Top Experiences in HafenCity

Private – The tour is exclusive and private which means that your guide and the instructor can concentrate 100% on assisting you in getting the right images and the best experience possible by tailoring the tour according to your personal needs. Although the tour is private you can bring up to 2 friends or family members included in the price.

Explore Hamburg individually with a LINE A day pass on a Red Double-Decker

Hop on our LINE A city tour and take a journey through Hamburg. Dive in and explore with our flexible tour, which allows you to hop on and hop off the bus as much as you like. Explore the city of Hamburg from 20 different of our designated stops, conveniently located close to major landmarks and attractions.
You’ll have plenty of time to discover Hamburg at your own pace, with a day pass and buses scheduled to arrive at stops regularly. You can choose to stay on board the entire route and let us take you for a scenic spin, or hop off at the destinations you want to further explore.

After redeeming your voucher for an active ticket at any of the LINE A buses, you can hop off to snap the perfect photo of Hamburg’s new landmark, the “Elbphilharmonie” concert hall, rejoin the tour and find out more about Hamburg’s history, museums, architecture, waterways, shopping, dining options and all the must-sees.

The Discovery Tour is the ultimate way to experience Hamburg. This program combines 3 must-do tours while visiting Hamburg: LINE A city tour day pass with a red double-decker bus, 1-hour Harbour Boat Tour or Evening Light Cruise by the Abicht shipping company, 1-hour Alster Round Trip by the ATG Alster-Touristik shipping company. Getting around all over the city! These three tours will take you to the city’s most renowned tourist attractions so you can get off the bus wherever you want to explore the city in depth. Whether you have little or a lot of time in Hamburg – the discovery ticket gives you the option of planning the programs freely - either all on one day or spread over up to 4 days. Validity: Each tour can be taken once. Prior to taking the harbour boat tour and the Alster Round Trip, you must redeem your voucher or ticket at one of the LINE A buses. The tickets are open tickets. You can take them on any day or time you want.

We show the exciting history of this district in a unique way. They are shown exciting architecture and together we walk through the times to the present.

Experience the diversity of Hamburg in a 2-hour guided tour in your own bus, or other vehicle ordered by you. Hamburg's most famous locations such as: The beautiful, lake like Aussenalster, the oldest part of Hamburg with town hall, the oldest shopping street and Hamburg's oldest church and HafenCity, the latest, most innovative district of Hamburg, right at the Elbe's shore with the iconic and unique Elbphilharmonic Hall.

This Experience is provided by a private local.

Join a Local for a unique walking tour across the city to see all of its main sites and get insider tips on how to best spend your time in the city. In this Experience you will get to know fun facts about Germany and my city!
This experience is provided by an independent Local.

Enjoy this enchanting and colourful city, with a splendid building of Elbphilharmonie and a marvellous port, with a local who will show you all of their favourite spots. Discover the best of "Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg", be venturing to off-the-beaten path tracks to see Hamburg and experience it with a local!

Who is a Local? A Local is someone who is passionate about sharing authentic experiences based on their interests.

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Enjoy a guided walking tour that will take you back in time. Get to know how people lived in Hamburg in former times. See an example of their housing during the 17th century and see how times have changed ever since leading up to the 21st century and it's famous landmarks such as the Elbe Philharmonic Hall and HafenCity.

See the old and new sides of Hamburg on a 2-hour walking tour, led by a German-speaking guide. After exploring the historical warehouse district of Speicherstadt, and learning about coffee and spices, stroll to the modern and glitzy HafenCity to admire luxury yachts bobbing in the harbor. Learn all about the city and its history and culture as you explore these two intriguing neighborhoods.

Enjoy the Private Guided Tour: Hamburg and discover the many different locations and landmarks in this unique city and experience the city like the locals by taking a bus ride, the underground and even a harbor ferry boat.

The most beautiful way to explore Hamburg

Exciting facts and anecdotes about the most important sights

Perfect for first-time visitors or returnees

Relaxed pace to enjoy the surroundings

HISTORICAL TOURIST EXCURSION - WORLD HERITAGE SITE
Die Speicherstadt - The Warehouse District
Old neighborhood exploring it on foot

Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, it includes one of the most important tourist spots in Hamburg. A unique tour to surprise you!

It is located southeast of the Altstadt, the old city of Hamburg. One hundred minutes of history on foot, we will enjoy the modern view of the "HafenCity" and the imposing Elbphilharmonie. We will visit the largest warehouse complex in the world, culminating in Chilehaus. You will be fascinated by this beautiful and ancient city!

Experience the Elbphilharmonie in three ways: first with a walk through the world cultural heritage "Warehouse District" from the outside, then with an architectural tour with preferential admission from the inside and finally from the plaza, the viewing platform of the Elbphilharmonie, with a spectacular city tour to 1000 years of Hamburg City history from above.

The Kiez-Captain Hamburg city tour from the Alster via Hamburg's Speicherstadt to the Elbphilharmonie. The neighborhood captain for the Reeperbahn & St. Pauli will now also show you downtown Hamburg on an exciting walk through 1200 years of Hamburg history!

You get an exciting look at the history of the Hanseatic city, which even provides Hamburg residents with many new insights.

On the tour there is not only the well-known information about the city's history, but also much more left and right of the well-known tourist trails.

The beautiful Hanseatic city on the Elbe offers many exciting and funny stories. And the neighborhood captain is your competent and experienced pilot on the tour between the Alster and the Elbe.

You’ll join one of our local hosts to see what happens when modern living meets medieval maritime trading. Visit famous historical landmarks such as the Port of Hamburg and the Bismarck Monument. Discover the city’s charming contrasts as you visit both a contemporary neighborhood like Hafencity and the historic Speicherstadt district (built almost entirely on stilts). Visit an open-air museum depicting rural life and get a local’s perspective on Hamburg’s history.

Within 24 hours after booking you'll receive a short questionnaire about your personality and interests. Based on your responses, you'll be assigned a like-minded host. Your host will communicate with you directly to suggest an itinerary to help you discover what makes the city unique. You will also agree on a meeting time and place. Your itinerary is flexible, so during the experience, you can always change your mind about what you want to do.

Enjoy Hamburg's most beautiful sides with us! The Hanseatic city tour presents the important sights with competence and a lot of humor. We also show you corners of Hamburg, which are often reserved only for real connoisseurs. Experience Hamburg compactly in 1 hour and 40 minutes! Or interrupt your journey at will. You can get on and off at 17 of the most beautiful sights with us. Your ticket is valid for the whole day! We offer our city tour not only live in German, but also in other languages! You can choose between English, French, Russian, Italian or Spanish at any time. All foreign language information can be obtained from us simultaneously via headphones.
It is easy to find us: Our orange-yellow double-decker buses await you directly at the jetties “Bridge 4”.

Never been to Hamburg before? Want to see all the main sights first? Only have time for one tour? Looking to receive some introduction before focusing on more specific topics?

This walk is a perfect opportunity to get to know Hamburg's glorious history and present and hear some of the most fascinating stories ever happening in this city. I will take you through some of the most outstanding sights and make sure you fall in love with the city.

You will explore over 1, 000 years of Hamburg's history and cover all iconic sights - Rathaus, Hamburg's impressive town hall and parliament; St Petri church, Kontorviertel with Chilehaus - Europe's first financial district with some of the most breathtaking and bizarre 1920s architecture; Nikolaikirche - WWII bombing memorial and once the tallest building in the world; historical Deichstrasse, Speicherstadt - warehouse district turned UNESCO world heritage sight, and Hafencity with Elbphilarmonie

Discover the maritime highlights of Hamburg on this 2-hour tour. Explore the Speicherstadt (warehouse district), HafenCity and the traditional harbor. Enjoy magnificent views of the traditional and modern sides of the city.

Exploring the Elbphilharmonie and HafenCity with your Speicherstadt through our certified tour guides means more than just learning. We offer you in a relaxed atmosphere five varied tastings and one small drink to "taste" the culinary diversity of this growing district.

Discover Hamburg individually, comfortably and sustainably romantically on a rickshaw ride with your personal guide. The route is freely selectable. We recommend a tour through the old town, HafenCity or the UNESCO World Heritage Site, because we also get to where motor vehicles have to pass due to narrow streets or driving bans.

Discover the heart of the city with us. After this two-hour tour you know everything important about Hamburg! We show you the peculiarities of the merchant city: how Hamburg became a cosmopolitan city and why only a few people live in the center. We offer a compact overview of Hamburg's city history.

Hamburg's first and only city tour for families! A child-friendly tour, where the adults get their money. We experience the history of the Port of Hamburg. On the way it is advised, puzzled and searched and the tour guide explains with plans and photos the most important facts for children and adults. We take the ferry and descend into the Elbtunnel.

You dive with us into the world of the most successful German children's crime series, the "Peppercorns". We will guide you to the original film locations in the Speicherstadt and HafenCity. We provide you with insider knowledge and background information on our exclusive private tour.
On our tour you will also recognize many of the locations yourself. You will gain a better understanding of many of the scenes and storylines from each season. You will take a lot of photos and then share everything you have learned about Hamburg and the peppercorns with your friends.
And of course we also think of your parents during our Pfefferkorn tour. You too will definitely experience a fun and informative city tour through Hamburg's most important monument landscape and Hamburg's newest district, because a rickshaw offers space for 2 people and can easily be accompanied by a rental bike (see https://stadtrad.hamburg.de/de /begin/).

The starting point of the tour is the church with the highest church tower in the city - St. Michael's Church was considered the city's landmark for years. From here you explore Hamburg's west and walk towards the modern Elbphilharmonie, the "concert hall of superlatives". Your guide will show you the various buildings and have anecdotes from Hamburg personalities as well as gastronomic tips ready. The tour must not be missing the historic Speicherstadt, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the connected but completely different modern HafenCity, whose most famous building determines our end point - the Elbphilharmonie. This building is the symbol of the fusion of tradition and modernity in the Hamburg harbor - you can find out more about this from your guide! At the end of the tour you will have a fantastic view of the Hamburg harbor and can visit the Elbphilharmonie on your own (subject to closures of the plaza).

Good Morning!
On the “Hamburg Sightseeing Tour by Bike” you ride with a guide who comes from Hamburg and lives here. You will experience a wide range of culture, history and curiosities. In the manner presented, only a native with heart can offer this.
The pace is adapted to your most comfortable person. The tour can be shortened or expanded thematically. If you are of average fitness, the tour can be done in a relaxed manner with the highlights listed in the short description.
Along the way you will experience the development of the city in large format images. The guide will also give you insights into his exciting secret archive!
Please order your individual rental bikes in good time! They are delivered. Upright city bikes are available as rental bikes.
After about 3 hours you can optionally stop off in the Portuguese Quarter for a cheap lunch. This option lasts about 1 hour and is exclusive in terms of time and money.

Evening lights trip – now it’s getting romantic…

When darkness falls, the Speicherstadt and the entire port of Hamburg shine in a beautiful glow. On our light trip we will show you the coziest and most romantic corners of the Hamburg harbor and its works of art from the water.

On a 1.5-hour boat trip through the Fleet and the port of Hamburg, you will see the most interesting and fascinating corners of the port of Hamburg at night. The lights of the Elbphilharmonie, the HafenCity, the musicals, the landing stages, the ships and the container bridges, quickly ignite a spark of romance into a fire.

The port of Hamburg is an open seaport and therefore dependent on the tide. If the Speicherstadt is not navigable due to the water level, we will be happy to arrange passenger ships to show you the beautiful and illuminated harbor

Experience Hamburg's Speicherstadt and HafenCity on an interactive digital puzzle tour that is as exciting and informative at the same time.
In Hamburg’s port, many generations of sailors and dockworkers have done their heavy work, sought happiness in distant lands, and drowned their sorrows in high-proof liquor. Last night, the dockworker Fiete seems to have had a particularly rough time. While taking a walk along the Elbe promenade, you hear his cry for help. His situation is tricky, can you save him?

ryddle is an innovative city rallye and puzzle tour for your smartphone that is best played in a team with friends. Solve puzzles, experience a multimedia story and get to know the city from a different perspective. Whether you are a true Hanseatic or a Quiddjes - with ryddle you will see the city in a different way.

ryddle offers you an interactive experience with digital technology. All walking tours can be played with your smartphone on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger in German or English.

Flexible and individual. Born in Hamburg, she leads, drives and moderates. I am a certified tour guide (with a rental car license) in Hamburg and I love my job. I am happy to pass on this joy.

We drive 14 hp street karts that are 100% road legal and can reach speeds of up to 90 km/h.
No ordinary city tour.
Drive over the legendary Köhlbrand Bridge
Drive through Speicherstadt, Hafencity and, depending on traffic, past the Elbphilharmonie.
approx. 2h experience including instruction

driver's license required
max 115 kg body weight
0.0 per mil
no stimulants

Hamburg City - Elbphilharmonie bike tour

let yourself be surprised by the variety of our city tour away from the main roads.

From Rotherbaum, St. Pauli Hafenrand, Portugiesenviertel, Deichstraße, Speicherstadt, Chilehaus, old town, Fleetinsel, Neustadt. Following the traces of the classic cityscape to the modernity of HafenCity, Elphi-Plaza on request, town hall, shopping miles, Inner Alster, we cycle entertaining, exciting and informative through the heart of the city. This really balanced bike tour with stops at the most attractive points in the city is ideal for all ages.

Welcome to the most popular and traditional harbor tour in the port of Hamburg.

On board our ships, we take you and your companions to the “big boats” and the impressive cruise ships that travel the entire world from Hamburg and always find their way to us, “home”, in the port.
We will take you close to the modern and highly frequented loading bridges of the container terminals, show you the tide, which influences so many things in Hamburg, and take you into the Speicherstadt, HafenCity and of course the popular Elbphilharmonie.

Our captains give free rein to their charm and wit and entertain you with excitingly packed expert knowledge about the various sights in the port of Hamburg.

In 60 minutes you will not only learn what you know, but also new things about the port, the people of Hamburg, the ships, the shipyards and perhaps one or two celebrities.

Small groups: Enjoy a great atmosphere with a maximum of 8 participants per Bulli. This allows us to respond to individual requests and offer tailor-made experiences.
Local Insider Tips: Our guides are real Hamburgers with deep knowledge of their city. They are happy to share their personal insider tips and recommend authentic restaurants, bars and cafés along the route.
Comfortable VW Bulli: Relax in our lovingly restored VW Bulli, which combines comfort, style and nostalgia.
Photo spots: Our guides know the best photo spots along the route and will help you capture unforgettable memories.

Book your unforgettable tour now and experience Hamburg in a unique way - with Trip Advisor-certified quality and numerous extras that will make your tour an unforgettable experience!

Discover Hamburg on a 3.5-hour guided bike tour. Your tour guide will show you the main sights and tell you all the important facts, figures and stories. There is enough time for photos, questions and a coffee break along the tour.

Many generations of seafarers and dockers have done their hard work in the port of Hamburg, looking for fortune in distant lands, and drowned their misfortune in hard liquor. Dockworker Fiete was hit particularly hard last night. His situation is tricky - can you help him?

This tour is a self-guided city tour on your smartphone, which you can start immediately and at any time. Play the tour at your own pace and take breaks whenever you want.

The city tour "S.O.S. Speicherstadt" takes you through the impressive warehouse district with warehouses, canals and bridges, which has been declared a World Heritage Site for good reason.

HafenCity is located next to the Speicherstadt. A new district has been built here over the past decades on the former areas of the port: Here you can discover impressive urban development and modern architecture, including the Elbphilharmonie on a city tour and city rally.

Only with a barge can you experience the port of Hamburg from its most beautiful side. The small, maneuverable ships sail the fleets and canals of the Hanseatic city, depending on the water level. A very special experience, getting closer to the huge container and cargo ships than would be possible with large ships or from land. The trip will of course be moderated in an entertaining but informative manner by our experienced skippers. Enjoy the harbor adventure and come on board our ships.
*** Moderation in German ***

With our TownAdventure you will experience the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg from a new perspective and learn about the important landmark of the city. State-of-the-art architecture and old stories are waiting to be discovered by you on this tour.

Be careful - although your journey in this scavenger hunt is not long, you may have to overcome one or two obstacles.

⭐ SEQUENCE
You will receive a start link from us by email, with which you can start the scavenger hunt immediately.

In this interactive experience, you answer tricky questions together and solve interesting puzzles. At the end of each task you will receive exciting knowledge and entertaining stories.

⭐ HIGHTLIGHTS
»Experience the Elbphilharmonie together and not side by side
»Be independent of city guides and groups, start possible at any time
»Set the pace yourself, take the time you need for your visit
»Informative, exciting, amusing

Hamburg is the brightest and most underestimated city in Germany. We will retell his "thick medieval book of great names and events" in the style of a light adventure comedy with gastronomic accents, show interesting and photogenic places and give away all the city's secrets!
You will see the main city sights from the most “postcard” angles and take a walk along the historical part of the port of Speicherstadt, standing on stilts right in the water. You will also learn about a large joint project of architects, urbanists and musicians - the modern residential quarter of HafenCity - and see the unusual building of the Elbe Philharmonic. Climbing up to the observation deck of the world's most technologically advanced musical facility, see all four sides of Hamburg: the historic center, the old and new ports, and the Elbe fading into the sunset