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Currency: the euro.
Area code: +49 (Germany), (0)40 (Hamburg).
How to get there
AIR FRANCE offers four daily flights from Paris CDG, with a flight time of 1h30. In addition, the national airline offers three flights a week between Toulouse and the German city, both Airbus headquarters. Journey time: 2h15. All these flights are operated on A 320 three-class aircraft, including one Premium Economy.
Tel.: 0820 320 820
Internet: www.airfrance.com
LUFTHANSA operates 17 weekly flights between Paris CDG and Hamburg, 12 of which are operated directly by the German airline using A319 two-class aircraft and six in partnership with Eurowings using Bombardier CRJ900s. The German group also offers three flights a week between Nice and Hamburg via
its subsidiary Germanwings.
Tel.: 0892 231 690
Internet: www.lufthansa.com
Hotels
Park Hyatt Hamburg
Located on one of Hamburg's busiest shopping streets, the Park Hyatt and its 252 rooms take on the surprising challenge of being one of the city's quietest hotels. Its spirit is almost reminiscent of a mountain, with so much light and warm wood. Upstairs, the lobby is very intimate, while the smoking room has a British feel. The main restaurant, Apples, serves regional dishes based on high-quality local produce.
Bugenhagenstraße 8.
Phone: +49 (0)40 3332 1234
Email : hamburg.park@hyatt.com
Internet: www.hamburg.park.hyatt.de
Mövenpick hotel Hamburg
Opened in 2007 in a former nineteenth-century water tower, this 226-room hotel with its ultra-sober post-industrial charm, all in brick, is well worth a diversion, or even a stay. Especially if you opt for the Tower Suite and its 360° view over the whole city.
Sternschanze 6.
Phone: +49 (0)40 334 411 0
Email : hotel.hamburg@moevenpick.com
Internet: www.moevenpick-hotels.com
Hotel Louis C. Jacob
The restaurant, opened 225 years ago by a Huguenot by the name of Jacques, is now a leading member of the Leading Hotels. The eighteenth-century building on the banks of the Elbe is filled with Biedermeier furniture, paintings and engravings, including some by Max Liebermann, the Impressionist painter who spent an entire summer there. The restaurant, whose magnificent terrace is shaded by lime trees, boasts two Michelin stars. Needless to say, business travellers are eager to return to this august residence with its creaky wooden floors.
Elbchaussee 401-403.
Tel.: +49 (0)40 822 550
Internet: www.hotel-jacob.de or www.lhw.com
Sofitel Hamburg Alter Wall
Pure lines, soft colours, pastels and softness for this 241 rooms and suites in the historic centre. The hotel, which overlooks a canal, is as calm as can be and offers unusual views from the restaurant, whose terrace is suspended above the water. For lunch, it's like being by the sea...
Alter Wall 40
Phone: +49 (0)40 369 500
Email : H5395@sofitel.com
Internet: www.sofitel.com
Side hotel Hamburg
Colour above all else, light, modernity, purity, curves and straight lines, all without excess, in a very 21st century style: behind a façade of stone and glass, the hotel offers 315 rooms with WiFi.
Drehbahn 49
Phone: +49 (0)40 30 99 90
Email : info@side-hamburg.de
Internet: www.side-hamburg.de
Other major business hotels
Radisson Blu Hamburg
Marseiller Straße 2.
Phone: +49 (0)40 35 02 00
Email : info.hamburg@radissonblu.com
Internet: www.radissonblu.com/hotel-hamburg
Steigenberger Hamburg
Heiligengeistbrücke 4.
Phone: +49 (0)40 36 80 60
Email : hamburg@steigenberger.de
Internet: www.steigenberger.com
Hamburg Marriott Hotel
ABC Straße 52
Phone: +49 (0)40 35 050
Internet: www.marriott.com
Grand Elysee Hamburg
Rothenbaumchaussee 10.
Phone: +49 (0)40 41 41 2200
Email : info@grand-elysee.com
Internet: www.grand-elysee.com
Empire Riverside Hotel
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 97.
Phone: +49 (0)40 3111 90
Internet: www.empire-riverside.de
Budget hotels
Siperbude St Pauli
Literally translated: great pad. Yes, there's a student feel to this hotel, which opened a year ago. But the owners of the 25Hours group, these stylish and truly upmarket creatives, are behind the concept. Nothing to fear, apart from a relaxed atmosphere that plays on offbeat codes. For business travellers with a soft spot in their hearts.
Juliusstraße 1-7
Phone: +49 (0)40 807 915 820
Email : stpauli@superbude.de
Internet: www.superbude.com
Hotel Alster Hof
Situated between the opera house and the famous Vier Jahreszeiten, this three-star hotel offers all the services required by guests
in the heart of the old town, at very reasonable prices.
Esplanade 12
Phone: +49 (0)40 35 00 70
Email : info@alster-hof.de
Internet: www.alster-hof.de
Restaurants
Carls
This chic brasserie, run by an Alsatian chef, takes its inspiration from French classics, but revisits them in Hamburg style. Here, the famous filet of herring rubs shoulders with the hexagonal steak frites and the wine list is very extensive, especially the delicious Riesling and other Germanic vintages. Another original feature is that the menu is accompanied by a musical score. Why a musical score? Because just behind the windows of the room, which stretches along the quays, is the silhouette of the Elbphilarmonie, the future mega-concert hall in Hafen City.
Am Kaiserkai 69.
Phone: +49 (0)40 300 322 400
Internet: www.carls-brasserie.de
Riverkasematten
Originally a fish market tunnel in 1865, it became a bunker during the war and then an ultra-famous jazz cellar in the 1950s. Today, this restaurant facing the harbour is a Hamburg landmark. People come here for its weekend brunches, its admirable sushi and its freshly caught fish dishes. And also for its beautiful terrace in summer, almost with its feet in the water.
Sankt Pauli Fischmarkt 28-32.
Phone: +49 (0)40 300 60 190
Email : service@river-kasematten.de
Internet: www.river-kasematten.de
Bullerei
The name comes from Bulle, German for bull. So you'd better love meat when you enter these magnificently renovated former abattoirs, where butcher-style glass fridges display the good cuts still in their raw state. You'll find some of Hamburg's finest fillets, steaks, squares and rib steaks on your plate.
Lagerstraße 34 b
Phone: +49 (0)40 33 442 110
Email : info@bullerei.com
Internet: www.bullerei.com
Wasserschloss
This "castle on the water" offers an enchanting setting at the tip of an island between two canals, in the Hafen City district. Inside, the cobbled floor is still intact and dented, but the decor could have done with a little more work. The dishes on offer are inventive, like the traditional schnitzel... revisited with green tea. A pleasant place for lunch.
Dienerreihe 4
Phone: +49 (0)40 558 982 640
Email : mail@wasserschloss.de
Internet: www.wasserschloss.de
Meerwein
The restaurant at Hafen City's Maritime Museum, housed in one of the most beautiful 19th-century buildings in the old port, has a simple elegance that makes it the perfect place for a business meal. The menu offers red mullet with champagne or sea devil, all accompanied by a fine list of German wines.
Im Maritimen Museum Hamburg.
Kaispeicher B, Koreastraße 1.
Phone: +49 (0)40 300 87 888
Email : kontakt@meerwein-restaurant.de
Internet: www.meerwein-restaurant.de
Information
GERMAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE
21, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris.
Tel.: 01 40 20 01 88
Internet: www.germany.travel/fr/ or
www.facebook.com/Allemagne.Tourisme
HAMBURG TOURISMUS
Phone: +49 (0)40 300 51 300
Internet: www.hamburg-tourism.de
HAMBURG FRENCH-GERMAN BUSINESS CLUB
Linsenkamp 11.
Phone: +49 (0)40 970 73184
Email : contact@amicale-hambourg.de
Internet: www.amicale-hambourg.de
HANDELSKAMMER HAMBURG - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Adolphsplatz 1 Tel: +49 (0)40 36
13 81 38 - Email : service@hk24.de
Internet: www.hk24.de
FRENCH CONSULATE
Heimhuder Straße 55.
Phone: +49 (0)40 41 33 25 0
Internet: www.ambafrance-de.org/-Hambourg
TRADE MISSION - UBIFRANCE GERMANY
Martin-Luther-Platz 26, Düsseldorf.
Phone: +49 211 300 41 0
Email : dusseldorf@ubifrance.fr
Internet: www.ubifrance.fr/allemagne
Services
REGUS
2nd and 3rd floors, Neuer Wall 63.
Phone: +49 (0)40 808 093 100
Internet: www.regus.de
OFFICE SUPPORT
Am Sandtorkai 77
Phone: +49 (0)40 897 123 900
Email : team@officesupport.de
Internet: www.officesupport.biz
Practical guides
HAMBURG, Cartoville, Gallimard (2011)
HAMBURG, Wallpaper, Phaïdon City Guide (2012)
