Bern Self-Guided City Walking Tour & Scavenger Hunt
Description
Arcades for rainy days, a clock that inspired Einstein and bears on the coat of arms — Bern rewards those who look twice. This app-led scavenger hunt takes you through Bern on foot, using phone-based riddles to guide you from one landmark to the next. No guide, no fixed start time. • Face the Bundeshaus, the domed home of Swiss democracy • Time your visit to the Zytglogge and its mechanical hourly show • Decode the Rathaus, seat of Bernese power since 1406 Available in 24 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian — see the full list when booking and choose yours when you start the game in the app. Around 2 hours - any group size. The slowest-paced capital in Europe — perfect racing conditions.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Max 15 people per booking. For larger groups, make multiple bookings.
- After booking you receive a text message and a Viator message with your game code. Download the Explorial app from your appstore. Open the app, enter your 6 digit game code
- Weather & Health Guarantee: If bad weather or illness prevents you from starting the tour, you can simply reschedule it for another day. You can also rebook to a different city or request a refund
- Smartphone required: Bring your own fully charged smartphone with an active mobile data connection to the start of the tour. Please disable any VPN and avoid city Wi-Fi, as these will cause the app to malfunction or disconnect.
- Recommended attire: It’s best to wear weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable walking shoes — approx. 2 hours of light walking
Reviews(13)
We booked and conducted this tour as a team event. It is very practical that everyone in our multilingual team could choose their languages. Additionally, there was no time pressure, allowing us to enjoy and take breaks wherever we liked. Highly recommended! 1-2 additional stations would have been nice.
Hallo, was für ein schönes Feedback, vielen Dank! Teamevents sind bei uns der Renner – gerade weil jeder mitspielen kann und niemand gehetzt wird. Den Wunsch nach 1–2 zusätzlichen Posten geben wir gerne an unser Team weiter. Übrigens: Wer sein nächstes Teamevent noch sucht, Bern wartet schon! 😊 Euer Explorial Team
Positive: A great idea to get to know the city in an entertaining way, especially for the little ones. We all liked it a lot. The negative: only one person in the group was on the Internet and the others could not even enter the application, however I think it was not necessary because one person downloading it is enough and in the end it would have been cheaper. Maybe they should set a price for the app and always charge the same regardless of the number of people. I also think they should include the river in some way. Maybe visiting the spa.
Hola, Muchas gracias por tu fantástica reseña. Esperamos volver a veros pronto jugando al Explorial en otras ciudades.
Download app beforehand and make sure it works. It didn't work for us, we couldn't start the scavenger hunt, we didn't get any help online. So we paid the money we had paid for nothing.
Danke für dein Feedback. Ich bedaure sehr, dass ihr keine gute Erfahrung mit uns gemacht habt. Uns liegt sehr viel daran, allen unseren Kunden den besten Service zu bieten. Wärt ihr interessiert, einen Trail in einer anderen Stadt zu machen? Falls Probleme auftreten würden, ist unser Support-Team selbstverständlich erreichbar. Andernfalls würden wir euch auch anbieten, die Tickets zu rückerstatten. Melde dich doch bitte einfach per Mail bei uns (mail@explorial.com), damit wir eine für euch zufriedenstellende Lösung finden können! Liebe Grüße vom gesamten Explorial-Team.
It worked well with me and my husband.We did it on our pace,just make sure your cellphone is fully charged.This works if places you want to see are within close proximity and you’re able to walk the distance in between places like Luzern.
Thank you so much for your review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon in other cities. 😊
If you don’t want to follow a large group around with a flag, I recommend this self guided tour/scavenger hunt. The quiz is kind of fun, but I did skip past some of it.
Thank you so much for your fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon in other cities.
We had no idea of where to go or what to do in Bern. This tour was perfect. Showed us places we would’ve never seen, we read about them and was able to go at our own pace. We stopped off and shopped in between/enroute to the location on the tour. The questions were fun too! Highly recommend.
Good morning, Thank you so much for your fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon in other cities.
Beautiful city, very well connected, to take into account all the architecture but if you go with children you can not fail to see the bears that are in the moat of the bridge. We will certainly remember your visit.
Many thanks for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
Finding all the landmarks, learning interesting information about each, and answering questions for points was definitely fun for our 10 year old grandson.
Many thanks for such a fantastic review! We hope to see you playing Explorial again soon!
Great thing. It was really fun for us (4 adults) and we explored the city and its surroundings. The trail was well solvable without city knowledge.
Thanks for the fantastic review! We are really happy that you enjoyed it!
Super experience with a great price. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to see Berne in a different way.
Many thanks Joaquim! We hope to see you again enjoying another Explorial Trail soon! Thanks for the fantastic review! This is really what drives us moving forward!
