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Step 2 – City Transport

After you arrived in the city, you might want to explore it a little bit. For that Berlin provides a very good city transport system. You have a few possibilities:

You can take a U-Bahn , which is basically the Berlin undergound / tube, a S-Bahn (city train) , which is supposed to be the fastest choice for bigger distances. For the center and the night it may be the most convenient to take Bus  or Metro Tram .

!IMPORTANT!

During the Week the U and S-Bahn stop running around 12:30 am. But then there are lots of nightbuses. But on the weekend, that means Friday and Saturday, the tubes are running 24 hours.

To find out more go to the BVG website, where you can also find a tube or city map.

Tickets and prices

Berlin has defined tariff areas. The Berlin tariff area is subdivided into zones A, B and C.

Zone A: Berlin’s inner city up to and including the S-Bahn ring

Zone B: outside the S-Bahn ring up to the city boundary

Zone C: Greater Berlin (area approx. 15 km around Land Berlin), including the City of Potsdam

The most common tickets are:

Short Trip Ticket Berlin AB: 1, 30 Euro

If you do not want to travel any further than three S-Bahn (urban railway) or U-Bahn (underground railway) stations or no more than six bus or tram stops

Single Ticket Berlin AB: 2, 10 Euro

Single Tickets entitle you to travel with any number of changes in the direction of the destination via the usual travel route or the route determined by the timetable situation. They are valid for a maximum of 2 hours.

Day Pass Berlin AB: 6,10 Euro

With that ticket you can travelas often as you want until 3:00 am the next morning.

7 Day Pass Berlin AB: 26,20 Euro

You can travel for 7 days until 12 pm on your 7th day.

Small Group Ticket Berlin AB: 15,90 Euro

With a Small Group Ticket, up to 5 people can travel together as often as they want on the day printed on the ticket or from cancellation of the ticket on starting their journey until 3:00 a.m. on the following day.

!IMPORTANT!

All tickets need validation before you get on a bus or train. There are validation machines at every station right next to the ticket machine. Mainly they are yellow or red.

find our more about tickets at BVG

Taxi / Cab

In Berlin you have the possibility to take a “Kurzstrecke” (short trip) in a cab. It is a 2 km journey for 3,50 Euro. After that the counter of the cab starts counting normally and then it gets expensive, so make sure, if you take a “Kurzstrecke”, that you tell the driver to stop after the 2 km are over. It’s a good opportunity if you want to check out a few places which are close by.