Good multi-day U Bahn/S Bahn tickets in Berlin

For you homework, VBB (in English) is the local Verkehrsverbund for Berlin and Bandenburg. They have seven day and monthly tickets and group tickets.

Look at the network map. The VV is divided into three rings (A,B,C). Depending on where you plan on spending most of your time, you might only want to buy a multi-day pass of one or two rings and just get single trip tickets for occasional trips out of those rings.

Thanks Lee. I knew you'd know!

With respect to the museums: I found I was spending a great deal of time at almost every museum/historical sight I visited, which affected my ability to make the museum card I purchased pay off. A lot of Berlin's sights are worth 4 to 6 hours, in my opinion. In addition, Berlin is quite a large city, so you will probably find yourself losing a good bit of time to travel. Finally, the MuseumInseln add-on pass that I purchased had two significant issues:

• It did not confer skip-the-line privileges, and the lines were sometimes more than an hour long.
• If the museum was running a special exhibition, the pass was worthless; I had to pay the full regular + special-exhibition charge. That was strange, to say the least, and bordered on false advertising as far as I am concerned.

I've decided that in sizable cities with a lot of sights, I have an issue balancing card usage (going to high-cost sights during the validity period) and efficient sightseeing (grouping sights geographically). For me, the problem is amplified if my stay in the city lasts longer than the pass.

I wouldn't say a definite "No" to the pass sold by the Tourist Office, but I'd caution you to do your homework. There was a sizable discount on a Segway tour in 2015; if that's something you'd plan to do anyway, that might tip the balance if it's still part of the package.

Piggybacking on Lee's excellent advice about weekly passes, if you want to go to outer rings (ex. Potsdam) you can just buy an upgrade for that day for a very small amount.

The combined tickets offering travel passes and discounts on attractions are not usually good value. What is good value is the Berlin Museum Pass, which offers unlimited entry to the majority of the city's museums and palaces for three days for twenty-nine euros.