10 Years Backpacker Network Germany – January Special Offer

10 Years Backpacker Network Germany - January Special Offer The Backpacker Network Germany celebrates this year in Berlin its’ 10 anniversary. More than 60 Hostels from all over Germany comprise the Network (BNG). This year is not just any normal annual conference, it’s also the 10th anniversary celebration. On anniversaries it’s customary to give presents – the difference is, we’re giving you the presents! From January 2013 you can receive our gift from the U inn Berlin Hostel

This is our present for you, be our guest!

From the 7.01.2013 until the 14.01.2013 be “U inn Berlin”! We invite you to spend a few days in Berlin. Our Special Offer for you: Pay for 2 nights and stay the 3rd night for free. If you book this special offer you’ll also get a free beer on check-in. How about that? Go straight to our Booking Page and send us your booking request for the above-mentioned dates. Please note that you have to mention that you want to book the “BNG-Special” and we’ll take care of the rest.

See you in January!

Michael Jackson Immortal by Cirque du Soleil at O2 World Berlin

Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson Immortal world tour at O2 World Berlin FriedrichshainEven during his life time the unparalleled career of Michael Jackson resembled a circus. The third posthumous album “Immortal” will appear on the music motley Jackson show by Cirque du Soleil.

Cirque du Soleil and the King of Pop

During Michael Jackson “The Immortal” world tour audiences will experience first hand the artist that was Michael Jackson through a captivating mix of visuals, dance, music and fantasy from the creative heart of the King of Pop with his famous dance routines that are literally head turning!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiRbyX2DPQs

Michael Jackson  is Immortal

Michael Jackson “The Immortal” World Tour is made for enthusiastic hardcore fans as well for first time viewers who enjoy the creative genius of Michael Jackson- this show captures the personality, the soul and the inspiration of the King of Pop in an incomparable manner and celebrated so its musical heritage will stand for an age. The back drop of “The Immortal” World tour is a bizarre fantasy world in which we discover the source of the creativity of Michael Jackson, the inspiring “Giving Tree”. The things he lay deeply at heart, his love of music and dance, fairy tale and magic and to the fragile beauty of nature.

Show Dates at O2 World Berlin

  • 19.12.2012 8pm
  • 20.12.2012 8pm

Tickets

 

5th International Children’s and Youth Short Film Festival Berlin

U inn Berlin Hostel kuki internationales kinder kurzfilmfestival

This year’s International Children’s and Youth Short Film Festival will put an exciting, funny and informative festival program from over 900 movies together.

5th KUKI is coming to Berlin

Among other things, there are documentaries from Namibia, a feature from Afghanistan and animations from South Korea, movies made by children, movies that are fun, inspiring and thought provoking. Come and check out from the 11th to 18rd of November in Filmtheater am Friedrichshain and in the Passage Neukölln.

More info’s: http://www.interfilm.de/kuki2012/home.html

Berlin Survival Guide part one – Make money out of empty bottles

For all of you planing your backpacking trip through Europe on a very small budget, we put together a few tips on how you can save a buck or more. Although Berlin is a quite cheap city you might enjoy a little inside story. So here we go with part one of our “Berlin Survival Guide”.

Bottles = Money

U inn Berlin Hostel Survival Guide PfandgebenIf you have been to Berlin, you have seen them. The people going from trash can to trash can looking for something… But what is it? Surprisingly it is not food, it is much better than food, it is MONEY!! Well, not exactly. They are actually bottles, but here in Berlin bottles = money! One typical beer bottle is 0,08 Euro. This may not sound like much, but you know that six pack of plastic beer bottles you threw away in the park trash can and everyone looked at you like you were insane? That was because you just put 1,50 Euro in the trash. “WHAT?? 1,50?? I thought it was only 0,08 Euro???” Nope, plastic ones are 0,25 Euro “Pfand”. Which is what we call a deposit. So next time you are enjoying your delicious beer in the street (yes it is legal to drink in public in Berlin) don’t forget to collect your PFAND!!!

For those of you who are not so good at math, here is a simple break down for you:

  • 60 plastic bottles = 1 night in a dorm at U Inn Berlin Hostel
  • 188 glass bottles = 1 night in a dorm at U Inn Berlin Hostel
  • 26 plastic bottles = 1 Day Pass for the local transport
  • 8 plastic bottles = 1 Berliner Curry Wurst

Collecting bottles = good Karma

But seriously, in Berlin everybody is collecting bottles. It saves the environment. And saving the environment gives you a good Karma. You like to achieve some extra Karma Points? Checkout Pfandgeben.de if you have some spare bottles you can give them to people in need. Just call a number and your bottles get picked up by someone in a few minutes. Extra Karma Point guaranteed.

Check out part two of our Berlin Survival Guide – Validate your ticket and part three More Bang for your Buck

Look out folks, here comes the Berlin Music Days

Berlin Music Days

BerMuDays (shorthand for Berlin Music Days) is a festival internationally renowned, attracting thousands of visitors for an entire week of musical spectacles that really ties the Berlin music scene together. Bermuda take place from 31.Oct till 3.Nov. Participating Clubs and Locations are Kater Holzig(exBar25), Arena Club, Cassiopeia, Cookies, Chalet, Golden Gate, Gretchen, Weekend, Postbahnhof, Watergate, Tresor and many more.

Bermuda Berlin

Night and Day

In the daytime the BerMuDays offers a diverse and cultured program such as Workshops, Panels, Lectures, Exhibitions and fashion events around electronic music and the associated culture. By night the BerMuNights, or Berlin Music Nights, really comes alive with Berlin clubs (there are many) becomes more insane than ever. There are special events catering specifically to the Berlin Music Days/ Nights in many clubs with label nights, showcases and top-notch party specials in Europe’s hottest club scene.

 Fly BerMuDa

The grand finale at Berlin’s former Airport Tempelhof is the FLY BerMuDa event. The Airport Terminal was once the biggest building in the world and during the cold war the allies supplied from this airport West Berlin via the “Luftbrücke” with food. Closed down in 2008 the Tempelhof Airfield becomes a recreation area. The Terminal with its unique design and its huge hangar gives shelter to major events like the Berlin Festival or the Berlin Fashion Week and in November Fly Bermuda a huge indoor Rave which take place in this awesome location. The Lineup is the Who is Who of German Techno artists and as you know we have a lot of them, so let’s have a look at the gigantic lineup.

 

Lineup:

Sven Väth[Cocoon], Luciano[Cadenza] Fritz Kalkbrenner: LIVE[Suol] Chris Liebing[clr.net] Digitalism DJ SET[Hamburg] PAN-POT[Mobilee] MACEO PLEX[ELLUM Audio] Ellen Allien[BPitch Control] MAREK HEMMANN: LIVE[Freude Am Tanzen] Oliver Koletzki & Fran: LIVE[Stil Vor Talent] MAGDA[Items&Things,M-nus] Mathias Kaden[Freude Am Tanzen] Henrik Schwarz: LIVE[Innervisions]Turntablerocker[Casablanca Records] Tale Of Us[Visionquest] Wankelmut[Four Artist] Photek[Photek Productions] Clockwork[Hot Creations] Pinch[Tectonic] Hrdvsion: LIVE[Wagon Repair] Dewalta[Vakant] Niconé & Sascha Braemer[Bar 25 – Berlin] Pilocka Krach LIVE[Bar 25 – Berlin] Lauhaus[Studio 80 – Amsterdam] Molly[Rex Club – Paris] Animal Trainer[Hive Club – Zürich] Luca Pilato[Junk Department – London]

 

Festival of Lights in Berlin

Berlin Illuminated

The “Berlin Festival of Lights” is one of the biggest and best known illumination art festival in the world. The worldwide known cultural monuments as well as buildings, streets and places of Berlin are set into scene for now over 10 years. National and internationally known artists and light designers presenting unusual illuminations, light art objects and designs. Artist of the still young art and culture form „Light“ find their arena at the FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS. Around the Festival of Light many Events take place in Berlin. For example „Night of the open doors“(culture), „Jazz in the secretary gardens“(music) and many more.

Festival of Lights Facts:

• More than 70 Berlin monuments and buildings with impressive illuminations
• Lightseeing tours (bus, lightship, lightballoon, lightcarriage, lightlimo, lightvelo, lightwalking)
• Grand-Opening “LightsOn” 10.10.2012 at 07:30pm Potsdamer Platz
• Night of the open doors 13.10.2012 between 7pm and 12pm
• Jazz in the ministerial gardens 19.10.2012 7pm

Link zur Seite: http://festival-of-lights.de/en/

 

Run Berlin Run!! 39th Berlin-Marathon

39th BMW Berlin-Marathon

U inn Berlin Hostel Friedrichshian Berlin MarathonDo you wanna be one of the million visitors for the 39th BMW Berlin-Marathon? Then save the next weekend for a trip to Berlin. According to the organizer we expect about 70000 runners, walkers, wheelchair athletes, hand cyclists and inline skaters for the marathon weekend. Alone over 40000 marathon runners are registered for the big event on the Sunday the 30th of September 2012.

Marathon Sightseeing

It is a great opportunity to see a lot from 11 suburbs including the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate, the Siegessäule, Potsdamer Platz and many more. Or just enjoy the great Feelin’ and the joy from over 80 bands, which will play all kinds of music along the marathon course.

U inn Berlin Hostel Friedrichshian Berlin Marathon Map

 

Marathon Afterparty

The GOYA Club will be the place to celebrate the end of a long day for all participant and friends. The “party-marathon” for skaters starts on the 29th at 9 pm and for all runners on the 30th of September at 8 pm. It’s 6 € for non-participants.
All information around the event you can find: www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com

Hipster Olympics Berlin 2012

Hipster olympics berlin 2012Hip Hip Hipster!

I don’t know if Berlin is really the Hipster capital everybody claims it to be but since we have the official Hipster Olympics in town it might be so. On Saturday 21.07.2012 at the Postbahnhof in Berlin Friedrichshain Hipsters from all over the world but most likely from Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain will meet to find out who is the “Hippest” Hipster in town. Get yourself a Club-Mate or a Bubble Tea and join the (hip) crowd on Saturday at the Postbahnhof next to the East Side Gallery. You still don’t have any clue what this event will be about?

Here are some of the hipster disciplines:

  • Jute bag jumping
  • Club-Mate crate race
  • skinny jeans fighting
  • Apple product – The price is Right
  • Bubble tea dive
  • vinyl marathon

And many more.  Sound fun to you?!!  Go –> www.hipster-olympiade.de

 

Finding Berlin Tours – classic vintage bike tours

Discover Berlin

Finding Berlin Tours

A great way to discover Berlin is doing it by bike. Everyone can do it! The city is more or less flat. The ‘Finding Berlin‘ tours take you to see the real Berlin and allow you to discover why so many people fall in love with this city and decide to move here. Join Martin the tour guide, who loves his Classic–Vintage bikes, on a tour through Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte or Prenzlauer Berg.

Getting off the beaten tracks

Berlin is a city with a long history with Museums, Churches and Boulevards, that’s what everybody likes to see! But there is so much more than just the “Brandenburger Tor” or “Unter den Linden”. What’s happening right now on the streets of Berlin is just as important. Berlin sets trends in many ways, music, art and fashion. So why not get off the beaten tracks. Visit art galleries, checkout the newest street-art, hang out at awesome chill out spots, and find the best Turkish food in Berlin. You can choose from different tours and ride some of the most stylish bikes ever!

 Art Avantgarde tour

Are you into art? Do you like to find out what makes Berlin’s art scene so unique? This week they start a new tour called ‘Art Avantgarde tour’. Let them take you on a journey through avant-garde art and enjoy fantastic exhibitions. Get in touch with artists and talk with them about their business and what they think about the Berlin scene. This tour will take place every 2nd Tuesday starting on the 26nd of June.

Finding Berlin Bike Tours

  • Art Avantgarde tour – What’s on in the Berlin Art scene?
  • Every 2nd Tuesday Start 14:00 20€
  • IRONarttour – Street Urban Art culture inside & out of the gallery
  • Saturday Start 14:00 18€
  • Berlin Kiez Life – Berlin’s most inspiring districts far away from the main tourist sites
  • Thursday  Start 11:00 25€
  • Favourite Places – Your Berlin Guide
  • Saturday Start 11:00 20€
  • Little Istanbul – The Turkish Berlin
  • Saturday 13:00 22€
  • Good Morning Saigon – The Vietnamese Berlin
  • Friday 16:00 25€

The ‘Finding Berlin’ Headquarters is based at RAW Temple in Friedrichshian. Just down the stairs next to the famous photo box right on Warschauer Straße. If you would just like to rent a bike you can also do so. Opening hours are 10 am till 7 pm.

Contact:

FindingBerlin-Tours Revaler Str. 99 10245 Berlin
phone +49 176 99 333 913
www.findingberlin-tours.com