Berlin

Berlin is big, and that is the first difficulty of the trip. The sights are spread across different districts, you have to travel between them, and some of them require advance registration. Readers usually arrive here with the destination already chosen and one question: how to divide the city into days. We have gathered the articles that answer exactly that.

The core of this section is the overview guides. The article "Berlin on your own" ties transport, hotels and a route through the main sights into one plan. There are ready-made itineraries for two and for three days, including a walking route through the center with tickets and prices. We look separately at when to go: weather, prices and events by season. Two more articles are about money. The first works out a daily budget for accommodation, food and tickets, the second lists the first-trip mistakes that cost you money.

The second large group covers individual sights. These are the Reichstag and its dome, the Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island, Berlin Cathedral, the Berlin Wall, Alexanderplatz, Charlottenburg Palace, Treptower Park, the Berlin Zoo, Madame Tussauds and KaDeWe. In each article we answer the same practical questions: whether you need a ticket, whether you need a timed slot, what to see inside, how to get there. There are roundups too: the city's museums, parks, places for Vietnamese food. The article "Unusual Berlin" is about markets, beer halls and districts without tourists.

The third group is accommodation and onward travel. The article on choosing a district explains where to stay so you do not lose time getting around. For those combining Berlin with other cities, there are articles on the ways to get there from Prague and on the train trip to Dresden. In them we compare the options and show which one is cheaper.

Every article opens with a short conclusion: what matters most and what to do in advance. Then come the practical sections: tickets, opening hours, getting there, how much time to allow for the visit. Every price and every timetable comes with its source and the date it was checked. We write about the downsides plainly: where the lines are, where slots run out early, which place you can skip on a short visit.

This section is meant for people who travel independently and put together their own program. It works for a first visit and for a return one, when the main sights are already familiar. If you need an organized tour with a guide, these articles will not help much. We do not sell or book anything, we only explain how the trip works.

Start with the article on seasons if you have not picked your dates yet. Then read the one on districts: where you stay determines how much time goes on travel every day. After that, choose a two or three day itinerary and check it against the article on the daily budget. The articles on individual sights are best left for the end, when your list of places is ready. Then you can see right away where registration is needed.

Berlin belongs to the "Germany" section, which is part of "Europe" within "Destinations". It makes sense to go to "Germany" if Berlin is only one part of a trip around the country. "Europe" is a convenient place to build a route across several countries, for example with a stop in Prague. Berlin has no subsections: all the articles sit in a single list, from the overviews to the narrow topics.

Ticket prices, opening hours and registration rules in Berlin change often. So we go back to published articles, check them against the official websites of museums, transport operators and city services, and update the date of the check. If a sight has changed its entry procedure or is temporarily closed, we say so at the top of the article. Before your trip, open the official website of the sight you need anyway: available slots and timetables are more reliably checked on the day you buy. This section gives you the plan. The final check is yours.