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Anyone sleep on the train from Amsterdam to Berlin? That's my plan!
I'm just planning on taking night train from Amsterdam(I'm staying there for 6 days) to Berlin. Just want to che… Planning on sleeping on the Deutsche Bahn train. Mind you I can sleep even sitting up.
I'm just planning on taking night train from Amsterdam(I'm staying there for 6 days) to Berlin. Just want to check out Berlin, mainly what's left of the Berlin wall, and some other spots close to the Berlin HBF while I'm literally next to Germany. Don't want to stay over night. I plan on sleeping on the train there though which will be departing ACS at 8 pm on Mon Oct 14 and arriving in Berlin on Tues Oct 15 at 6 am and then plan on leaving Berlin back to Amsterdam at 2 pm, which gives me 8 hours, more than enough to check out those few spots. Some people are saying that it's uncomfortable but not impossible. Anyone done that?
Coming in from Amsterdam at 6 am puts you right at Berlin Hbf, which is actually a decent base for a quick visit. The Wall memorial on Bernauer Strasse is a 10 minute walk from the station and opens early, so you can be there before the crowds show up. If you want to see the East Side Gallery instead, that's about 15 minutes by S-Bahn from Hbf to Warschauer Strasse, but you'll need to factor in the train time. Eight hours is tight but doable if you keep moving and grab a coffee from one of the bakeries near the station rather than sitting down somewhere.
The 8pm departure from Amsterdam Centraal is the IC 60447 and it usually arrives a few minutes early into Berlin Hbf. If you're sitting up the seats are actually fine, they recline a bit and the car is dimmed after the first stop or two. Just don't count on getting much food onboard, bring a sandwich from Amsterdam.
For your 8 hours, skip the East Side Gallery unless you're dead set on it. It's a 20 minute S-Bahn ride each way from Hbf and you'll lose time. Instead walk north from the station to the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse, it's a 12 minute walk and has an open air section with the original wall, the documentation center, and a watchtower. After that grab a currywurst at Curry 36 on Mehringdamm, it's a 10 minute U-Bahn ride from the memorial area and they open at 8am. That gives you a proper Berlin experience without rushing.
yeah people do this all the time, it's called a night train for a reason. the seats fold back a bit and the lights go dim, just bring a neck pillow and earplugs. you'll be fine
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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