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Check out Museum Island, the Berlin Cathedral and Angela Merkel's Office in one day without walking a single step!

As Europe's largest food department, the delicatessen section at KaDeWe in western Berlin attracts gourmets and connoisseurs with 34,000 products spread over 7,000 square meters! The famous sixth floor is home to a culinary universe of exquisite specialties that fascinates even experienced gourmets.

Your parents may know Dieter Hallervorden, Ilja Richter and Robert Atzorn from seeing them on TV, but at the Schlosspark Theater your mom and dad can see the actors live on stage.

Bus line 100 runs right through the heart of Berlin, charmingly connecting east and west. It passes a string of famous sights that can be admired in comfort from a double-decker bus—right in the middle of the city, from the zoo to Alexanderplatz.

The tour on Bus 100 is most likely Berlin's best-known secret for entertaining your family when they visit. And totally right so! For as little as the cost for a single fare ticket, you get the entire tourist programme!

Next to Kurfürstendamm, Friedrichstraße is Berlin's most famous shopping mile - one reason why it appears on the to-do list of many parents visiting Berlin. You can get anything from designer fashion to souvenirs here.

A trip to the famous Café Einstein Unter den Linden is normally linked for many Berlin tourists with the hope of bumping into a celebrity by chance - actually quite a realistic hope!

The Nikolaiviertel in the heart of Berlin shows the city from an almost fairy-tale perspective. Amongst small houses from the 17th to 19th centuries, as if from a play, you can discover Berlin's historical origins in the old city center not far from the Rotes Rathaus.

The DISTEL ("Thistle") was the first national political cabaret theatre of the GDR and closely linked to the changes of political course of the ruling party SED and the resulting cultural reverbarations.

Since 1995, the Acoustic Music & Jazz Club in Berlin-Mitte has been offering jazz concerts in a cozy atmosphere with excellent acoustics.