Close-to-water tour

With the ‘Close-to-water’ tour, BSR and visitBerlin invite you to join the conversation: about life in Berlin’s waterfront areas, about community life in the city, and ideas for the future. Every opinion counts – because every perspective helps us to shape Berlin’s future together.

The BerlinPay offer

Water for All – Who Decides?
5 June 2026 from 3 till 7 pm | Plötzensee Lido

Who owns the city’s water – and how can recreation, nature conservation, leisure, tourism and public access be reconciled? In this interactive, hands-on format, visitors playfully develop their own ideas for an ideal waterside location and engage in conversation with one another. An open format for contributing ideas, having a say and discovering – free of charge and accessible at any time during the event period. 

Silent Disco Clean Up
6 June 2026 from 2 till 6 pm | Zenner Beer Garden, Treptower Park

Music in your ears, litter pickers in your hands and experiencing Berlin from a new perspective: the Silent Disco Clean Up combines exercise, a great atmosphere and a commitment to clean waterfronts. Together with partners, we’ll walk along the waterfront in Treptower Park – with inspiring insights into sustainability, urban nature and water protection. Materials will be provided on site, and little surprises are included.

Close to the water: get involved, have your say, help shape the future
10 June 2026 from 4 till 8 pm | Van Loon, waterside terrace

Berlin’s waterways are a place of recreation, a habitat and a meeting place all at once. On the terrace of the Van Loon, the ‘Close to the Water Tour’ invites you to explore this diversity in a playful way. Visitors can contribute their own perspectives through the “Water for All” participatory format, strike up conversations with others and discover interesting facts about sustainability on the BSR wheel of fortune. Just drop by and join in.

Because we value your contribution to a liveable community in the city, we at visitBerlin, along with our partners in the city, would like to thank you with a small token of appreciation:

• free entry for you and a companion to the Badeschiff
• Discounts on the best seats for Quatsch Comedy
• Boat trips with the BWSG
• Free night-time swimming, exclusively for BerlinPay participants at the Stadtbad Oderberger
• or water tours with Stern und Kreis

While stocks last. No prior registration is required.

Shaping Berlin together

The ‘Close-to-water’ tour is part of our mission at visitBerlin to promote sustainable and city-friendly tourism. In collaboration with districts, initiatives, partners and city residents, we develop programmes that benefit Berliners and visitors alike and strengthen the dialogue between the city, neighbourhoods and guests.