Berlin to Poland day trip

Have you look at the train schedules?

From Berlin to:

Krakow--7 hours each way

Gdansk--5.5 hours each way

Wroclaw--4 hours each way.

That's a lot of train time for a day trip. Even for an ovenight.

Poznan is within reasonable range of Berlin for that. I haven’t been there but have heard it’s worth visiting.

The real question is what is the goal for Poland? If you are trying to get a good Polish experience, I would say return to Poland some day and spend an extended time there. If you are thinking, "I'm in the neighborhood, why not add Poland to my list of countries visited," then...

• Szczecin?
• Frankfurt an der Oder and walk across the bridge to Poland?
• Kostrzyn nad Odra for WWII fans who would like to see "Fortress Küstrin," the former German citadel/town Hitler ordered German troops to hold at all costs near the end of WWII, resulting in a destroyed citadel and a Pompeii-like place where the former German city stood?

I agree with Frank II. We’ve been to the eastern parts of Germany several times, and could not properly fit in any significant time in Poland. We put it off until we could do a trip only to Poland. Despite my father’s parents being from Poland.

Note that if you take a northerly cruise, you may hit Gdansk.

I had wanted to do a day trip from Berlin to Poland last summer but on a few days, maybe 3-5 the sign posted in Berlin Hbf Reisezentrum stated all train tickets to Poland on that day were sold out as well as those to Prague .

Poznan was my destination , that sort of day trip can be done easily. You take the late train coming back, ca 11:30 PM or so to Berlin.

I must have seen that sign at least on 4 days early in the morning, say 8 or 9 AM. In the end I canceled doing this Berlin to Poznan day trip.

As Dave suggested, go to Poland by way of Frankfurt an der Oder ( no mandatory reserved seats either unlike from Frankfurt an der Oder to Poznan, that leg mandatory seat reservations are in order). Cross that foot bridge into Poland, the town of Slubice or go by bus from the Frankfurt train station to the Oder

I like going to Frankfurt an der Oder, very revealing in the way this town has evolved, say from what I saw 10-15 years ago. Plus, a different feel in this part of Germany between the Elbe and the Oder.