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Best of Berlin combined tour with bus and ship

City Circle Bus Tour Hop on Hop off Schloss Charlottenburg

from €55.00 combined ticket

With our entertaining hop-on-hop-off city tour, we bring you to all the major attractions and attractions in the capital. The boat trip offers the opportunity to get to know Berlin from the waterside.


Hop On Hop Off Sightseeing Tour incl. 1-hour Boat Tour

Discover Berlin by land and by water. The Hop On Hop Off city tour incl. a one-hour boat trip takes you past Berlin's most important and beautiful attractions, while you learn exciting as well as entertaining details about Berlin and its sights via headphones. The one-hour boat trip again offers you the opportunity to get to know Berlin from a different perspective.

Highlights of the Hop On Hop Off City Tour incl. 1-Hour Boat Trip 

✔ Explore Berlin at your own pace: Hop On Hop Off bus tour with 22 stops. 
✔ Unique 1-hour Sightseeing Boat Tour included 
✔ Audio guide in 20 languages as well as a children's channel in German & English

Discover Berlin’s h on the City Circle bus tour

The sightseeing tour with the Hop On Hop Off Bus-Tour by City Circle (Yellow Tour) takes you from Kurfürstendamm past the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the luxury department store KaDeWe towards Berlin's Mitte. Explore Potsdamer Platz as well as the famous Checkpoint Charlie and learn more about the history of Alexanderplatz and the Museum Island with the Berlin Cathedral in front of it. Along the boulevard Unter den Linden, the tour will continue past the Brandenburg Gate and the government district back towards the western part of the city.

Enjoy Berlin's sights from the ship 

At stop 14/Dom Aquarée, you have the opportunity to discover Berlin from the water side as part of a 1-hour boat tour by the Stern & Kreisschiffahrt shipping company. 

The boat trip takes you along the shore at the Reichstag and the new government district past the "House of World Cultures", Bellevue Palace and the Berlin Victory Column, to Central Station, the Berlin Cathedral, Museum Island and the Nikolai Quarter.

 

Meeting point

main departure point am Kurfürstendamm/ Ecke Rankestraße (Tauentzien 13)

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Important information

Please exchange your voucher for an original ticket at one of our departure point. You can start your tour at any of the stops.

Special information about boat trip

  • The complete historical tour by boat takes about 1 hour.
  • The tour is explained by audio guide in 8 different languages - audio guide at extra charges (ca. EUR 3.00).
  • Wheelchairs are allowed on the ships indicated in the timetable of Stern und Kreis Schiffahrt GmbH.
  • A guarantee for the take-over is however only granted with advance booking. On all other ships, the ship crew decides.
  • It is allowed to carry so-called pet dogs (up to 5 kg).
  • Blind dogs as companion dogs can be carried along in general and free of charge

Ticket validity after purchase

The combination ticket includes a ticket for the Best of Berlin Tour plus a one-time 1-hour boat trip on the Spree (Historical City Tour).

✔ Accepted as mobile smartphone voucher
✔ Valid for 24, 48 or 72 hours from time of redemption with the driver
✔ All buses are wheelchair accessible

Opening hours

March - November:

  • Sun - Thu: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. / First departure: 10:00 a.m. / Last departure: 3:17 p.m.
  • Fri - Sat: (additionally on Easter Sunday, 17.04.22): 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

November - March: 

  • 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. / First departure: 10:00 a.m. / Last departure: 2:17 p.m.

Arrival by public transport

Main departure point

U-Bahn | U1, U2, U9 (Zoologischer Garten), U1, U2, U3 (Wittenbergplatz)
S-Bahn | S5, S7, S75 (Zoologischer Garten)
Bus | 100, 200 (Zoologischer Garten)   

Departs/ Departure time

The tour starts every 15-20 minutes fom 10:00 am at the following stops:

  • Potsdamer Platz
  • Kurfürstendamm 216
  • Kurfürstendamm / Meinekestraße
  • Kurfürstendamm 234
  • Kurfürstendamm / Rankestraße
  • Tauentzienstraße
  • KaDeWe
  • Lützowplatz
  • Kulturforum Tiergarten
  • Potsdamer Platz / Kolhoff-Hochhaus
  • Potsdamer Platz / Balzac
  • Gropiusbau
  • Checkpoint Charlie
  • Gendarmenmarkt
  • Neptunbrunnen / Rotes Rathaus
  • Alexanderplatz
  • Karl-Marx-Allee
  • East Side Gallery
  • Ostbahnhof
  • Neptunbrunnen / Rotes Rathaus
  • DomAquarée
  • Lustgarten
  • Unter den Linden / Friedrichstraße
  • Brandenburger Tor
  • Hauptbahnhof
  • Siegessäule / Bundespräsidialamt
  • Siegessäule / Hofjägerallee
  • Elefantentor
  • Café Kranzler

The transfer to the boat tour via the stops:

  • 14. DomAquarée (Nikolaiviertel/Humboldtforum pier) 
  • 16. Unter den Linden/Friedrichstraße (pier Friedrichstraße/Weidendamm)

Ship partner is the Stern & Kreis Schifffahrt GmbH

Languages

  • Audio Guide in 20 languages on the bus and children's channel in English & German.
  • During the ship tour: Audio Guide German, Audio Guide available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Hebrew for 2,00 €. 

 

 

Provider

City Circle Sightseeing