zone valid until 3 a.m. the day after cancellation. It was valid for U-bahn, S-bahn, buses and trams.
Fare for zone A + B (= within city limits):
Single fare ticket € 2,20
Short trip € 1,20
Day ticket € 5,60
7-day-ticket - transferable and valid 7 days after cancellation - € 23.40.
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