Alex was a good tour guide and with great humor. She translated German to English throughout. We…read morewere very satisfied with the length and the information she provided. Like the fact that our boat had top glass cover as the weather was cold and a little rainy. Kept us warm and dry throughout the tour. She also made an effort to address each group in the tour. She was very personal.

We took this tour and it was amazing. Our tour guide Alex was very knowledgeable about the sights…read more It's totally worth the 12 it was very relaxing and just a break from the running around the sights and figuring out where to go. Alex was very nice and professional as well as funny. She speaks English and translated everything perfect. This boat is not open air. So if you're here during the winter months or it's raining it's perfect there's bathrooms and it's very comfortable.

From the owner: Berlin Bootsverleih bietet bei einer Auswahl von mehr als 100 Booten für jeden Anlass das perfekte…read moreSchiff. Ob Partytour über die Spree, Floßtour über die Havel, Junggesellenabschied oder romantischer Urlaub auf einem Hausboot. Berlin Bootsverleih hat Berlins größte Auswahl an Booten und Schiffen.

We bought tickets for a tour at 4:30 in the afternoon and arrived a few minutes before 4:30. The…read moreworkers were there and watching us walk to the boat. The man in charge of untying the boat had not untied yet, but literally looked us right in the eye as we were showing our tickets and began quickly untying the boat. The agent at the top of the stairs just stood there making excuses, "He wants to start his evening off work and he wants to get going". He was untying while she was making excuses. We were so close to the boat. In America, we regularly give these tour guides a tip for great service. I'll give this miserable excuse of a man and his excuse making colleague this tip: Karma is a bitch and the next time you are having an experience where the kindness of the person could help you, I hope you experience a nice payment so maybe you can do better next time. We can just do one little thing and it can make a person's experience or break their experience. As a disabled person who travelled an hour by public transportation with all the delays and stairs and trouble-- we made it on time and you decided to create an additional block that was unnecessary, unkind and will in the end cause you pain. We will dispute the charges for over 100€ with our credit card company and we will make a formal complaint to your company.

One of the highlights of my visit to Berlin. We took the boat tour on a whim as we noticed it when…read morewalking past and thought it would be a different and novel way to see everything. So we purchased our tickets and hopped aboard. Much to our delight there was a cafe which also sold wine and beer. So my two friends and I obtained glasses of wine, sat on top deck and enjoyed the tour. It was a really brilliant experience. Moving along at a leisurely pace, we saw all the sites/ architecture and heard the history of the places we passed. One drawback was that it was quite cold to be sitting on an open deck, but this was definitely the best way to see Berlin. Plus, it's so much more fun than a standard bus tour and a glass of wine enhances the experience ;-)

From the owner: Willkommen bei der Reederei Berliner Wassertaxi! Wir sind die Spezialisten für einstündige…read moreSchiffsrundfahrten im City-Bereich der Spree. Unsere Rundfahrt ist die perfekte Möglichkeit Berlin von seiner schönsten Seite zu erleben, etwas zu erfahren und dabei zu entspannen, eine andere Perspektive zu genießen, einen Überblick zu gewinnen oder einfach mal etwas "Spreeluft" zu schnuppern. Die Runde ist nicht zu lang für die Kids oder den kleinen Zwischenstopp vom Shopping. Und nicht zu vergessen, unsere Fahrt zeigt Ihnen die wichtigsten Highlights der Stadt! Falls Sie meinen Berlin zu kennen, keine Bange, hier ist alles im Wandel, morgen hat Berlin schon wieder ein ganz neues Gesicht. Saisonstart 2017: am 10. März am Domaquaree; am 1.4.2017 am Zeughaus

This is a German-first, the heck with the rest of us company. The translation, another €3 per…read moreperson, is out of date and the wireless barely works. The food on board was decent, but eating before might be better and grab a beer ok board. Even though they deal with a lot of tourists, they don't really seem to cater to any other than German tourists. The boat crew seems to think they're doing you a huge favor to let you aboard. I'd do a different line and there's many out there on the river. If you do go, use the Berlin Welcome pass and red book to get a discount on the fare. The river itself is interesting if you can find someone who has the ability to tell you about it.

I really like taking habour tours in some of the grandest cities in Europe. Berlin, of course, is…read moreno exception to this. Now, the trip itself was quite alright, but I couldn't help being a bit disappointed by the fact that I wasn't able to ignore the tour guide, who used ambient music for the duration of the trip. I don't understand why. Anyway, go for a ride and have fun.

Within hours of my arrival in Berlin, my travel companion deposited me along the River Spree with…read moreinstructions that I should take a boat tour while she did Bikram yoga. I felt not unlike a toddler left at daycare for the first time: where am I? where is she? will I ever see her again? After gaining assurances that the boat returned to the exact spot from which it left and that it did so one hour after departure, I purchased my ticket and went aboard. It was fall and the weather was still nice but starting to grow chilly. I walked to the open air deck at the top, admired the wooden chairs, and plopped down. Quickly, a menu appeared before me. You can get cocktails on this here boat. The boat took off and I was served by a very, very, VERY attentive waiter and I soon discovered why. I was the sole paying passenger aboard this boat. The waiter photo-bombed my selfies, posed for me, took my photo, asked for my Facebook address, inquired if I'd be receptive to a visit from him ... I was observing the bored German waiter phenomenon. A boat ride tour of the River Spree is a nice thing to do. It in no way prepared me to better understand Berlin's layout but that's understandable. The boat had a taped narration, first in German then in English, which I wound up paying no attention to. It seemed so unnecessary and impersonal for only me. Besides, I was busy being distracted by that waiter. It grew cold up top and I retreated below deck. The waiter followed. He took my hand and led me from the seat I'd selected all the way to a separate indoor seating area at the very front of the boat. If you want to sit inside, definitely head here before anyone else finds out about it as it affords a front facing view of everything you'll see. Obviously, advance tickets for such a tour were unnecessary. During more popular travel months, who knows? The tours run hourly and the boat holds many so getting aboard is likely not an issue. There are many such river tours offered by competing businesses. I liked this one for the style of the boat and the cocktails. Several photos posted by others here show boats, but they're not the boat you're on; they appear to be boats people viewed while touring. Before offboarding I learned that this river tour would be closing soon for the winter months. If you want a boat tour to yourself with 1:1 service consider heading here in mid-October.