Join best-selling author Rory MacLean in Berlin with 3(for2) self-guided tours
- 0.3–2.5 hours
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
- Private tour
Highlights
Discover Berlin's grandest boulevard, Tom Cruise's favourite sausage stand, Museum Island, the Reichstag, and the Jewish Memorial at your own pace with a self-guided GPS audio tour. Explore parts of the city you'd only heard of in the movies and history books with three audio tours by best-selling author Rory MacLean (Berlin: Imagine a City, Stalin's Nose, and Pravda Ha Ha). Rory has known three Berlins: West Berlin where he made movies with David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich, East Berlin where he researched his first bestseller, and now the unified capital. Dive into his Berlin when you buy all three of his tours for the price of two! The three routes include a tour of Kurfürstendamm - the capital's grandest boulevard; a tour of Museum Island; and a tour of Berlin's often tumultuous and endlessly fascinating history which unfolds in the city centre. All of which you can explore on your own schedule and at your own pace.
Inclusions
What's included
- VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
- Lifetime access to the tours in English
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
What's not
- Smartphone and headphones
- Transportation
- Food and drink
- Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Itinerary
The three tours take place in Berlin
The Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour takes place in Kurfurstendamm.
The Breitscheidplatz square is part of the Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour. If it's Christmas time, you'll see around you one of Berlin's biggest Weihnachtsmarkts. If it's springtime, you may be surrounded by an Easter fair.
You'll see the relatively new 'concept' shopping mall called Bikini Berlin. You can pop into its designer shops and the self-proclaimed 'ultrahip' 25Hours Hotel for a drink in the so-called Monkey Bar, which overlooks the Zooilogischer Garten. From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
You'll visit the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtiskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm Chuch. It was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943 and rebuilt in the early 1960s. Its stained glass was designed by the French artist Gabriel Loire and it's among the most beautiful -- and soothing -- in the world. From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Bier’s Ku’damm 195 is where former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, tennis star Boris Becker and even Tom Cruise munched on currywurst and you can too! From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
The A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour takes place on - you guessed it! - Museum Island.
Start the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour next to the fountain at Lustgarten.
Walk through Werderscher Market. From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
The Altes Museum – which was opened in 1830 – was one of the first purpose-built museums in Europe. It was created to house the royal collection of sculptures, paintings and antiques and was conceived to be pedagogic, exhibiting art both to educate and to aggrandise the nation. From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Its history of the museum is fascinating. Friedrich August Stüler’s neoclassical building was erected in 1847. During the Second World War, it was badly damaged. After the reunification, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation – along with other government bodies – chose not to simply restore the museum to its pre-war state. Instead, they decided to preserve its strange chronology – to quote Chipperfield – by linking together original material, war-and weather-damaged sections as well as modern elements. The result is a museum that can be read like a history book. The fabric of the building tells the story of Berlin. From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
You pass by the museum and at the end of A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour you have the opportunity to visit the museum.
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- The third tour starts at the fountain in the middle of the Lustgarten. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- VoiceMap Audio Tours
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Berlin
- Its from-price is 93% below the median of the 287 city tours we list in Berlin.
- It is shorter than most of them.
About Berlin
Berlin is Germany's creative, open-minded capital, where landmarks of a turbulent history stand among art, green parks and legendary nightlife.
The Brandenburg Gate is the city's symbol, close to the glass-domed Reichstag and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Fragments of the Berlin Wall survive, most strikingly at the East Side Gallery, a long stretch covered in murals, and at the Bernauer Strasse memorial, while Checkpoint Charlie marks the most famous former crossing point.
Top-ranked sights in Berlin: Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor), Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial), Checkpoint Charlie.
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