Six to eight teams, one phone each, 60 to 120 minutes on foot. €5 per pupil, teachers free.
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We are a group of language students and we played the game with our teacher: a great and fun way to practise, and learn interesting stuff about our city that we didn't know.
Perfect with a group of A Level pupils. Loved it.
Quests for classes
A school day with Questo in Berlin follows the story of a divided city on foot. Quests run through Mitte around Potsdamer Platz, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie and Gendarmenmarkt, along the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße, and into Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg. For Key Stage 3 classes, Greatest Escapes from East Berlin traces escapes across the Wall from Potsdamer Platz to Checkpoint Charlie, and Escape from Nazi Berlin follows the Blum family through Mitte. Younger pupils can walk the streets of 1989 in After the Wall, and sixth formers can solve Death in the Shadows near Gendarmenmarkt. Quests cover ages 8 to 18.
67 min · 3.9 km · 10 stops
Starts at S+U Postdamer Platz (Leipziger Platz)
How the Berlin Wall divided the city around Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate
50 min · 2.5 km · 10 stops
Starts at Am Bullenwinkel
Jewish life in Berlin and Nazi persecution, told through one family's attempt to escape
176 min · 4.9 km · 12 stops
Starts at St. Thomas Church
How a district grew, from Viktoriapark and its cascades to the Fichtebunker and Marheineke Markthalle
175 min · 3.3 km · 14 stops
Starts at Moabit Historical Prison Park
The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße: the Border House, the Chapel of Reconciliation and the Victim Wall of Remembrance (staff may want to preview this)
73 min · 4.5 km · 15 stops
Starts at The First Whisper
Life beside the Berlin Wall and the hope of freedom, told across 12 stops
124 min · 4.9 km · 14 stops
Starts at Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg
167 min · 5.4 km · 14 stops
Starts at Oderbergerstr, Schwederstr and Eberswalderstr corner
The night of 9 November 1989 at the Platz des 9. November 1989 and beneath the Bornholmer Brücke
64 min · 3.4 km · 10 stops
Starts at Brandenburg Gate
Medieval Berlin at St. Nicholas' Church and the Nikolaiviertel
54 min · 5.7 km · 10 stops
Starts at Victory Column
Teams of 3 to 5 pupils share one phone.
For under-14s, have one adult per 2 to 3 teams with agreed checkpoints; for 14 to 18, follow your school's policy.
Classes up to grade 8 ride BVG and S-Bahn services on the VBB Gruppentageskarte für Schüler (€4 each, Berlin AB, minimum 10 pupils, one adult per 10).
Mitte is flat and walkable.
Wall's automatic City-Toiletten stand on streets across the centre; many are free, others cost 50 cents by card or phone, not coins.
Each takes one person at a time, so plan museum stops.
The Tiergarten and the Lustgarten lawn beside Berlin Cathedral suit packed lunches.
Keep away from the Holocaust Memorial for eating: climbing and jumping on its stelae is forbidden and guards patrol.
The Topography of Terror (free, daily 10am to 8pm) and the Tränenpalast at Friedrichstraße station (free) suit groups.
If rain spoils the day, replay the quest free within 30 days.
Caution: Berlin's cycle lanes often run along the pavement, marked red, green or barely at all, and pupils drift into them. Remind teams not to stop in them when huddling over the phone.
The Cold War and the divided city, from the building of the Berlin Wall to its fall in 1989, through escape stories, Checkpoint Charlie, a GDR watchtower, the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße and the Platz des 9. November 1989.
Urban geography of a capital city, comparing Mitte, Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg; tracing where the border once ran through streets, a tunnel and footbridges; map reading and orientation on routes of 2.3 to 5.7 km.
Greatest Escapes from East Berlin can be played in German, French, Spanish, Dutch or Italian, and the Blum family quest in German, French or Dutch, so a language class can read every instruction and story in the language it studies. Other quests offer English and German.
Democracy, dictatorship and freedom of movement, with stops at Berlin's state parliament (Abgeordnetenhaus) and the Bavarian state representation, and memorials that show how a city remembers its past.
Price and terms
No minimum group, no time slot.
A class of 30 on one quest: €150.
Choose a questTell us the quest or city, the class size and the dates. We send an invoice to the school.
In short
A school trip to Berlin with Questo is a self-guided city quest. Pupils in teams of 3 to 5 follow a route of 10 to 15 stops on foot, solving a puzzle at each, in 50 to 180 minutes. 12 quests suit classes aged 8 to 18. There is no guide and no time slot: the class starts when it arrives. The price is €5 per pupil, and teachers play free.
Pupils are an estimate: groups of four or more teams starting one quest together, at about four pupils a team, across all cities since 2018. Ratings are from players of these quests.
In a randomised study of 10,912 students, a single cultural trip raised critical thinking, tolerance and interest in culture weeks later.
458 Amsterdam pupils walked the medieval city in teams, solving tasks on phones at real locations. They learned more than classmates taught the same topic in lessons.
Source: Huizenga et al., Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
Across hundreds of studies, game-based learning beats non-game teaching on knowledge and retention; story and playing together are what make the difference.
Source: Sailer and Homner, Educational Psychology Review, 2020
| A Questo quest | A guided walking tour | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is active | Every pupil, in a team | 30 pupils listening to one guide |
| Start | When you arrive | 10:00 sharp |
| Pace | Each team at its own, pause for lunch | The group moves on |
| What the teacher gets before | Plays the whole route free | A confirmation email |
| Price | €5 per pupil, teachers free | €12–€25 per pupil, teachers often charged |
Teacher FAQ
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