Potsdam Tour: Explore Historic Castles and Old Town
4.5
239 Ratings
Potsdam

Experience an enjoyable city tour of Potsdam’s highlights and explore the intriguing Sanssouci, Cecilienhof and New Palace castles with three different walks included in the tour. Wander through the old town’s Baroque architecture, following the path of ‘Old Fritz’.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Schloss Cecilienhof - Our city guide takes you to the castle and discusses exciting, illuminating and up-to-date anecdotes about Potsdam’s history.
What's Included
  • Headsets provided for clear audio
  • Expert local and professional guides
  • Guided tours include driver/guide
  • All local taxes included
  • Live entertainment in English and German during walks
  • Live German commentary on board, other languages through audio guide
What's Not Included
  • Drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Collapsible wheelchairs with removable wheels can be accommodated providing the passenger is accompanied by someone who can assist them board and disembark
Location
Bahnhofspassagen Potsdam
Babelsberger Straße
Departure Point: main train station Potsdam - Hauptbahnhof Potsdam at 11.15 a.m. Address: Hauptbahnhof Potsdam, Babelsberger Straße Directions: exit north/Babelsberger Straße - Ausgang Nord/Babelsberger Straße "if you see trams, you are on the wrong exit" Please be there 10 min earlier!
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(239 Ratings)
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Manuellc4742gi
Jun 17, 2024
Unique experience - Thank you Winfried! It was a very interesting, informative and lively tour. Highly recommended. The city of Potsdam is lucky to have such competent tour guides!
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Michaelmr7251tj
Jun 17, 2024
Interesting and entertaining tour with Winfried - Had a very successful tour with Winfried on June 16, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. With many stories from Potsdam with its kings and emperors. Winfried's expertise is remarkable. One more reason to visit Potsdam more often.
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Naj529
Jun 9, 2024
Girls' tour 08.06.2024 - Winfried, you're great, it was a really good and entertaining city tour for us. You really made it very informative and well presented. It was never boring and the four of us girls had a lot of fun with you up front. Thanks also to the bus driver Halil who reserved the best seats for us.
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106bethi
May 31, 2024
The history of Potsdam entertainingly presented - The tour covered all the points we could imagine wanting to see in Potsdam. We enjoyed the open roof of the bus, being lucky with the weather. What made the tour particularly enjoyable was the guide, Winfried, (NOT the old man!), who filled the 3 1/2 hour trip with amusing anecdotes and encyclopaedic historical knowledge of the Prussian kings. Absolutely to be recommended!
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870anetteb
May 1, 2024
Highly Recommended! - It was also very interesting from a historical perspective, absolutely recommended! I can recommend it to everyone, especially because the places are a bit apart, the bus tour makes sense!
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Miration
Apr 30, 2024
Excellent - Excellent guide. Historian and former banker. Would it be possible to know his name? Very knowledgeable and humorous.
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G220wbmarions
Apr 29, 2024
Successful tour - These three hours were time well spent. We were introduced to the history of Potsdam and old Fritz in an interesting, persistent way, with a lot of commitment and incredible knowledge. Our bus driver also contributed to the success of the tour. He adjusted the speed of the bus to suit our tour guide's explanations.
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Mark_s
May 22, 2024
Nice sites but best if you speak German!! - This tour shows you the main sites and castles but l would not recommend it to non-German speaking tourists. The audio on the bus is pretty basic and the guide spent much more time talking in German at the main sites than in English. It is fair enough that this tour is mainly pitched at German speaking tourists but my review is to make this clear to people thinking of talking this tour.
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Tiberiu_g
Jun 2, 2024
A total disappointment - Nowhere in the world have I found such disregard for those who do not speak the language of the respective country! Although in my headphones I could barely hear a commentary in English from the 8 loudspeakers of the bus, the guide's commentary in German sounded loud and imperative! What to understand? In the places visited, all the comments were ONLY in German, although together with a tourist from Turkey I asked for explanations. The guide dryly told us that the management is aware of the problem but there is nothing they can do about it. He gave us some kind of garbled leaflet in English. And, probably pleased with my comments, she left on the bus exactly 5 minutes before the stated time leaving me to fend for myself. I request the reimbursement of the cost of this embarrassing tour. I recommend non-German tourists to avoid this mock tour.
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Mary_o
May 28, 2024
Only if can understand German language - Thought had booked an English tour. Guide only gave history in English at palace where Churchill and Stalin and American president made negotiations at end of ww2. At other two palaces was all in German and couldn’t understand what was being said. I got lovely pictures. On bus was able to listen to English recording. Advice for people looking for English tour this might not be the one for you.
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