| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... 10:38 - Jun 24 with 4233 views | Zx1988 |
...do it!
Amazing city and a very nice stadium. You really won't regret it. |  |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:41 - Jun 24 with 2865 views | BerlinBlue2226 |
Rave the planet? | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:43 - Jun 24 with 2849 views | Pippin1970 |
Im guessing you can pay on the gate. Checked flight prices seem.good too. Any recommendations be great too. Thanks. | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:43 - Jun 24 with 2841 views | Metal_Hacker |
One of my best mates is German and is a UB supporter
Gonna have to try and get to this one for sure. Superb city |  |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:47 - Jun 24 with 2792 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Onion Berlin are one of the nicest clubs in Germany, fan owned and incredibly welcoming. |  |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:57 - Jun 24 with 2699 views | Johnny_Boy |
Tweet of the day 🔥 👏 |  | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:02 - Jun 24 with 2637 views | Freddies_Ears |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:43 - Jun 24 by Pippin1970 |
Im guessing you can pay on the gate. Checked flight prices seem.good too. Any recommendations be great too. Thanks. |
Huge amounts to do, something for every age. This time I might do the Currywurst Museum!
Brandenburg Gate - so hard to imagine how the city was divided for so long. Bits of the Berlin Wall. Checkpoint Charlie purely for tourists, so we'll all go! Museum of the DDR. Fab breweries, bars and nightclubs. Spandau & Potsdam nearby. Countryside on the doorstep. Great shopping, if that's your thing.
Quite a lot about the collapse of the DDR / communism. If your interest is WW2, then research before you go as there is little obvious on the ground. | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:03 - Jun 24 with 2633 views | positivity |
it's a fantastic city, though i'd rather not go there in the peak of summer!
way hotter summers than here. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:05 - Jun 24 with 2624 views | Zx1988 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:57 - Jun 24 by Johnny_Boy |
Tweet of the day 🔥 👏 |
Their English Twitter admin is from Ipswich:
I'm surprised they've only mentioned it on their German feed.
Prices should be decent, despite the tickets being full-price:
Prices will start from €7/€12/€14 plus €3 in fees. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:13 - Jun 24 with 2554 views | BerlinBlue2226 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:05 - Jun 24 by Zx1988 |
Their English Twitter admin is from Ipswich:
I'm surprised they've only mentioned it on their German feed.
Prices should be decent, despite the tickets being full-price:
Prices will start from €7/€12/€14 plus €3 in fees. |
Thanks ZX. I've been waiting for this for 16 years since I moved here. Rave the planet is the same day too, so there's not a better day for it either, if anyone wants to party after. | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:23 - Jun 24 with 2506 views | Zx1988 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:13 - Jun 24 by BerlinBlue2226 |
Thanks ZX. I've been waiting for this for 16 years since I moved here. Rave the planet is the same day too, so there's not a better day for it either, if anyone wants to party after. |
Took me a moment of thinking 'hang on, this link only mentions normal matchday prices' before I twigged that you can watch Union v Bayern for less than the cost of a typical English pre-season friendly.
Nuts, isn't it?! Especially when you consider that a club with a stadium capacity of 22,000, charging these prices, was still able to get Champions League football. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:26 - Jun 24 with 2481 views | Zx1988 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:02 - Jun 24 by Freddies_Ears |
Huge amounts to do, something for every age. This time I might do the Currywurst Museum!
Brandenburg Gate - so hard to imagine how the city was divided for so long. Bits of the Berlin Wall. Checkpoint Charlie purely for tourists, so we'll all go! Museum of the DDR. Fab breweries, bars and nightclubs. Spandau & Potsdam nearby. Countryside on the doorstep. Great shopping, if that's your thing.
Quite a lot about the collapse of the DDR / communism. If your interest is WW2, then research before you go as there is little obvious on the ground. |
If the DDR is your thing, I'd really recommend the state-run museum in Prenzlauer Berg - 'Alltag in der DDR' (daily life in the GDR).
It's free to get in, and presents a much more balanced view of East Germany than did the DDR Museum the last time I visited. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:45 - Jun 24 with 2403 views | Parky |
Never been to Berlin, so looking at doing this and making a weekend of it.
Before booking blind, does anybody have any suggestions on areas/ where to stay? - Just want somewhere with plenty of bars, restaurants, bit of nightlife nearby. (And not to trek across the city for the match, although I’ve read the subway is very easy). | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:48 - Jun 24 with 2400 views | Zx1988 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:45 - Jun 24 by Parky |
Never been to Berlin, so looking at doing this and making a weekend of it.
Before booking blind, does anybody have any suggestions on areas/ where to stay? - Just want somewhere with plenty of bars, restaurants, bit of nightlife nearby. (And not to trek across the city for the match, although I’ve read the subway is very easy). |
If you want to be close to the action, I'd recommend Friedrichshain as the main nightlife district. You'll also be close to the S3 for direct access to Köpenick.
A good alternative is Prenzlauer Berg, which is also lively. The M10 tram will take you from there to Warschauer Straße, where you can pick up the S3.
There are no bad options, though. Public transport is fantastic and, wherever you stay, you'll be within spitting distance of good nightlife and the S3. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:50 - Jun 24 with 2367 views | Parky |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:48 - Jun 24 by Zx1988 |
If you want to be close to the action, I'd recommend Friedrichshain as the main nightlife district. You'll also be close to the S3 for direct access to Köpenick.
A good alternative is Prenzlauer Berg, which is also lively. The M10 tram will take you from there to Warschauer Straße, where you can pick up the S3.
There are no bad options, though. Public transport is fantastic and, wherever you stay, you'll be within spitting distance of good nightlife and the S3. |
Very helpful, thank you! | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:53 - Jun 24 with 2348 views | Zx1988 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:50 - Jun 24 by Parky |
Very helpful, thank you! |
If you've got the time and inclination, I'd recommend doing some research and looking a little further away from the city centre for food.
There are some fantastic diaspora communities in Berlin (Turkish and Asian in particular), and I've had fantastic food in smaller local places outside of the Ringbahn. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:14 - Jun 24 with 2279 views | gainsboroughblue |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 10:47 - Jun 24 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Onion Berlin are one of the nicest clubs in Germany, fan owned and incredibly welcoming. |
Their history is very layered. |  |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:47 - Jun 24 with 2179 views | Guthrum |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:45 - Jun 24 by Parky |
Never been to Berlin, so looking at doing this and making a weekend of it.
Before booking blind, does anybody have any suggestions on areas/ where to stay? - Just want somewhere with plenty of bars, restaurants, bit of nightlife nearby. (And not to trek across the city for the match, although I’ve read the subway is very easy). |
The U-Bahn and S-Bahn are very easy. Went to Berlin last year, stayed in the Ibis on Anhalter Strasse - basic, but comfortable, quite cheap and within walking distance of the city centre (if reasonably mobile), plus close to the transport node at Potsdamer Platz.
Not sure about the nightlife, as we were mainly out in the day seeing the sights. |  |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:49 - Jun 24 with 2162 views | gainsboroughblue |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:47 - Jun 24 by Guthrum |
The U-Bahn and S-Bahn are very easy. Went to Berlin last year, stayed in the Ibis on Anhalter Strasse - basic, but comfortable, quite cheap and within walking distance of the city centre (if reasonably mobile), plus close to the transport node at Potsdamer Platz.
Not sure about the nightlife, as we were mainly out in the day seeing the sights. |
The S-Bahn is (or at least was) walkable from the airport too. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:52 - Jun 24 with 2144 views | noggin |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:14 - Jun 24 by gainsboroughblue |
Their history is very layered. |
That made me cry |  |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:54 - Jun 24 with 2140 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:49 - Jun 24 by gainsboroughblue |
The S-Bahn is (or at least was) walkable from the airport too. |
Still is. 5-10 minutes walk. (Leg length dependant) | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:56 - Jun 24 with 2134 views | Zx1988 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:54 - Jun 24 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Still is. 5-10 minutes walk. (Leg length dependant) |
Not any more - with the new airport it's now directly beneath the terminal. No walk required! | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:59 - Jun 24 with 2115 views | gainsboroughblue |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:56 - Jun 24 by Zx1988 |
Not any more - with the new airport it's now directly beneath the terminal. No walk required! |
Yeah. That's why I said is/was. I thought they had built a new airport but wasn't 100% sure how close to old site it was.
Not been to Berlin since '07. Need to go back really. It was still looking very much a city in transition then. | |
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| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 13:05 - Jun 24 with 2065 views | BerlinBlue2226 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:23 - Jun 24 by Zx1988 |
Took me a moment of thinking 'hang on, this link only mentions normal matchday prices' before I twigged that you can watch Union v Bayern for less than the cost of a typical English pre-season friendly.
Nuts, isn't it?! Especially when you consider that a club with a stadium capacity of 22,000, charging these prices, was still able to get Champions League football. |
When I first moved here, I had a season ticket for both Union and Hertha, and cost half the price of a season ticket for the SBL | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 13:10 - Jun 24 with 2046 views | BerlinBlue2226 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 11:45 - Jun 24 by Parky |
Never been to Berlin, so looking at doing this and making a weekend of it.
Before booking blind, does anybody have any suggestions on areas/ where to stay? - Just want somewhere with plenty of bars, restaurants, bit of nightlife nearby. (And not to trek across the city for the match, although I’ve read the subway is very easy). |
Might be worth looking at places like the intercity hotel, at Hauptbahnhof. There's a direct regional train to and from the airport. You're a few stops from the main areas for food, and nightlife. Also you S3 S-bahn from Hauptbahnhof will get you within 5 minutes walk from the ground. | | | |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 13:27 - Jun 24 with 1984 views | Zx1988 |
| If you can make it to Berlin on 15/08... on 12:59 - Jun 24 by gainsboroughblue |
Yeah. That's why I said is/was. I thought they had built a new airport but wasn't 100% sure how close to old site it was.
Not been to Berlin since '07. Need to go back really. It was still looking very much a city in transition then. |
It's not what it used to be, sadly.
Lots of the homogenous 'European capital city' crap these days. They've built on most of Alexanderplatz, and one of the flagship stores is Primark, for fick sake.
A lot of cultural vandalism going on as well. The rules seem to be that if a former DDR building requires renovation, it's deemed full of asbestos and demolished, whilst old Western buildings get all the attention they need.
There was a lovely Eastern European style stadium up in Prenzlauer Berg that was in good enough nick to host Hertha's European games not so long ago. It was torn down earlier this year.
Still a lot of the old vibe though, especially if you head out to some of the less famous spots. [Post edited 24 Jun 13:31]
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