<p>OK all-knowledgeable CC’ers. Can you kindly recommend places to stay/eat and /things to do/see in Berlin? What are your thoughts about: The Berlin wall memorial, Pergamon museum, Jewish museum, Allied museum, Tempelhof park, Charlottenburg Palace, East Berlin architecture tour, etc. All thoughts, ideas and suggestions are appreciated. Trip will be upcoming shortly.</p>
<p>KaDeWe- Food floors 6th (food bars and several champagne bars) and 7th( best food stations)
Rest of store fancy name brand stuff-skip unless you need to lux shop
Topography of Terror-sober, self guided read about the atrocities, free
Checkpoint Charlie (tourism at its worst, IMHO) is around the corner of T of T
Reichstag- especially beautiful at night but you need to plan ahead <a href=“http://www.bundestag.de”>www.bundestag.de</a>. for your visit
Brandenburg Gate near Reichstag
Regret not trying the Currywurst in Berlin</p>
<p>Reichstag is a hands down winner, but get online and start the registration now. It takes about a week.
I loved the Pergamon but you have to be pretty interested in antiquities and that era
Also loved the Neues Museum. It is sort of an art museum and sort of an architecture study in how the building was rebuilt after the bombing. It doesn’t sound interesting, but I thought it was fantastic and probably appeals to a broader group of people than the Pergamon.
The salvador dali museum. This is bite sized and shouldn’t tap you out, even if you aren’t too into art. His pictures are so detailed, you think you get it, but then you look more closely and there are all these weird things going on it it.
Panoramapunkt will give you a different view of the city than you get from the Reichstag. It was probably the best way for me to get how the wall worked topographically in the city.
Potsdam was worth going to, but only if you have enough time.</p>
<p>Thanks!! Keep 'em coming!! Very helpful!</p>
<p>For the evening get tickets for the Berlin Phil or the Berlin Komische Oper or Berlin Deutsche Oper. (I prefer the Komische) </p>
<p>great!</p>
<p>A three minute long commercial?!?! Yikes!</p>
<p>Be sure to try a ‘döner’. They are kebabs sold at open air food stands. The Jewish museum is a must. I’ve stayed at the Holiday Inn Express City Center, which as the name implies is centrally located. It’s also across the street from a very interesting ruin the "anhalter bahnhof’. Another time we stayed at the Hotel Friedenau. It is a boutique style hotel with unique styling. Although further from city central, it’s easy to reach via the S-Bahn and gives you a much better sense of the people of Berlin.</p>
<p>There is a double decker bus (don’t remember the exact line) which runs through the main touristy areas (Reichstag, siegessoule, city center etc and on one side ends in the Ka-De-We area (and nearby zoo) and on the other end terminates in a very typical post- war residential area.</p>
<p>Also, we found the Stasi- museum well worth the trip. It is off the beaten path and located in the original Stasi headquarters building. </p>
<p>DonnaL had some long posts or a thread a couple of years ago about visiting Berlin that I found fascinating. Her family lived there until the Holocaust. I would look it up.</p>
<p>We stayed at the Hotel Adlon right next to the Brandenburg Gates. It was amazing. Contact your hotel see if they can get you advance tickets to the Reichstag. The lines can be quite long. Also, we had coffee and desert in their cafe…it was quite nice. The outdoor Jewish museum is a must visit. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Second KaDeWe, the Jewish museum, the Pergamon (excellent audio tour) ad the Stasi Museum ( (re)watch “The Lives of Others” before you go and be aware that much of the written material is in German–still worth going even if you don’t speak any German). <a href=“http://chipps.eu/”>http://chipps.eu/</a> is nice for breakfast before going to Museum Island.</p>
<p>Also the various underground tours <a href=“http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html”>http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html</a></p>
<p>Great stuff. Thanks!</p>
<p>Jym - I am going to Berlin a month from now, so take notes! I will likely have 2 full days for sightseeing.</p>
<p>If you are into antiquities & classics, the Pergamon Museum has no peer except the British Museum
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<p>There are complete Greek temples (plural) inside the museum-- wow!</p>
<p>Will do, pg. A friend we dined with last night went last summer and forwarded me his blog.</p>
<p>I also agree about the Pergamon and KaDeWe. Also the main art museum (forget its name).</p>
<p>I would skip the currywurst. I had one, and it was gross.</p>
<p>I would highly suggest the Segway tour. My family of 4 did this when we visited in 2011. It was a four tour that took you to all places of interest. The tour guide was terrific. We did that in the morning and then was able to determine what we wanted to revisit in depth as a family., You can check out all the reviews and comments on trip advisor. One of the best things we have ever done. Very fun and informative. My kids were 17 and 21 at the time. </p>
<p>We really enjoy Berlin the 3 days we were there. </p>
<p>We did a segway tour in another city, so I guess I can be a “segway pro”.</p>