BERLIN TRAVEL GUIDE

Berlin Travel Guide
brochures on Berlin. A telephone hotline gives
information about all current events.
➤ Berlin Tourismus Marketing GmbH Am Karlsbad 11
• Map E4 • (030) 25 00 25, Fax (030) 25 00 24 24 •
www.berlin.de
➤ Europa-Center Budapester Str. • Map K3 •
8:30am–8:30pm Mon–Sat, 10am– 6:30pm Sun
➤ Brandenburger Tor • 9:30am–6:30pm daily.
➤ Flughafen Tegel • 5am–10:30pm daily
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Berlin’s State Museums
Detailed up-to-date information on the state
museums and all the establishments on Museumsinsel
can be obtained from a bilingual phoneline. Here you will
also find out about the current programme of events –
for example about the “long night of the museums”.
➤ (030) 20 90 55 55
3 Sanssouci
The visitors’ advice service for the palaces and
gardens of Potsdam and Sanssouci supplies accurate
information and tips as well as guided tours and more
via their own telephone service.
➤ (0331) 969 42 02
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Potsdam Information
Potsdam has its own tourist information service,
offering brochures, an accommodation service and
guided tours.
➤ Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 5 • Apr–Oct: 9am–8pm Mon– Fri,
9am–6pm Sat, Sun; Nov– Mar: 10am–6pm Mon–Fri,
10am–2pm Sat, Sun • Tel (0331) 275 580, Fax (0331)
275 58 29
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Where to Stay
The Berlin Tourismus Marketing GmbH (BTM) has
a telephone hotline which will help reserve a room (for
a fee). Several offices also arrange private
accommodation, where visitors book into shared
apartments for a period of several days or weeks.
➤ Tel (030) 25 00 25, Fax (030) 264 748 926 • From
abroad: 0049 1805 754 040
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What’s On
There are two fortnightly city magazines with
detailed information on all kinds of events – tip and zitty
. The monthly Berlin-Programm with detailed events
listings is also worth consulting. For younger readers,
the magazines prinz , and 030 contain information on
nightclubs and bars. Daily newspapers such as
Tagesspiegel , Berliner Zeitung and Berliner Morgenpost
usually publish listings of cultural events on Wednesdays
and Thursdays respectively, while tips and reviews can
be found in the papers every day.
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Radio Stations
For radio news in English, you can tune into
Inforadio (93.1 MHz), the BBC World Service (90.2 MHz)
or the multi-lingual SFB 4 Multikulti (106.8 MHz).
8 Television
In addition to the national TV stations, the RBB
offers a regional programme; tv berlin, a private TV
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station, also broadcasts information on what’s on. Thanks
to cable and satellite you can also easily tune into English
programmes.
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Advice for Foreign Nationals
This Senate Office, which deals with the concerns
of foreign nationals who live in Berlin, is also a good point
of advice for foreign visitors.
➤ Potsdamer Str. 65 • Map E5 • 9am–1pm Mon–Fri
except Wed, plus 2–6pm Thu • (030) 90 17 23 72
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Advice for Gay Visitors
Advice and information for gay and lesbian visitors
is always available at Mann-o-Meter (see Gay & Lesbian
Attractions) .
➤ Bülowstr. 106 • 5–10pm Mon–Fri, 4–10pm Sat, Sun
• (030) 216 80 08
Berlin for Disabled Visitors
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Streets and Pavements
Nearly all pavements in Berlin are sloped at junctions
to make them suitable for wheelchair users. However
visitors in wheelchairs will need to watch out for cyclists
using the red cycle tracks, often in both directions.
2 Stations
Most underground stations in the centre, including
those that are actually above ground in high-level stations
on viaducts, are equipped with lifts, giving wheelchair
users easy access from the road to the platform.
➤ BVG service for disabled access to stations (030) 25
62 20 96
➤ S-Bahn service for disabled access to stations (030)
29 74 33 33
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U- and S-Bahn
Underground trains are accessible to wheelchair
users although they are a little narrow. If you wish to
travel by U-Bahn, wait at the head of the platform. After
the train has stopped, the driver will put up a ramp to
bridge the difference in height between platform and
train. If you wish to travel by S-Bahn, speak to the station
manager before the arrival of the train; he or she will
install the ramp you need to board the train.
➤ Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe around the clock • (030)
194 49
➤ Deutsche Bahn Berlin around the clock • (030) 20 45
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4 Buses
All buses displaying a wheelchair symbol are
specially equipped for disabled access; most buses in
the centre have one door with a ramp that can be
lowered down to the pavement. At certain times,
however, these buses run only at 20-minute intervals.
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Cars Services and Guided Tours
Disabled visitors wishing to explore Berlin and
Brandenburg province on their own by car, or to share a
car with driver with other disabled visitors, can contact
several specialist travel agents.
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Getting there