Berlin Shopping & History Shore Excursion from Warnemünde and Rostock Port

This semi-private shore excursion is designed for those who want an overview of Berlin’s history and most important monuments, while also having time to shop in the city’s most stylish districts. You will have the chance to visit Germany's most celebrated luxury department store and explore some of the most exciting independent and contemporary concept stores – all without missing the city’s main sights. This experience is timed to your ship’s docking schedule and starts promptly after your vessel’s arrival. Following a comfortable 3-hour transfer from the port to Berlin, you will enjoy the tour, returning with plenty of time to spare before your ship departs. Our expert team has been organizing these tours for nearly a decade, never missing a cruise ship’s departure, and sharing our knowledge and enthusiasm for Berlin with thousands of satisfied passengers!

Itinerary

1. Shop until you drop in Europe's second largest department store – 7 floors and 60,000 square meters of luxury and cutting edge fashions – and enjoy a sumptuous lunch in the world-famous food court. (1h 30min)
2. Explore some of Berlin's most exciting independent, contemporary concept and fashion stores. (1h 0min)
3. Stand in the shadow of the German parliament building, burned down after Hitler’s rise to power, now a bold symbol of modern German democracy. (10 min)
4. Walk through the gateways of Berlin's most iconic monument and find out what makes the Gate the most important cultural monument in Germany. (10 min)
5. Journey through the iconic concrete stellae, bear witness the atrocities of National Socialism, and hear the stories of the everyday bravery of the persecuted. (15 min)
6. Cross the border at the frontline of the Cold War, where spies roamed and US and Soviet tanks faced off in 1961. (10 min)
7. See the dark heart of Nazi Germany at the former headquarters of the SS and Gestapo. See the excavated torture cells, and come face-to-face with the Cold War's most brutal symbol: The Berlin Wall. (15 min)
8. Stand at the site of the bunker where history's most notorious criminal committed suicide at the end of WWII. (10 min)
9. Walk the stunning grounds gardens of the first Prussian royal summer palace to be built on the outskirts of Berlin. (15 min)
10. Cruise down Berlin's version of the Champs-Élysées, former West Berlin's most famous street.
11. Witness the devastation caused by US and British bombing raids during WWII at the preserved ruins of this late 19th-century church, and visit the New Church next door, decorated with hundreds of thousands of fragments of blue stained glass.
12. Drive through the lush greenery of Berlin's vast central park and see various embassies on the Tiergartenstraße, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Memorial for Victims of the National Socialist Euthanasia Program.
13. Catch the sun glinting of the golden angel Victoria, goddess of victory, as you circle around Prussia's emphatic monument to its triumphs in the Wars of Unification.