Shop opening times over Easter weekend

Does anyone know if the stores will be open over the weekend and on Monday? Or is it going to be like Christmas where the majority or shops closed for the holiday?

Closed Friday, Sunday and Monday.

Saturday is a normal trading day.

does that include public transport too?

Or head south to Austria - it's not a holiday down there.

Running the normal holiday timetable.

thanks

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Thanks everyone!

And what about the flea markets normally on Sunday...are they still running?

How about the burgeramt and other public offices? Hospitals?

Looks like everything will be closed this weekend around here, including local roads!


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Merry Chris...errr... Happy Easter!

grr it sucks.. i went out yesterday and the streets were deserted.

i didn't even think the supermarkets could possibly close on a day like that..

Well now you know. Its a HOLIDAY. be prepared for similar on 1st May, Pfingstmontag and a few other days depending on which part of the country you live.

Are all stores closed on Monday too?!

Yes. It's a HOLIDAY!

Yeah, surviving Easter in Europe can be like provisioning for a siege. When I was in Switzerland, shops closed at 4pm on Holy Thursday as well as every Saturday.

Especially poor planning on my part, arriving at Tegel at 7am Easter Monday, waiting 15 minutes for a bus, and then having to subsist on easter candy and canned goods all day. Thank heavens for UHT milk.

Oh come on - that's an over exaggeration. Just a little planning - its not as if its 4 days without supplies. If you ever get snowed in you are in difficulties! Now I remember the Schneekatastrophe 1979...

Come on - there are enough shops open in berlin also sunday/holiday!

I read somewhere that this year Christi Himmelfahrt falls on the 1st of May. Does anybody know how that will work, i.e. will one of the holidays be lost or will there be two days in a row??

If 2 holidays fall on the same day I believe it counts as 1.

We are just out of luck this year. This isn't the UK

Just as if 1st May or 3rd October falls on a Sunday - too bad.

Luckily my work gives me UK holidays