If you want to be a real Berliner, hire a bike. You will probably find bike hire shops if you keep your eyes peeled, but thanks to German railway company Deutsche Bahn you can now make it easy on yourself by picking up a high-tech bike and drop it off in the street at will. All you need to do to use the so-called Call A Bike service is make a quick call to the hotline number 0700 0 5 22 55 22 and use your credit card to hire the nearest available bike. The standard rate is seven cents per minute, with a maximum charge of 15 euros per day. Bikes are available at most major crossroads in the city.
Another environmentally-friendly option is the Velotaxi , a concept developed in Berlin and which involves a fleet of pedal-power taxis available across the city from Alexanderplatz to Adenauerplatz, Friedrichstrasse to Postdamer Platz.

Berlin has a multi-modal, interlinked public transport system to be proud of. It connects buses, trams, an underground (the U-Bahn), city trains (the S-Bahn), intercity trains, even ferry crossings in the city, and it runs on time.
There are three pricing zones (A-C) but unless you travel outside the S-Bahn “ring” then the AB tickets, including all those listed below, cover all the above modes of public transport in the main areas of the city.
If you want to plan a day trip to Potsdam you can pay a small supplement to extend tickets to include zone C at ticket desks.
Standard tickets (Einzelfahrausweis) are 2.10 euros and can be used within two hours of validation in one direction only.
A day ticket (Tageskarte) costs 5.80 euros and lasts you until 3am the following day so you can pack a lot in for your money.
Instead of the weekend ticket (Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket), which costs 30 euros from the machine or 32 over the counter, you may be better off with a few day tickets topped up with a standard ticket for the return trip to the airport, or with the weekly card (7-Tages-Karte) which costs 25.40 euros and lasts up to the minute you validated it the following week.
Other good options are the Kleingruppenkarte which for 14.80 euros covers three to five people for one day until 3am the following day, or CityTourCards (14.90 euros for two days, 19.90 euros for three) also gives reduced entry into many museums and monuments.
For short journeys of no more than three U-Bahn or S-Bahn stops or no more than six stops on the bus or tram you can buy a Kurzstrecke ticket for 1.20 euros.

For more transport info visit www.bvg.de

Taxis are not always easy to find when you want one, though there are ranks in central areas and near stations. Fares cost around 2.50 euros per pick-up then 1.53 euros per km. Taxi companies worth trying are City-Funk: 030 21 02 02, Spree-Funk: 030 44 33 22 and Taxi-Ruf Würfelfunk: 0800 222 22 55 (freecall). When you hail a taxi on the street, say “Kurzstrecke”, (short trip) and you’ll pay just 3 euros for trips up to 2km.