Berlin Hop-On Hop-Off Bus and boat options | La Vacanza Travel

Berlin Hop-On Hop-Off Bus and boat options

Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Destination: Germany, Berlin, Berlin
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  • 60 to 90 minutes
  • Berlin
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Discover the exciting city of Berlin from the roof of a double-decker bus! The extensive routes covers the must see landmarks, making the tours an ideal overview of the city.

City Sightseeing Berlin operates 2 routes in the city. The Classic Tour (Route A) and the Trendy East Berlin & The Wall Tour (Route B). Pick your favourite, or both, and start exploring!

If you stay on board for the whole route of the Classic Tour, it will take you around 2 hours, while the Trendy East Berlin & The Wall Tour takes around 1 hour to complete in full. On board the buses of both tours you will have free access to WiFi and you can listen to an audio guide with information about the city.

Choose how long you want to use the Hop on Hop off buses, 24 hours, 48 hours or 72 hours. The time starts when you first board the bus.

What Can You Expect?

Itinerary

Classic Tour

Route Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stops on the Classic Tour:
  • Tauentzienstraße
  • KaDeWe - Kaufhaus des Westens
  • Lützowplatz
  • Potsdamer Platz
  • Martin-Gropius-Bau
  • Checkpoint Charlie
  • Gendarmenmarkt
  • Rotes Rathaus
  • Alexanderplatz
  • Lustgarten
  • Unter den Linden
  • Brandenburg Gate
  • Reichstag Building
  • Berlin Central Train Station
  • Bellevue Palace
  • Victory Column
  • Berlin Zoological Garden
  • Kurfürstendamm
Attractions on the Classic Tour:

Reichstag Building / Brandenburg Gate / Museum Island / Potsdamer Platz / Unter den Linden / Kurfurstendamm / Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) / Berliner Dom / Friedrichstrasse / Gendarmenmarkt / Gropius Bau / Alexanderplatz / Zoo Berlin / Victory Column (Siegessaule) / The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe / Checkpoint Charlie / Rotes Rathaus / Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Tauentzienstrasse

Operates: 9:30am - 5:00pm Frequency of departures: every 20 minutes Last departure for full tour from stop 1 is at 4:00pm

Trendy East Berlin & The Wall Tour

Route Duration: 1 hour

Stops on the Trendy East Berlin & The Wall Tour:
  • Rotes Rathaus
  • Oranienburger Straße
  • Berlin Wall Memorial
  • Mauerpark
  • Alexanderplatz
  • Karl-Marx-Allee
  • East Side Gallery
  • Ostbahnhof
Attractions on the Trendy East Berlin & The Wall Tour:

Memorial of the Berlin Wall

Operates: 9:30am - 5:00pm Frequency of departures: every 20 minutes Last departure for full tour from stop 1 is at 4:00pm

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Hop-on hop-off tour
  • Audio guide available in at least 13 languages
  • Free earphones which you can keep and reuse when you hop-on again
  • WiFi on board

Exclusions

    Additional Info

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Children must be accompanied by an adult
    • Children up to and including 5 years old are free of charge (not occupying a seat)
    • Stroller accessible
    • The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
    • Near public transportation
    • Infants must sit on laps
    • Transportation is wheelchair accessible
    • Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Most travelers can participate
    • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

    Departure Point

    Departure Point

    You may start this tour at any of the stops listed.


    Departure Time

    09:30 AM


    Return Details

    You may disembark at any of the available stops.

    Duration & Voucher Info

    Voucher info

    You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

    Duration

    60 to 90 minutes

    Cancellation Policy

    User's Reviews

    NorthStar694318

    21 Apr, 2024

    My fiancé and I just did the 48 hr HO/HO bus in Berlin (no cruise, just bus) and it was awful. We’ve done many of these buses all over the world, with other companies and many times with City Sightseeing, and never had any issues. Which is why we were surprised by how bad this one was. The Pros: - The stop locations are in good places. You can see a lot of the main attractions with just a short walk. - Buses are warm, which was nice in the cold weather. The Cons: - The main red loop say takes its approx 2 hours to complete. However, it takes well over 3 hours to do a full lap. Same with the other loop. Significantly more than it says it will. Not because of traffic or weather, but because at every few stops the driver takes anywhere between a 10 to 20 minute break. Such a waste of time. You could probably walk it quicker. We like to do one full lap and decide which stops to get on/off on the next lap. But this isn’t possible as it takes so long to complete. Unless you’re getting on at the first few stops it could be after 10am before you even board and the buses stop at 6pm (so whatever stop you’re closest to at this time the bus terminates there). It sounds like a long time but once you factor in actually getting off and seeing the attractions and waiting for the next bus (see points below). It’s not a lot of time, especially if you only have a few days in the city. - They make a huge deal about not standing up whilst the bus is in motion (understandable, safety first and this isn’t the issue). On a few occasions, we were on the top deck, and as soon as the bus stopped we stood up and walked down, and by the time we’d get to the bottom of the stairs the driver had already pulled away to move on to the next stop and when we spoke up and said we were getting off it was as if it was an inconvenience for them to stop. So you either get 10 seconds to get off or 20 minutes. No in between. - The commentary wasn’t the best either. There wasn’t a lot, mostly music (compared to other tours we’ve taken) and when the commentator was talking it was so out of sync to where the bus actually was, so it was very confusing. We also found that the information wasn’t always the same. As we went on 2 different days, both days pointed out different things. - The bus drivers announced everything in German (bus stops, and every time there was a break. Which was a lot). We understand being in Germany, this is the national language. But if you’re a tourist, which most people are, you have no idea what they’re saying. Might be an idea to have announcements come through the headsets in the customers language. - Other companies give you a rough time table (obviously subject to change with traffic, weather etc), but all you’re given for this bus is a start time of 9:30am from stop 1 and the bus comes every half hour or so to each stop. But if you don’t know roughly how long between each stop or when the first one comes to each stop you spend more time waiting around. Over half our days were spent waiting as you didn’t want to miss it and have to wait for the next one (again, see above about all the breaks). - Stop locations aren’t always the same as what the maps say or aren’t very clear. There is no signage of where the bus stops (this may be a city thing as we didn’t notice any for other companies). But it does make it hard to work out where to hail the bus. - The route the bus takes also changes. Although it stops at the right stops, the route it takes to get there changed on a few occasions. No communications about it on the website and if the driver did communicate it we didn’t understand it as it was in German. I know this isn’t a huge problem, but if you wanted to drive past something in particular you might not. Also meant the commentary didn’t match. There were a few other minor things, but we can attribute them to other factors and not necessarily City Sightseeing so I won’t mention them to keep it honest. Overall, we wouldn’t do this tour with them again. We would with another company however.

    Hayley_C

    01 Mar, 2024

    Good tour to do while in Berlin. Bus takes you to all the main sites. I would maybe try another company next time only cause we saw 'The Big Bus' tour company buses on the road a lot more.

    ruddella16

    29 Sep, 2023

    The bus ride was a great way to see the city and listen to someone tell us about all the highlights of what we were seeing. Super easy to hop on and off. The boat tour was nice but we didn’t understand anything said since it wasn’t in English…but it was still a nice ride.

    Pauline_G

    18 Sep, 2023

    Long bus trip because of all the sights and history. Definitely worth it! Easy to find. Lots of guides available to assist

    PetraS896

    03 Sep, 2023

    We chose this particular operator because we've had great experiences with their tours in other cities around the world. However, this one, in Berlin, was a disappointment. While a hop-on-hop-off tour is a great way to get an overall view of the sights in Berlin, I would not recommend this operator. It started with the ticket salesman at stop no 1 attempting to give us the incorrect change (for one ticket 10 Euro short), or perhaps he genuinely cant subtract 30 from 50 Euros :-( But what we really found most irritating were the long waiting periods for the next bus at the various hop-offs, compared to the other operators. We were told the busses run every 20 minutes, however the real waiting times were much longer. You couldnt miss that other hop-on-hop-off operators run far more busses than this one. While we were waiting for our next bus at various stops, 2 or 3 busses (each) of competing operators dropped and picked up their passengers. At one stop we were waiting 45 minutes for our bus while 3 and 5 busses of two other operators came by.

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    Good tour to see Berlin

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    It done the job! Boat cruise good deal.

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    Good for getting to know where to visit , but not if it’s raining

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