On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 17:54:24 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 08:43:34 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
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>More questions?
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I'll be getting out of the airport probably around 10:00 pm or
so. I've seen online the subways run into the early am, but
would I be better off grabbing a taxi at that time?
I assume you arrive at Tegel. Then you go by bus 109 to U
Jakob-Kaiser-Platz. This should be safe. I never heard of much
crime in that area of the city. From U Jakob-Kaiser-Platz you
take the U7 (light blue on the BVG maps) for about half an hour
to U Grenzallee. So you never leave the metro in between. The
less safer places of the ride are actually towards its end.
That's my impression. But I'd say it's safe.
Nothing ever happened to me. Even when I went to the Berlin D
meetups (third Friday of a month at 7p.m.) to U Kottbusser Tor
and back around 10p.m. Though Kottbusser Tor has a reputation
for being unsafe.
Try to not look like a rich tourist. It's fine to carry a bag.
Berliners also travel and need to get home, too. Be careful
when strangers approach you to avoid pick pocketing. Not that
this ever happened to me.
Jens
It's different when you're a tourist who doesn't speak the
language well and cannot "read" the situation. I've heard it's
quite common in public places now that someone approaches you and
distracts you (by asking for directions or something) while his
buddies try to steal your phone and wallet.
You'll probably be fine, as Jens said. My advice is to take a
taxi, if you don't feel good about it, especially after a more or
less long journey when all you wanna do is arrive. It'd be around
€40, if it's true what they say on the internet.
There is of course the danger that the taxi driver will try to
fleece you, but you know the shortest route now :)
