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Canoe-Race with Barbecue
After a short drive by bus we arrive at a typical "Boat House", where the real Hamburg canoes are waiting for a rally. Teams of three to six people each are formed now and all teams get their canoes ready to start.

The excursion through romantic channels - including a short trip to the outer Alster-Lake- is scheduled and has to be managed as quick as possible.

Besides a lot of fun and excitement on the water you should not miss to admire and enjoy the beautiful scenery around you - like gracious villas, gardens and lawns stretching down to the waters edge. Nevertheless you have to pay attention to distinctive spots, which will be quizzed on later.

For choosing the winner-team and the accompanying award ceremony we recommend a tasty barbecue at one of the banks of the Alster Lake. (costs on request)

Duration: ca. 2.5 hours (canoe-race)
Costs: ca. € 30,00 per person

Alternatively to the canoe-race we recommend a race with dragon-boats - a stirring and absolute team-dynamic experience (Rates on request)

Races only bookable in the months from April to September

Velo Rallye
The hurdy-gurdy man welcomes your guests in his musical manner and of course he can not let off telling some "Döntjes" (funny Hamburg anecdotes).

After the guests have been formed into two teams and the questionnaires are handed over, the teams "take a run on the most impossible bikes" tricycles. Of course the teams must tell the bike taxis where to go. You should have a look at the questionnaire and….Alster - we are coming! However they should not only lay back in this unusual vehicle but also open your eyes, because "Udel" suddenly appears out of the shadow stopping the bike. In former times the Hamburg policemen were named "Udel" - he gives the answer to the right questions - do not stay too long, as time is important. From the distance you can already see the next gentleman, the so-called "Hummel" coming with the wooden troughs. In the Middle Ages he took water from the canals for the brewing of beer which is said to be the reason why the Hamburg beer has such a good taste. He also has an answer available for the bike-passengers. Though the guests do not have to make efforts by themselves (the driver should of course be spurred on), they slowly get the feeling of being hungry. That is just the right job of "De Köksch" - she was a cook of the noble houses of the Hanse City - who serves a delicious sandwich, which helps to focus the concentration again on asking the right question! But wait a moment…there is also "Zitronenjette" who wants to serve a refreshing drink. Those who know a little about Hamburg are still waiting for one historical symbolic character of the city. It is "Aal-Weber" - who still sells his freshly smoked eels on the fish marked these days - hurry up…..

Duration: ca. 3 hours
Costs: ca. € 129,00 per person

Hamburg Antics
When it slowly gets dark in the evening and quiet outside it is time to experience the history of Hamburg by torchlight.

You will find typical (and less typical) Hamburg characters at street corners and in small streets where it seems that time has never gone by. The guests are informed first hand what has happened in our city during the last 700 years

Stories of "Pfeffersäcke" and "Fleetkieker", of pirates and shipbuilders are told and shown by live performances and the guests experience mysterious, dramatic, sensational and amusing situations. And finally the secret of the well-kept mystery of the full-bodied Hamburg beer will be given away!

For the harmonious conclusion we recommend the fashionable Indochine Bar - located in the basement of the Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten. You are invited to relax, talk and enjoy yourselves in a warm Shanghai atmosphere of the thirties whilst enjoying a delicious cocktail.

Duration: ca. 2 hours
Costs: ca. € 35,00 per person (excluding drinks)

Face to Face with the Giants
- A Harbor with a Difference
Harbor tour - those words automatically conjure up a vision of launches gently moving across the Elbe - but there are some highly unusual sights to be seen on the land side of Hamburg harbor.

The coach sets off from Überseebrücke on a journey through time that takes you back over 800 years of the port's history. The days of conventional cargo handling come to life once more: Speicherstadt (the historic warehouse district) and the 1950s warehouses of Hamburger Hafen- und Lagerhaus AG - as you drive past old Kampnagel cranes, you can almost catch the smell of crates, sacks and drums. A view over the vast expanse of Hamburg harbor from almost 60 meters up, from the Köhlbrand Bridge, comes next-and suddenly we find ourselves back in the present. The modern, high-tech docklands offer us a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes. In possession of a special permit, the coach rolls right up to the terminals.

Thanks to the knowledgeable explanations of the tour guide, the bewildering confusion of van carriers and reach stackers on Burchardkai crystallizes into a smooth-running machine of filigree precision, and the interplay between automatic transport platforms moving as if by magic and fully automatic portal cranes in Altenwerder - the most up-to-the-minute container terminal in the world today - becomes one great big logical, logistical whole.

Now you can find the answer to all those questions that ever popped into your head at the sight of the big ships and towering gantry cranes as you strolled along the banks of the Elbe. Only trade visitors otherwise ever get such a close-up experience of the harbour.

Duration: ca. 3 hours
Costs: ca. € 48,00 per person

Creative Workshop in the Hamburg Art-Gallery
With its 20,000 square meters the Art Gallery in Hamburg belongs to one onf the largest Art Museums in Germany. Its fantastic art treasures range among other things from Gothic Art to modern art, from sculptures of the 19th and 20th century to water color paintings, antique coins and medals from the renaissance period

You will be welcomed by an artist, who guides you into the studio. The result of the next two hours depend on your creativity - this might be one huge group-painting on a purpose built canvas - or each individual will in front of its own easel. There is no limit to your creativity!

Following to your creative and artistic experience you will enjoy a snack-buffet in the so-called Café Liebermann - located in the historical portico.

Duration: ca. 4 hours
Costs: ca. € 79,00 per person (excluding drinks)

Creative-Workshops are bookable from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 06:00 pm and on Thursdays until 09:00 pm

Prawns Catching Tour
After having breakfast we go by bus to the small city of Büsum - a small fisher-town at the North- Sea. (ca. 1,5 hours-drive by bus). Arrived in Büsum we will change to one - for you exclusively reserved - prawn-cutter, which is ready to leave.

You leave Büsum towards "Blauort-Sand" - a rich and many-sided fishing area. With the aid of an original prawn-net you will fish besides starfishes, crabs and prawns most different kinds of fish. Once you have successfully managed to fish some prawns, they will be boiled directly on the boat to shell the prawns and eat them hot.

To complete this culinary meal a hot soup or stew will be served, together with a glass of sparkling wine.

After 1.5 hours we return to the harbor of Büsum - refreshed by maritime air - and to the Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Hamburg

Duration: Day-tour (ca. 7.5 hours)
Costs: ca. € 72,00 per person

Hanseatic Adventure Tour
This program shows you the many "faces" of this city, that is so rich in contrast.

We start at the Binner Alster Lake and you become acquainted with the beautiful quarters around the Outer Alster Lake - like Pöseldorf, which is the consulate-district at the Alsterparc, Eppendorf - with its wonderful Art-Nouveau villas as well as the "wedding-church" St. Johannis and Uhlenhorst - with a breath-taking view on the Alsterlake and the city of Hamburg. Following we pass the Binner Alster Lake - with consideration on the shopping arcades. A quick stop at the place of Hamburg's city hall - which is the city's underhand castle and has more rooms than Buckingham Palace. We pass the court district to go to the St. Michaelis Church - which is one of the biggest baroque churches of Europe and the landmark of Hamburg. Finally we leave via Reeperbahn and the Altonaer fish-market to the harbour of Hamburg, where we change on a launch. You experience and discover the historical Speicherstadt (warehouse-city) with its old and wonderful warehouses as well as the many docks - accompagnied by the humorous explanations of the captain.

Duration: ca. 3 hours
Costs: ca. € 28,00 per person

All above mentioned rates include VAT of 19% and are calculated on a group-size of 30 people