Join best-selling author Rory MacLean in Berlin with 3(for2) self-guided tours

20 min – 2 h 30 min Private tour

Join best-selling author Rory MacLean in Berlin with 3(for2) self-guided tours, photo 2 — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

About this activity

Discover Berlin's grandest boulevard, Tom Cruise's favourite sausage stand, Museum Island, the Reichstag, and the Jewish Memorial at your own pace with a self-guided GPS audio tour. Explore parts of the city you'd only heard of in the movies and history books with three audio tours by best-selling author Rory MacLean (Berlin: Imagine a City, Stalin's Nose, and Pravda Ha Ha).

Rory has known three Berlins: West Berlin where he made movies with David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich, East Berlin where he researched his first bestseller, and now the unified capital. Dive into his Berlin when you buy all three of his tours for the price of two!

The three routes include a tour of Kurfürstendamm - the capital's grandest boulevard; a tour of Museum Island; and a tour of Berlin's often tumultuous and endlessly fascinating history which unfolds in the city centre. All of which you can explore on your own schedule and at your own pace.

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At a glance

Duration: 20 min – 2 h 30 min
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–15
Audio guide: English
Operated by: VoiceMap Audio Tours

Ages: Children (6–12 years) · Youth (13–20 years) · Adults (21–60 years) · Seniors (61–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
Included: Lifetime access to the tours in English
Included: Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

Not included

Not included: Smartphone and headphones
Not included: Transportation
Not included: Food and drink
Not included: Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

Itinerary

Berlin

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The three tours take place in Berlin
Kurfurstendamm

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The Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour takes place in Kurfurstendamm.
Breitscheidplatz

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The Breitscheidplatz square is part of the Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.

If it's Christmas time, you'll see around you one of Berlin's biggest Weihnachtsmarkts. If it's springtime, you may be surrounded by an Easter fair.
Bikini Berlin

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You'll see the relatively new 'concept' shopping mall called Bikini Berlin. You can pop into its designer shops and the self-proclaimed 'ultrahip' 25Hours Hotel for a drink in the so-called Monkey Bar, which overlooks the Zooilogischer Garten.

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

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You'll visit the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtiskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm Chuch. It was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943 and rebuilt in the early 1960s. Its stained glass was designed by the French artist Gabriel Loire and it's among the most beautiful -- and soothing -- in the world.

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Stop 6

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Bier’s Ku’damm 195 is where former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, tennis star Boris Becker and even Tom Cruise munched on currywurst and you can too!

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Museum Island

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The A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour takes place on - you guessed it! - Museum Island.
Lustgarten

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Start the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour next to the fountain at Lustgarten.
Stop 9

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Walk through Werderscher Market.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Altes Museum

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The Altes Museum – which was opened in 1830 – was one of the first purpose-built museums in Europe. It was created to house the royal collection of sculptures, paintings and antiques and was conceived to be pedagogic, exhibiting art both to educate and to aggrandise the nation.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Neues Museum

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Its history of the museum is fascinating. Friedrich August Stüler’s neoclassical building was erected in 1847. During the Second World War, it was badly damaged. After the reunification, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation – along with other government bodies – chose not to simply restore the museum to its pre-war state. Instead, they decided to preserve its strange chronology – to quote Chipperfield – by linking together original material, war-and weather-damaged sections as well as modern elements. The result is a museum that can be read like a history book. The fabric of the building tells the story of Berlin.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Bode-Museum

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You pass by the museum and at the end of A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour you have the opportunity to visit the museum.
Stop 13

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You'll pass by and have the opportunity to visit the museum at the end of the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Reichstag Building

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The Into the Heart of Berlin tour starts with a great view of the Reichstag from here. It's far from the oldest building in Berlin but it is one of the two or three structures that best evoke the city's torturous, and sometimes euphoric, history.
Brandenburg Gate

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You'll pass by the Brandenburg Gate and hear what it was like when Communist East Germany finally collapsed in 1989.

From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.
The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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Pass through the Jewish memorial and allow yourself to take in the 2,711 concrete stelae. Try to reflect on how architect Peter Eisenman positioned the outer slabs. They're low against the ground so that they seem to fan out into the whole city.

From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.

Meeting point and pickup

Everyone meets at the meeting point.

Meeting point

The third tour starts at the fountain in the middle of the Lustgarten. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.
The second walk begins outside the Bundestag U-Bahn station, in front of the Reichstag. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.
You start the first tour outside Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station, on Tauentzienstrasse. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.

End point

End the third tour at Neues Museum
End the second walk where the second world war ended.
End the first tour at Tom Cruise's favourite sausage stand.

Using your ticket

To use your tour, please read the important instructions below and disregard all other codes except for these ones: BER16735; BER26735; BER36735

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DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Install the VoiceMap mobile app. (Just search the Apple App Store or Google Play for VoiceMap Audio Tours.)

2. Create an account

3. Select Tour Codes from the menu, then select Enter Codes

4. Enter the code below then select Download Now

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YOUR CODES:

BER16735; BER26735; BER36735

This code can be used by every member of your party. If you have booked for three people, for example, three people can download this tour using the same code. Codes are not case sensitive.

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PLEASE ALSO NOTE:

You can download the tour at any time, before or after your booking date. It’s best to download the tour before you set off for the starting point.
When the download completes, you’ll see a screen with a photo of the starting point and directions to it. The red start button will become active when you are at the starting point.
This tour follows a set route and includes turn-by-turn directions. It works best if you start it in the right place and follow the directions from one location to the next.
The download should only take a few minutes to complete. If it takes longer, please cancel the download, go to Account, select Purchased and download the tour from there.
Remember to bring your own headphones, unless you have booked a driving tour.

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SUPPORT:

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