Rostock Trip Overview
This semi-private shore excursion is for those who want an overview of Berlin’s history and most important monuments, and also to spend some time shopping in the German capital’s slickest stores and districts. You will have the chance to shop in Germany’s most celebrated luxury department store, and visit some of the most exciting independent, contemporary concept stores – without skimping on the city’s main sites.
This experience is adjusted to each ship’s docking times and starts promptly after your vessel’s arrival, returning with plenty of time to spare before its departure. Our expert team has been organizing these tours for nearly a decade. We have never missed a cruise ship’s departure and imparted our knowledge and enthusiasm for our unique and beautiful city to thousands of satisfied passengers!
Additional Info
Duration: 12 hours
Starts: Rostock, Germany
Trip Category: Shore Excursions >> Ports of Call Tours
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This semi-private shore excursion is for those who want an overview of Berlin’s history and most important monuments, and also to spend some time shopping in the German capital’s slickest stores and districts. You will have the chance to shop in Germany’s most celebrated luxury department store, and visit some of the most exciting independent, contemporary concept stores – without skimping on the city’s main sites.
This experience is adjusted to each ship’s docking times and starts promptly after your vessel’s arrival, returning with plenty of time to spare before its departure. Our expert team has been organizing these tours for nearly a decade. We have never missed a cruise ship’s departure and imparted our knowledge and enthusiasm for our unique and beautiful city to thousands of satisfied passengers!
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), Tauentzienstr. 21 – 24, 10789 Berlin Germany
Shop until you drop in Europe’s second largest department store – 7 floors and 60,000 square meters of luxury and cutting edge fashions – and enjoy a sumptuous lunch in the world-famous food court.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Mulackstraße, 10119 Berlin, Germany
Explore some of Berlin’s most exciting independent, contemporary concept and fashion stores.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 10557 Berlin Germany
Stand in the shadow of the German parliament building, burned down after Hitler’s rise to power, now a bold symbol of modern German democracy.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany
Walk through the gateways of Berlin’s most iconic monument and find out what makes the Gate the most important cultural monument in Germany.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: The Holocaust Memorial – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany
Journey through the iconic concrete stellae, bear witness the atrocities of National Socialism, and hear the stories of the everyday bravery of the persecuted.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstr. 43-45, 10969 Berlin Germany
Cross the border at the frontline of the Cold War, where spies roamed and US and Soviet tanks faced off in 1961.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, 10963 Berlin Germany
See the dark heart of Nazi Germany at the former headquarters of the SS and Gestapo. See the excavated torture cells, and come face-to-face with the Cold War’s most brutal symbol: The Berlin Wall.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hitler’s Bunker (Fuhrerbunker), Wilhelmstrasse 77, 10117 Berlin Germany
Stand at the site of the bunker where history’s most notorious criminal committed suicide at the end of WWII.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Charlottenburg Palace, Spandauer Damm 20-24 Luisenplatz, 14059 Berlin Germany
Walk the stunning grounds gardens of the first Prussian royal summer palace to be built on the outskirts of Berlin.
Duration: 15 minutes
Pass By: Kurfurstendamm, 10707 Berlin Germany
Cruise down Berlin’s version of the Champs-Élysées, former West Berlin’s most famous street.
Pass By: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin Germany
Witness the devastation caused by US and British bombing raids during WWII at the preserved ruins of this late 19th-century church, and visit the New Church next door, decorated with hundreds of thousands of fragments of blue stained glass.
Pass By: Tiergarten, Strasse des 17. Juni 100, 10557 Berlin Germany
Drive through the lush greenery of Berlin’s vast central park and see various embassies on the Tiergartenstraße, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Memorial for Victims of the National Socialist Euthanasia Program.
Pass By: Victory Column (Siegessaule), Grosser Stern 1, 10557 Berlin Germany
Catch the sun glinting of the golden angel Victoria, goddess of victory, as you circle around Prussia’s emphatic monument to its triumphs in the Wars of Unification.
