Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
• Hotline for hotel reservations (0900 to 1900): (040) 3005 1300; or use the In-
ternet hotel booking service: www.hamburgtourism.de .
In addition to general information, the board's information service can provide
accommodation bookings; bookings for port tours and Alster cruises; arrange-
ments for guides; and tips on sightseeing, dining, and shopping.
Getting Around in Hamburg
Purchase a Hamburg-CARD at tourist information offices, from U-Bahn (metro)
station vending machines, and at most hotels. The CARD is a real bargain. It en-
titles you to travel free on the city's bus and train systems, subways, and port fer-
ries at any time within the card's period of validity. It also provides unlimited admis-
sion to 11 museums and includes reductions up to 30 percent for such activities as
the Alster tour, the Port tour, and the entrance fee to Hamburg's famous Hagen-
bucks Zoo.
The Hamburg-CARD is available as a daily card (€9.50 for one adult and up to
three children younger than age 15, or €15.50 for up to five persons), a three-day
card (€22.90 for one adult and three children or €39.90 for up to five persons),
or a five-day card (€38.50 single, €64.90 group). The tourist information office will
provide you with a brochure, City Map and Tips from A to Z , which explains the
card's features.
Sights/Attractions/Tours—Hamburg Highlights
A tour of the harbor by launch is available year-round. (The launches are heated in
winter.) In summer the tour operates every half hour from 0900 to 1800; for winter
tours contact the tourist information office. The launches sail from St. Pauli pier.
From the Hauptbahnhof, take either the U-Bahn line U3, or S-Bahn lines S1 or S3
to the Landungsbrücken station. Tickets: €9.50 adults; €6.00 children. Hamburg-
CARD holders pay reduced rates. The tour takes about one hour. Ask for a launch
with an English-speaking captain.
From April through October, leisure cruise boats depart from the quay at Jung-
fernstieg—Hamburg's elegant shopping street—to cruise on Lake Alster. Actu-
ally, the Alster is not really a lake. It is a tributary of the Elbe River that has been
widened into a lake just before it flows into the Elbe River. This 460-acre lake, an
area larger than the entire principality of Monaco, was created when the Alster was
dammed in the early 13th century.
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