DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin

Good Book- gives you a great overview of the city

I'm very pleased with this book. As someone who is a little OCD, I've been going through it and annotating it- I'm on my second read. I love the way it's organized. Since Berlin is a pretty compact city, it's nice the books is organized in to districts. We're staying in Mitte (the middle) so I started with that one. This book gives you great descriptions of the museums, layouts of the floor plans (very helpful) and it also suggests places to eat that are near. I Yelped several of the places (and found a few more that I'd already booked into, because I looked for the Yelp list of best restaurants in Berlin). I'd combine the recommendations in the book with Yelp- just to make sure you're not going to a tourist trap, or a place that isn't very good. A few of the recommendations in this book were clunkers, and a few were closed- so check before you go! You'll get a nice little history of many of the buildings and monuments in the books, and a nice pull out map. There are sections on where to stay (I did not need that- and my very nice hotel was not listed, so not sure about this section), where to eat, where to be entertained- etc. Some of the walks mentioned in the book seemed interesting. I might do a few of them. They seem like decent suggestions. All in all I am very glad I bought the book. It's given me a lot of useful information and allowed me to plan my days so I keep everything close together, and don't waste to much time walking to and fro- as I'd like to see as much as I can in the short amount of time I have in the city. Read more