The company event in Hamburg
On Friday, June 10, 2016, around 60 Hörex employees met up with me and three other qualified tour guides at St. Michael’s Church, the Michel. On this day, four different lectures were to be attended in four different event rooms. My task as a certified tour guide in Hamburg was to take my group to the first event room for an hour and then to the next event room within 30 minutes between each lecture. Depending on the length of the lectures, I had to shorten or extend my city tour, as the times had to be adhered to exactly. But even that is possible with individuality and flexibility for a good tour guide.
The city tour as a break filler
We started our city tour in Hamburg at the Michel and strolled down to the banks of the Elbe, where the group of companies got their first impressions of the harbor world and HafenCity. I answered questions such as: “Where do I moor my luxury yacht?” and “What’s so special about the Elbphilharmonie?”. We explored the subtle differences between the original and rebuilt warehouses in the Speicherstadt and strolled across the floating pontoons of the traditional ship harbor in HafenCity. After a theoretical insight into the Elbphilharmonie, we reached our first port of call: the Ameron-Hotel Speicherstadt. After the first lecture, as Hamburg Guide I again took charge of the group. The 15 minutes we had left were enough to explain the origins of the Speicherstadt, the function of a warehouse, the current use of the Speicherstadt, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a brief but beautiful view between the warehouses. Then we entered the second venue: the historic warehouse floor at NordEvent. After the second lecture, I took over the group for another 15-minute city tour. We left Speicherstadt and HafenCity via the Kibbelsteg and made a short stop in Deichstraße to take a look at the old warehouses and merchants’ houses and the Nikolaifleet at low tide. After a brief tour of the city from a different perspective via the footpath along the Alsterfleet, we arrived on time at our third stop: the Steigenberger Hotel. After the third lecture, we had a relaxed 30 minutes to take a tour of Hamburg’s old Neustadt district. We went from Rödingsmarkt via Hopfenmarkt to the St. Nikolai memorial, the site of the count’s “New Castle”, over the Trostbrücke bridge past the old stock exchange and the old town hall to today’s stock exchange and Hamburg’s impressive town hall. This is where the part of the city tour for this company event ended in Parliament and as a tour guide I said goodbye to my group with a Hamburgian “Tschüss”! If you are interested in other city tours by a certified tour guide in Hamburg , please have a look at our tours or contact me for an individual tour. I look forward to seeing you!
