Flying to Berlin

canco

Can anyone give me any advice as to which airport is better to fly to in Berlin?

The two in question are Tegel and Schonefeld. Typically for cities with two airports there is one that is better served and one that is cheaper (by standard provided). Is that the case for Berlin?

lord lucan

I flew into Schoenfeld 3 years ago,very handy to get into the city. Short walk across the car park to the train station and then a 30 minute(iirc) spin on the train to Berlin. It was cheap too,i think it was about €3 single.

dereko1969

depends on where in the city you're staying but schonefeld i found very handy, train goes to alexanderplatz from there and from there you can get to most places in the city handily enough.
might be worth your while getting a day pass if you're getting the train in it's €6.50 for the 3 zones which will cover you for everywhere (even Potsdam) on everything. Also can be used on the 100 bus which goes all along the tourist sites (no commentary as it's just like a Dublin Bus) but goes past the Reichstag, Unter den Linden, Brandenburg Gate and out to the English Gardens.
check here for more details on transport options
http://www.bvg.de/index.php/en/index.html

H2G2

Tegel is closer to city and thus easier to access city, but there are more flights to Schonefeld. Schonefeld is well served by trains and is very easy to get around. I would go with the cheaper airline, rather than worry about which airport.

FYI, Tegel is schedule to close in 2012, after the new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport is opened - which is basically a larger Schonefeld on same / adjacent site.

canco

Thanks a million, now to get the flights sorted!

rossie1977

Schonefelds got a metro station across from the terminal, you can get to anywhere in berlin from there

undo

Just back from Berlin and thought I would post some information while I remember. From the airport terminal, you can walk to the train station (it is about two minutes away) and take the S-Bahn or the Airport Express into town. Alternatively, you can take bus X7 or 171 directly from the terminal. The buses can take you all the way into town. Or you get off after five minutes at Rudow and hop onto the U-Bahn. There are many more combinations as well - and all are covered by the same ticket.

The ticket situation briefly is as follows: A single journey, including the airport or Potsdam (which are in fare zone C) is €2.80. This includes as many train/tram/metro/bus changes as required. Within Berlin itself (fare zones A and , a single journey is €2.10. For €6.10, you can get a day ticket covering any amount of journeys within zones A and B for a whole day. If you also want to go to the airport that day, you can extend validity to travel into zone C for €1.40. You can also get a day ticket for zones A, B and C all together but I do not know the price.

The ticket machines also offer tourist tickets for 1, 2 or 3 days. These cost a bit more than just normal day tickets but include discounts at many attractions. Whether these tickets make sense would depend on what you plan to see and do in Berlin.

Finally, ticket machines take no notes larger than €20 and some only up to €10. So make sure not to show up with only €50s. This is what happened to us and we had to find a shop that would break the notes .