🎒 What Should You Buy for Your Trip to Berlin?
🎒 What Should You Buy for Your Trip to Berlin?
Top 10 Essentials Every Smart Traveler Packs (2025 Edition)
Berlin is bold, historic, rebellious, and deliciously chaotic. Whether you’re coming for the Wall, the döner, or the techno—it helps to be prepared.
Here’s your ultimate checklist: the Top 10 Things to Buy Before You Travel to Berlin, including a powerful (and free!) German vocabulary book that does more than just sit on your phone.
✅ 1. Berlin Vocabulary Book (+ Access to Interactive Exercises!)
🗣️ Because “U-Bahn gesperrt wegen Bauarbeiten” shouldn’t ruin your day.
We didn’t just make a pretty PDF.
We created a German vocabulary book made for real-life Berlin situations—and here’s the twist:
🎁 This book unlocks free access to our interactive German learning platform, where you can:
✅ Practice your Berlin-themed vocab with quizzes & games
✅ Hear audio pronunciations
✅ Reinforce memory with spaced repetition
✅ Learn in context (cafés, museums, nightlife, transport!)
✅ Track your progress and level up your German
It’s more than a book—it’s your Berlin German survival kit.
And yes, it’s totally free on Gumroad.
👉 Download Your Free Vocabulary Book + Platform Access
🧳 2. Lightweight Travel Backpack
Berlin is a walking (and biking) city. Bring a compact, water-resistant daypack with secure zippers for your essentials and snacks.
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📱 3. eSIM or Local SIM Card
Avoid roaming charges. Grab a prepaid SIM at the airport or install a German-compatible eSIM before you land. Telekom and Vodafone are safe bets.
My personal favorite Vodafone
🧥 4. Packable Waterproof Jacket
Rain comes out of nowhere here—especially in spring. A foldable rain jacket saves you from spontaneous soakings.
The most famous jackets in Germany - Wolfskin brand (male)
The most famous jackets in Germany - Wolfskin brand (female)
📘 5. German Phrasebook or App
Download Google Translate or PONS, but honestly—our free vocabulary book + online platform will give you more practical results, faster.
🚲 6. Bike-Friendly Accessories
Berlin is a bike haven. If you're cycling, bring a foldable helmet, portable lock, and a phone mount to follow maps safely. (if you are traveling by car)
Or just bring your own bike. There also quite a lot of private bike tours in Berlin. You can explore the city and it surroundings by yourself or request a tour by Konnektoren.
📸 7. Portable Phone Charger
Your battery won’t last long between maps, camera, and translation apps. Get a compact 10,000mAh power bank for peace of mind.
I would also suggest you to take a power bank with a fast charger.
Remember, that a lot of airlines have a 100 Wh limitation on the power banks. Airlines have limits on power bank usage primarily due to fire risks associated with lithium-ion batteries, which must be carried in your carry-on luggage and are never allowed in checked baggage. Generally, power banks up to 100 Wh are permitted without airline approval, while those between 100 Wh and 160 Wh typically require prior airline approval, and power banks above 160 Wh are generally not allowed on flights.
💸 8. Take CASH and a card
In Berlin in many places you cannot pay by card. Majority places accept cash only. It is really hard to find a place, where you can by with a card. Also many places accept only EC cards, that is a special German system. Also in many restaurants and small shops you cannot pay by card at all or they accept the payment with card only after 10 Euro.
Also, remember that if would use an ATM in Berlin, something like "Euronet" it would charge you a very high comision for money withdrawal and if you do not have a bank card in Euro, than it would also convert the money from your currency to Euro with a very low rate. And at the end of the day you would loose A LOT of money.
One more thing, it is quite hard to find a currency exchange. There are not so many of them in the city, sometimes hard to find or the people, that are working there are somewhere at the pause. So I highly suggest you think about money exchange before you come to Berlin.
There are also plenty of places, where you can pay with a card, like shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels e.t.c.
🧴 9. Toiletries in a TSA-Ready Bag
Pack light, clean, and airport-friendly: sunscreen, sanitizer, and moisturizer. I think, that after Corona everyone started care about there hygiene even more :)
And do not forger the sunscreen with an FPS 50+ if you are coming here at summer.
PS. FPS 50 can be a little bit to fat for some people, but it is the only one that really protects you from the sun. You can also take an FPS 30, it is much lighter. You can even buy as a spray.
PSS. For airplane ✈️ ......
you are typically allowed to bring travel-sized aerosols (3.4 ounces/100 milliliters or less) in your carry-on, as long as they fit comfortably within a single, transparent, quart-sized bag.
In checked baggage, limits are generally higher (up to 2 liters or 2 kg per person, with individual containers not exceeding 500 ml or 500 g), But do check it with your airlines/s, if you are flying with a transfer and have multiple airlines.
You can also grab this nice traveling bottles. I love to take my own hair conditioner, because I have a curly hair and always struggle with shampoos in the hotels. So at least one mini bottle is a must have for me.
👟 10. Comfy Walking Shoes
Berlin is cool with sneakers. Pick something that can handle 15k steps, sudden rain, and a detour through Tempelhofer Feld.
🚀 BONUS: Be Berlin-Ready — Not Just Packed, But Fluent(ish)
Don’t just come here to point and hope.
Come prepared to speak, understand, and connect.
👉 Download our Free Berlin Vocabulary Book
and unlock your free access to fun, interactive German practice made specifically for you.
This isn’t school.
It’s learning for explorers, digital nomads, and curious travelers like you.
🗣️ Because knowing the word “Sperrung” might save you from ending up on a tram to nowhere with a döner in one hand and zero Wi-Fi.
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