Tour Dates	Duration	Price	Highlights
06 - 09 July 2012 06 - 09 October 2012	4 Days 4* Hotel	€697 pps inc €104 taxes	Brandenberg Gate Berlin Wall Checkpoint Charlie  Sachsenhausen Memorial STASI Headquarters  Topography of Terror

About Your Guide:

Your professional historian Nigel is a Scotsman, former soldier and diplomat who interpreted for Rudolf Hess in Spandau Prison and played a very real part in the Cold War, gathering covert intelligence from behind the Iron Curtain in East Berlin. His first hand experience and extensive knowledge of both the WW2 campaign and the Cold War period offers an real insight into Berlin during these turbulent times.  
 

Your Tour Price Includes:

• Return flights from Dublin to Berlin including airport and flight taxes and charges of €104
• Tour manager and professional historian guide for duration of the tour
• Executive coach transfers throughout tour
• 3 nights accommodation in the Park Hotel located in the centre of Berlin. Includes bed and breakfast. Based on twin share.
• Guided tour of Berlin covering key WW2 and Soviet sites including Hitler's Bunker, the SS and Gestapo Topography of Terror, Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall Documentation Centre
• Visit to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial including guided tour
• Guided tour of the notorious and dreaded STASI prison, Hohenschonhausen and the feared STASI Headquarters, Normannenstrasse
• Visit to the beautiful city of Potsdam, stopping at the famous Bridge of Spies enroute
• Free time for sightseeing and shopping of your own choice

Day 1
Fly from Dublin to Berlin. Meet your Tour Manager on arrival and transfer by executive coach to your hotel for check in. This afternoon enjoy a walking tour of Berlin covering key WW2 and Soviet places including the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, the site of Hitler's Bunker, Plotzensee Memorial Complex, Stauffenberg Museum and execution place at the Bendlerblock, the site of Gestapo Headquarters, Checkpoint Charlie, Alexanderplatz, and the remains of the Berlin Wall.

Day 2
Visit the evocative Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum in morning. Sachsenhausen was one of the main concentration camps in Nazi Germany, purposely built in 1936 by the SS. It was the second major camp to be built after Dachau and was intended to set a standard for other concentration camps, both in its design and the treatment of prisoners. In the afternoon we continue onto beautiful Potsdam via Glienick Bridge, known as the Bridge of Spies during the height of the Cold War.

Day 3
Today visit the notorious East German STASI - Hohenschonhausen Prison and Normannenstrasse, the former STASI Headquarters. Learn first hand of the harsh regime those in East Germany lived under and discover the massive surveillance apparatus of the GDR's secret police. Walking along the bare, red-carpeted corridors and looking at the busts of Lenin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, models for both the KGB and Stasi, it all seems part of a distant past, not an era which ended only in 1990.

Day 4
Today enjoy free time in Berlin for sightseeing, shopping and exploring at leisure before your evening flight to Dublin.

Booking Information:

• Inclusive of all flight taxes & service charges
• Price is inclusive of 1 standard piece of hand luggage. Checked in luggage: €30 per 1 standard piece
• Price based on twin share. If you are travelling alone and are willing to share a twin room with another group member of the same gender, we will do our best to accommodate your request, although it cannot be guaranteed
• Single supplement: €110 per person per tour
• Optional insurance: €18 (terms & conditions apply)
• A non-refundable / non transferable deposit of €250 per person is required at time of booking (by laser, cheque or credit card)
• Balance is due 8 weeks prior to departure
• A minimum number of 16 persons must book on this tour for it to proceed. If tour does not proceed deposit will be refunded in full
• Prices, flight times & listed itinerary are subject to change.