Rostock Trip Overview
Make the most of your day in Berlin on this full day tour. With round-trip transfers from your cruise port in Warnemunde, explore Berlin comfortably by bus with a group limited to 30 passengers and a local guide. Enjoy a comprehensive 5.5-hour panoramic experience of the highlights of Berlin, including Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island, and Potsdamer Platz. The transfer duration is approximately three hours one way.
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Duration: 12 hours
Starts: Rostock, Germany
Trip Category: Shore Excursions >> Ports of Call Tours
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Make the most of your day in Berlin on this full day tour. With round-trip transfers from your cruise port in Warnemunde, explore Berlin comfortably by bus with a group limited to 30 passengers and a local guide. Enjoy a comprehensive 5.5-hour panoramic experience of the highlights of Berlin, including Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island, and Potsdamer Platz. The transfer duration is approximately three hours one way.
Itinerary
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Pass By: Warnemünde Cruise Center, 18119 Rostock, Germany
This tour is designed to show you the very best of Berlin in the time that you have ashore. Our tour assistants will meet you in front of your cruise ship as soon as it docks. Right after, your professional driver will transfer you to Berlin. The ride to the German Capital takes about three hours.
Stop At: Charlottenburg Palace, Spandauer Damm 20-24 Luisenplatz, 14059 Berlin Germany
You will arrive in Berlin and meet your professional English-speaking guide. Your local guide will give you an introduction to the city.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Kurfurstendamm, 10707 Berlin Germany
Driving through the former British Sector, you will then cruise down the Kurfürstendamm.
Pass By: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin Germany
Next we drive past the preserved ruins of this late 19th-century church.
Pass By: Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), Tauentzienstr. 21 – 24, 10789 Berlin Germany
Next we pass one of the largest department store in continental Europe.
Pass By: Tiergarten, Strasse des 17. Juni 100, 10557 Berlin Germany
You will then drive through the 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
Make sure to have your camera ready to catch the sun glinting on the golden angel Victoria, the monument to goddess of victory.
Stop At: Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 10557 Berlin Germany
When we reach the German parliament building – Reichstag, we will exit the bus and spend the next portion of the tour on foot.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, Simsonweg/Scheidemannstrasse Between Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag Building, 10117 Berlin Germany
As we walk from the Reichstag to the Brandenburg Gate via the Tiergarten, we will take a moment to pay tribute to those persecuted as Gypsies under Nazism.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany
Next we walk through the gateways of Berlin’s most iconic monument
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: The Holocaust Memorial – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin Germany
After we leave Pariser Platz plenty of time will be taken to journey through the iconic field of concrete blocks, and bear witness the atrocities of National Socialism.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hitler’s Bunker (Fuhrerbunker), Wilhelmstrasse 77, 10117 Berlin Germany
A short walk takes us to the site of the bunker where history’s most notorious criminal committed suicide at the end of WWII. Upon leaving the bunker site we will take a short lunch break of roughly 45 minutes. Your guide will accompany you somewhere with plenty of quick food options and easy access to bathrooms.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Nicholas Quarter, Rathausstrasse 21, 10178 Berlin Germany
Back on the bus we’ll drive past the oldest district in Berlin.
Pass By: Berliner Fernsehturm, Panoramastr. 1A, 10178 Berlin Germany
Next we pass the second tallest building in Europe, built as a symbol of the East German state’s power and modernity in 1969.
Pass By: Alexanderplatz, 10178 Berlin Germany
We will then head on past the heart of pre-WWII Berlin and see the Old and New Town Halls and the Church of St. Mary.
Stop At: Museum Island, Museum Island, Berlin
Next we stop to marvel at the stunning structures and imperial splendor of this UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site. See the Old Museum, the Berlin City Palace, the Berlin Cathedral and more.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Unter den Linden, Berlin Germany
Back on the bus you will cruise down Berlin’s most important historical boulevard – the city’s royal mile.
Stop At: Bebelplatz 1, 10117 Berlin Germany
We will then head, time-permitting, into the heart of one Berlin’s stunning squares to visit the site of the Nazi Book Burning that took place on the 10th May 1933.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin Germany
Next we bathe in the architectural splendor of Berlin’s most beautiful square. See the French and German Domes and the Concert House, and take some memorable photos.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstr. 43-45, 10969 Berlin Germany
Next you will have the chance to cross between East and West at the most famous border crossing point over the Berlin Wall, frontline of the Cold War, where spies roamed and US and Soviet tanks faced off in 1961. Time permitting, we will take a short break here so you have plenty of time to take some photos and buy souvenirs.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, 10963 Berlin Germany
At our last stop you will see the dark heart of Nazi Germany at the former headquarters of the SS and Gestapo and come face-to-face with the Cold War’s most brutal symbol: The Berlin Wall. Time will be taken here to use the bathrooms before you board the bus for the last time. Your guide will then accompany you back to the Schloss Charlottenburg at the end of the Berlin portion of the tour. You will then be driven back to port. All of our shore excursions are adjusted to each ship’s docking times and each starts promptly after your vessel’s arrival, returning with plenty of time to spare before its departure. We have been organizing shore excursions for nearly a decade and have never missed a cruise ship’s departure.
Duration: 20 minutes
