Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck bus

Buses from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck start at €15.58 and take 4h 41m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck starts at €15.58 and takes 4h 41m door to door, run by 1 operator over 270 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 41mDoor to door
  • 3h 57mMoving
  • €17.78 to €30.43From
  • 06:30 to 06:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 9.2 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€17.78 to €30.43 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Prenzlauer Berg and Lübeck.

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VBB runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €29.88Mon21
  2. about €29.88Tue22
  3. about €29.33Wed23
  4. about €30.43Thu24
  5. about €24.38Fri25
  6. about €28.23Sat26
  7. about €26.58Sun27
  8. about €17.78Mon28
  9. about €20.53Tue29
  10. about €21.63Wed30
  11. about €26.03Thu1
  12. about €23.83Fri2
  13. about €24.93Sat3
  14. about €22.73Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Cheapest€15.58
  1. VBB VB142506:303h 57m10:27Prenzlauer Berg bus stationZOB

Door to door 4h 41mCO2 9.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
VBB€15.584h 20m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • VBB

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A hotel room

A room in Lübeck for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €22.1890 days
  2. €18.3360 days
  3. €14.4845 days
  4. €15.5830 days
  5. €16.1321 days
  6. €22.7314 days
  7. €26.587 days
  8. €29.333 days
  9. €29.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €14.48.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 106 percent. The dearest point is €29.88, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €22.73Sun
  2. €17.78Mon
  3. €20.53Tue
  4. €21.63Wed
  5. €26.03Thu
  6. €23.83Fri
  7. €24.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Lübeck

Coach
  • ZOB
  • Bad Schwartau/ZOB
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 270 km against 235 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Neue Neustadt, Magdeburg, Neubrandenburg, Rostock. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Prenzlauer Berg at 06:30 and the last at 06:30, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck take?

The Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck takes 4h 41m door to door, of which 3h 57m is spent moving. The route runs 270 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck cost?

The Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck starts at €15.58 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €15.58. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck?

1 operators run the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck: VBB. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck use?

The Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck leaves from Prenzlauer Berg bus station and arrives at ZOB. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck?

Fares for the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €14.48. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 106 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck produce?

The Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck produces about 9.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 270 km, which works out at roughly 34 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck?

Operators on the Coach from Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 41m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Prenzlauer Berg to Lübeck on 20 September 2026: 270 km of route against 235 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €15.58, and 4h 41m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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