The smell of gingerbread and mulled wine hangs in the air at the numerous Christmas markets and the large streets and squares are bathed in a contemplative sea of lights and glitter. Throughout the holiday season, the city's calendar of events features a wide range of concerts in churches, ballet performances such as "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker", musicals for families such as "The Beauty and the Beast", and in the Tempodrom the traditional Roncalli Christmas Circus will make your eyes sparkle. The museums and interactive attractions also entertain visitors during the Christmas holidays in Berlin, and the clubs in the capital invite visitors to Christmas parties on several days from Christmas Eve. The crowning glory of the holidays are the roaring celebrations on New Year's Eve.
Diverse Christmas Holidays in Berlin
In the capital, the Christmas events don't end with the holiday season, many of the more than 70 Christmas markets in the metropolis remain open in January – so you can also eat roasted almonds or warm yourself up with a hot punch after your Christmas holidays in Berlin. The Christmas Garden in the Botanical Garden, for example, invites you to its winter wonderland of glittering illuminations until 5 January. The best overview of the entire sea of lights of the metropolis on the Spree is offered by the Berlin TV Tower from its viewing floor at 203m. You can get a 25% discount up there when you present your Berlin CityTourCard. If you feel a little peckish there, you can eat in the revolving restaurant or, back at the bottom, get a menu option from the McDonalds branch which, in addition to many others in the city, gives you 35% off. In the vicinity of Alexanderplatz you will also find a wide selection of attractions. BODY WORLDS, Little BIG City as well as SEA LIFE are all within walking distance. If you want to save money on your experience, go to the Berlin Dungeon, where you will get a 30% discount. Here you will experience the darkest chapters of the city's history in an eerily amusing way.
Gorge yourself in the capital
Virtually no other time is as intrinsically linked with delicious and plentiful food as Christmas. If you want to dine at restaurants as well as sample the specialities of the Advent markets, then we recommend one of the Urban Food Spots, which work in collaboration with the Berlin CityTourCard. You can satisfy your appetite for Asian cuisine at two Coa Wok & Bowls locations. The branches at the Mercedes-Benz Arena and Potsdamer Platz are also easily accessible by public transport and there is a 25% discount on your modern wok dish. You can treat yourself to delicious cakes, waffles or sandwiches and aromatic coffee varieties at one of The Barn Cafés. You will save 10% with your popular tourist ticket and you are sure to come across one of the locations while on the go: whether sightseeing near Hackescher Markt or on a glamorous shopping spree on Kurfürstendamm, which is bathed in a sea of lights in December. To get your day off to the perfect start you can have breakfast at the Rose Garden with its trendy food offerings or at Café Butter with its historic ambience. Both will give you 15% off the regular price if you get a Berlin CityTourCard beforehand.
An inexpensive end to the year
The capital’s best value tourist ticket makes the Christmas holidays in Berlin extremely straightforward. Travel with ease and stop by at all the Advent markets you want to visit – in the AB or ABC fare zone, all public transport vehicles are included in the ticket without restriction. Are you just coming for the public holidays or are you staying until the biggest New Year's Eve party in the country? You can flexibly adjust the validity period to suit your city holiday. Choose between 48 hours and six days. With the 20 discount partners you save up to 35% on entrance fees and food prices, leaving money left over for a nice little gift. So get your Berlin CityTourCard now.
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