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We've just started planning a trip to Berlin in September. Does anyone have any good tips for things to do and see?
Any good hotels I should check out. Doesn't have to be budget but not crazy expensive either.
Cheers
We stayed at the ultra hip michelberger hotel and had a very pleasant stay, really good value as well
Loads to see and do and about 300yrd from the east side gallery (Remaining km of the Berlin wall adorned with murals)Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg area very cool bars and restaurants
we stayed in a total dive near the main shopping street! i forget the name but you probably dont want it anyway! it was right next to main train line, very handy for getting to and from the airport.
lots to see and do, we just happened to be there during the world cup so got to experience a germany game shown outdoors in the main park in the city centre.
Ps
Try 'White trash fast food' an american owned burger restaurant that do the best onion rings ever, good beer and also a live music venue
Had a top night there
I'm kicking myself for not doing the segway tour round all the sites would definately do it if/when i go back 😀
We stayed in the Movenpick, it's withing walking distance of Potsdamer Platz but not central.
The open top tour bus is good to get around. There are stops in all the tourist areas - I think we stared just behind the Brandenburg Gate.
mtb-ing in berlin is shit. fact.
The hills are rubble - fact!
I went once. Took my breath away.
*hides*
i went once and was underwhelmed....
i didn't find it [i]that[/i] great as many people would have you believe. felt poor and grey.
I've always been to random art things in warehouses etc. and bars so it is hard to recommend exact things as they'll be out of date. They have listings magazines, but I can't remember the names of them. Find out where the arty areas are and go to the bars there, you can a)get nice drinks, b)pick up listings magazines.
Neue Nationalgallerie is a very fancy building and also has interesting things on sometimes.
There was a nice bar in old East Berlin that was space invaders themed in a very trendy way, although that visit was maybe 10 years ago now.
I love it, going back for my 30th. Try the circus hotel
Its not the same now; my parents lived there and as we flew in to visit them the wall was like all lit up, almost no lights outside it and well lit inside, very other worldly, as were the gunflashes from the tanks training just the other side of the wall and the guard towers and dags.
Went back a couple of years ago and went to the Checkpoint Charlie museum and it felt very odd coming from the "wrong" side.
I can recommend taking a boat trip round the canals is a good way to see bits you would normally miss.
Go clubbing - wake up on tuesday! Go to weekend (wee12end top of a tall building - amazing views), Watergate (one of the best clubs I've ever been to and worth it for the lights alone), Tresor, Panorama bar. All just brilliant if you like that sort of thing.