Berlin Schoenefeld to Mitte / Alexanderplatz

Hello

I've been trying to figure out the easiest way of getting from Schoenefeld airport to Mitte/alexanderplantz area. I'm normally quite good at these things but my brain doesn't seem to want to function today!

Has anyone done this transfer or have any tips please?

rhapsody

I was there in August, got the RB14 (regional train) from airport train station to Alexanderplatz. There are S trains also (S45 & S9 according to my map) but they stop in more places I think. The RB14 had only two or three stops before Alexanderplatz. 10 min walk from terminal to train station, then maybe half an hour on the train. Hope that helps!

Galadriel

The train is quick and easy to use, there are ticket machines in the station at the airport. The trains are roughly every 30mins at most and it takes about 30mins to get to Alexanderplatz

Galadriel

Galadriel wrote: »

The train is quick and easy to use, there are ticket machines in the station at the airport. The trains are roughly every 30mins at most and it takes about 30mins to get to Alexanderplatz

Also don't forget to validate your ticket, there are little machines on every platform as your ticket is not valid until you do.

That's great, thanks for the info - sounds handy enough

zagmund

zags tip #482 - buy your ticket *airside* in the airport while waiting for your luggage, even if you don't have luggage. It can save you loads of time as the queues in the station can be savage when half a plane load of stags/hens/forriners try to work out how to use the ticket machine for the first time and don't have change, and can't read German and don't know what ticket to buy. If memory serves me correctly there's only something like 2 or 3 machines and no manned ticket desk in the train station itself.

The FAQ here - http://www.berlin-airport.de/en/travellers-sxf/to-and-from/buses-and-trains/faq - tells us that you need to buy a single ABC ticket. The airport is in zone C, the city centre is in zone A.

From looking at the map S9 & S45 don't go into the centre, so if you get these not only will they be slower than RB7 & RE14 but you will have to change in the back end of beyond and then possibly change again. Stick with the R trains - every 30 minutes.

Berlin rocks.

z

Sheldons Brain

Consider buying this kind of thing
http://www.bvg.de/index.php/en/17178/name/For+Visitors/article/77548.html

ABC zone would also do the airport and would allow you go to Potsdam.

Berlin is fairly spread out, you tend to need to use transport every day.

sarkozy

I always get the S-bahn from Schoenefeld and change at Ostkreutz to Alexanderplatz (or Warschauer Strasse, depending on where I'm staying). It's easy. They go every 10 minutes or so. No stress.

Thanks a mil for all the info. In the end, due to the air control issues yesterday, my flight was delayed by 4 hours, 2 of which were spent sitting on the Tarmac. The next airport express wasn't for 25 minutes so I got a taxi, I'm not confident I would have found my hotel with ease at that stage, as my original plan had been to go there a bit later in the day when I had found my bearings.

As an aside, I booked the Hotel Nikolai Residence and it is just perfect. The warmest of welcomes on arrival, beautiful room with the comfiest of beds and lovely big fluffy pillows and duvets. It says 10 minutes walk from alexanderplatz but really that would be a very leisurely stroll, it's more like 5 minutes. Only downside, if it's even that, is that it doesn't have a restaurant/bar/breakfast room but actually it doesn't matter at all because it's in a building which also has bars and cafés and restaurants, some of which give hotel guests a 10 % discount. Lovely quiet area beside the river. Lovely

sarkozy

Yeah, I never care about places to eat in hotels. Hackescher Markt is a 10 minute stroll away and the whole area beyond there (Oranienstrassesse, etc. is better for looking for eats). There are better places around the city, but that locale is easiest to find nice places.

While there, do get yourself a real (original, in that it was invented in Berlin) doner kebab or falafel, if you're veggie.

And lots and lots of beer. Remember, you can walk around with it like it's a soft drink.

Parchment

Galadriel wrote: »

Also don't forget to validate your ticket, there are little machines on every platform as your ticket is not valid until you do.

2nd all of this! DB dont appreciate you not validating your ticket......