Tips for Berlin with children
Your children will have more than enough room to move about, play a game, or gaze outside on the train. You travel with the whole family to Berlin by train from € 38 one-way per person.
Children up to and including 14 years of age travel for free, and it takes 5.52 hours to travel directly from Amsterdam Central Station to Berlin. Want to arrive in the centre of Berlin relaxed? Then read our tips for discovering Berlin with your children.
To Berlin with children
Berlin has enough to offer for families with young or older children. The very youngest do not have to pay for many tourist attractions, and teenagers often receive a school or student discount. Take your (grand)child on a city trip to Berlin and teach them all about its rich history.
In Berlin, you will find an interesting mix of Berlin before and after the fall of the Wall. Experience life in former East Germany in the DDR Museum and visit the remains of the Berlin Wall. Discover culture together in one of more than 120 museums in Berlin or take a walk past the highlights.
The best activities for a Berlin city break with children
In Berlin, you will find numerous outings that are suitable for children. Here are some of our favourites:
- Picnicking on the green banks of the river Spree
- Zoos in Berlin
- Modellpark Berlin-Brandenburg
- The glass dome of the Reichstag
- The Brandenburg Gate, which is illuminated after sunset
- The kite festival that takes place annually in late summer at Tempelhof
- The viewing platform in the FernsehFernsehturm
Family-friendly museums in Berlin
Nothing is as boring for children as a museum full of cards with lengthy texts. Fortunately, Berlin has enough museums that are also very nice to visit with children. Child-friendly museums are, for example:
- Het Legoland Discovery Center
- The Natural History Museum with enormous dinosaur skeletons
- Trabi-World: a museum full of colourful Trabanten (classic German cars)
- Het Deutsches Technikmuseum, where children learn in an experimental way how everyday machines work
- The DDR Museum
See more museums in Berlin here
With children to the Berlin Wall
Not every museum about the Second World War and the Cold War is suitable for children. Check the museums' websites in Berlin carefully before you buy a ticket. Some exhibitions can be experienced as intense, even for adults.
You can safely take your (grand)children to see the remnants of the Berlin Wall. At the Bernauer Strasse, you can learn more about the wall in the visitor centre. In the DDR Museum, children interactively learn about life in East Germany during the Cold War.
Berlin by train with the children
Adults can travel to Berlin by train from € 38 for a single journey. Children 14 years and younger travel for free! Children from 4 to 14 years old must book a (free) train ticket.
Book the ticket for your accompanying child or grandchild directly when you book your train ticket. There is a children's compartment for travellers with children under three on the trains to Berlin.
More information about international train travel with children
Low-budget train travel to Berlin with children
Until the age of 14, children can travel for free with you to Berlin. Would you like to travel to Berlin as cheaply as possible? Then book in advance, which is possible as of six months. Travel on Mondays to Thursdays to take advantage of cheaper train tickets.
Berlin with children
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