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Sorry. Thought I was posting to a Hokie who was on Homelands in 2017 and did Brewers in Berlin. Interested in seeing Berlin that way, also. Did see the information about no Viking tour of Berlin.

We are also Viking Homelands and for Berlin we decided to do the Berlin on your own for free which includes the train ride and a hour or so overview tour of Berlin. I believe that overview tour includes 1 or 2 stops and then they drop you off across from theHilton by the Gendarmenmarket. You then have 3-4 hours on your own. We decided to hire a local walking tour with Brewers Tours to meet us and take us on a private walking tour. It is about 200 euros and we can add up to 4 others to split the cost or just do it by ourselves. We haven't decided yet which way we will go with it. They tell me that they can show us the following in the 3.5 hour tour.

Our 3,5-hour tour covers all the major sights and a general overview of the city center, including Prussian and Imperial monuments such as Brandenburg Gate, Museum Island and the Reichstag; WWII and **** history, including the former ministry and chancellery district, the site of Hitler's bunker and the former SS and Gestapo HQ; Cold War sights including the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie and both former East and West Berlin; as well as modern Berlin and its colorful and bright new cultural life

 

This tour company was highly recommended and we are looking forward to it, because if we did try to do it on our own we would likely get lost. Plus we like the fact that we can probably see more than a slower bus tour with a lot of others.

This Wahoo is taking the Homelands cruise in May. Would love your comments on Berlin. Did you do a tour with Brewers? Also, suggestions for Stockholm, please.

--Linda

We are 81 more sleeps till our Baltic cruise. This is our first Viking Ocean cruise and we can't wait! We have decided to book the Pharaohs and Pyramid river boat cruise in March of 2020. Sounds far off huh? My question is I can't find any roll calls or boards for Viking Rivers. Anyone know of one? I have not seen any reviews either of this cruise and the Viking website does not work for the reviews for some reason. Anyone take this cruise or have any comments on where to find the roll calls for river boats? Thank you.

Are you on the Viking Sun Baltic cruise sailing on May 19? I haven't yet found a roll call for that.