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Cynic wrote:

Just to add to Tom's post; Tegel does not have a train station, but there is a frequent bus from outside arrivals to the city centre; trains to Dresden run from the Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

I stand corrected. The connection from Tegel to the Berlin main train station is a bus. This is shown in the details of the connections when one uses the route planner. Most important is to figure out which airport your flight arrives in to make your plans!

Cynic wrote:

LOL - when I lived there; the railway to Dresden was the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the tickets were hand-written when you booked your ticket (and you smiled nicely to the VOPO lurking on the platform).

I was in Berlin last year on a nostalgia trip, I used the bus/S-Bahn/U-Bahn option, but I knew where I was going.  However, I noticed that the Hauptbahnhof had a travel centre; assuming this is a business trip and if not on expenses, at least deductible, I'd still recommend the taxi option, then go into the Travel Centre, if the OP can't speak German, then they will speak at least English.  I just checked the Deutsche Bahn website; single seat 44 euro, you can book online and you get an e-ticket (pdf) to keep on your phone.

Like I suggested, booking online is pretty straight forward - if one manages with the German. If not one always has the option to buy tickets at the stations. The question is the hassle. Waiting in line for an hour or more is normal in Stuttgart and out of the question when one is in a hurry. Maybe they have more personnel in Berlin but I doubt it. Deutsche-Bahn has gone way down hill in terms of service and reliability. They waste billions on unneeded projects like Stuttgart 21 while trying to save by cutting service. And while public transportation in most German cities is amazing compared to many countries, Berlin's is embarrassingly run down. But I guess it will get one to where they need to go.

TominStuttgart wrote:

Cynic wrote:

LOL - when I lived there; the railway to Dresden was the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the tickets were hand-written when you booked your ticket (and you smiled nicely to the VOPO lurking on the platform).

I was in Berlin last year on a nostalgia trip, I used the bus/S-Bahn/U-Bahn option, but I knew where I was going.  However, I noticed that the Hauptbahnhof had a travel centre; assuming this is a business trip and if not on expenses, at least deductible, I'd still recommend the taxi option, then go into the Travel Centre, if the OP can't speak German, then they will speak at least English.  I just checked the Deutsche Bahn website; single seat 44 euro, you can book online and you get an e-ticket (pdf) to keep on your phone.

Like I suggested, booking online is pretty straight forward - if one manages with the German. If not one always has the option to buy tickets at the stations. The question is the hassle. Waiting in line for an hour or more is normal in Stuttgart and out of the question when one is in a hurry. Maybe they have more personnel in Berlin but I doubt it. Deutsche-Bahn has gone way down hill in terms of service and reliability. They waste billions on unneeded projects like Stuttgart 21 while trying to save by cutting service. And while public transportation in most German cities is amazing compared to many countries, Berlin's is embarrassingly run down. But I guess it will get one to where they need to go.

The website does have 8 different language versions, one in English.  I suspect because you are actually in Germany, yours defaults to German, whereas, my ISP is in the UK, so it spots I'm an Auslander and gives me some options.