Hotel for World Cup?

Myself and three other guys will be staying in Hamburg as it is where the USA will be staying during the World Cup.

Have read that the Reeperbahn (sp?) is where the nightlife is, but would like to know any hotel recommendations that are close to this area?

We will look at any range (1 to 5 star), so any recommendations are appreciated..

Thanks!

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There is not only the Reeperbahn.

www.hamburg-tourism.de/Nightlife.520.0.html…

Hamburg has - like all bigger German cities - an excellent public transport network

http://www.hvv.com

For hotels see the Hamburg Tourism site or check

http://www.hrs.com

http://www.hotel.de

Recommendations won%26#39;t help much. You have to find a affordable hotel with free beds in first place.

The situation won%26#39;t get any better after the drawing on 9th December. Guess that many who have not booked yet will start to book when they know where their team is playing.

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The lower star rated hotels are the easier to book as most of the big ones are booked already!

However the draw did not provide Hamburg with especially attractive fixtures so some of the bookings may be cancelled.

Try the usual websites advertised on Trip SAdvisor. As Alabada says, there is an excellent train and bus network so as long asyou are near a U or S bahn then you will get about Hamburg easily enough.

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Abalada / H Man

Thanks for your help and the websites.

I have actually found a few reasonable hotels available, but now the challenge will be for Gelsenkirchen, Kaiserslautern and Nuremberg---but those are whole other posts!!

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Good luck to USA in the finals and enjoy the German bier!

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I fear that the USA won%26#39;t do as well as Germany given the groupings...

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Things that would be useful: a list of cheap accomodation...

It seems as if the same expensive hotels keep coming up when you search for accomodation in Kaiserslautern on the web.

What would be good would be a list frmo locals of accomodation you can%26#39;t find on the web, with prices and things to recommend them.

I am looking for an apartment for 4 people for 3 or 4 days in Kaiserslautern for example, any suggestions?

tom.

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There are often some other hotels and apartments on a city%26#39;s own website. That is true with K-town.

kaiserslautern.de/tourismus/…

I believe that a Ferienwohnungen is a vacation apartment.

Regards, Gary

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kaiserslautern.de/wm2006/…

And - I%26#39;m a bit lazy - what I answered to a similar question:

Kaiserslautern (aka K%26#39;town - the biggest US community outside of the US)

www.kaiserslautern.de/index.html?lang=en

If you cannot find something in Kaiserslautern (the smallest venue city with 100.000 inhabitants and not part of an conurbation).

Map of the VRN area

www.vrn.de/frames/karten_plaene/content.html

But something in Mannheim (the biggest city in the VRN with 325.000 inhabitants).

A single ticket Mannheim - Kaiserslautern is EUR 7,00.

Such a local public transport network are zone-to-zone tickets, not point-to-point tickets like normal train tickets. Thus from any train/tram/bus stop in Mannheim to any stop in Kaiserslautern. Latter is in this special case not necessary - it%26#39;s the stadium closest to a main railway station, just a short walk.

Covered with such a ticket are ALL types of local public transport

- regional trains: RegionalBahn RB and RegionalExpress RE

- S-Bahn trains

- U-Bahn (only in some bigger cities, like Nuremberg, Hamburg)

- trams (only in bigger cities)

- buses

and even sometimes ferries (e.g. in Hamburg)

More interesting are however the day/24-hours ticket offers. And the mini group tickets.

A 24-hours ticket for the whole VRN area is EUR 12,00.

A mini group (2-5 persons) 24-hours ticket for the whole VRN area is EUR 17,50.

These mini group tickets for up to 5 persons are available nearly everywhere.

More common than 24-hours tickets are (calendar) day tickets. Sometimes the mini group tickets have also the restriction that they are valid on weekdays only past 9am. Normally a day ticket is however valid not just till midnight but till 3am of the next day.

Must sees (there are many more nice spots) in the VRN area:

- Heidelberg

http://www.cvb-heidelberg.de/index_eng.html

…heidelberg.de/Altstadt-Information/english/…

As Heidelberg is esp. in the US very well known it%26#39;s mostlikely not the place where you%26#39;ll find the best hotel deals. Mannheim to Heidelberg is e.g. just 14-17 minutes by train.

- Speyer

www.speyer.de/de/tourist/sehenswert…

Need advice

I want to spend two days in Bavaria%26#39;s nature but I don%26#39;t know which is the best city or village to go or whre to stay. I need some help and I appreciate if you give me the name of web sites to look.

Is it too difficult to reach there from Vienna? I want to stay 3-4 days in Vienna and then in Bavaria.

Thank you a lot

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Closest to Austria if coming from Vienna and one of the nicest spots in the Alps:

Berchtesgaden/Lake Königssee

http://www.berchtesgadener-land.info

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Hallo Silver,

I am from Athens, Greece, too and I am planning to go to Bavaria. Why don%26#39;t you stay in Munich? It%26#39;s a big city with lots of sightseeing and if you rent a car you can also visit Oberbayern where some magnificent castles are located.

Useful sites: www.bayern.de , www.munich.com, www.wissen.de (Some useful info but I am not sure if it is in English or just German)

hope I helped you

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Bavarian nature is quite diverse. If you are thinking about seeing mountains and castles, Berchtesgadener Land is a good option. I find the so-called %26quot;Fränkische Schweiz%26quot; a very nice area, too, with a lot of small villages amidst 30m-high rocks and smaller mountains. It is further away from Vienna though. Staying in Munich might be a good idea, too, for the public transport will bring you to places like Starnberger See, where some nice walking is possible, too.

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You can inquire about train transportation on either of two websites:

http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en

http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp

Unfortunately as the train ride crosses borders you will not be able to get the price without both.

Wien (Vienna) -%26gt; Salzburg on OEBB

then

Salzburg -%26gt; ? (Muenchen, Fuessen, Berchtesgaden) on Bahn.

It is about 4 hours to Salzburg.

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http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

1st class fare is 106.00 €, 2nd class fare is 67.80 € + 3 € for a reservation if desired

Gay Hamburg for single gay

Similar to the gay couple who posted in August, I am a 25 year old gay male who will be in Hamburg this coming weekend. Will be there for work but have some time to myself.

Checked out a few of the linked sites (both the city and outtraveller/planetgay) on the couples post, but those tend to be outdated (ended up visiting 4 gay bars which had closed in Athens, all in one night, once).

Am looking for real insider information

Looking for fun gay bars and nightclubs to see. But dont want to end up in some dugeon-y dark room with leather daddies, since I know Hamburg has its scary fetish side.

What other attractions (re: non-gay) can i absolulely not miss in Hamburg?

And does anyone know how far St. Georg is from the Mercure Hotel?

Thanks.

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I can you help only with your last question - partly.

street map

http://stadtplan.hamburg.de

St. Georg is south-east of the Lake Außenalster and north-east of the Hauptbahnhof (main railway station).

Partly - because there are 4 Mercure hotels in Hamburg:

Mercure Hotel Hamburg an der Messe

Mercure Hotel Hamburg Airport Nord

Mercure Hotel Meridian Hamburg

Mercure Hotel Hamburg City

From the last one this is in walking distance.

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mercure an der messe is where i am staying, but ill look itup.

thanks

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hey ,

have a look at www.hinnerk.de you ca see the whole gay party weekend in hamburg where and when.

some places you can visit is the change www.change.de

the pit www.pit-male.de or the g-bar at st.georg lange reihe.

greetings sven

st.pauli1@gmx.de

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thank you sven.

am in fact back from Hamburg.

And here is my wrap up:

Bellini Bar - very small nice

G Club - decent, but not too many people

Cafe Gnosa - cool, loungy, like Hamburg%26#39;s version of the Big Cup in NYC.

EDK - tiny club, but great music, best saturday after 2 am

the pit/male/tom%26#39;s - scary dark room style, but interesting if you are into that sort of thing

Stricly men - yikes! i would not recommend, realy, really scray.

i in fact loved hamburg, as both a tourist, and a gay man. Met a sweet Hamburger (?) named Sven, but i dont think it was you.... ;)

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Hey There,

I am a 32 yr-old gay man headed to Hamburg for the entire month of April, 2006. I%26#39;ll be working some but mostly want to be in a fun gay neighborhood immersed in the language.

I need to rent an apartment/hotel room for the month and will be with my small dog.

Can you recommend a neighborhood and sources/services for renting places for the month (dog friendly).

Any info would be appreciated.

Burton

help at finding good venue for surprise party

I%26#39;m surprising my boyfriend with a surprise party in Cologne early next year (2006). There are about 10 of us and i need a good place where we can all meet to surprise him. I was thinking of a good brewery in the old town, but i don%26#39;t know how big the places are and how appropriate they are for groups this big.

Please help, any suggestions of bars would be greatly appreciated. I would like something quaint and typical of Germany/Cologne.

Thank You

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The Brauhäuser are big enough.

Früh am Dom 1000 places (seats)

Sion 600 places

Päffgen 350 places

Peters 160 places

Gaffel 150 places

Sünner 140 places

... and undoubtly typical for Cologne

www.koeln.nicecity.de/english/breweries.htm

Organ music Dec 21-26

Does anyone know of any concerts of organ music taking place in Berlin between 21-26 December 2005?

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Yes there are some see berlin-tourist-information.de/english you can enter dates and get all concerts listed and there is a tel no to make bookings which is what i am about to do,havefun

Accommodation for small group of discerning travellers in...

Hi, I have been tasked with organising accommodation for a small party of colleagues (15) to Berlin, for 4 days, for business (mainly!!) in early summer. We are all in our 40s and most of us like good food, museums, relaxation and similar and we are not keen to stay in huge hotels or very rowdy neighbourhoods. Can you please tell me which areas I should avoid? I was told that I should look for hotels in the Unter der Linden area, is that so? Any help would be hugely appreciated!

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Unter den Linden is close to business (to the south) and fun (to the north and east)- but also rather expensive.

Hotels on Gendarmenmarkt offer great views - e.g. Hilton. Dorint Hotel is a designer place accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/de/so…

In West Berlin there are some smaller design hotels like

brandenburger-hof.com/pages/hotel_frame.htm.

our corporate guests stay in these hotels - I am not so familiar with less expensive ones I am afraid.

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We were in Berlin this year for business and found Mitte area to be excellent.Plenty of museums restuarants and cafes.An up and coming trendy area.You are within walking distance to checkpoint charlie, berlin wall,the crosses, etc.etc there are also some great 5 star hotels you can stop and have pre dinner drinks in.Shopping is also excellent.

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My husband and I were in Berlin last week. We stayed at the Hotel Kempinski in the Ku%26#39;Damm area. It was fantastic and highly recommended for the discerning traveller.