I will be in Berlin next april for 8 days. can any one advise what to do in berlin 8 days? and will i need a winter coat?
thanks

I'll be in Berlin for my 7/8th visit in April. It would be very unusual to wear a thick winter coat in April, but do bring a spring jacket (non black coat).

You might want to consider a tour of Berlin by boat, but only if the weather is mild:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...rchText=Berlin

There is an excellent guide book called BerlinWalks which offers 5 of 6 tours of different neighborhoods of the city. I have the 1989 edition, and I do not know if it has been updated to take into account the changes around the Potsdamer Platz.

If you have too many days in Berlin, you can go to Hamburg with the ICE train within 90 minute, Dresden or Leipzig in 2 hours. Rent a car to visit the Harz mountain area to stay in Quedlinburg, Wernigerode, Goslar.
Buy a Berlin guide so you know what you want to see. There is so much to do there, it's just like Paris or London, you have to decide for yourself what you like to see.

Something that may not be in the guide books:
www.insomniactours.com www.berlinpubcrawl.eu

I spent a few day in Berlin this fall and 8 days there would be positively luxurious! The town has some of the most important museums and artworks in the world, and taking them in at your leisure, a morning at a time means you will probably get more out of them than most people do. I wish I'd had the time to take a boat ride on the Spree.

In addition, the architectural history of Berlin is quite a fascination, the crowning glory being the Reichstag. I also found everything having to do with the Berlin Wall quite fascinating.

Any good guidebook will point you to the richness of Berlin's culture. It is a multi-layered city.

I would at least consider taking the short rail ride out to Potsdam to see either the Sans Souci or the Neues Palas or both. Not sure what the gardens will be like in April.

I would also highly recommend the Checkpoint Charlie Museum if you are at all interested in that aspect of Berlin's history.

And the wonderful KaDeWe department store and its great food hall.

On your way out to Potsdam, stop by the Wannsee Conference House; now a museum, it is where the "Final Solution" was decided upon.

As DAX stated, Dresden would make a great day trip (although you could easily spend longer there) and the Harz Mountains are lovely. We enjoyed visiting Goslar and the other towns nearby and it's not a bad drive from B.