shonefeld airport berlin?

After Paris Berlin is the nicest place I have visited. Stayed in a poorer part of the city in the summer of 07. It was perfect. Outdoors eating, multi cultural, loads of Jazz, excellent underground, super beer, top class kebabs, busy, what a place!!! City centre is a little bit austere. Forget shopping at the KaDeWe. However go for the look. There is a huge shop about 50 yards away - much better prices. Going back there in a few weeks. Cant wait!!
 
1. A small but nice indoor play area for kids just around the corner from Checkpoint Charlie. Its called PUPS and we found it online so you probably will. Its a nice relaxed place & you can buy alcohol there if the mood takes you.

2. The zoo is great.
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Thanks for those, we will get to them

For others -

- only in German

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There is a huge shop about 50 yards away - much better prices
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Can you remember the name by any chance ? TIA
 
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Off to Berlin myself this weekend.

Flying to Schonefeld also. There is a direct s-bahn to my hotel so am gonna use this.

Can someone clarify though if Schonefeld falls within zones ab or will I need a ticket that services zones abc?

Looking at the Berlin Welcome card & Berlin City Tour card, which would you recommend and why? Pretty much the same money & seem to offer the same services?
 
Just read through these posts here and seen quite often the word "city centre" stated. Please guys bare in mind Berlin isn't Dublin and pretty much anything in Berlin can be the "city centre". Are you looking for Alexanderplatz? Potsdamer Platz? Zoologischer Garten? Some people also consider Friedrichshain und Prenzleberg to the city centre. All of these places are considered "city centre" and none of them are right beside each other.

Also, if you can avoid it, don't use taxis over there. They cost a fortune and are mostly stuck in traffic. Berlin has a great public transport system with day tickets from around € 7. This ticket can be used for trains, busses, "luas" type trains etc. for a whole day until 3am the next day. Oh and the zones are quite important but from Schönefeld into the city it's always AB. If you're planning a trip to Potsdam or outskirts of Berlin, that would be C. They have handy little maps for free everywhere in the trains and stations showing you all the stations with zones in different colours :)

Oh and if anyone is going with kids, ill recomment the Tierpark instead of the Zoo - much bigger, much more animals, much nicer - especially in the spring/ summer/ autumn time.

P.S.: I have a 2 year old and Berlin is very do-able with kids ;)
 
alaskaonline said:
Oh and the zones are quite important but from Schönefeld into the city it's always AB. If you're planning a trip to Potsdam or outskirts of Berlin, that would be C. They have handy little maps for free everywhere in the trains and stations showing you all the stations with zones in different colours :)
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Exactly what I wanted to know, thank you :)
 
 
Thanks protocol, just seen that there now that schonefeld has been moved to zone c.
 
I’m just back from Berlin. Schonefeld airport is in zone C. It’s 40 mins from Schonefeld to Alexanderplatz. The ABC zone single journey ticket is 2.80; a 1 day ABC zone daycard is 6.50. The Berlin Welcome card for 3 day 3 zone is 24.50. In the end I didn’t make use of any of the discounts that come with the Welcome card, so I suppose I could have saved a few euro by just buying daycards. So, if you just want easy travel, or intend to do a lot of walking as well as travel you could just get by with daycards. If you are going to Potsdam get the three zone card as it’s also in zone C. Don’t try to travel without a valid ticket, as there are checks everywhere. Also, don’t forget to validate the ticket after you buy it in the machines on the platform.
 
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