Top 10 City Tours in Brandenburg, Germany

While you’re in port in Warnemuende, explore the German capital and delve into the country’s World War II history on this private 12-hour Sachsenhausen Memorial and Berlin tour. Visit the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp with a private guide and learn of the role it played during WWII. During your Berlin walking tour, discover attractions such as Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall Memorial, and East Side Gallery, and plan your own itinerary to hit the highlights of most interest. This private tour includes pickup and drop-off at the Warnemuende cruise terminal.

Inclusions: Port pickup and drop-off, Private guide, Transport by air-conditioned minibus

Exclusions: Food and drinks, Gratuities

After just a 25-minute train to Brandenburg State you’ll be in the charming town of Potsdam with one of our Berlin hosts. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it’s littered with fairy-tale palaces and lavish architecture. Visit the rococo Sanssouci Palace, Neuen Garten and the historic Dutch Quarter. Feast like a king or queen on regional cuisine, stop by Studio Baselberg - the oldest in the world and enjoy the amber liquid in a traditional beer garden. Within 24 hours after booking you'll receive a short questionnaire about your personality and interests. Based on your responses, you'll be assigned a like-minded host. Your Host will communicate with you directly to suggest an itinerary to help you discover what makes the city unique. You will also agree on a meeting time and place. Your itinerary is flexible, so during the experience, you can always change your mind about what you want to do.

Inclusions: Private and personalised experience, 8 hours with your host, Return train ticket to Potsdam, Sanssouci Palace entry, Walking experience (other transport can be arranged at an additional cost)

Exclusions: Your food and drinks, Tickets to any attractions, Transportation costs other than the ones included in the experience, Gratuities (optional)

Large parts of the city of Potsdam were once a restricted area - no Potsdamers or visitors had access. Enjoy a private walking tour with a real "Potsdamer". Learn more about the fascinating Soviet secrets of Potsdam. Hear about the Allies’ Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945, the KGB activities in Soviet Potsdam, the life in the Forbidden City and the world-famous Bridge of Spies.

Inclusions: Local guide, Professional guide, Private tour

Exclusions: Transportation to/from attractions

On this tour you travel to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp from Berlin with your licensed-guide. Once there there you spend around around 3 hours at the camp itself. Once there we will discuss how and when Sachsenhausen, and the concentration camp system itself came into being, how it developed, who was imprisoned there and for what and attempt to really contextualize what occurred at the site, with regard to the Nazi Dictatorship and the Second World War. Sites within the camp itself that we will visit/enter inc. Tower A, the infirmary building, Pathology building, Station Z (the execution facility), former camp kitchen and barrack blocks. After 3 hours or so your guide will accompany you back to Berlin.

Inclusions: A Professional Guide, Licensed and trained by the Camp's Memorial Foundation

Exclusions: Public Transport Tickets

This Potsdam tour is a day excursion from Berlin and we will see the unmissable highlights. We will cover everything from Frederick The Great’s flute to the exchange of Francis Gary Powers the American Spy pilot at the “Bridge of Spies”. Birchy’s Berlin Royal Potsdam Tour Starting at the Old Market the next stop is the Glienecke Brucke, more commonly known as the ‘Bridge of Spies’. From there to the first of the Royal Parks, Frederick Wilhelm II’s New Garden. This is home to not just the Marble Palace but also and the Schloss Cecilianhoff, the site of the Potsdam Conference. After a stroll through the Old Town, and literally through the other Brandenburg Gate it is onto the jewel in Potsdam’s crown, Frederick the Great’s Park San Soucci. Once there we will pick out the highlights from the many palaces, residences and buildings present there.  Our Birchy’s Berlin Potsdam Tour will visit: potsdam tour from birchys berlin The Old Market Gleinecke Brücke (Bridge of Spies) New Garden, Marmorpalais and Scloss Ceceilenhof (site of the Potsdam Conference) The Dutch Quarter (Holländisches Viertel) Park San Soucci This is a Walking Tour Pickups are on foot 

Inclusions: Expert Tour Guide 

Exclusions: ABC Travel Ticket for S-Bahn, Bus fare, Food and drinks

Berlin Sachsenhausen Tour: Join us for an in-depth one of a kind visit to Sachsenhausen! This is the Birchy’s Berlin’s Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Tour. Concentration camps were a key instrument in the Nazis regime of terror, and the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was unique. The camp was the first purpose-built concentration camp within the Third Reich and the closest one to Berlin. It is also one of the most visited World War Two concentration camps in the world. This tour is a complete visit to the memorial camp. The tour starts in Berlin City Center, where you will meet your guide, Aaron. After that we take a short train ride out to the Sachsenhausen Camp Memorial. Aaron has held an Official Certified Sachsenhausen Tour Guide License for many years and has partaken in numerous courses as well as trained other Berlin Guides. His experience and one of a kind historical knowledge of Sachsenhausen makes this tour like no other! 

Inclusions: Entry or admission fee, Expert Licensed Tour Guide 

Exclusions: Food and drinks

Your guide and driver Holger was born in Potsdam. He offers an authentic insight in the history of Potsdam. The former Prussian residential town became one of the focal points in the Cold War. The Potsdam Conference from 1945 paved the way for the Cold War. Potsdam was one of the most important Soviet bases in the GDR. The bridge of spies connecting Potsdam with West Berlin was a symbol for the seperation of Germany.

Inclusions: Taste a Soviet style soft drink

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The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour visits a site of massive historical importance with an qualified and experienced guide. As with all of our tours we attempt to illuminate the whys, hows, whens and put what you see at the site in its proper contex

Inclusions: Entry/Admission - Gedenkstatte und Museum Sachsenhausen

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Tour Sachsenhausen, one of the first concentration camps established by the Third Reich, on a full-day trip from Berlin. Licensed guides trained by Memorial authority provide important facts about the prison cells, laboratories, and gas chambers that you see at Sachsenhausen, which today serves as a national memorial to the prisoners who lived and died there. For every ticket sold we donate €2 towards the upkeep and future restoration of the former concentration camp

Inclusions: Licensed guide trained by memorial authority, Remuneration to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial, Pickup and drop off from the centre of Berlin by your guide

Exclusions: Hotel pickup and drop-off, Train ticket (you will need a Berlin Transport ABC Zone ticket costing approximately 7 euros), Gratuities, Food and drinks

Head north of Berlin for a tour into the past at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, one of the main concentration camps in Nazi Germany. While you explore the memorial site with a guide, you'll learn the history of the camp and those imprisoned here, providing an essential background to Germany's past and present.

Inclusions: Local guide, City map, including information regarding public transport and the best of Berlin's museums and nightlife

Exclusions: Gratuities, Food and drinks, unless specified, Berlin Transport ABC Zone ticket (approx 3.30 Euros each way) that is available from your guide on the day