FAT TIRE BIKE TOURS BERLIN
Bike Rental and Tours - Seeing Berlin By Peddle
Berlin
- it’s exciting, new, thrilling, hip and huge. Since the
two Germany’s reunited and Berlin became once again its capital,
the city has been reinvigorating itself - museums, nightlife
pubs and clubs. You want to go, explore, but ask “what if I don’t
speak German?” can I get around if I only speak English. The easy
answer - Fat Tire. Go to the big Berlin TV Tower at the Alexenderplatz
where you’ll find the main office of Fat Tire Bike Tours tucked
away under its silver knob. Fat Tire Bike Tours is foremost a bike rental
service which has sites in a number of European cities. The guides are
young,
enthusiastic mostly former or current students from the US, Great Britain
or Australia living in Berlin who know their way around. You can rent
a bike for your own personal mode of getting around Berlin, or take one
of their many themed group bike tours 
All-in-One
City Tour, catching the major sights to see – the Nazi Germany
3rd Reich History Tour which includes the “Valkyrie” 1944
Memorial site (see Bendlerblock Valkyrie), the Berlin
Wall and Cold War Tour which retraces the wall and Soviet influence over
East Germany (see Fall
of the Wall Anniversary) - and a tour to
Potsdam for the great Sansoucci Imperial Palace and Orangerie as well
as Prussian and Cold War sites (don’t worry, you don’t have
to ride all the way there – that’s what trains for). For
nightlife and bar hopping when the night goes dark, they also are the
meeting place for one of Berlin’s famous Pub Crawls the Insomniac
Nightlife Tour – free beers and shots while stumbling through the
long nights of Berlin party bars (May through October). The Fat Tire
Bike Tour people will even do your laundry for you while you’re
off on one of their tours or renting a bike. Okay, it’s not for
free, socialism went down with the wall, but certainly a convenience
if you’re a hostel type, carrying around a backpack full of sticky
socks.
A
bike rental for a day is 12€ with discounts for additional days.
They have trailers
and seats for kids and up to date well kept equipment.
Tours prices range from 26€ for the in-town tours to 46€ for
the Potsdam Excursion (including train fare and palace entrance). Even
if
you don’t
want to take a tour or rent a bike, and just looking for a friendly English
speaker to point you in the right direction, stop by. They can direct
you to some Berlin walking tours as well. Fat Tire Bike Tours has two
locations in Berlin. At the Travel Point location under the TV Tower
run by Wolf and Susann the main tours and services are on offer, including
internet access and wireless hotspot, while at the Zoolischer Garten
Rail Station they just rent bikes. And they’re so confident of
their tours, if you’re not satisfied, they’ll give you a
refund. If you want to go up the TV tower before or after a tour, they
have discount tickets, but give yourself an extra hour. © Bargain
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