Berlin for 4 nights

Watch Rick Steves Video to learn about must visit tourist destinations, restaurants, pubs and shopping destinations. in Berlin
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It has a script that you can read as well..

Hi,

Look at The Rough Guide Berlin, lots of information, useful. It's one book I have used on seeking out places in Berlin aside from the historical readings.

My favorite thing to do in Berlin is to go on a themed walking tour each time I visit. (have been there 5 times) A good walking tour will show you many of the major sites as well as tell you the history of them, plus you can ask the guide questions.

Must sees are personal. Without knowing what you enjoy, it is difficult to make suggestions. I can spend 6 hours at the Deutsche Museum where others are done in 2.

One recommendation would be to visit Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp or Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. Both are very moving places to visit with excellent exhibits showing what happened here.

Berlin is a huge city and we'd need to know your tastes to work out the highest priority destinations.

I love Berlin, hoping to go back in 2018. One thing I enjoyed (and didn't think I would) was the river tour - narrative is a little corny at times, but the perspective of the city from the water gave me a better orientation than anything on land.

Thank you to each one of you for your valuable information.

About our likes-

I like visiting museums but my husband doesn't, so we usually end up visiting one or to the max two in a city

We are big foodies (non-vegetarians) and love to experiment local cuisine

We would like to go for a pub crawl or visit the famous bars/pubs for beer

Shopping is my weakness & would like to know the best place for premium brands at good bargain and street shopping as well

Berlin has lots and lots of art museums which are worth visiting. Some of the biggest are the Gemaeldegalerie (pre-19th century painting) and the Neue Nationalgalerie (20th century artworks), but there are also the museums on Museum Island, which deal more with antiquities.

For high-class big-brand shopping, the main area now is on Friedrichstrasse roughly between the Friedrichstrasse railway station and the old site of Checkpoint Charlie, and the side streets around it, especially the area around Franzoesischer Platz. The Kurfuerstendamm itself is now very downmarket, but there are still some upmarket shops around the east end of it, in the side streets off it and on parallel streets.

Try the currywurst, but go crazy on the döner. There are incredible Turkish restaurants all over the city. Berlin also has a strong Vietnamese population, so pho shops are fairly plentiful too. Skip the "traditional" German food-it's much better in Bavaria and stick to the global cuisine.

Loved so much about Berlin (highlight was the Reichstag dome) but right up there was the Berlin Mitte Food tour we did -- I think it's perfect for you since you say you are "foodies." It was four hours and could have lasted longer as far as I was concerned. Bastian shared wonderful information about food, but also graffiti art, Jewish history, kitschy culture and fantastic food from candy to donar kebobs to cheesecake to coffee to traditional bread and . . . yes, currywurst and spaetzle. Check it out at https://www.berlinfoodtour.de/tours/berlin-mitte-food-tour/

Hi,

If you are staying in Berlin-Charlottenburg, specifically in or near Savignyplatz, there are at least three recommendable "traditional" German restaurants, well worth it. In the Prenzlauer Berg area you can find "traditional" (gute alte bürgerliche Küche) German restaurants on Danzigerstraße.

In addition to the DDR Museum, which I agree might interest even museum-haters, I very much enjoyed the House at Checkpoint Charlie, which has a lot of displays and explanatory material (in English as well as German) about escape attempts. Both of these museums can get extremely crowded. I'm guessing that going when they open or late in the afternoon might be best than being there at mid-day, but I don't know for sure. There are a lot of other Cold-War-related sites, but one or two will probably be enough for your husband.

The Pergamon Museum on Museuminseln has one of the world's finest archaeological collections, thanks to the activities of early German archaeologists.

I would recommend walking the dome of the Reichstag/Bundestag. It's a great free activity. A friend and I nabbed a time about 45 minutes before sun down and watched the city transform from its day version to its night version. The free audioguide describes the views as you do the walk. Reservations are needed: http://www.bundestag.de/en/visittheBundestag/dome/registration/245686

must see tourist destinations? no such thing