Cost:
€ 20
€ 18 (under 26, pensioners)
€ 18 (ISIC, Welcome or City Tour cards)
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€ 20
€ 18 (under 26, pensioners)
€ 18 (ISIC, Welcome or City Tour cards)
West: McDonald's opposite the main entrance to Zoo Station
East: A.M.T COFFEE at Hackescher Markt S-Bahn Station
5 hours
5% discount for online booking. Tickets can be purchased in advance by credit card or you can also buy tickets from your guide, but in cash only.
See the historical centre of Berlin from a totally different perspective. Compliment your Famous Walk with an integrated one-hour open-top boat cruise on the river Spree. With more bridges than Venice, Berlin's waterways have much to offer
Your Insider guide will accompany you as you glide under Berlin's first ever bridge into the ancient Nikolai quarter and Fischer Island. On the way you'll get a 'duck's eye view' of the TV Tower, Marx Engels Forum, Berlin's 'Red' Town Hall and its recently re-opened and splendidly restored State Library. Here we also see the statue of St. George slaying the dragon, known locally as the 'mother-in-law' monument
Enjoy the sight of Berlin's iconic 'Dome' cathedral and the magnificent buildings of Museum Island from the water. We enable you to picture the full splendour of Berlin before the destruction and devastation of WWII and the subsequent tragedy of German partition. Learn how some waterways in this area are impassable due to the continued presence of munitions from WWII. Float by the Friedrichstrasse train station as we recount how the visa processing centre of this Cold War crossing point became known as the 'Palace of Tears'. Further on we see the building from where the East German border guards attempted to hinder escape attempts by operating a hydraulic underwater steel chain net across the Spree
Further west, the stunning contrast between the historically significant Reichstag and its surrounding modern parliamentary buildings comes into full view. We cruise by the Premier's Office (Kanzleramt), a 300 year-old customs house (Zollstelle) and The House of World Cultures – America's gift to the Germans in 1957. Get a good look at Berlin's brash new glass and steel central railway station and learn how this 1990s building project earned the nickname 'The Knot'. We travel under the recently refurbished red sandstone Moltke bridge, where Soviet troops launched their final onslaught on the Reichstag in April 1945
This boat trip finishes by returning to its point of departure – the Museum Island, from where we continue on our Famous Walk
Note: In the event of rain our cruiser has a retractable glass roof – so it's sail on, rain or shine!
*In co-operation with our partners Berliner Wassersport- und Service GmbH
Meeting Points / Prices / Times
Apr 1st – Oct 31st:
* 10 am daily from McDonald's opposite the main entrance to Zoo Station
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and also at
10.30 am from A.M.T COFFEE at Hackescher Markt S-Bahn Station
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How Much?
• € 20
• € 18 (under 26 yr. olds or Pensioners)
• € 18 (ISIC,Welcome Card or City Tour Cards)
Note: advanced booking is not required however you can buy your ticket online now, or alternatively from your guide directly at the meeting point and time.
Duration
5 hours inc. travel time
If you join us at the Zoo Station please bring along a train ticket (€2,10 one way) or ask your guide for assistance, from Hackescher Markt no train ticket is required as the tour is completely on foot from there.
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