The “sailor’s home” by 25hours in Hamburg’s new HafenCity district is a hip designer hotel with plentiful hints of sea faring romance and a gigantic 25hours breakfast buffet!
Located just around the corner from the U-Bahn underground station “Ueberseequartier” but also just an easy walk from Hamburg’s “Neustadt” city center is where you will find the latest gem in the 25hours hotel chain. The “25hours HafenCity” captivates with its constant slyly staged allusions to the romance of the high seas.
It starts as soon as you enter the hotel lobby: The adjoining meeting room is stowed inside a Hapag-Lloyd Line shipping container…
Naturally, a part of the city with a big name like “Ueberseequartier” invites, no, it practically compels, dreams of distant shores. Guests will therefore not be surprised to find references to the high seas and ship’s architecture practically everywhere they turn in the 25hours Design Hotel.
Hotel rooms with seafaring flair
In the hotel rooms, too, seafaring chestnuts abound. We already knew that “Thirst is worse than being homesick”, but what is new is the specially-created little book providing more of such sailor’s wisdom. You would almost expect the wallpaper to match…and it does indeed!
And, just as boarding ladders evoke ships, so the minibar menu comes to you as a message in a bottle. It’s only logical.
You’re (almost) not surprised then to discover that you have a voluptuous, nude nymphet to deal with in your bathroom ;-)
The “Heimat” restaurant and bar
The same theme carries through to the restaurant: Let your eyes roam while you eat, and you’ll discover it is decorated with ropes, anchors or ship’s rudders. And carpets are piled up like in a warehouse to make benches for table seating.
To go with an authentic Astra Rotlicht (“Red Light”) beer (here, too it’s business with a wink, because” Astra Arschkalt (“Cold Butt“)” after all is not your garden-variety name…) I went for one of those recommended legendary “hamburgers”. They are said to be among the top 10 best hamburgers anywhere. Oh, yes, absolutely to be recommended. The taste is outstanding!
This is also where they serve breakfast. On the side bar, buffet-style. As always for 25hours, it is one of the longest, tastiest breakfast buffets in the industry! Even in the 25hours Zurich I could only marvel how it is like a Sunday brunch, except that it is served daily…
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Our thanks to Sales & Marketing manager Moritz Böhlke for the entertaining hotel tour! The hotel’s wink constantly lurked in the corner of his roguish eye! ;-)
Also, sincere thanks to Stefan Pallasch of Fortune Hotels for the generous invitation and to travel.ch for their help with the travel arrangements!
