Sunday 17 June 2018

Two days to go - getting a bang out of City cards

Museum/Transit cards:
This is the Berlin Museum Pass. Just one of many ways that tourists can get a bang for their bucks. It is one of three that offer most of the same thing - cheap or free entries to museums and sights. Some cards have free transit attached and they all offer something. The problem is that not all the museums are on one card, not all transit is on one card so tourists have to really check as to which card suits them best. 

The rule of thumb is that if you are doing more than three museums in your trip you can save. We have investigated and for our purposes the Berlin transit card will work, after we have used up our two days on the hoho bus, and then probably pay for the individual museums we want to enter. The one wrinkle is that despite the claim that you can 'skip the line' the most popular museums are 'time-dated'. Even if you have a 'skip the line' you still have to go to the box office to get a ticket with a time on it. Museums do this to stagger the number of people in the museum at any one time.

Each place we are going to, Malmo excepted, has a City card. A combination of transit and museums it is a job in itself to go through all of them. The savvy tourists will make themselves aware of them and then obtain them at the hotel they stay at or the local cornerstore.

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