Hamburg City Exploration: Complete with Hop-on-Hop-off Tour, Harbor Cruise and Lake Alster Trip
3.4
95 Ratings

Experience the best of Hamburg with the Discovery Tour, featuring a hop-on-hop-off bus tour, a harbor cruise, and a trip to Lake Alster. Explore the city’s top attractions at your own pace!

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Discovery Ticket: Hop-on-Hop-off Tour, Harbor Cruise and Lake Alster Cruise (Route)

Operating Schedule: Hop-on-Hop-off Sightseeing Tour Linie A
Departures Monday to Thursday
St. Pauli Landungsbrcken 1-2, stop no. 1: 9:55 a.m., 10:55 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:55 p.m., 13:55 p.m., 14:55 p.m.
Hauptbahnhof/Kirchenallee, stop no. 7: 10:05 a.m., 11:05…

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What's Included
  • Day-long Hop on Hop off Sightseeing Tour
  • 1-hour Lake Alster cruise with live commentary
  • 1-hour harbor cruise with live commentary
  • Multilingual audio guide app available
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

The Discovery Tour is the supreme exploration programme in Hamburg, bundling together three essential activities for visitors: A day pass for the LINE A city tour on a bright red double-decker bus, a 1-hour Harbour Boat Tour or Evening Light Cruise curated by the Abicht shipping company, and a 1-hour Alster Round Trip presented by the ATG…

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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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(95 Ratings)
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Rick_m
Jul 28, 2023
A good way to see the... - A good way to see the most of the city in a limited time. We were on a cruise and had only part of a day to spend.
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Christopherp_w
Mar 3, 2025
Hamburg in a day - This tour does not have much flexibilty if you miss one of the two cruises. We were lucky to get on the Alster cruise as it was booked out by a visiting cruise ship - there was only room for the two of us. There was no time to hop off the bus and catch a later bus. The two cruises were enjoyable and informative,
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Linneaself
Jan 2, 2020
Nice tour - This was my first visit to Hamburg. I had a friend that lives in Hamburg and one that used to live in Germany with me. I don't speak German very well so I used tour translation. One of my friends used it too but was disappointed that it was not up to date with what the tour guide was saying.
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Patricia_w
May 17, 2025
Lake Alster and Hamburg City tour - English option advertised, hard to find. Many of the outlets on the bus did not work. We had to disembark and wait for another to find working audio outlets. Those who understood German had it easy, others not so much. The driver would add I do only in German so we don’t know what we missed. The boat trip was only offered in German. We were supposed to download an English audio guide and bring headphones but the pre-tour information was missing. If it weren’t for Marcel at the dock who allowed us to use his hotspot, we would not have had ANY idea what we were seeing
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Lindatn4361ne
May 2, 2023
Beware of different bus lines for hop on hop off! - The bus was great with earphones provided by the bus line to listen to English narration. We purchased the triple tour which included a boat tour tour on the Elbe river. The tour narration was only in German with no translation until we remembered we had Google translate which enabled us to read the translation. The lake tour we were told we were too late to participate yesterday as the last boat left at 3:30 pm. We were there about 4:10. They said we could go the next day at 10:30 a. m. There are different lines for the hop on hop off so beware of this as we did Line A yesterday and we're going to use the same ticket as it should have been good for 24 hours. When we boarded the bus today we didn't realize it was Line C which we were required to buy a new ticket.
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Jillianc901
Jul 30, 2022
Good and Bad - The hop on hop off tour was a great way to not only have a bus pass to all the tourist locations (which our ticket was good all weekend) but to also learn a great deal about Hamburg. If you didn't bring your headphones, make sure to ask for some, they have them, so that you can listen in up to 10 or 12 different languages. The harbor tour was horrible, unless you like looking at a bunch of shipping crates. Also, they don't provide headphones, which is a must if you want to hear it in english through the mobile app. We didn't know this so didn't get to hear anything in english.
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P8557ytjuliep
Jun 22, 2022
Nice bus trip but cruises no English commentary . - Bus tour good and driver will issue your tickets . Cruises both nice but no English commentary which was disappointing. Apparently you can download an app for this but I didn’t bring any headphones with me on my cruise so that was pointless information. Wouldn’t have been difficult to give a little commentary as English is spoken very well in Hamburg . Also they do not advise no English given .
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Msl-nn
Aug 2, 2019
Trouble with the sound - The route of the bus-tour was great. But there was very difficult to hear the audio-guide, since the voice of the German guide was on all speakers of the bus. So it was very difficult to hear the messages in the headphones. And the german guide, was saying much more than what was recorded on the audio-guide. The boat-trip on Lake Alster was also great. But hear we also had trouble with the audio guide. The guide could be accessed via the phone, so you had to connect to the wi-fi onboard. The trouble was, that i have an iPhone 8 - And the headphones for the trip does not fit phones without a mini-jack. At this trip also, the german guide was on speakers all over the boat. So if we had listened to the phone without the headset, this would have disturbed for the rest of the passangers. So if you want audio-guide on these trips, and don't understand german, you have to take some precautions.
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Mine
May 14, 2025
Never again Line C - We bought tickets for the hop on hop off line C (red-yellow) for four for €78. Did the first lap around Lake Alster and then got off at the town hall to continue later. We waited at 3 different stops and he drove through each time. This was the most expensive hop off and not hop on ride. Never again!!!!!! For €78 we could have booked a private tour.
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Adriana_m
Aug 8, 2022
No very happy, this is... - No very happy, this is the first time in all the tours that I had done that there are not in English speaking :( main tour guide
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