Sightseeing tour Berlin

The cheapest sightseeing tour Berlin has on this page costs $20: a guided walk of two to four hours, or one hour on a boat with a bilingual live guide. The most expensive is a private car with a local guide at $761. The 57 listings sit in six price bands, and 18 of them are under fifty dollars. Price is the first filter; the second is how you want to move — by boat, by bus, on foot, by bike, or at the wheel of a Trabant.

The top pick is not the cheapest of them. The one-hour city tour by boat with an audio guide is $25 and has 18,022 reviews at 4.3, the most of the city sightseeing tours here; the $20 walk from the Brandenburg Gate to Museum Island has 6,703 at 4.9. One is an hour in a seat on the Spree, the other two to four hours on foot with a guide.

On the water the price follows the minutes. One hour with a bilingual live guide, German and English, is $20, rated 4.7 by 7,253 people. The 135-minute boat past the government district, Bellevue Palace, Berlin Cathedral and Museum Island is $34; 195 minutes on the Spree and the Landwehr Canal, under more than 40 bridges, $40. You can captain a self-drive boat for one to four hours at $66, or sit down to the dinner cruise with Prosecco, $89.

The hop-on hop-off buses are tickets by the day. One day with live commentary is $23, 8,838 reviews at 4.3. The open-top bus that lists the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie is $26 for one to two days, with a boat cruise option. The two-day ticket that pairs the bus with a riverboat tour on the Spree is $52.

On foot, three guided walks stay under thirty dollars. Besides the $20 walk, there are two hours through backyards, alleys and courtyards for $22, rated 4.8 by 6,413 people, and two hours along the original route of the Berlin Wall for $28. By bike, the sights and highlights ride past the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and Museum Island is $31 for two to three and a half hours; the five-and-a-half-hour ride with a beer garden stop, $77. Two hours by segway is $45.

Then come the unusual wheels. The 75-minute Trabi safari puts you behind the wheel of a Trabant, the car of the GDR, for $88; 3,173 people rate it 4.8. The classic VW T1 Samba bus covers almost 50 sights in two hours for $49, rated 4.9 by 1,031 people. A self-drive Mini Hotrod is $99 for 90 minutes, an hour on the BedBike, a bicycle-powered bed, $77, and a private e-rickshaw with hotel pickup $109.

Entries sit beside the tours, and one of them is the most reviewed listing on the page: the guided tour of the Reichstag chamber and dome, $18 for two and a half hours, 21,463 reviews at 4.7. The TV Tower ticket, with its panorama from 203 metres, is $22; Charlottenburg Palace, $21; the Museum Island ticket, valid for one day in five museums, $27. The lowest price on the page is an entry too: the DDR Museum, $16.

Food and the trips out of the city ask for more hours. The culinary tour of Mitte is $49, street food tastings in Mitte $75, and eight local dishes with craft beer $112 — three hours each. Potsdam with entry to Sanssouci Palace is $71 for four hours. The Spreewald, with its canals and villages, is $110 for eight. Give that one a day to itself.