Recent reviews Bremen
[jipp05, 06/11/2011] Although the old centre of Bremen is stunning and impressive the area known as Schnoor is in my opinion the most charming area of the city.
Schnoor is a maze of tightly packed historic houses dating from the 15th and 16th century and are tightly packed to resemble being attached with a piece of string which is where the area gets its name as in English Schnoor means string.
Schnoor is very historic and the houses here date from the beginning of the 13th century to the 16th century and it is originally where the poor of the city lived. Today Schnoor is one of the most exclusive neighbourhoo
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[jipp05, 06/11/2011] The town hall building in Bremen completely dominates the Marktplatz skyline and is without doubt one of the most spectacular medieval buildings I have ever seen.
Built in 1402 but with the façade completely remodelled in the early 1600’s the town hall is now a UNESCO world heritage site and is the where the senate and office of the mayor of Bremen is housed.
I am a bit of an architecture buff and the Bremen town hall is without doubt one of the most beautiful and well preserved medieval buildings that I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. It makes for an imposing view from across the M
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[jipp05, 06/11/2011] For shopping ,eating out and just wandering admiring the beautiful architecture then Bremen in my opinion cannot be beaten for a city of its size however when it comes to museums and other attractions for international visitors it is lacking slightly.
There is the Science centre which is one of the best of its type that I have ever visited and well worth making the effort to visit but an interesting museum that often gets overlooked by visitors to the city and is poorly marketed by the tourist office is the ubersee museum.
The ubersee museum is one of my favourite museums and it is so inter
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[CustomerAlliance, 05/07/2011] one day in Bremen im Hostel Gasthaus Bremer Backpacker Hostel. Die Unterkunft war OK, aber nicht mehr.
[CustomerAlliance, 21/04/2011] Die Unterkunft dem Preis entsprechend. Ein gutes Service. Mangelhafte Lärmdämmung von den Treppen zu Zimmern, Nachtschlaf dadurch störend.
[CustomerAlliance, 02/04/2011] Ich war nur eine Nacht da. Ich finde dieses Ort einfach und leise. Freundliche Leute im Rezeption.
[Birdscotsong, 11/03/2011] My husband and I stayed at this Apartmenthotel for 4 days and we loved it!
[Ali73, 26/08/2010] Arrived at Bremen train station with nowhere to stay in mind, asked at the tourist information for a double room for roughly 100 euros and were directed to Am Hillmannplatz Nr 1. The gentleman who greeted us (possibly the owner) was really nice and friendly, looked at the room it was lovely, nice big bed, own bathroom with shower gel and handwash provided (nice touch). The hotel is situated in the town centre and is really close to all the shops and restaurants. Had a fab night in Bremen and then walked back to our hotel, it was a nice friendly town in which anyone could feel comfortable an
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[koshkha, 04/08/2010] In June the sun was still shining and the World Cup was in full flow. On the day of the final group stage game for England I was in Bremen. Much to my chagrin I'd missed the England game due to being stuck at a factory near Bremen where phones, radios and any kind of communication with the outside world were all forbidden. It took me ages to find out we were safely (though rather pathetically) through to the final 16 and Germany would be playing the game to determine who we'd face in the next round on the same evening. Returning to the city with my colleague Iris we were a little concerned tha
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[koshkha, 04/08/2010] On one of my many trips to Bremen I arranged to meet my colleague Iris for dinner and she suggested a newly opened seafood place called 'Fisherman'.
I was staying at the Intercity, next to the railway station and Fisherman was very close by - just across the Bahnhofsplatz and a few doors along on the road opposite. Getting in was the first challenge as the door is, to put it politely, a bit sticky. With a hearty shove it eventually flew open and we headed inside. It was about 7.15 pm which is by no means early in Germany but at that time only one other table was taken. Iris reassured me th
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[koshkha, 13/06/2010] My flight arrived at Bremen airport at 10 pm. Since I didn't know where I was going I took a taxi which cost me Euro25 which is about Euro10 more than a taxi to the city centre. I found myself in the middle of a high tech but very empty university area, filled with 'institutes of this' and 'departments of that' and eventually, the Atlantic came into view. It's not a hotel chain that I'm familiar with - even though they have at least three hotels in Bremen alone - so I had little idea of what to expect.
I stepped out of the taxi and found two very contrasting buildings. Ahead of me a box-like
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[koshkha, 25/05/2010] The weather this year has been really miserable and I can't help wondering when the 'eating outside' season is finally going to kick in. When my friend Iris agreed to have dinner with me on Wednesday night, in Bremen (where the weather is if anything even worse than it has been in the UK) her suggestion was a small restaurant in the city's historic 'Schnoor' district. By mid May it ought to be already possible to eat al fresco by this time of year but sadly it isn't.
The Schnoor is the old and ever-so-cute district of the town which is exceptionally popular with tourists. During the middle
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[koshkha, 24/06/2009] Of the people I work with, Sabine from our Bremen office is one of my very favourite colleagues and confidantes. We share the same often frustrating (and in her case upsetting) boss so when we have the chance, we love to get together and have a good gossip about his latest excesses. Often we don't get the chance to go out because she has to make arrangements with her husband over transport and suchlike so this time I had let her know well in advance that I would be in Bremen and would be free for the evening. What I hadn't banked on was still being full from my lunch earlier in the day. Neithe
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[koshkha, 21/04/2009] Unfortunately the hotel where I normally stay in Bremen was fully booked. It was probably my own fault for leaving the booking so late and was not helped by the travel agent 'forgetting' to make a booking. With the Intercity full, I was sent to the Mercure. I had seen the hotel from the outside many times as it's on the Bahnhofplatz, directly opposite the main entrance to the station. Seen from outside the main impression is that this is a big hotel - stretching right from the corner across several shops and bars. My expectation based on too many nights in Accor-group hotels is that anything l
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[koshkha, 05/04/2009] I knew it was going to be one of those days when I'd have to eat out twice so I prepared well. I skipped breakfast at the hotel because I knew that there was no way I'd be able to do justice to three restaurant meals in one day and breakfast was the easiest one to sacrifice.
Luckily I'd had prior warning that my morning visit was likely to last well into the afternoon and lunch would be offered. I was visiting an agency we use in a lovely up-market residential area of Bremen and sure enough, at around 1pm when the growls from the stomachs of my two interlocutors - Uwe and Joerg - started to
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[koshkha, 15/02/2009] Strange as it might seem, when I visit the German town of Bremen, my favourite place to eat is at the Ubersee Restaurant, located on the ground floor of the Ubersee Museum. It's not just me - the colleagues in our local office always seem to choose to eat there too whenever there are visitors in town.
For me and other visiting colleagues, there are two really good reasons that we like the Ubersee; its location is really close to both the hotel where we most often stay and to the office and the meals are great value for money. Even when times are tough and the pound is really weak against th
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[koshkha, 16/08/2008] In the golden age of rail travel, the railway hotels were giants of hospitality. You only have to see some of the grand railway hotels like those around St Pancras or the Great Eastern at Liverpool Street to get a sense that there was a time when the best of architecture went into railway hotels. These days however, the term 'convenient for the railway station' is often short-hand for 'shabby, run down and in a dodgy part of town'. In the case of the Intercity in Bremen, neither of these situations is true it's not an architectural gem, but it is a very nice, clean, modern hotel that's right
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[koshkha, 26/07/2008] There's nothing really wrong with the Maritim but it seems to be stuck in a time warp to another era
[MALU, 02/06/2008] You are standing in front of the City Hall, go round the left corner and you will find the statue of the four town musicians, their correct address is Unser Lieben Frauen Kirchhof (Churchyard, Church of our Lady). The bronze sculpture was created in 1951 by the artist Gerhard Marcks.
You remember The Brothers Grimms fairy tale? A donkey, a dog, a cat and a cock escape from their owners who treat them badly and decide to go to Bremen to become town musicians there. "We can always find something better than death", is their motto. On the way they come to an inn in which some robbers have a f
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[MALU, 18/05/2008] If you want to know what Bremen looked like in the olden days many centuries ago, visit the Schnoor. Look out for the Church of St. John (St. Johannis Kirche), walk down some steps and youll find yourself in a maze of narrow (about 4 m wide) alleyways. Small houses stand side by side in a row, lined up like pearls on a string - ‘Schnur in German or ‘Schnoor in local dialect. Originally fishers, skippers and artisans lived there, but after the building of a Franciscan cloister, more and more tradesmen arrived.
Nowadays the quarter is one of the main attractions of the Free Hanseatic City of
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