On Friday, 21 April 2017 at 16:49:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 19 April 2017 at 20:22, Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
I'm arriving at Berlin Ostbahnhof on Wednesday evening and
will be heading
to Britz Hotel, but last year I learnt that the best way to
get around the
city is on a bicycle. Can you recommend a place (preferably
near the
station) where I could rent a not-so-small bike for 4 days for
a reasonable
price?
Thanks!
Almost every single bike shop you stumble across in Berlin
offers rentals, all pretty much at the same price of around 10€
a day. If you have a native german to help you, maybe you'll
even get a swindled deal.
However, the one notable thing that has changed from last year
is that there's a new competitor in the form of a Lidl bike.
I've seen literally hundreds of them inside the Berlin S-bahn
ring, one major advantage of using them is that they don't need
a dedicated docking station for you to park them in.
I'll just refer to this blog on the more fine grain details.
https://schnaeppchenfuchs.com/news/lidl-bike-berlin
Looks like they even come with a GPS locator, which probably is
used for DB's smartphone app.
https://www.lidl-bike.de/de/rad-finden
Good idea, I'll try to find one before I look for some
"traditional" rental. I'm only afraid that as a sort of public
bikes they're all in a "normalized" size which probably won't be
safe for me – I sometimes ride nextbike bikes here in Warsaw
(this year they look exactly the same as in Berlin) and they kill
my knees very quickly.
I really wanted to take my own bike but the train operator sucks
– there's only one train in the timetable that allows bicycles
and it's at 6am and costs twice as much as the one in the
afternoon.
