Hedonists Guide To Berlin

This book is a great book to stick in your pocket for a trip to Berlin. It has recommendations on where to sleep, eat, drink, party, shop and what are the best places to see like the opera, theater, ballet and concert venues. The book contains beautiful photos of many of the locations that are recommended. The book is broken down into easy to use sections so the traveler can easily find what they need to know in a hurry. With this book, the traveler can easily find out where to go, and how much they can expect to spend while there.
All visitors to Berlin need a place to stay and this book lists forty hotels. The style of each hotel is described, along with its atmosphere and exactly where it is located. The book also gives the reader an idea of how much money they can expect to spend when staying there.
All visitors to Berlin will need a place to eat. Depending on the visitor’s mood, they may feel like different cuisines, and this book will tell you where to go to find each one. The book also describes the type of service available and the restaurant’s atmosphere. The book also gives the reader, the idea of how much money they can expect to spend when dining at each location.
Many people love to go to Berlin to shop and this book will give the reader an idea of where to go to buy anything they are looking for. The reader will also find where the great little boutiques are located that might be missed by the normal visitor. The book also gives the location of great markets, where the visitor can get the best bargains.
After all the shopping, many people enjoy a night on the town. This book also lists many recommendations for nightclubs, and where to go do some gambling. This book also lists the best in music facilities, including jazz clubs.
The book also lists tourist tips on seeing the historical attractions. By following its information, the tourists can save money and travel with ease.

Berlin: A Time Capsule of History and Art

Berlin, a city once divided by the Cold War, has emerged as a city rich in heritage and culture. Boasting over 150 museums, it is the ideal place for a trip to experience the art and history of Europe. There are various museums in the city that will surely feed the minds of the curious travelers thirsting for knowledge.

Admissions for most large museums range from €6 to €8, valid for a day ticket to museums in the city, excluding special exhibitions. Discounts are also available for students and people with disabilities with the appropriate identification cards. To save on museum tickets, Berlin also offers a three-day pass called ‘Museumspass’ or SchauLUST-MuseenBERLIN for €19. Tickets are available for purchasing at any participating museum or at the Berlin Tourismus Marketing offices. However, one thing to note is that most museums are generally closed on Mondays.

A trip down to the city’s archive will give you a rundown of what Berlin has to offer. The Museumsinsel (Museum Island), widely known for its vast Pergamon-Museum, shelters a broad compilation of ancient Greek, Middle-Eastern and Islamic relics on art and architecture. The Museum Island has other museums under its wing such as the Altes Museum, which houses an Egyptian antique collection, and the Alte Nationalgalerie, which has 19th century German paintings on display. Finally, there is the Bode-Museum, a storehouse of Byzantine sculptures.

Another museum of note is the Berlinische Galerie, the city museum concentrating on modern art, architecture and design which is open from Wednesday to Monday 10am to 6pm (closed on Tuesday). Current exhibitions featured this year are Bernard Frize, Angela Bulloch and Art In Berlin: Fine Arts, Photography, Architecture and Artists’ Archives.

For those of Jewish descent or interested in Jewish history, the Jüdisches Museum is a site of interest. A comprehensive history of the Jews in Germany is here, will satisfy your thirst for knowledge of the Jewish experience. This museum also has an impressive display of modern architecture by Libeskind.

Traditional art lovers will enjoy the Gemäldegalerie, a museum that showcases a handful of 13th to 18th century European paintings by artists like Caravaggio, Tizian, Raffael, Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens. Another art museum of interest is the Neue Nationalgalerie, which houses 20th century art with many special visiting exhibitions. Contemporary lovers will feast their eyes on this visual buffet.

Tourists who are interested to see ancient relics and remnants of the lost world should experience the Museum für Naturkunde. This natural science museum displays a massive display of dinosaur skeletons, fossils and minerals, having been reopened after its 2007 restoration. Ethnological Museum is another charmer on the list of places to see. Located in Dahlem, it is one of the most extensive museums in the world and is a sight to behold for its majestic assemblage of Pre-Columbian archaeology.

From art to archaeology, Berlin is a perfect place for tourists, catering to museum lovers of all interests. There, art lovers and historians will witness many wonders of history and culture. It is a city not to be missed on one's travels.

Europe Travel Guide

From A to Zed, Frommer's Europe guide has got you taken care of - particularly if you don't quite know where to start in embarking upon a journey to the Peninsula of Peninsulas.

Whether backpacking or luxuriating - or a mix of both - this guide can be both compass, as well as offline Google for: Things To Do in Europe.

Here's a bird's eye view (a Frommer's Europe view, if you will) of the great and could-be-better points:

Pros:
- Lodging options galore, with budget ranges to avoid any obnoxious "if you have to ask..." comments

- For each highlighted site, listings of Must-Sees

- Budget your most valuable resource: Time; Whether a few days or a few weeks in a particular place, get an efficient mapping out of the best way to see what you'll want to see according to a neat little timeframe

- Tips on what will please most your senses: taking in the arts, good eats, good sounds (music), and even how to most effectively get around

- Impress the locals (everyone loves a sycophant) or just wow yourself and/or family with the background information on your destination. Yep, that's in there too

Unpros:
- Little jewels like Poland and Normandy, among a few others, are nowhere to be found, leaving that "I paid how much for this meal, and I'm STILL hungry" feeling

- Rather bland in read-worthy content presentation, making it somewhat difficult to not want to just ditch the book and experience some kind of excitement, even if only the thrill of discovering the country/city/town yourself

- Perhaps only for those interested in seeing the major cities/capitals...Europe newbies, if you will

- Although providing options for various budgets, this guide does not provide options for those on a starving student/shoestring budget


Can't quite call this the Bible of European travel, as it's more a zoomed out version of Europe, and will likely be most useful for those that enjoy that view (i.e., visitors to more "touristy" sites - or, more appropriately: Main Attractions).

For those that enjoy channelling their inner Christopher Columbus and travelling off the beaten path, it may be a more satisfying experience to use a region-specific guide for the desired region.

That being said, there's 1,000+ pages full of little (and BIG) goodies one's not likely to have even thought of trying without Frommer's thorough guidance.

Getting to Berlin

The Cold War had witnessed the division of Berlin into two parts. This actually bifurcated many important venues such as airports. The span of the airports spread both on the east and the west side. Basically the major challenge was to integrate the previously sundered systems into one single whole that actually contributes towards serving people in the metropolitan Berlin area. As for the prospect of getting to Berlin, one can always opt out for the air route. The city has two airports. The name of the first airport is Tegel International Airport and the name of the second airport is Schonefeld airport. The former has its location in the north-western clime of the city. Basically it is meant for flag carriers such as Lufthansa, British Airways and so on and so forth. There is a center for domestic flights also, where two terminals are built for the Air Berlin flights. As for the other airport it serves the capital of GDR, which is the southeast of Berlin and is meant for the low-cost airlines such as easyJet, Ryanair and Germanwings. Also traffic from Eastern Europe such as charter flights land from Eastern Europe.

Then there are regional trains as well for those who want to come to the city by train. And then there are those people who want to take a trip by road. For such people there are buses that operate between the railway station and the terminal buildings. As for the S-bahn trains that take people to the center of Berlin.

However renovations are taking place at the Ostkreuz station and this has put a surcease to the carriage of services at the station. Of course there are those faster trains that cost the same yet their schedule is somewhat not very regular. But the plus point is such trains stop at all the major train stations. Also a third airport is being built that is known as the Berlin Brandenburg Airport. It is supposed to have its inauguration on the third of June next year after which the Tegel airport is to shut down. All in all, getting to Berlin has a huge array of options to choose from, whichever way anyone would want to reach the city and enjoy its surroundings.