Speicherstadt and Hafencity:
The century-old Speicherstadt is located in the Free Port between the Deichtorhallen and Baumwall and is the world's oldest warehouse complex, built at the turn of the century in red brick, typical of northern Germany, with gabled roofs and small towers, which are beautifully reflected in the canals they border. Today, as in bygone days, wares from all over the world - coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, tobacco, computers and Oriental rugs - are stacked in these storerooms. Also have a glance at the HafenCity.
Dates: Sunday 02:00 p.m., from February to November also Wednesday 03:00 p.m.
Start: at the metro station Baumwall, exit Speicherstadt.
Historical Whore Tour
An unusual walk trough the red light district about the fascinating history of prostitution, whores, pimps and love for sale. Your guide is dressed up as the "Whore Magdalena" from the 19th century. A shot of "Whore-Schnaps" is included.
Make your appointment under +49 (0)1805-125 225 (0,12 € per minute from Germany) or www.hurentour.de.
Dates: Thursday, Friday & Saturday 08:00 p.m.
Start: The police station "Davidswache" on the Reeperbahn, St. Pauli
Beatles-Tour Hamburg
"I've grown to adulthood in Hamburg, not in Liverpool", John Lennon.
On the Beatles-Tour you will follow the tracks, the "fab four" left in Hamburg during the sixties. The tour is not only for fans of the Beatles, but is of interest to everyone interested in the music of the 60's, which spread from Hamburg to the world. The Hamburg Beatles-Tour begins on the steps, which in former times, led into the Star-Club and takes you to the places, where the beatles and other bands lived and performed from 1960 to 1962. Hear astonishing facts from first hand, which you wont find in any book. How and why did the Beatles come to Hamburg? Why is Hamburg such an important point in the developing history of rock music? - No questions remain unanswered on the Beatles-Tour. After the tour on the streets of St. Pauli, a round of talks and storytelling
begins in a cosy tavern associated with Beatles past.
Dates: Wednesday - Sunday 05:00 p.m.
Start: at Große Freiheit 39, the former Star Club
Majors Walk
On the majors walk you will travel back through centuries of time and get to know about the history of the hanseatic city and former rules and ideologies of society.
The guide, who will lead you through parts of the historic- and the new city centre, is dressed up in a typical Hamburg dress from medieval times. On the way he will show you the historic town hall, the old historic centre at the “Trostbrücke”, the St. Nicolai Church and the “Hopfenmarkt” (hops market). Listen to the exciting stories about working and living in “old Hamburg”.
Dates: Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m.
Start: Town Hall, main entrance
BallinTour
Enjoy a varying guided city-, harbour- and museum tour on the paths of the emigrants.
The guide will wait for you at the watch tower of the St.Pauli Landungsbrücken to show you the different stations at the harbours edge, the harbour and the museum of emigration “Auswandererwelt BallinStadt”.
On the tour you will see the emigrant shelters, which were the emigrants' last station on home soil on the old continent. On the second part of the tour, you will go on a time travel which you will experience on a ship, just like the former emigrants. The BallinTour ends at the museum “Auswandererwelt BallinStadt” where you will witness how the people back than prepared for their trip overseas and how they spent their final days in Hamburg.
Dates: Saturday and Sunday 11:15 a.m.
Start: St. Pauli Landungsbrücken, Bridge 4 in front of the tourist information
On the Reeperbahn at night – the bar tour
The ramble with music shows St. Pauli’s culture of pleasure and amusement from the dancing venues of the turn of the century to the modern day scene bars…
Sex cabaret and theater, curiosity-cabinets, dancing palaces and worker pubs, Swing and Rock’n Roll: the turmoil in St. Pauli has always been fascinating the people. Experienced guides will lead you over the „Spielbudenplatz“ and the Reeperbahn, through the “Seilerstraße” and the “Hamburger Berg” as well as through several side streets, the “Große Freiheit and the “Hans-Albers-Platz”. At the first bar you will receive a free liquor shot. Afterwards you will visit two more typical St. Pauli bars on your way through the quarter.
Dates: Every Friday at 08:00 p.m.
Start: Millerntorplatz at the entrance to the subway station "St. Pauli"
All these tours and furthermore individual sightseeing trips can be also booked for up to 20 persons per guide!