My cruise ship is going to dock at Warnemuende for 1 day in May and I would like to go to Pergamon Museum. May I know what is the easiest way to get there and how much will it be and how long would it take. I can%26#39;t read German so their website can%26#39;t help me much. Thanks
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This is actually too far from Warnemünde to make this a worthwhile trip.
DB timetable
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
From: [Station/Stop] Warnemuende
To: [POI] Pergamonmuseum
Keep the default (first entry) of the Warnemünde drop down list on the 2nd page.
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I was just in Berlin (lived there years ago post-WWII) and really wanted to visit the Pergamon Museum as part of my stroll around Museum Island and beyond (Alexandeerplatx, the former Karl-Marx-Allee,etc). The wait to entry into the Pergamon would have eaten up a lot of my day. There are many groups from buses there, so I assume they have pre-arranged entry times.
I agree that it probably wouldn%26#39;t be possible to go the distance from Warnemuend to Berlin and additionally go into this very popular museum all in one day. I%26#39;d suggest, if you really want to see Berlin in just one day, to take one of the day trip tours which can be pre-arranged prior to your ship%26#39;s docking. There is a lot of good info on TA, which you might have already looked at. Soemday I will return to Berlin anjd pre-arrange a museum trip. Maybe you can find a way to that, but I haven%26#39;t heard of a day trip that would focus only on the Museum Island.
I%26#39;m going to be on the Oceania Regatta on a Baltic cruise out of London in July, and I know some passengers will be taking the day trip to Berlin. Looking at the excursions possible as sponsored by the ship or independent tours, you would mainly see the main sights of Berlin, but with little or no chance of going in any of them. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but won%26#39;t include a museum stop, entry into the Reichstag, etc. but if you have no other opportunity to see this city, and the tour guide is a good narrator who can point out the past andpresent Berlin, then it might be worth it if that is your primary goal for that day.
Actually, IMHO, your time would be better spent in the area around Warnemuende, such as Rostock and Luebeck. There is a lot to learn about the former East Germany (DDR) in the areas outside Berlin.
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Thank you so very much for your advice. I went to Berlin last year but Pergamon Museum was closed so I want to go there this time since my ship will dock in Warnemuende anyway for 1 day. The ship does provide excursion tour to Berlin including the Museum island, but I only want to concentrate on Pergamon as I have been to other sight seeing places already. If the cost is US$ 399 including train ride, lunch and admission to Pergamon, is it a good deal already? I was thinking if I can just take any transportation and get there ourselves, spend a whole day in the museum, then come back to the ship, that will be nice - less expensive and more focus rather than going to places I have been already and only spend very little time in the museum. But judging from the comments it seems like I would be lucky to get into the museum during this brief 1 day trip and I should not waste time to look for public transportation and individual admissions into the museum. Thank you all for the advices.
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If you can get a tour from your ship for the train ride AND admission to the Pergamon, then go for it! I%26#39;d be tempted to do the same this summer from Warnemuende, but I have never seen northern Germany and my SO isn%26#39;t interested in a train ride to Berlin.
My five days in Berlin this April were partially spent visiting places where I lived in the 60%26#39;s in the former West Berlin, and seeing parts of East Berlin that I hadn%26#39;t able to visit way back when. I had never been able to go the Musem Island during DDR times and now I%26#39;m mad at myself that I didn%26#39;t plan on a day tour of the museums. I didn%26#39;t think it would be so crowded be in early Spring. I was wrong. Luckily, it is quite close to Mitte with all its sights.
BTW I skipped Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrich Strasse and Potsdamer Platz because I have vivid memories of how they once looked, and did%26#39;t want to erase them. It was amazing enough to walk in to the former East sector through Brandenburger Tor and see a Starbucks and a Dunkin%26#39; Donuts, right behind it. I wish they could be replaced with something more evocative of Berliner Luft (Berlin Air). but that%26#39;s capitalism, I guess...
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We just returned from a Baltic cruise, with a stop in Warnemunde. We booked a day excursion to Berlin with SPB Tours and the price was a lot cheaper than offered by the cruise ship. The drive was 3 hours each way, but still gave us about 6 hours to see Berlin. It was definitely worth our while, despite the long bus ride. There were a few people on the bus who just took the ride with us into Berlin, without doing the whole tour. A couple was dropped off in Museum Island so they could visit the Pergamon Museum. They were then picked up on our way back to the ship. If that%26#39;s what you want to do, email Viktoris of SPB Tours and I%26#39;m sure she could accommodate you.
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%26gt;If the cost is US$ 399 including train ride, lunch and admission to Pergamon, is it a good deal already?
If it is per person it sounds like the biggest rip-off I can imagine. Even the full fare ticket to Belrin and back costs about 70 €, plus a small fee for the Pergamon entrance.
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Please note that the OP, and my replies, date from April 2008. I did arrive by cruise ship in Warnemuende in July 2008, and took the train to Schwerin and other small cities nearby, with castles and historic centers. Schwerin is very interesting, with a beautiful castle, many lakes, and interesting historic private homes. Its history has connections with Peter the Great, so it makes a good forerunner to the visit to St. Petersburg.
The more recent post regarding STP tours sounds like the best way to get to Berlin other than on your own, if that%26#39;s really one%26#39;s goal. Other trips could be to Luebeck, with an attractive historic center.
I think there%26#39;s a lot to see in this part of the former DDR (East Germany) other than Berlin, which dserves more than a quick tour. It has a long and varied history and a drive through doesn%26#39;t reveal this.
I would have liked to visit other sights in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region and learn more about it. The beaches are well worth a visit, too, in good weather.
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First of all, I live on the German-Polish border and go to Berlin at least once a month. I completely agree with Altamirano that the $399 for that shore excursion is vastly overpriced like most of the shore excursions offered by the cruise ships. I think you can do better on your own for sightseeing in the ports than by taking the organized shore excursions. They tend to put everyone on buses and herd people around like cows.
The day I went to the Pergammon Museum I went early and the line wasn%26#39;t too long, but when I came out, the line was all the way out to the street, which is a long way from the ticket window.
Other postings on this topic mentioned Stralsund and Rostock for excursions on your own and certainly from the standpoint of distance these would be preferable and both sound very interesting.
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