Hamburg Experience

Hummel! Hummel!

Advantages: Water and ships everywhere!
Disadvantages: The weather is not always nice.

Last May I stayed in Hamburg for 24 hours, my train arrived at 3 pm and I left the following day at about the same time. Can one get a more than superficial impression of such a big city, the second largest German city (~ 1,8 million inhabitants) after Berlin, in such a short time? I think so, after all tourists are only interested in the city centre, who'd want to visit the suburbs, which are more or less the same everywhere in the world anyway? ...
...Information there and buy a Hamburg Card. Last year it cost 8 €, I cherish it not only for the possibility of saving money on tickets when going hither and thither by U-Bahn, S-Bahn (kind of tubes) or bus and on entrance fees but also for the fact that with it I’m not in danger of losing face in front of a ticket automat which invariably wins against me, I only get out a ticket if someone helps me. Then it’s off to the Landungsbrücken (five minutes ...

MALU 11.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hamburg (Germany)

Hamburg, Germany: great destination!

Advantages: Tons to do and see!
Disadvantages: None really!

...CIAO TO MOVE IT TO HAMBURG CITY NOT WATER SPORTS. I HOPE YOU WILL FIND IT A USEFUL GUIDE TO THE CITY OF HAMBURG ONCE IT HAS BEEN MOVED FROM THE WATERPSPORTS SECTION Hamburg and the surrounding area. Hamburg is one of my absolute favourite cities to visit in the world and I have visited there just about every year for the last 20 odd years when family of mine moved over there. It is the second largest city in Germany and located in the northern ...
...fly regularly from Manchester to Hamburg using Lufthansa which is a great airline and the service operates on smallish places with only approx. 80 seats so attention to detail for passengers is high with exceptional cabin crew. Flights starts at about £130+ if you book well in advance (you don't even have to stay over a Saturday night to ensure that you receive the best deal). Hamburg airport is located quite close to the city centre an you can get ...

nickjj78 28.01.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Hamburg & surrounding area

A glorious town with so much to offer tourists.

Advantages: Attractive city, great shopping, good restaurants
Disadvantages: Weather?

Hamburg is an attractive city in North Germany. With a population of 1.8 million, it is second only to Berlin in size. It is also the biggest industrial city, with an area of 755 square kilometres. However, whilst the docks thrive with its busy trade the town has not been robbed of its natural beauty. I have been to many cities in Germany and whilst the majority are pleasant, I do find that some are quite similar. They have the same shops, basic ...
...Barbarossa distributed letters to all Hamburg citizens, which granted them freedom from taxes and duties down to the lower Elbe. This document remained in legal force until Hamburg became part of the German Empire in 1888. Cargo trade has always dominated its history, earning it the name "The Gateway to the World". Its importance in Germany's commerce leading to the founding of the first German stock exchange in 1558. You are never far from water ...

Si-Tunes 18.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Hamburg (Germany)

More to Hamburg than the Reeperbahn

Advantages: Great transport, young, livley city.
Disadvantages: Loads to do, but no landmarks, nothing which Hamburg is known for

...is about an hour from Hamburg City Center. Like most Ryanair flights, do not take the ryanair bus from the airport to the city, take the train. You can save yourself about 50€ by doing this. There is a regular bus from the airport to Lubeck Station, where there are frequent trains to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof. Getting round Hamburg is incredibly easy on th U-bahn and S-Bahn. The trains are comfortable, quick and conveniant running very frequently and ...
...rooms and models the alps, Hamburg and the German countryside, and a newly opened section which looked like the Rocky Mountains (as it was being constructed at my time of visit). The railway is so huge that they an putn eveything from a muder scene to two people having it off behind a bush. The only con of this place is the crowds, but you get free refreshments in the q. During two weeks of November, Hamburg hosts the 'Winter Dom' WHich is a massive ...

mr_kipling 10.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Hamburg (Germany)

  The Kate Winslet of Cities

Advantages: Somewhere to practice my Deutsch
Disadvantages: Attitude; Attractions (or lack thereof)

...to a flying start in Hamburg when less than half an hour after landing and €20 lighter we found ourselves a our hotel. Hamburg has a whole bunch of hotels and guest houses but we only stayed at one, the Radisson, and it was ok. Expedia and Opodo have good choices if you're choosing to book online (which, when you think about it, really is the only way to do it). We spent 4 days in the city at the beginning of December, specifically timed to take ...
...Manchester). We went to Hamburg first and foremost to go Christmas market shopping, but having a new city at our feet for a long weekend meant we also had to explore. I wanted to go 'regular' shopping (books, clothes, chocolate etc) so one morning we headed over to the Main station which is at one end of the two principal shopping streets. Here we found everything from H&M to Douglas, C&A (still going strong on the continent), Karstadt, Thalia, ...

zoe_page 01.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Hamburg (Germany)