Berlin 2 night itinerary based on our specifics

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Any suggestions of a sightseeing itinerary based on the following please? kids 13 and 15

Day 1: arrive Berlin airport early evening, stay near east side gallery
Day 2: full day sightseeing
Day 3: leave backpack in hotel and sightseeing before picking up backpack and leaving by train from the central station at 6pm

Wanting to get an overall taste of Berlin - brief overview visits to cities tend to suit my family .

My dd is doing gcse history and the 2 night school trip she can’t make includes the wall, checkpoint charlie, the allied museum and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp - not sure if we’d fit in all of those in our independent trip?

Don’t need to do lakes/parks as will get enough of that in Munich

thank you

Sign up for a bike tour - look up Fat Tire Tours Berlin and you can cover the wall and checkpoint Charlie - they share quite a bit of the history during the tour and would take a morning, if you do a longer tour then you can cover most of everything you'd want to see. The city is vey flat so the cycling is easy and the tour(s) are excellent. Visit the Allied Museum in the afternoon.

Do the Concentration Camp on the other day.

The train/underground system is so good - very easy to travel around.

Story of Berlin museum is excellent for an overview and and includes a tour of an old Communist Cold War bunker.

Thank you :)

The Museum at Checkpoint Charlie is definitely worth viewing. It's small and crowded but the stories are fascinating....

I’d suggest one of the free walking tours on your first morning (you tip the guides). I did one last month with my daughter who is studying gcse history and it really brought her learning to life.

https://originalberlintours.com/

This is who we did the tour with

If it is open, the Bauhaus Museum.

The DDR museum and Topographies of Terror exhibition.
Book a trip to the Reichstag dome.
Walk from the Brandenburg Gate to Alexander Platz, then back to your hotel via Karl Marx Allee to see the juxtaposition of West/East achitecture.
Are you staying at Hotel Schulz? If so, great location opposite Ostbahnhof, which is a direct train ride to and from the airport and has cheap luggage lockers.

Communication fail, to clarify, the hotel has lockers, not the station (though it may do).

This is all brilliant Thank you. Yes Hotel Shultz:)

Definitely book the Reichstag, you have to enter ID and do it about 2 months before visit for spaces. It's free but get your spot. We loved the spy museum and that was on the way to check point charlie. Also the Tv tower was nice for a drink and view over the city.
We loved Berlin, enjoyed a beer and pastry in the park bext to Brandenburg gate. I found food and drinks really good value.

If you visit one museum make it the Holocaust Museum. It is an incredibly moving experience. Takes a couple of hours but it well worth it.

As others have said if you are only there 2 days do one of the cycling tours. They are great fun and will take you to the wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate, Gendarmenmarkt, Fernsehturm etc. You'll also see the fascinating changes in architecture as you go from what was the DDR to West and back again.

To visit Sachsenhausen will take you almost a full day as it's about and hour by train to get there. If you only have 2 days I would probably leave it for another time. If you want to see something different, Templehof is fasinating. It's the old airport which has been made into a massive park.

Berlin is a great city to visit. The streets are wide, the public transport is excellent (and runs all night). The only downside is that it is so big you will want to go back another time to see more of it.

Good hotel choice!
If it’s crowded when you go, is a great view of Checkpoint Charlie from the balcony of McDonalds.
Supermarkets opposite the hotel in the basement of Oostbahnhof, and restaurants nearby outside the Mercedes arena (good family friendly Italian).

Definitely do the bike tour! This was a highlight for us.

I also liked going up the TV tower. There’s a bar up there so you can have a glass of fizz while you enjoy the views. But I’m not sure if that’s suitable for teenagers. 😅