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Arrival at Berlin
We had booked a place on the morning flight to Berlin and we arrived at Berlin Tegel Airport around 10 pm. 9.00 Sunday morning. Then we picked up our pre -ordered Berlin Welcome Card at the airport and took the bus to our hotel which was right in the middle of Alexanderplatz. I have written more about Berlin Welcome Card and Transport around Berlin in“Guide to Transport in Berlin”.
Stay at Alexanderplatz and lack of privacy
Berlin has a large selection of hotels and many people also choose to rent a holiday apartment. We had booked a hotel room at Park Inn by Radisson Berlin, which is located in the middle of Alexanderplatz. The hotel is Berlin’s highest and included in the price was breakfast.
Since we arrived early Sunday morning, our room was not yet ready and we could therefore choose between storing our bags for 2 euros per piece. or pay approx. DKK 350 and get our room upgraded to have a view of Alexanderplatz and the television tower, which also meant we could get the key to the room right away. Of course, we chose to pay the DKK 350 and if you are going to stay at the Park Inn by Radisson Berlin, check out the possibilities of getting a room facing Alexanderplatz and from a minimum of 21 floor, it clearly makes the experience staying at the hotel, so much cooler.
The room was super nice and well maintained, but unfortunately the room had what I would call a lack of privacy. The bathroom itself was an open integral part of the room, so when you went to the bath, the one lying in bed could look with. In addition, it was also not possible to close the door to the toilet, which was not very fat, and unfortunately pulls a part down to the hotel room itself.
10 sights in Berlin
Berlin does not lack sights and you will hardly reach them all the first time you visit the city. I have compiled a list of 10 sights we visited while we were there and which I would clearly recommend that you visit.
The space in front of the Brandenburg Gate Tor
Branderburger Tor
Brandenburg Gate TorIs probably one of the best known landmarks for Berlin, and the only remaining city gate. The city gate, as previously stood in east Berlin, is at the end of Alleen Unter den Linden, and became the symbol of the reunion in 1989.
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Reichstag
Obliquely to the Brandenburg Gate Tor is the government buildingReichstag (Reichstag)Where the German parliament is located. You have the opportunity to get up in the glass dome over the Reichstag building, where you can look out over Berlin but also down into the Reichstag itself. Remember that to get up in the dome, online registration is needed, and there are a lot of people who would like to go up there, remember to do it well before you visit Berlin. Unfortunately, we had not booked time from home to get up in the dome, so unfortunately we did not get it up in this time.
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Denkmal für die Ermidet Juden Europe’s
Not far from the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag you will find the Holocaust monumentDenkmal für die Ermidet Juden Europe’sAnd consists of tall rectangular concrete blocks that rise as far as the eye can see. Here you can move into the maze of concrete blocks.
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Berliner judgment on a gray weather day
Berliner Dom
On the road from the Brandenburg Gate Tor towards Alexanderplatz one comes byBerliner DomWhich is one of Berlin’s most visited attractions. The cathedral in the current form is only 100 years old, but is based on a church from the 16th century. Included in the fare is to enter the church itself where you can consider the dome inside, come up all 270 steps and enjoy a magnificent view of the entire city from the outside of the dome, as well as a trip down the crypt with 94 coffins of members of the prince and emperor Horhenzollern family. Something that strikes than when you see all the many chests down in the crypt are the many children’s chests who clearly witness the high child mortality.
Price: € 5.00 with Berlin Welcome Card
Trabant
DDR Museum
Not far from Berliner Dom liesDDR Museum, which is a small museum that tells about the daily life of a German family under the GDR-regime. Among other things, you can try sitting inside a trabant as you drive around the old GDR Germany, see what a German apartment looked like. While walking around the museum you are allowed to touch the exhibited effects, and you can therefore get very close to life in the GDR.
Price: € 7.20 with Berlin Welcome Card – € 6.00 If you have a valid student card
Fernsehturm at Alexanderplatz
Fernsehturm
AlexanderSplatz houses, among other things, the famous world clock and not least the architectural icon of Berlin,Fernsehturm. Up from the television tower you can see the city from a 360 degree angle, and it is definitely worth a visit on a cloudless day.
If you do not want to risk standing 1-1.5 hours in line while you can see others go right past you, remember to book a ticket from home.
Price: € 21.50 for Fast View Ticket
Zoologischer Gerten
Not far from the known shopping area Kurfürstendam is locatedZoologischer Garten, and Berlin’s zoo is definitely among the elite of European zoos. The garden is huge, and home to more than 1400 different species, you can experience giant panda, elephants, 2 rhino species and lots of birds.
Price: 11.70 € with Berlin Welcome Card
The beds down in the nuclear bunker
The Story of Berlin
Likewise at Kurfürstendam you will find the museumThe Story of Berlin. The museum shows the city of Berlin’s 800 years of history, and through multimedia and classic museum style you get a clear and visual way overview of Berlin history. One of the highlights of the museum is the guided tour of the protective bunker 12 meters underground which was built by a private rich man in connection with the Cold War – the nuclear threat. Every two hours it is possible to join an English -speaking guided tour. You should expect approx. 2 hours until the visit including the trip down the protective bunker.
Price: € 9.00 with Berlin Welcome Card incl. the protective bunker
East Side Gallery – The Wall
East Side Galleryis the place where you find the longest preserved piece of the wall. Here, together with thousands of other tourists, can be immortalized with Die Mauer.
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Stand in the flea market at Mauerpark
Flea market in Mauerpark
If you visit Berlin on Sundays then, unlike at home, you will find that most stores are closed, but in return you can visit one of Berlin’s many flea markets. We visitedFlohmarkt am Mauerpark(Sunday 7-17), which is swirling with stalls selling everything from old furniture and antique objects to crafts from some of Berlin’s budding artists. Among other things, we bought a reprint of a local street artist. So now we can always remember Berlin when we sit at home in the living room.
There is such a little Christiania-like atmosphere over the place. If you get tired of shopping, you can grab a bite to eat and a cold beer in one of the many food stalls, or you can go out of the market and relax in the Mauerpark itself, maybe you are lucky that you can at the same time listen to some music, from some of the artists who put up the audience.
At Bakken you have an excellent view of the market. Among other things, Lukas Graham has given a concert in Mauerpark, so it is not only the unknown artists who give a free concert on Sundays.
The flea market in Mauerpark is definitely worth a visit, especially on a sunny spring or summer day.
Free admission
Find your way: Barnauer Str. 63-64, 13355 Berlin
