Your Most Wanted Flights to Berlin Now Cheaper than Ever!
Board your flights to Berlin for its overwhelming menu of 153 museums, 3 opera houses, 7 symphony orchestras, nightclubs, bars, galleries, and 50 theatres. Time your flights to a cultural itinerary with a wide repertoire of concerts, festivals and parties in Berlin. Popular reasons to book flights include the Berlin Film Festival and the annual marathon. Tourist flights are jammed tight around Berlin counterculture pop icons such as the city’s gay and lesbian pride parade or Christopher Street Day, and the techno music crowd-drawer, the Love Parade.
Imagine your flights as time travel through the stunning architecture of Berlin, since the nation convulsed through the 19th century German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, East and West Germany, and Germany now reunited. Take flights to freedom as you walk on the Eastside Gallery near the Ostbahnhof station, the Berlin Wall remnants nearly a mile long with 100 paintings that make it probably the world’s longest open-air art gallery.
Shop and Eat Until You Drop
Flights to Berlin should be spiced up with visits to numerous flea markets at the Zille-Hof or the Berliner Antik & Flohmarkt on weekdays, or at the Strasse des 17 Juni on weekends. Satisfy your fetish for Soviet-chic souvenirs at the Kunst und Nostalgie Markt (Museum Island).
Kaufhaus des Westens, or the KaDeWe on Tauentzienstrasse is Europe’s biggest department store and has the largest delicatessen. Certainly worthy of vacation flights are Berlin shopping havens on Potsdamer Platz, Alexanderplatz and Ostbahnhof. Stroll around Hackescher Markt or Prenzlauer Berg for great boutiques with retro apparel. Nikolaiviertel near Alexanderplatz has many small shops selling memorabilia and antiques.
If you get hungry after long-haul flights, gorge on “boulette” (fried meatballs) or the bratwurst in curry sauce in the Gaststättes (eateries) at the Berlin waterfront. Visitors on budget flights prefer the cheaper Italian and Balkan restaurants and student beer gardens in Berlin.
Airports Hosting Flights to Berlin
Cold War divisions created three airports, the largest being Tegel International Airport (TXL) which receives most North American and domestic flights to Berlin, connected to the city center by bus. The smaller Schönefeld (SXF) houses low-cost carriers, flights to Berlin from Asia and most European cities. Pre-war era relic Tempelhof is due to close soon.
Schönefeld is being rebuilt into the new Brandenburg International set to begin receiving flights to Berlin in 2011. At the latest, 67 airlines bring flights to Berlin. There are connecting flights between Berlin and 167 airports in 53 countries.
When to Book Your Flights to Berlin
If you prefer good weather, schedule your flights to Berlin between May and October. Lower-priced flights to Berlin are available if you search online months ahead of your scheduled trip.
To get the cheapest flights to Berlin, depart and return on Mondays through Thursdays. Weekend travel is more popular and costs up to $40.00 more per direction on weekends. Rock-bottom flights between London (plus other regional UK airports) and Berlin are in plentiful supply.