Stewart and Lee,
Please let me know if you are still interested after reading this detailed reply from the tour company. I found their name on the "other board" and they came well recommended.
thank you for your inquiry. Since we are well experienced with guests coming
on a cruise ship to Rostock or Warnemünde and visiting Berlin we would like
to give you some first general information.
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We inform a local transportation company in Rostock or Warnemünde resp. that
a van with driver shall wait at the port for you, taking you to Berlin where
you will meet our guide for the sightseeing tour and to return you to the
ship afterwards.
With us you book an english-speaking guide for a 5 to 6 hour sightseeing
tour in Berlin. Since this is an individual tour you may stop whereever you
want to take photos or for more in-depth explanations of the guide. At the
end of this e-mail please find some first information about what to see on
that day in Berlin.
Total time time for driving and sightseeing is about 11 - 12 hours. Total
cost for the entire group of up to 6 people are Euro 650 including all
taxes. Payment: Euro 290 to the guide at the end of the sightseeing tour in
Berlin. Euro 360 to the driver after return to the ship. Payment in Euro and
in cash only please. If you would like to expand the tour there is an
additonal fee of Euro 20 per hour each for the guide and driver.
Please inform us about the arrival date / time and the name of the ship to
forward this information to the transportation company.
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If you need any other advice or if you have any particular interests, please
do not hesitate to contact us. Otherwise we may just fix the date, time and
meeting point.
Hope to hear from you - and we would be glad to show you our interesting
city!
Best greetings from Berlin!
Peter Weiss
BERLIN STARTING POINT
Bergmannstrasse 104
10961 Berlin
Phone +49-30-62 72 1303
Fax +49-30-62 72 1304
info@berlin-starting-point.de
www.information-berlin.de WHAT TO SEE:
General Sightseeing
Brandenburg Gate * Reichstag Building * Museum Island
Discover the most interesting sights of Berlin and see how the capital of
Germany is heading into the future. See: Brandenburg Gate - Reichstag
Building
- the new Federal Chancellery - East-Side-Gallery (longest remaining strip
of the wall and open-air-gallery) - Museum Island including the Pergamon
Museum - Berlin Cathedral - US and British Embassy - Memorial Church -
Potsdamer Platz - and much more...
History
The Berlin Wall * Checkpoint Charlie * Third Reich * Imperial Berlin
Visit those places where history happened and learn more about Berlin’s
eventful past. See: Remaining stretch of the Wall - Checkpoint Charlie -
Sites of the Third Reich, such as the former site of the Secret State Police
headquarter - Soviet War Memorial - Prussian architecture in Berlin’s
historical city center - site of Berlin Airlift - and much more...
Jewish Berlin (if requested)
New Synagogue - Jewish Museum - Historical Jewish Sites
Learn more about the Jewish history of Berlin and Jewish life in Berlin of
today. See: The New Synagogue - the new Jewish Museum - Memorial to Murdered
Jews of Europe - former site of the Old Synagogue - and much more... - a
visit to the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen can be arranged upon
request
I would like to get a firm commitment from 4 people to go ahead and book this tour. I do think it will be a great one!
Cheers, Pam
