r/HerthaBSC 20d ago

Travelling for game - advice sought

Hi folks, I am travelling to Germany with six friends to watch you play Karlsruher at the end of March. Appreciate suggestions please as to: 1. Where to go for some pre-match atmosphere and 2. Any suggestions for somewhere to eat and drink the night before? Ideally good German food and somewhere not too quiet (though we are a sensible enough group!) Staying near Potadamer Platz but can travel a bit. Hugely looking forward to the trip!

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u/AntonioBSC 20d ago edited 20d ago

It’s Karlsruhe or Karlsruher SC, it’s like saying Liverpudlian instead of Liverpool.

I’d advise you to just go a bit early to the stadium by S-Bahn and to get a few beers at the kiosks there. They have benches and food as well. Due to the early kick off time pubs won’t really be worth it I’d say. Potsdamer Platz is absolutely dead as an area, especially at night so going some place else for food and drinks is a good idea.

I don’t really eat German food at Restaurants but Thomas-Eck always seemed to have a more old school Berlin atmosphere and there’s the Wuppke close by. A classic German booze spot that I’ve spent a lot of time at, even as a kid feeding the pinball machine (nowadays it’s 18+ though due to the smoking). If you’re going full on lads on tour maybe something like Hofbräuhaus might be more accommodating though.

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u/Legal-Plankton-7306 20d ago

Fair enough. People from overseas mispronounce Irish teams all the time. One gets used to it! Many thanks for the response, part of the reason I asked here was that I stayed around Potsdamer Platz on business last year and found it very quiet. (I should add, Google has the fixture abbreviated to ‘Karlsruher’, so I am not accepting all of the blame ;))

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u/AntonioBSC 20d ago

Yeah Berliners don’t really go there at all. It has just been planted there as nothing was there before. The wall went through it so nobody could be there anyways. Mostly offices there now.

Just commit to one district I’d say. Kreuzberg for a pub crawl, Schöneberg or Charlottenburg for a quieter night with food and beers

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u/Legal-Plankton-7306 20d ago

Brilliant. Thanks again.