How long will you really have in Berlin?
Your ship’s time in port isn’t your time in Berlin. Enter your ship’s times below.
About 5 h in Berlin Worth it
Example: a ship in Warnemünde from 07:00 to 19:00, going by private van. Change the times above for your own call.
- Off the ship and on your way
- Arrive in Berlin
- Leave Berlin
- Back at the pier
- All aboard
Train times depend on the timetable for your date. Plan to catch the train before the last one that would get you back.
How we calculate this
We start from all-aboard time (30 minutes before departure unless you change it) and subtract:
| Step | Private van | Shared coach | Train |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ship arrives to setting off | 45 min | 45 min | 30 min |
| To Berlin | 2 h 15 min | 3 h | About 3 h 15 min door to door |
| Back to the quay | 2 h 30 min | 3 h | About 3 h 15 min door to door |
| Safety buffer before all-aboard | 1 h | 1 h | 1 h 30 min |
For Hamburg, the train figure is the ICE (about 1 h 47 min) plus getting between your terminal and Hamburg Hauptbahnhof.
The private van figures are the times we plan our own excursion with. The coach and train figures are our estimates for those ways of travelling. Traffic, roadworks, a late gangway or a delayed train can all eat into them, so treat the result as a guide, not a promise. Train times depend on the timetable for your date; check bahn.de.
Typical calls from Warnemünde
| Ship in port | Private van | Shared coach | Train |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 hours (07:00–17:00) | 3 h (tight) | 1 h 45 min (stay local) | 1 h (stay local) |
| 11 hours (07:00–18:00) | 4 h (tight) | 2 h 45 min (stay local) | 2 h (stay local) |
| 12 hours (07:00–19:00) | 5 h (worth it) | 3 h 45 min (tight) | 3 h (tight) |
| 13 hours (07:00–20:00) | 6 h (worth it) | 4 h 45 min (worth it) | 4 h (tight) |
| 14 hours (07:00–21:00) | 7 h (worth it) | 5 h 45 min (worth it) | 5 h (worth it) |
What the verdicts mean
- Worth it: four and a half hours or more in Berlin.
- Tight: three to four and a half hours. Pick one theme and go.
- Stay local: under three hours. You’d spend far more time in a vehicle than in Berlin, so make a day of the coast instead: Rostock, Wismar, Schwerin and Warnemünde itself.