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Sex and Crime in St. Pauli - tour for ages 18+

1. Sex and Crime in St. Pauli - tour for ages 18+

Discover Hamburg’s wild side on this sex and crime walking tour in the St. Pauli district. Hear interesting anecdotes and details from your guide about the lives and loves of the red light district as you visit its legendary spots. On your tour visit the “Zur Ritze” bar and learn how it got its name. Head down to the boxing club in the basement, where Mike Tyson and the Klitschko brothers trained. Find out where the famous local boxer disappeared to and why so many celebrities come to this rustic bar. See how women can walk down Herbertstrasse, and learn about the Nutella gang and its rivals, the GMBH gang. Discover who controls St. Pauli, who was the godfather in the neighborhood, and how the legal system works here. Find out if Jack the Ripper or someone similar was in Hamburg, and get entrance to a premier show club at the end of the guided tour.

Hamburg: Elbphilharmonie Guided Walking Tour

2. Hamburg: Elbphilharmonie Guided Walking Tour

Admire the Elbphilharmonie from outside and gain exciting background information about the new Hamburg landmark. Experience the lovingly named 'Elphi' up close with your professional city guide and enjoy the unique view from the Plaza after our tour. Admire the Elbphilharmonie from the quay before you enter on the longest escalator in Europe. Then take a moment to enjoy one of the most beautiful views of Hamburg. Learn from your guide about the controversy surrounding the Elbphilharmonie project and hear exciting facts and insider information about the unique acoustics, the use of special materials, the construction costs and the price of an overnight stay in the building.

Hamburg: Insider Tour of the Reeperbahn & St. Pauli

3. Hamburg: Insider Tour of the Reeperbahn & St. Pauli

Experience Hamburg's Red Light district with celebrities and Reeperbahn experts. Encounter people, like Udo Lindenberg’s legendary bodyguard, Eddy Kante, or iconic Red Light experts and bouncers like Fabian Zahrt. Meet drag queens, like Barbie Stupid, or historian and local expert, Doc Eva Decker. Experience Germany's most popular neighborhood tour, featuring the perfect mix of information, entertainment, sinful stops and sights, and a crazy sightseeing show. Pass by the world-famous Herbertstraße and the Davidwache police station before visiting a BDSM dungeon or a sex shop.

Elbphilharmonie Highlights, Plaza & Surroundings

4. Elbphilharmonie Highlights, Plaza & Surroundings

Learn about the latest landmark of Hamburg on a guided tour of the Elbphilharmonie. Get answers to any questions you have about the stunning new building in the HafenCity quarter. Hear why it took so long to build and how much it cost. Start with a walk around the building to admire its façade and learn about the area's past and new architecture. Then, go to the Elbphilharmonie Plaza via the longest curved escalator in Europe and get interesting details about the building as you take in the views of the harbor. Listen to your guide as they share anecdotes about Hamburg and its new landmark and tell you about its unique acoustics.

Hamburg: In the Footsteps of "Olivia" Reeperbahn Tour

5. Hamburg: In the Footsteps of "Olivia" Reeperbahn Tour

Learn all about Germany's most famous drag queen, Olivia, on a walking tour with a local guide. Discover the many highlights of Hamburg's St. Pauli, Reeperbahn, and the Große Freiheit have to offer. With a local by your side, walk through Hamburg's red light district and past the Herbertstraße. See everything from the Dancing Towers to the famous David Wache as you listen to stories and funny anecdotes told by your guide. Discover the famous party miles, the Hans-Albers-Platz, and the Große Freiheit, where you can also find Olivia's bars. Plunge straight into Hamburg's nightlife and round off your tour with one local specialty drink and one shot.

Hamburg: Speicherstadt, HafenCity & Elbphilharmonie Tour

6. Hamburg: Speicherstadt, HafenCity & Elbphilharmonie Tour

Discover Hamburg's UNESCO World Heritage Speicherstadt, HafenCity, and the Elbphilharmonie on a guided walking tour. Learn about these 3 iconic landmarks from your local guide as you make your way through the city. Start your activity with a guided tour through the Speicherstadt warehouse district. Discover the world's largest warehouse complex and learn about its history, including tales of smuggling and extinct professions. Next, explore the modern HafenCity with its sometimes daring construction projects. See Hamburg's largest ongoing urban development project, built in the former free port area. Here, it is easy to see how tradition and modernity can be combined. Finally, visit the iconic Elbphilharmonie. See the building from all sides as your guide gives you a detailed introduction to the new concert hall. Then, take the longest curved escalator in Europe to the viewing platform for views over the city.

Hamburg: 1.5-Hour Tour of the Chocoversum

7. Hamburg: 1.5-Hour Tour of the Chocoversum

This tour takes you on a discovery of Hamburg’s chocolate side. Visit the Chocoversum, a museum with an interactive experience in which everything revolves around sweet chocolate. Experts will take you on a 1.5-hour pleasure trip, on which you follow the cocoa beans on their exciting journey from cultivation to the finished chocolate bar. Sample the exquisite delicacies at every stage of production and experience for yourself how the delicate glaze and the fine taste develops to the end product. Follow all of the production steps closely and even create your own chocolate bar to take with you.

Hamburg: Night Watchman's Tour of St. Pauli in German

8. Hamburg: Night Watchman's Tour of St. Pauli in German

Enjoy a unique city tour with the traditional night watchmen around the largest entertainment and red-light district in Europe. Your German-language guide will meet you at the Landungsbrücken and showcase all that St. Pauli has to offer. Your guide will take on the role and uniform of the original St. Pauli night watchman, who represents the notorious district of Hamburg. He will discover the Große Freiheit ("The Great Freedom”) with you. Satisfy your curiosity and learn all of the local secrets. Hear about what it's like inside the Davidwache Police Department, how the rope-making industry carved out the path the Reeperbahn, Joe Cocker's incident, the mysterious Herbertstraße, and legendary stories involving Paul McCartney.

Hamburg: St. Pauli Beer Tasting Tour

9. Hamburg: St. Pauli Beer Tasting Tour

Join us on a tour through the history of beer making in Hamburg, led by an expert guide. Visit some of the city's best microbreweries to discover the work of a new generation of brewers and taste their delicious creations. On this 2.5-hour tour, stop at 2 typical breweries and go to the famous pub "Zur Ritze" and see the box cellar of the Ritze around the Port of Hamburg. Stroll through St. Pauli to sample the specialties from each location's taprooms, and then enjoy a free sample of your favorite beer. Hear interesting facts about beer and learn why Hamburg was once the brewing capital of the world. Enjoy a fun tour to explore Hamburg's craft beer heritage.

Hamburg: Schanzenviertel Culinary Tour

10. Hamburg: Schanzenviertel Culinary Tour

Experience a culinary walking tour of Hamburg's Shanzenviertel. Characterized by the wide variety of cafes and bars, the district will delight you with endless culinary options. Head into five local food hotspots and try the region's flavors as your guide explains their backstories. Learn about the history of this iconic neighborhood from your local guide along the way. The Sternschanze was once a star-shaped defense structure. Today, it enjoys a cult status similar to the Reeperbahn. Nowhere else in Hamburg will you have the opportunity to see the fight against gentrification and commerce at first hand, and on the tour you will discuss current topics such as the increase in rent prices and the trade and interest of investors. Explore a district that has emerged as one of the trendiest areas in the city. With an area of 0.60 square kilometers, the Sternschanze is one of the smallest but also most exciting neighborhoods in the whole of Hamburg. Right in the heart of the district is the left-wing autonomous center, the “Rote Flora.” Follow in the footsteps of Carl Hagenbeck and the true “revolutionaries,” and visit the old piano factory. Along the way, stop at some of the local favorites in the area and enjoy the culinary diversity of the district with five different delicacies, as well as hear exciting stories and discover true craftsmanship.

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The tour is in German even though the description in GYG is in English. But since it's a beer-tasting tour, and beer has no language, I went through with the activity. Kay, our tour guide made me feel welcome even though I didn't understand German. He would switch to English from time to time to accommodate his non-German speaking guests. Awesome and varied samples of beer. My fave was the Glitter Gitta at Astra bar.

The tour is really recommendable and a good start for a party evening. You learn a lot of interesting facts about the Reeperbahn and even get recommendations on where to go partying. We also drank beer and got shots together. I would do the tour again and again :)

The guide I had today was really wonderful! It's so bad that I forgot her name. Although it was for a group, she didn't cancel out the event despite knowing that only one person was going to show up today(me)!

Was really nice and explain really good the information about the tour. Every questions was answered really. Amazing!

The best tour in Hamburg with a lovely guide! We enjoyed it