Public transport is the cheapest, most efficient and greenest way of getting around Berlin. The Stadtmitte U-Bahn station is 3 min walk to the hotel. Take Bus 128 from TXL to Kurt Schumacher Platz and then the U Bahn to Stadtmittte - time taken 34 min and cost per person EUR 2.8

We took a taxi but the info on public transport is here:- The airport is situated 18 km from the city centre, to the south-east of the city. It is mostly used by charter and low cost airlines such as easyJet, Ryanair, Aer Lingus, UP and Norwegian Air Shuttle. But also major carrier Aeroflot and TAP Portugal go there. A single ticket from Schoenefeld Airport to Berlin city centre costs 3,30 Euro (reduced: 2,40 Euro) for zones ABCand covers Airport Express trains, S-Bahn, underground, buses and trams. You may make as many stops or transfers as you like during the two-hour period of validity, however, the ticket is not valid for return or round trips. Make sure you validate your ticket! Adultshave to pay the regular fare; children from 6 to 14 can use the tickets with reduced price. Children until they are 6 years old do not need tickets. Multi-lingual ticket machines (The newest machines offer: German, English, French, Turkish and Spanish) are to be found in the arrivals area of Terminal A, outside Terminal A next to the bus bays and in the airport station. You will find a map with the location of ticket machines within the terminals on the website of Schoenefeld airport. Ticket machines can be set to English for ease of use. Make sure you validate your ticket on the platform (little tiny red machine which puts a time stamp on your ticket to validate it) or in the bus (same type of machine, but yellow/ white), if you have not bought it from the bus driver. For all options please read the FAQ -> Where can I buy tickets. There are also ticket machines in front of Terminals A and B and on the platforms. VBB and BVG ticket machines accept Maestro debit cards, DB ticket machines also take Visa and Mastercards. If paying in the bus, only cash will be accepted by the driver. To avoid the long queues and save time you can also buy your tickets online on the website of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) or with the official BVG app to buy a mobile ticket. RE 7 and RB 14 (Airport Express) From Schoenefeld, the fastest way to get to the city centre (stations Ostbahnhof, Alexanderplatz, Friedrichstrasse, Hauptbahnhof, Zoologischer Garten or Charlottenburg) is, taking the Airport Express.The Airport Express is a regional train service of lines RE 7 (bound for Dessau) or RB 14 (bound for Nauen), operated by Deutsche Bahn (DB). Trains leave every 30 minutes from Flughafen Berlin-Schoenefeld station which is in walking distance from the airport terminal. There is covered walkway to the left upon exiting the building which takes you directly to the station. S-Bahn There are also two S-Bahn (urban rail) lines which terminate at Schoenefeld station. It will usually take you longer to get into the city since these trains make quite a few en-route stops. S-Bahn operates all night on Friday and Saturday nights. There is a timetable for weekdays, timetable for the weekend & holidays and U-Bahn and S-Bahn map available for download. S45 trains (bound for Bundesplatz ) connect to S41/ S42 which are city-circle trains. S9 trains (bound for Pankow ) run via Ostkreuz and Prenzlauer Alee. If you are travelling to or from Mitte, you will have to change for S5, S7 or S75 at Ostkreuz. Bus and underground Bus X7 (bound for U Rudow ) and bus 171 (bound for U Hermannplatz with lines U7 and U8) take you to Rudow underground station which is the terminus of underground line U7. Use this connection, if you want to go to Neukoelln or Kreuzberg. At night night bus N7 operates between Schoenefeld Airport and U Rudow. At the weekend you can connect to underground line U7 there (Friday and Saturday night only). Within the week continue to use this underground replacement night bus service (N7 continued from Sunday to Thursday night). Have a good trip