Originally Posted by
FLYMSY
I definitely understand what you want to accomplish prior to your trip. I have posted questions (yesterday) requesting advice on another country's forum and haven't received any responses yet. It involves another large city and my questions are much "simpler" than yours. I hope that the old adage of "Patience is a virtue." works for both of us.
Those of us who have participated on FT for many years know how FT can work and, in turn, have given/received great advice. I'm sure that someone who has the answers to your questions will come along and offer some useful advice. Unfortunately, I haven't been to Berlin, although it's on my list. I look forward to the answers to your questions.
Indeed patience will have to be a virtue.
In the NYC forum, we're asked about tourist attraction cards quite often and, of course, the locals don't buy them because we live here. So I understand that point of view. Still, we can help FTers visiting NYC figure out if it's worth it to buy these tourist attraction cards based on what their desired attractions are.
In several situation, the attractions listed as being part of an attraction card aren't worth spending the money for these attraction cards because the entrance fees at these locales are SUGGESTED. We locals know this. The Metropolitan Museum, for example, has a suggested admissions fee of $25. But it's a suggestion. You can pay $1 or $0.50 if you want to visit the museum. The American Museum of Natural History has a suggested admission of $22. Likewise, you can pay whatever you like. So if someone says they want to buy some sort of attractions card to save money on admissions but then says her focus will be on the Met or Natural History Musuem, we advise them NOT to buy the attractions card. It would be a waste of money. There are other NYC museums whose entrance fees are whatever the visitor wants to pay. Again, locals know this.
I was hoping for similar insider advice in this forum. So, like you said, I'll wait.
