Essential Hamburg Combo: Hop-on Hop-off Tour, Cruise and Lake Alster

Hamburg, Germany

See the best of Hamburg on an easy and convenient hop-on hop-off tour, including two cruises - a harbor cruise and a panoramic sightseeing cruise on Lake Alster! Set your own itinerary on this perfect do-it-yourself combination tour when in Hamburg. The hop-on hop-off tour allows you to see Hamburg's top attractions at your own pace aboard a comfortable double-decker bus, while the one-hour harbor cruise and one-hour Lake Alster sightseeing cruise provide great views from the water. See all the major attractions, including St Michael Church, the newly built Hamburg Harbor City and the infamous Reeperbahn red-light district!

Set your own itinerary and explore Hamburg at your own pace. The hop-on hop-off bus tour allows you to simply hop off at the stop you want and return to any stop to continue your tour! Board one of the red double-decker buses at any of the available stops, and begin your sightseeing adventure, hopping off at Town Hall Square, the main train station or at any other stop on the route. Your hop-on hop-off ticket is valid for one day.

Then, get another perspective of Hamburg on your included one-hour harbor sightseeing cruise with English commentary. The boat leaves daily at 12pm from the landing piers of the Hamburg port. Cruise along Hamburg's picturesque warehouse district to Hamburg's Harbor City, one of Europe's biggest urban development projects with the new concert hall, Elbphilharmonie, built on the roof of a storehouse. Sit back and relax while you enjoy these architectural highlights of Hamburg.

When you're back on land, head out on another sightseeing cruise! Your included one-hour Lake Alster cruise leaves every 30 minutes from the Jungfernstieg Passage in central Hamburg, only a short walk from Town Hall Square. The boat will take you along the shoreline of Hamburg's inner-city lake, lined with impressive villas and beautiful garden areas. Multi-lingual audio commentary is available on board (English, French, Spanish).

Enjoy a traditional cup of tea (included) at the teashop in the heritage-listed Krameramt district, an area of former merchants' homes built in the 17th century (hop-on hop-off stop is St Michael Church).

Your sightseeing tickets are valid for three consecutive days, but you can take each tour only once.

See the Itinerary section below for a full list of hop-on hop-off tour stops.

USD $44.54

Traveler Reviews

Review by: Patrick S	September 2010
The process to convert voucher to tickets was not smooth, in fact is was a bad experience. The tour of the lake and harbor were good but the town tour left an lot to be desired. It was more of a hop off and forget tour.

Review by: Kenneth C	August 2010
Excellent - liked the bus tour - wonderful guide - and the canal tour the best. This tour is a great way to see the sites of Hamburg!

Review by: Noel M	August 2010
harbour tour was very interesting ...well worth doing

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	June 2010
Overall was a good introduction to the city and the harbor, duration of both was right.

Review by: Sao W, Thailand	June 2009
Overall it was great. Good prices and nice tour to do. The one thing is that to start the journey I needed to find where to issue the main ticket - could not start Alster boat trip first because needed to go main station to get all 3 tickets. But the rest was superb.

Review by: Saovalak W	June 2009
Overall it was great. Good prices and nice tour to do. The one thing is that to start the journey I needed to find where to issue the main ticket - could not start Alster boat trip first because needed to go main station to get all 3 tickets. But the rest was superb.

Review by: Anonymous, Australia	March 2007
We enjoyed the tours as they were a great way to see different aspects of Hamburg. We had a lot of difficulty understanding the bus tour and harbour cruise as little English was spoken, if any. The Lake tour was excellent, we were given headphones in English.