Every day is a new beginning. We have the perfect tips for you to put your good intentions into practice. No matter if you are planning to do something for health and wellness, if you want to try something new, live more sustainably or spend quality time with your family: you're worth doing something good for yourselves. Let us inspire you!
Tip 1: Get smarter
In Berlin you can visit 200 museums and collections. Immerse yourself in the impressive diversity of the collections. Travel to the past on Museum Island and to the future in the newly opened Futurium. The Museum Pass gives you free admission to over 30 Berlin museums. These include all the houses on Museum Island, the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Gemäldegalerie, but also the German Museum of Technology, the German Historical Museum and the German Spy Museum. The free admission is valid for three consecutive days. So education is really fun!
Tip 2: Spend quality time with your family
Berlin is the perfect city for a varied family holiday. There is a playground on every street corner, and in bad weather even indoor playgrounds. Numerous lovingly decorated children's shops make not only children's eyes light up. From Legoland to children's theatres to children's farms, exciting museum offers, hidden green spaces, concerts, open air cinemas and trend sports offers: The city is an adventure playground with countless possibilities for experiences you will never forget..
Top 10 attractions for children
Tip 3: Let yourself be pampered
The most important thing about good intentions is to do yourself some good with them. Just visit one of Berlin's beautiful wellness oases instead of forcing yourself to do sports. During a relaxing afternoon in a day spa, the desire to do a few laps in the crystal blue pool comes naturally. Or you can let yourself be pampered with a massage after a yoga class, a jogging tour or an interesting guided walk.
Tip 4: Do more sports
No matter if it's stormy and rainy outside or if the sun is shining: Berlin offers with 2500 parks and green spaces, 62 public swimming pools, beautiful lakes, countless small sports and yoga studios, bouldering halls and areas for beach volleyball a lot of space for romping and training. Go paddling, indoor surfing at Wellenwerk, kitesurfing on the Tempelhofer Feld, explore the city by bike or try plogging. With this trend from Sweden, you collect rubbish by the wayside while you run. It is that easy to do something good for yourself and the environment at the same time.
More about trend sports in Berlin
Tip 5: Drink more water
You need 30 to 40 millilitres of water per kilogram of body weight. That is about 2 to 3 litres a day. Sometimes that's not so easy. Especially when travelling or when we are under stress, we tend to get a coffee or a mate. Good to know: In Berlin, many public places have free drinking fountains from Berliner Wasserbetriebe. Refill Berlin also connects numerous cafés, restaurants and shops that will refill your drinking water bottle for free.
More informationen about free drinking water in Berlin
Tip 6: Sustainable shopping
There is hardly a city where it is easier to avoid the big fashion chains. Berlin is known for its many flea markets and second-hand shops. Numerous Berlin designers rely on upcycling as well as sustainable and fair production for their collections. You are guaranteed to find some extraordinary unique pieces here. You can also avoid plastics by buying vegetables, fruit, bread and meat at one of the weekly markets or filling your shopping basket in one of the beautiful market halls. Everything else you might need can be found in one of the unpacked shops.
Covered markets in Berlin
Tip 7: Restore and Renew
There is always something going on in Berlin, around the clock. It's fun, but also demands a lot of energy. Especially in a big city like Berlin, it's important to recharge your batteries and relax in between. You will find an enchanting environment for this in the city's beautiful hamams and saunas. Or you can choose one of Berlin's wellness hotels for your stay.
Tip 8: Go Vegan
Berlin is a paradise for vegans: from the vegan supermarket chain Veganz to a variety of vegan and sustainable restaurants and numerous urban gardening projects, it is easier than almost anywhere else to live a healthy and vegan life here. In addition, there are many exciting new projects to discover, such as the Cafè Botanio, in whose permaculture garden you can also plant.
More vegan restaurants in Berlin
Tip 9: Escape into the countryside
Even if it's cold and grey outside, it's worth taking a trip into Berlin's green surroundings. Here, generously laid out thermal baths and sauna landscapes entice you to relax. At Tropical Island you can stroll under the roof of the former Zeppelin hangar under palm trees and along a sandy beach. And in the Spreewaldtherme in Lübbenau you can dive with your kids together with real penguins.
More Spas in Berlin & Brandenburg
Tip 10: Practice Mindfulness
It's hard to believe, but in Berlin it can also be very quiet and idyllic. Enchanted gardens and parks invite you to pause for a moment. Visit the oldest tree in Berlin near Tegeler See. The 900 year old oak tree was named by the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander Humboldt after their cook: "Dicke Marie". Or you can meditate in Europe's oldest Buddhist temple. The entrance is free. The mediation courses here are a real insider tip.
More about parks and gardens in Berlin
Tip 11: Read more
From Berthold Brecht and Nora Bossong to Kurt Tucholsky and Helene Weigel: they all lived and wrote in Berlin. And this is just a tiny selection of the writers who put their thoughts and ideas down on paper here in the capital. Immerse yourself in the world of literature, browse through the bookstores or attend a reading. Berlin tells many stories. Let yourself be inspired.
Literatur & culturhouses in Berlin
Our tip: Try something new. With the Berlin Welcome Card you travel free on charge on all public transportation in Berlin and get discounts on over 200 cultural institutions and attractions. We wish you lots of fun!
