Travelling to/around Berlin
Location
Berlin is located in northeast Germany, not far from the border with Poland. Hertha's home patch is the district of Charlottenberg, in the far west of the city.
Once an enclave within the former East Germany, Berlin is a long way from many other towns and cities in the unified country. It's 290km (180 miles) from Hannover, the same distance from Hamburg and even 190km (120 miles) from Leipzig, another former East German city.
Travel by plane
Having until fairly recently had 3 international airports (Tempelhof, Tegel and Schönefeld), Berlin is now served by just the one, Berlin Brandenburg International (BER). BER is located across the apron from the old Schönefeld terminal building, to the south-east of the city centre. With the airport in the southeast, and Hertha's ground way out west, BER is 21 miles from the Olympiastadion, and on public transport the journey there will typically take c. 1 hour 20 minutes.
NB: The Berlin local transport area is split into zones A, B and C. 99% of all the places you go in Berlin during your stay are likely to be in zones A and B. But be warned: the airport is in zone C! If you're caught departing or arriving at the aiport on public transport without a zone C ticket, you will get an on-the-spot fine.
Travel by car
Berlin is well served by motorways. The Autobahn A10 acts as an outer ringroad around the city, with the A24, A11, A12, A13, A9 and A2 all feeding into it from different directions. Driving east from Wolfsburg, predominantly on the A2, will, for instance, take you around 2 hours 30 minutes, while driving up from Dresden, also on the A2, will take just under 2 hours.
All of those motorways are, of course, linked to the rest of the nationwide Autobahn network, enabling driving times from other German cities to Berlin of, for example, approximately those shown here:
Cologne: 5 hr 50 min
Dortmund: 4 hr 50 min
Frankfurt: 6 hr
Munich: 6 hr 10 min
If you're thinking of hiring a car, I'd try Avis, Budget or Europcar.
Travel by coach
FlixBus, Germany's leading long-distance coach travel company, run services from BER Airport, the main coach station (ZOB) across to the west of the city in Charlottenberg (just 2 miles from the stadium), Berlin main railway station (north central Berlin) and Südkreuz S-Bahn (metro) station (at 6 o'clock on the ring). For travel times and fares (which can be very cheap) check out the FlixBus website.
Travel by train
The main station in the city is Berlin Hbf (from which you can take an S3 (destination Spandau Bhf) S-Bahn train (metro) direct to the Olympiastadion.
Depending on your route into Berlin, it is possible that instead of the main station, you will choose to disembark at Berlin-Spandau. From there too you can take the S3 straight to the stadium (destination Erkner; journey time 14 mins).
For information on the facilities available at the two stations (e.g. luggage lockers, hire cars, etc.), see the Berlin Hbf and Berlin Spandau pages on Deutsche Bahn's station information website bahnhof.de.
For information on Deutsche Bahn ticket offers, go to my Rail page.
For more on getting to the stadium, see my Olympiastadion page.
Travel by local public transport
The local bus, S-Bahn, underground and tram services come under the umbrella of the regional VBB public transport network. Ticket and timetable information can be found on the VBB website.
Depending on the length of your planned stay in the area/Germany, it might be worth you getting a Deutschlandticket for unlimited use of local and regional public transport not only in the Berlin area, but also throughout the country. Alternatively, if you're planning on doing some sightseeing while in the German capital, then a Berlin Welcome Card, which gives you both unlimited local travel and discounts on entry to many sights, might be worth looking at.
If you have no travel requirements other than on match day, then Hertha BSC match tickets entitle you to travel free on local public transport within zones A, B and C (so all around Berlin, including the airport) from 5 hours before kick-off until 3am next morning. See the club's Ticket FAQs.
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