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 Car Hire & Driving in Hamburg, GermanyWelcome to Hamburg Car Hire, Germany; available at Hamburg Airport.Hamburg Car HireCosmopolitan Hamburg is a trend-setting example to the rest of Germany and a place you must see in your German hire car. A great extent of parks, lakes and other waterways give much of Hamburg an open, green aspect that belies its status as Germany’s second largest city. Germany’s second most populous city after Berlin, Hamburg covers a spread out area on the north bank of the Elbe River, straddling its confluence with the River Alster, providing you with plenty of area to cover in your German hire car to investigate around Hamburg. However most places of interest in Hamburg lie within, or just outside, the old walled city of Hamburg, marked by a semicircle of boulevards that still trace the curve of the former city walls of Hamburg and that you can follow in your German hire car. Although it stands 120km (74 miles) from the North Sea in your German hire car, Hamburg is Germany’s busiest port. A considerable part of Hamburg’s waterfront is occupied by docks, harbour installations and warehouses. This maritime tradition gives Hamburg a rakish air that you will find extends from the old salts who sing the praises of harbour tours at the Elbe Landungsbruken to the notorious red light haunts of the Reeperbahn in your German hire car. But behind the rough and ready façade that you will find in this area of Hamburg in your German hire car, Hamburg is wealthy, sophisticated and cosmopolitan. The old walled city of Hamburg is divided into the Altstadt, a tiny kernel whose origins date from Hamburg’s earliest days in 1189 which should be investigated in your German hire car, and the outer Neustadt area of Hamburg, which is also worth exploring and was first settled a mere 300 years later. The highlights of Hamburg that you should visit in your German hire car while in Hamburg include:- The Binnenalster and Aussenalster lakes which you will find in the north east of Hamburg in your German hire car. The Binnenalster is the smaller of these two connected lakes, which stretch from the middle of Hamburg out to the north east. Aussenalster is the larger outer lake which has a number of jetties dotted around its shores where you can leave your German hire car in Hamburg and catch a tour boat. The shores of these lakes in Hamburg are lined by elaborate houses, hotels, offices and wonderful shops that you can explore in your German hire car while in Hamburg. A particularly good place to stop in your German hire car is the Alstervorland, a large park on the north west shore of these lakes in Hamburg. You will find the Kunsthalle on Glockengiesserwall in your German hire car on the north eastern corner of the Binnenalster in Hamburg. This vast art gallery in the most important in North Germany, with 144 exhibition rooms so you will need to allow plenty of time for a visit your German hire car while in Hamburg. On the Elbe waterfront of the St Pauli district in Hamburg, west of the Neustadt in your German hire car, the Landungsbruken is a long pier connected to the shore by a series of bridges, which afford a marvellous view of the busy Neider hafen river and well worth a visit in your German hire car while in Hamburg. The Michaeliskirche, which you will find on Englische Planke in your German hire car to the south west of the Neustadt in Hamburg, was originally destroyed in World War II, but has beautifully rebuilt and its bright and elegant interior restored to period perfection. A clear focus on Hamburg’s history can be found at Museum Fur Hamburgische Geschichte in the Grosse Wallanlagen park in your German hire car. A visit here in your German hire car lends context to what can be considered the bewilderingly large and complex city of Hamburg. The most instructive displays are the models of Hamburg at various periods of time. Just south of the Hauptbahnhof in Hamburg in your German hire car, you will find the large Museum Fur Kunst Und Gewerbe, which houses a wide range of art and applied art from a variety of periods and cultures, beginning with ancient Greece and Rome and including the Orient, though there is an inevitable focus on Germany. Another museum to visit in Hamburg is the Museum Fur Volkerkunde, which you will find at Rothenbaumchaussee 64 in your German hire car. The ethnography collections at this museum are wide ranging, stretching as far as the South Pacific, where Germany once had colonies. One way to trim your expenses while exploring Hamburg in your German hire car is to buy the Hamburg card, which offers reductions on tours and admission to several museums and attractions around Hamburg, together with free use of public transportation within Hamburg, should you wish to leave your German hire car and join the crowds. Hamburg cards can be purchased from the Hamburg tourist information office, which you will find on Hauptbahnof in your German hire car in Hamburg and can also offer advice on what to see and do in and around Hamburg in your German hire car. Hamburg Airport Car HireHamburg Airport lies 8km (4 miles) from Hamburg in your German hire car. Hamburg Airport has 3 passenger terminals with an annual capacity of 11 million passengers through 96 check-in desks. Hamburg Airport operates from 06:00 to 23:00 daily. At Hamburg Airport there are plenty of short and long term parking spaces available, should you need to leave you German hire car at Hamburg Airport. Hamburg Airport has all the facilities you would expect, including a post office, bank, bureau de change, auto exchange machine, restaurants, cafeterias, bars, VIP lounge, duty free shop, newsagent/tobacconist, chemist, gift shop, car rental services, first aid, baby/parent room, disabled access/facilities, business centre and a tourist help desk, which can provide advice on what to see and do in your hire car while in Hamburg. Northern Germany Car HireNorthern Germany consists of the Lander of Niedersachsen, Schlewig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the city states of Hamburg and Bremen. The countryside of Northern Germany is mainly flat, sometimes rolling and encompasses Germany’s entire maritime coastline; providing you with plenty to investigate in your German hire car. Northern Germany’s many bustling harbour towns that you can visit in your German hire car while in Northern Germany, were once members of the Hanseatic League and are complemented by the agricultural hinterland. In Northern Germany you can obtain a German hire car at Bremen, Hamburg, Lubeck and Luenenburg/Luneburg. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip in your German hire car to these places in Northern Germany, visit our Bremen Car Hire, Hamburg Car Hire, Lubeck Car Hire or Luenenburg/Luneburg Car Hire links. The quality of the German road network makes driving a German hire car an excellent way to explore Germany. Although constant driving in your German hire car at high speed can be tiring, the Autobahn makes it possible to cover long distance across Germany in your German hire car in a short time, enabling you to move easily in your German hire car from one area of interest to another. A German hire car is the best way of getting around Germany if you aim to explore smaller towns, villages and the countryside of Germany. The best known feature of Germany’s extensive and well maintained road system that you can use in your German hire car is the Autobahn, the network of toll-free motorways covering the whole of Germany. However other roads like Bundesstrassen (national roads) and Landstrassen (main roads) are generally engineered to a high standard, with good surfaces and helpful signposting to help you navigate in your German hire car. While driving around Germany in your German hire car you will find that Autobahns are identified by a white letter ‘A’ and a number on a blue background and national roads by a black letter ‘B’ and number on a yellow background. The previously inadequate road network of eastern Germany has been transformed beyond recognition through the construction of motorways across eastern Germany, like the Ostseeautobahn, which links the Baltic coast to the rest of Germany, and through the improvement of other roads, which now make the roads of eastern Germany a pleasure to use in your German hire car. The downside to all this rebuilding across Germany is the density of traffic. In your German hire car, you may find that congestion can be acute in built-up areas and anywhere at holiday times. There are more than 100 named tourist routes that you can use in your German hire car which criss-cross Germany. Some, such as stretches of the Deutsche Alpenstrasse (German Alpine Road) that you can use in your German hire car, were purpose-built as scenic highways through Germany, although most are ordinary roads linking places of similar interest that you may wish to visit in your German hire car while. The best known of these routes that you can explore in your German hire car while is probably the Romantische Strasse (Romantic Road), which run from Wurzburg in northern Bavaria to Fussenn at the foot of the Alps and takes you through picturesque, historic towns in your German hire car on the way. Even if they are not designated as such, many of the roads you can use in your German hire car through Germany’s well-wooded uplands qualify as scenic routes, and extensions of the Autobahn networks that you can use in your German hire car also offer spectacular visual experience of the German countryside. Germans are fast drivers and determined popular resistance among motorists has prevented the adoption of a compulsory speed limit on Germany’s Autobahn. Although the speeds can be a little unnerving when driving in your German hire car, most drivers are aware of what they are doing and respect the rules of the road, having passed Germany’s particularly rigorous driving test. Once you have become used to conditions in your German hire car, you will find the behaviour of fellow road users fairly predictable. While exploring Germany in your German hire car it is useful to have knowledge of the rules of the roads. Germans drive on the right; on roads without yellow diamond priority signs, you should give way to traffic from the right in your German hire car; seat belts must be worn by all occupants of you German hire car; children under 12 must use an appropriate safety seat while travelling in your German hire car; you should halt at tram stops where there is no central reservation in your German hire car and allow passengers to cross the road; you should give way to trams and buses in your German hire car as they leave stops; ensure you use dipped headlights on your German hire car in poor visibility and in tunnels; do not use side lights when driving your German hire car; give way to pedestrians in your German hire car when turning at uncontrolled junctions (intersections); do not drink and drive you German hire car as the penalties are severe; traffic lights are supplemented by priority signs, which must be obeyed in your German hire car when the lights are not functioning e.g. at night or weekends; insulting behaviour to others while driving in your German hire car is an offence; fines can be imposed on the spot by police and your German hire car may be confiscated; finally a flashing light may indicating that you can turn right in your German hire car when traffic lights are red, but you must give way to traffic coming from the other direction.
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