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.

I am very disappointed with my experience on this river cruise. The team allowed a drunken man on…read moreboard that repeatedly yelled slurs and proceeded to drink an entire bottle of wine in the hour we were on the boat. He was not hiding the fact that he brought a bottle of wine onto the boat. He indiscriminately offered the wine to anyone, including children. The team did nothing to get his behavior under control. The boat was also packed as there was no where to sit and it was very crammed on the upper deck. My family and I ended up seeing nothing because we had to move to the lower deck to escape this behavior. We saw the sights from the cruise but we could not learn more because of his incessant talking.

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.

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.

This hour-long, live-narration tour up and down the Spree River was well worth the time and money…read more The boat boards from the Museum Island area. Every seat has a good view - about 1/4 are under a shade tent and the rest are open air. After sitting, a server comes by asking for orders of beer, wine and soft drinks. Bring cash for this! It was pleasant to sit with a radler watching the city go by. The live narrator speaks in both German and English, and provides witty and informative commentary on what we see on the river as well as the history of Berlin. There's a lot to see and experience and we definitely enjoyed the ride. It was especially great as we took the ride during the Berlin marathon, when it would have been difficult to get to some of the core sights. All in all, a great way to spend an hour!

Took a boat tour while I was in Berlin along the river in December and thought the cruise was ok…read more The boat was heated and it had the glass door along the side and top roof, so one could see places from as many angles as possible. The tour was just one hour, so it was really a quick 2-time turn around once the tour started. Overall, it gave different angles of how one could see Berlin, but I felt like there could be more information/interesting facts and history (rather than just simply pointing out what each buildings was all about). Overall, a decent way to spend time in a different way, but I wouldn't say it is a must do either. It is best as a supplementary information and probably doing other tours you may get more information you need if you wanted to learn more about Berlin. The other thing was....because of the heat inside/cold outside..the glass windows got so fogged up that one couldn't really see much at all...so perhaps, winter isn't really the best time to do the tour.

I was a tour virgin before going on this tour, and I only went because it was mandatory on a work…read moretrip. Looking back on my visit to Berlin, the bike tour was my favorite part. The city is flat so it was wonderful cruising around. The tour guide told good stories, friendly/funny/social in the right mix. We went to Alexander Platz, Reichtag, Tiergarten for lunch, the underground bunker where Furhrer died, a watchtower by the wall and lots more. I think we were on the City Tour. We never biked more than 15 min, mostly shorter so it is at a leisurely pace. If you like to take pictures, wear something that makes it easy to pull out a camera while on a bike.

Our tour guide, Maggi, did a great job showing us around Berlin. This was my second bike tour ever…read moreand it just confirmed it is an activity I will have to seek when visiting a city that is bike-friendly. They have bathrooms, drinks, and sunscreen at their HQ. I would highly recommend! 3hours went by so quickly. Maggi also gave us enough time for bathroom breaks, walking around, and taking pictures.

A good tour for 21 euro for 1 hr. Longer tours available. They serve alcohol on board. Cruise is…read moredone in both German and English. Traveling is on the Spree river. There are several other boat tours. This was a purchase at the dock.

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.

**STREET ART WORKSHOP & TOUR**…read more WHERE: Met at noon (plenty of time to grab breakfast beforehand) at Alexanderplatz TV TOWER next to entrance of Starbucks. However, the tour ends at the workshop in Lictenberg. DURATION: 3.5-4 hour tour and workshop. COST: 18 euros per person and can book online. PART 1 ======= Took the back streets and discovered some of the latest, greatest, and oldest examples of street art, graffiti and mural art. Our guide, a street artist/expert on the scene, showed us some of the best: - stencil art - throw ups - mural art - tagging - ad busting - heaven spots - burners; and - installations while teaching us who was who and their motivations behind their artwork. PART 2 ======= We then visited their workshop in a former abandoned margarine factory in Lictenberg we were instructed how to stencil and spray paint. Yes, we took our piece home as well. So much fun. PRO TIPS: - Make sure to tip your guide. - Purchase an AB transport ticket for this tour. HIGHLY RECOMMEND for those who like street art, graffiti, and history of Berlin.

Today I took the alternative Berlin tour. Fabulous. It wasn't about putting a visual to textbook…read morehistory. We went into neighborhoods and saw an discussed their tolls before the wall, during and how they transitioned after the wall went down. This is the tour that puts life into Berlin. Colan ( I mai have gotten name wrong) was the best