Travel between Berlin, Krakow and Prague

Question 1: You are planning to see Berlin for a day and later visit Krakow for a day , guides in both of these cities? If possible, give each of these cities more time! A day is not enough time for either of them.

Train, Berlin to Prague
Fly Prague to Krakow (M,T,W,F,Sa)

Sorry should have made myself more clear plan is to stay in Berlin and Krakow 3 days each ending up in Prague about 7 days after start to meet a bike tour. Thanks

also arrive Berlin first then on to Krakow then Prague so Krakow to Prague is last leg. Thanks

No matter whether you fly or train. You will eat up at least two days traveling with these 3 cities. I never use guides as I research the cities myself and plan what I want to see. All three of these cities really require a minimum of 3 days each in addition to travel days. Hopefully you will have the time. Enjoy.

Sorry should have made myself more clear plan is to stay in Berlin and
Krakow 3 days each ending up in Prague about 7 days after start to
meet a bike tour.

Train Berlin to Krakow, fly Krakow to Prague (Ryan).
Check train prices with DB (German Rail Site) and PKP (Polish Rail Site) as thats who you will end up buying from (no need to deal with 3rd party ticket sellers, unless of course that third party is Rick Steves https://ricksteves.raileurope.com/). Otherwise check out, and buy the cheapest:
https://www.intercity.pl/en/
https://int.bahn.de/en
Dont count on anyone of the national companies to be less expensive than the others. It all comes down to how many discount tickets each has and how fast they sell. So this week the polish might be cheaper and next week it might be the same cost as the German National company. Doesnt really matter who you buy from so get a good price.

As for gudes. Good choice. These are three where I think a guide will be useful. For Berlin because of the sheer size and not enough time. The guide will expedite it for you. Krakow and Prague, well ........... I'm not the sharpest tack in the box so a week of reading the internet will not be as useful as the company and knowledge of someone with years of experience; especially with Prague and Krakow with their complex histories. That and I enjoy the conversation with someone from the culture. Adds a lot of depth for me.

We all have different interests. So for me, 2 full days in Prague would be marginal, but fine (been). For Krakow I would want no less than 3 full days (havent been) and for Berlin (never been) ..... well, I dont have a great interest in Berlin but if I found myself there I would spend two full days and I would hire a guide on each day and hope that i got a good enough guide to change my perception of Berlin and have a good time and want to return for more (that has happened before). Then again, if this is just killing time before a bike tour, doesnt matter what you do. Just have fun. You can always return if one of the stops talks to you.

I'm a guy who loves guides, but I also research my guides because I want a really good one. Respectfully, a travelers' pre-trip research of a locale does not replace a local's perspective, especially when the local has lived the history of the place you are visiting. A good guide is gold.

Recommended guide for Berlin: Robert Sommer. Robert was the 15-year-old punk rocker son of a high-ranking East German bureaucrat the night the Berlin Wall "fell." He was a squatter in unified Berlin. He ended up getting a PhD in history with a thesis about prostitution in concentration camps. He created part of the Ravensbrück concentration camp exhibit. His wife was a member of Parliament. Very, very interesting guy.

As he shows you around Berlin, he can tell about growing up in East Berlin, how the fall of the Wall played out in his family, life as one of the first East Germany-US exchange students after the fall of the wall, fighting between punk rockers and Neonazis (first hand accounts), and all things Berlin. I've done everything from basic Berlin tours to architecture tours to tours where we explored abandoned Soviet military bases and abandoned bunkers that held Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War. http://thetrueberliner.com/

As a second choice... Jeremy Minsberg gets a lot of praise on this site, too, but I have never done a tour with him. I think he grew up in the US and moved to Berlin around 20 years ago. https://www.theberlinexpert.com/

Dave, I am with you on the guide thing.

Dave THANK YOU,
I will reach out to see who may be available for Berlin travel days. Do you have a recommendation for Krakow? We have spent some wonderful time in Prague with a guide so only need follow-up for Krakow.

For Krakow, I really liked Christopher Skutela. Another PhD, though I think his PhD is in tourism, as I recall. He came of age during Soviet times. He has traveled the world. he is another very interesting guy.

One more thing that is fun in Krakow. My Crazy Guides Communist tour was very enjoyable: https://www.crazyguides.com/