Potsdam Walking City Tour: Discover Stunning Palaces, Picturesque Lakes and Manicured Gardens
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Potsdam

Come explore the breathtakingly beautiful Potsdam, a city filled with numerous palaces, lakes, well-maintained gardens, various statues and water fountains spread across vast green spaces. This city also boasts a rich and intriguing history.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Potsdam - The palaces and parks of Potsdam were recognized as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1990, and it’s not hard to understand why. The city is a visual feast, adorned with numerous palaces, serene lakes, well-kept gardens, statues, and fountains spread across vast expanses of lush greenery. It’s also steeped in intriguing history. Take a walk through the Dutch Quarter, a collection of red-brick buildings that stands out in Europe. The notorious ‘Soldier King’, Frederick William I, known for his penchant for tall soldiers in his elite military units, had these structures erected in the mid-18th century to house the Dutch craftsmen who had moved to Potsdam. Admire the magnificent Sanssouci Palace, the preferred abode of Frederick the Great, nestled within a picturesque park adorned with various temples, churches, and decorative structures. After traversing the Glienicke Bridge, famous for its Cold War ‘spy exchanges’, we explore Cecilienhof, the stately home of the last German Crown Prince. This historic site was the venue for the pivotal Potsdam Conference in 1945, where Churchill, Truman, and Stalin held discussions that would determine the destiny of Cold War Europe for the ensuing decades.
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Transportation by train from Berlin to Potsdam
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food and drinks
  • Private transportation
Additional Information
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Dress code is smart casual
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
  • The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
Location
Potsdam
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Johnsphilo
May 15, 2023
Pleasant walk to fabulous sites - Shai was a wonderful guide. his enthusiasm and knowledge made the walk very interesting and much more than we expected, we liked it so much that we hired him for a second trip around Berlin
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Joeats
Feb 15, 2023
Awesome day in Potsdam - Excellent tour. Our guide Shadi was very professional, had a great personality, and was very knowledgeable. We enjoyed our tour and would highly recommend it.
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Kevin_m
Oct 15, 2022
Impressive ! - Our tour guide Shadi went over and beyond by showing us around Potsdam and more . He was super friendly and made the tour fun as well . He brought us to try a local Turkish restaurant who served us the best doner. Best part was walking us thru the gardens around the palaces.
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Vijendran_v
Sep 29, 2022
Excellent Potsdam - Excellent sights and an Excellent tour guide, Shadi, who is very patient and he gave us excellent information about Potsdam and he made sure we captured all the interesting sights in Potsdam
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Matto822
Sep 23, 2022
Great Tour - The castles and the gardens were amazing. Lots of interesting history. Be ready for som serious walking.
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Laura_m
Aug 10, 2022
Fabulous way to spend a Berlin free day! - Our tour guide Seba was fabulous! She was great company, very helpful and extremely knowledgeable! It is great value for the money. I learned alot and this day tour was one of the highlights to my European visit!
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Bronwyn_s
Dec 17, 2022
A great walking tour of Potsdam - Potsdam is a beautiful and historical city. We loved walking through the Christmas market to Sans Souci palace. Even though it was a very cold day our guide Shadi made the experience fun and interesting.
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Josef_v
Sep 3, 2023
Not too happy - Apparently my wife and I were the only ones in the group tour. Our guide showed up on time, but he suggested to pay 50 additional euros to take a faster train to Potsdam, he said that the regular one used by the tour was too slow! So we decided to pay him the additional 50 euros. Upon arriving in Potsdam , he took us into a city bus to get to the location of the palace where the famous conference took place. We had to pay for the entrance tickets. After this we took another city bus to take us to the Sanssouci palace, and we had to pay for the entrance tickets. After lunch, we returned by city bus to the train station to return to Berlin. Sincerely, we assumed we were going to be taken in a private bus or van to Potsdam and not in train and city buses. We are older people and the pressure to be at each site was very tiring and exhausting for my wife and myself. We were not happy with that tour. What a difference with our tour to Hallstatt in Austria. That was a fantastic day trip.
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Scott_a
Jul 21, 2022
Uncertain, unprepared - The tour was just okay. Unfortunately, our tour guide, who was extremely kind, seemed lost more often than not. He provided some information about the sites but not at the level we expected. The tour was flexible but I ended up making the itinerary far more than the guide, which was odd. We've done many tours in different cities and this was one of the weakest.
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Francesw99
Jun 2, 2023
Potsdam Walking Tour Poor logistics. - The logistics of this trip are poor. Our guide informed us that the included transport was slow and spasmodic on a long weekend and that we should purchase, at an extra expense of 25 euros each, tickets on the faster train. He obtained the tickets on his phoned and required us to repay him in cash, a very unprofessional arrangement. As it was we had to wait 30 minutes for the fast train. When we got to Potsdam, we went to get tickets to visit the interior of the palaces. There were no tickets available until 2:30pm, which meant that we couldn't visit the interior of the palaces within the time frame of our tour. If we had been informed of this we would have purchased the tickets in advance. We stopped for lunch at a cafe, which had very slow service. Our guide knew this as he said multiple times as we were waiting for our meals, that 'this place always is slow'.It would have been much better if he had said this up front and directed us elsewhere. Due to lost time we didn't get to the Dutch quarter. Our guide did not seem to have any more information than was in the public brochure. We finished the tour thinking that it would have been a much better experience if we had gone by ourselves.
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