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Big Bus + Spree River Cruise
Add a 1-hour Spree boat cruise to your Big Bus hop-on hop-off ticket (April–October).
View offer →Two routes, open-top decks, Currywurst included
Big Bus Berlin
24h, 48h or 72h tickets · 14 audio languages · 20 stops
The facts
- Routes
- 2 · Red Route + Blue Route
- Stops
- 20
- Frequency
- Red every 20–30 min · Blue every 60 min
- Full loop
- Red loop approx. 2 h · Blue loop approx. 40 min
- Hours
- Red 09:35–17:11 · Blue 10:15–16:15
- Audio guide
- 14 languages
What you get
- Red Route: Reichstag, Museum Island, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie and the best of central Berlin (16 stops)
- Blue Route: former East Berlin — East Side Gallery, Karl-Marx-Allee, TV Tower (4 stops)
- Tickets valid 24h or 48h; fully flexible with free date change
- Essential/Explore tickets include a free Currywurst and a guided walking tour
- Optional live-guided Evening Tour, 2h Wall Tour, and Spree river cruise (Apr–Oct)
Open-top top deck
Free Big Bus app (live bus tracking)
Free Wi-Fi
Free Currywurst on Essential/Explore tickets
Best for
First-time visitors who want both the central icons and East Berlin covered, plus the extras (walking tour, Currywurst, evening tour). The free app shows live bus positions.
Honest heads-up
The Blue Route runs only hourly, so plan East-Berlin stops around it. The 2h Wall Tour and Evening Tour are separate scheduled departures, not part of the flexible hop-on hop-off loop.
Stops along the route
The full list of stops in route order, with the address, first and last bus of the day, and what's within walking distance.
| # | Stop | Address | Route | Within walking distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Alexanderplatz | Red | TV Tower · Alexa mall | ||
| R2 | Rotes Rathaus | Red | Nikolaiviertel | ||
| R3 | Museumsinsel | Red | Berliner Dom · Museum Island | ||
| R4 | Friedrichstraße | Red | Shopping · Galeries Lafayette | ||
| R5 | Brandenburger Tor | Red | Brandenburg Gate · Holocaust Memorial | ||
| R6 | Reichstag | Red | Reichstag dome · government district | ||
| R7 | Hauptbahnhof | Red | Central station | ||
| R8 | Haus der Kulturen der Welt | Red | Kanzleramt · Tiergarten | ||
| R9 | Schloss Bellevue | Red | Bellevue Palace | ||
| R10 | Siegessäule | Red | Victory Column | ||
| R11 | Kurfürstendamm / Ku'Damm | Red | Gedächtniskirche · shopping | ||
| R12 | KaDeWe | Red | KaDeWe department store | ||
| R13 | Lützowplatz | Red | Tiergarten | ||
| R14 | Kulturforum | Red | Philharmonie · Gemäldegalerie | ||
| R15 | Potsdamer Platz | Red | Sony Center · Panoramapunkt | ||
| R16 | Reste der Berliner Mauer | Red | Berlin Wall remnants · Topographie des Terrors | ||
| R17 | Checkpoint Charlie | Red | Mauermuseum | ||
| R18 | Gendarmenmarkt | Red | Konzerthaus · Dom | ||
| B1 | Alexanderplatz | Blue | Interchange with Red Route | ||
| B2 | Frankfurter Allee | Blue | GDR boulevard | ||
| B3 | East Side Gallery | Blue | Longest remaining Berlin Wall stretch | ||
| B4 | Ostbahnhof | Blue | East station · Oberbaumbrücke |
Landmarks along each route as listed by the sellers. Big Bus states 16 official stops on the Red Route (some adjacent landmarks share a stop) plus 4 on the Blue Route. The live stop map is in the free Big Bus app.
Audio guide languages
14 audio-guide languages: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Swedish.
Combo tickets & add-ons
Add one of Berlin's most-booked attractions or a boat cruise to your hop-on hop-off ride. Live availability and prices show on the seller's page.
Big Bus Evening Panoramic Tour
See Berlin lit up after dark on a 75-minute live-guided evening bus tour.
View offer →Festival of Lights Night Tour
A 150-minute night tour of Berlin illuminated during the Festival of Lights.
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