12 January, 2020
17 September, 2019
Destination Profile
Hamburg has been bustling and hustling since the Middle Ages. The onetime epicenter of the powerful Hanseatic League trading empire, it's now among the largest ports in northern Europe, and the second biggest city in all of Germany. Businesses make their home here, bankers jet in and out, and there's plenty for the budding entrepreneur. Balancing all that is the gritty Reeperbahn red-light district and the redbrick warehouses of the UNESCO-listed Speicherstadt. Then you've got that traditional German Altstadt, packed with roadside beer halls and higgledy-piggledy canals rimmed with half-timbered homes. Cheap flights to Hamburg from USA leave from West Coast and East Coast alike, with travel times anything in the region of 14-27 hours.
Hamburg's intriguing Speicherstadt is the largest collection of warehouses in the world. Tour the streets and canals to unravel the city's trading past.
Hamburg Old Town has drifting canals, beer halls, quaint brick buildings, and hearty German food taverns.
Red lights illuminate the famous Hamburg Reeperbahn, where gritty bars and disco pubs abound.
No airlines fly non-stop between the United States of America and Hamburg.