How much is a trip to Berlin cost?
How to get to Berlin?
Options to get to Berlin from Russia there are several. Direct flight Moscow-Berlin-Moscow will cost 4500 rubles from the budget of the carrier to five-digit sum for a comfortable flight. In the summer, we learned that opened a direct flight Volgograd-Munich ticket price of 15,000 rubles round trip. We purchased tickets for the German budget carrier Lufthansa for 8300 rubles per person. Also in Berlin can be reached by bus and train. The price for the bus is in the area of 7-8 thousand rubles, but the rail is much more traveled in both directions in the car will be worth 2 class of 16,000 rubles.
The best in my opinion is the air transport: it has an acceptable price (while stocks tickets can be bought at all on ridiculous price), the travel time is minimal and you have to cross the border only once - in the country of arrival. The minus is that low-cost promotional tickets can not be returned back and you'll be permanently assigned to the date of departure.
Where to stay in Berlin
Prices for accommodation in hotels you vary widely: from 10 € for a place in the hostel room to hundreds of euros in luxury hotels. We rented a room at the hotel for 39 € / day, 8 nights we were treated to 12 000. It was a room economy class with a separate shower, TV, refrigerator, WI-FI and free breakfast. Advisable to book rooms in advance during the summer tourist season to do this is very problematic. The Embassy also require mandatory fax your confirmation for visa issuance. Receive the fax, we did not turn the first time, it is good that the hotel management was Russian-speaking.
Visa getting
Unfortunately, the inhabitants of southern and central Russia has no other choice but to go to Moscow for a Schengen visa. This is true for tourists to get a visa on their own. Agency, as a rule, do it yourself, with a demanding customer required documents. The Embassy is located in the capital, and several offices located in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad. Thus, the cost of the visa itself (€ 35 per person) must be added the cost of travel to Moscow. Given that the capital we've been twice (to get a visa in June and flew to Berlin in July) to the Moscow expedition, we spent about 16 000, which is approximately equal to the price of our tickets.
Expenses in Berlin
Our costs in the German capital as follows:
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- € 160 for meals in cafes and buy food in supermarkets. Lunch in the cafe for two will cost about 16-20 €. Eat at MC Donalds, Subway or KFC can in his pocket, 8-9 € for two, but always eat junk food - a bad habit.
- 110 € - for transportation, of which 67 € - two weekly ticket for all transport in Berlin and 39 € - ticket weekend where we went to Dresden.
- € 100 was spent on site visits, during his stay in Berlin, we visited the Zoo, the New Museum, made cycling in Potsdam and climbed the Tower.
- 215 € - the most money was spent on clothes: a minimum price, product quality is excellent, so it is impossible to refrain from shopping. We bought a jacket (in July in Berlin was 12, I had a warming), shirts, hoodies, shoes, shirts and more. I even had to buy a backpack, because our luggage is not accommodate all.
- 125 € - the last item of expenditure - souvenirs and gifts for family and friends. We purchased a German beer, Scotch, German, and Belgian chocolate. In addition, the Duty Free I was tempted to Greek Metaxa, and Ira bought a bottle of liquor.
Simple calculations give a general result about 700 €, is 28,000 rubles at the exchange rate of currency purchase. The general expenses including all of the above was approximately 76,000 rubles for nine days of vacation in Germany for two. All the money we had in the form of cash - the problems with shopping nowhere (notes 200 € or 500 €, we did not have). Plastic card we made a payment of hotel and airfare back in Russia.
I hope this information will be useful to those who are going to plan your vacation. It's not far off already in 2012, and then the new journey!
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