Berlin

Eyewitness Travel Guides

by D.K. Eyewitness Travel, Helen Townsend (Editor)

Now celebrating their tenth anniversary, these Eyewitness Travel Guides provide information on all the sights, from festivals to monasteries, beaches to cafe walks, castles to wineries. Maps.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference, Germany

352 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2000

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good resource to study before you travel. Its chock full of well organized information & colorful illustrations. The only caveat is that it weighs 636 grams or 1.65 lbs which is a little too heavy for someone who travels light.

[Pete daPixie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perfectly adequate travel guide to Berlin and it's environs. The usual DK style with glossy pages and exploded diagrams of places and buildings of interest, separated into the various districts of the city. DK first produced this guide in 2000 and have revised this edition almost every year since, my library copy has 2016 printed on the front cover, so I doubt that I can obtain more up to date information.
Comes with all the standard information that the bumbling tourist could possibly require along with the very handy fold out map of the city and rail network.
I have perused this guide along with a Rough Guide to Berlin and prefer the Rough Guide, I have found that the area maps are more detailed and there is info given on the sort of dives that I would frequent.
It's all a question of taste, which gladly I lack.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best travel books everything you ever want to know in a week.

[Kariss Ainsworth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super great for my trip, great highlights of areas and I love the walks

[Jill Meyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was a travel agent for 23 years - in my late, lamented youth - and prepared many European trips for clients. I wish then that I had had a book like "DK Eyewitness Berlin" to work with. These books, which come out yearly, are the best, most complete siteseeing guides produced today. They are mostly siteseeing because while they give a few suggestions for restaurants and hotels, the books' publishers realise that those things are covered by websites devoted to up-to-date info on dining and accommodations.

"DK Eyewitness Berlin, 2019" is the latest in the Berlin guide series. I think this year's book is a bit lighter than in previous editions. The front and back covers are thinner than before, and that makes a difference in carrying the book with you OR committing burn/slash on the book, cutting out the needed pages. That's what I was doing with the books when I travel.

Now, as for the book itself. I go to Berlin every two or three years so I'm fairly familiar with the city and it's sites. The DK Eyewitness books cover the sites in great detail. They highlight small, out of the way museums and historic sites. The book is so detailed that a high school or college history professor could use the book in teaching the history of Berlin. By the way, the book is also available in Kindle.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing and comprehensive guide to Berlin and the only guide that won space in my luggage and went with me. There are so many pictures and wonderful illustrations of various museums, streets and areas around the city. This guide also had great information about the major attractions including “must sees” in the numerous museums. Wonderful guide and the first I’ve used from Eyewitness travel. Definitely going to seek out their guides for the future!

[Maschwitz Moira · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lo leí antes y durante nuestro viaje a Berlín. Muy útil

[Robert Stevenson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Looked at variety of Berlin travel books fir a May trip, this one was not too lengthly, was nicely illustrated. It took me a day and half to read and putogether a good plan for my Berlin trip.

[Pete daPixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I sampled a few travel guides for Berlin obtained from the local library. The DK Berlin was a 2016 version which I thought was o.k. Actually, the one I liked best was the Rough Guide, which I intended to take on my city break. As these things happen, with my holiday just days away, I returned to the library to borrow the Rough Guide, only to find this 2017 D.K. guide the only choice available.
After studying the various Berlin guides, I'm pretty well set as to my itinerary and all the DK Eyewitness Travel series are comprehensive enough to ensure that the tourist is armed with sufficient information to get along fine. It has to be said that they also provide for an interesting read.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent for planning your trips and for help and ideas, especialy for museums, galleries and areas of historical interest. Stuffed with pictures which makes the eyewitness guides favourable (in my opinion) to lonely planet and rough guide. Handy dandy phrasebook and tube map made life so much easier. Brilliant guide and highly recommended.

[Evelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

For something more in-depth than DK's Top 10 series, I'd recommend their thicker travel guides which give a great overview of a country's history and how it has transformed to modernday etc, as well as suggesting more places to visit in the surrounding areas. Easy to read, a good one to dip in and out of whilst on the plane.

[Ninja Neko]

I like these guides for the extra background info they provide, but the copy from 2008 which I got from my library was very outdated and pretty much unusable during our short weekend in Berlin.

[Tim Verstraete · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really like this one, good information, nice index of topics ... good map and division of map ...

[Frances · Rating 5 out of 5]

Detailed but not over-complicated, with plenty of illustrations and practical information.

[Roland Haertl · Rating 5 out of 5]

As all DK Guides, terrific before, during and after a trip.