My wife and I are getting off a cruise in Hamburg and want to see Berlin as well. I did not think it was worth staying in Hamburg but have read it is beatiful. If I have from Sept 1-6 how would you divide your time. I need to be in Hamburg for myu flight home on the 6th. I can extend now if I needed to. What are the sights to see in both places.
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Usually I would say that you could spend 6 days in either of the cities. If you have to divide the time I suggest to spend half of your time in Hamburg and half of it in Berlin. There is really enough to see in both cities. Would be more easy to give you some advice if one knew what you are interested in.
Hamburg is famous for the harbour, the river Alster and the river Elbe, there are many great museums. You can do some shopping in one of the numerous shopping centres, ... some of Hamburg quarters like Carolinenviertel, Blankenese, St. Georg... are also worth a visit - always depending on what you are interested...
I%26#39;m no expert on Berlin so I leave that to someone else...
Just give me some ideas about your interests and I%26#39;ll try to think about some more concrete things to do.
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We enjoy museums, restaurants, great hotels and interesting sights. We like shopping bnut have found that with euro to dollar it is usually cheaper here. I am a watch collector and would like to find a Lange%26amp;Sohne which is made in Glashutte. Is that city close to where I will be?
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From Berlin to Glashuette it%26#39;s about 230km and from Hamburg to Glashuette about 500.
Interesting museums in Hamburg are:
-art gallery (http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/)
-exhibition gallery (http://www.deichtorhallen.de/357.html)
-a museum where you can experience how blind people live their life (www.dialog-im-dunkeln.de/prehome_en.htm)
- maritime museum (internationales-maritimes-museum-hamburg.de/…)
- Hamburg museum (http://www.hamburgmuseum.de/index_e.html)
- a muserum in the port of Hamburg dealing with the history of the old warehouses etc. (http://www.speicherstadtmuseum.de/#)
- a museum about the people of the world (http://www.voelkerkundemuseum.com/)
There are many more interesting museums in Hamburg but those I listed are the ones I liked most and where I would go again.
And in July a new museum will be opened which hopefully will be very interesting as well:
%26quot;Between 1850 and 1939, Hamburg served as the “Gateway to the World” for some 5 million European emigrants who left their homeland via the city’s port in search of a better life across the Atlantic. These people, many of whom were fleeing from political and religious persecution or simply wanted to escape a life of poverty and hunger, sought a new beginning, a better livelihood and the opportunity to make a fresh start in the “land of plenty”. And they all had high hopes of a better life. The BallinStadt (BallinCity) Museum is dedicated to these people.%26quot; ((http://www.ballinstadt.de/en/index.php))
When I was in Beriln I went to the Pergamonmuseum and I really loved it:
www.museumsinsel-berlin.de/index.php…
In case you like eating fish there are some really good restaurant in Hamburg at the river Elbe, e.g the Fischereihafen Restaurant. Unfortunately, the website is in German only but you can get at least have a look at the pictures :-)
www.fischereihafenrestaurant.de/index.php…
But here are of course many really good fish restaurant along the river Elbe.
There is also a brilliant Indian restaurant :
http://www.shalimar-hamburg.de/ (German website)
and lost of other international good restaurant and of course as well many wiht excellent German cuisine. So you really shouldn%26#39;t have difficulties finding something you like.
Great hotels in Hamburg are:
Grand Elysee (http://www.elysee.de/el/en/home.html)
Vier Jahreszeiten (http://www.hvj.de/)
East Hotel (http://www.east-hamburg.de/) - just click on one of the pictures, you%26#39;ll find the English flag there to change the language)
Hotel Atlantic (www.kempinski.atlantic.de/en/home/index.htm)
Steigenberger (http://www.hamburg.steigenberger.de/aw/Hotels/Steigenberger_Hotel_Hamburg/~bhyj/Englisch/)
Intercontinental Hamburg (http://www.hamburg.intercontinental.com/)
All these are very excuisite hotels but as you wrote that you love great hotels I thought it%26#39;s ok for you.
For the sites of Hamburg it might be easier for you to go to one of the websites to see more details about them:
international.hamburg.de/index.do…
hamburg-tourism.de/…
I think that Hamburg is a very interesting city to see because of it%26#39;s port, the rivers Elbe and Alster and because Hamburg was part of the Hanseatic League. All this makes its history and its development very interesting and special.
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I agree with Alexhh that you could fill 6 days in just oneof the cities but 3 days in each would give you a chance to get a feel for the place and visit the main sites and a few of the museums. An extra day in each and you cd think of addind day-trips , to Lübeck from Hamburg and Potsdam to Berlin. Both a contrast to the metropoles.
One sightseeing tip: go on a boat tour. I went on one in Hamburg (Alster and canals) and it was wonderful, seeing the city from a different perspective. Tour on the river Spree on Berlin also well worth it; lasts 60-90 mins. Even better is the 3-hour circular tour on river and canals.
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