Berlin Highlights
Berlin
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2-6 hours
Overview
Let’s visit Berlin's “must see” sights, but more importantly, let’s bring them to life with their incredible, fascinating and sometimes surprising stories. Highlights include the Brandenburg Gate, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, site of Hitler’s bunker, the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Museum Island and many more. East Side Gallery tours also available. Please note that Berlin Highlights tours are usually by foot but I can also book vehicles or bicycles on request.
I tailor the specifics of my tours to the guests. Either we meet either at your accommodation or at our first site. We then travel through the sights together. Sometimes we have a brief break at a cafe (snacks not included), based on your needs.
Guide
- Transportation
- Entrance fees
- Snacks/drinks
Mason Hill
August 6, 2024
I cannot even begin to tell you how amazing Tina's tours are. I've been to Berlin multiple times and come from grandparents who survived WWII, so I am very familiar with WWII history and Berlin's dynamic and intense past as I still have family that live in the city. However, Tina was able to bring new and interesting dimensions to the 2 tours I went on with her. The first tour was a general "Best of Berlin" type of tour highlighting different dimensions of WWII, Cold War, and modern history. This tour was a 10/10 that intertwined historical fact with human story. I often find that tours including such brutal records oftentimes feel detached because they don't get personal with anecdotes from the people who survived and died during that period. Tina changes this by telling personal stories from multiple different perspectives and backgrounds that gives tremendous insight into the human condition through turmoil - both the good and the bad of humanity.
This tour was so good that my friend and I decided to change our plans for the following day to join Tina's extermination camp tour of Sachsenhausen. I've been to Auschwitz in Poland and found it overwhelming, but so detached from the horrors that happened there. Most of that detachment was because of the lack of personal stories. Again, Tina brought that element into this tour in the most beautiful and caring way. Even though it is incredibly heavy material for a tour, Tina's intentionality with what she highlights, passion and description for history through the lens of human psychology, and respect for the lives taken too soon made this tour a perfect balance between the weight of tragedy and uplifting respect and forewarning to prevent this from happening again. I rarely write Google reviews but Tina is the best tour guide I've ever come across in the 70+ countries I've visited. Truly a gem and everything you'd want in a guide. 11/10 would recommend.
Ben Thurtell
August 6, 2024
Highly recommend a tour with Tina! We did the ‘Berlin highlights’ at the start of of Europe trip and we still all speak of it higher than any other tour guides or tours in other cities. Tina’s enthusiasm for Berlin is contagious and she does a fantastic job at speaking of it’s fascinating history. Thanks Tina.