Hamburg & surrounding area

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Beauty. Architecture. Churches. People. Tranquility.
Disadvantages: None

...this fine city you would need to spend a long weekend break there, four days would be ideal. Alternatively it would make a superb base for a full holiday in the area, taking in the Baltic, Hamburg and the very attractive surrounding countryside. As a bonus, we found that the people of Lübeck were warm and friendly, hearing us speaking English, some even approached us on the pavement and struck up a conversation. Paradoxically, this area I found to be the most "German" and least cosmopolitan place that we have found in that country. Unlike in Cologne the following week, we had not been surrounded in American and Japanese tourists. It would therefore appear that this city remains, in tourist terms, something of an undiscovered treasure - and is all the better for it. Since 1987 the entire island city centre of Lübeck has been a World Heritage... Read review

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