New Adina Apartment Hotels to open in Leipzig, Hamburg and Munich

TOGA Hospitality (now TFE Hotels) opened its first hotel in #Germany in 2007 at the famous Berlin Wall crossing point Checkpoint Charlie in the Mitte district, known as Berlin’s beating heart. 

The group created a new niche for high quality apartment hotels and today the brand is flourishing there, working towards opening its tenth hotel in Germany, which is set to open in Munich in 2019. 

The Adina Apartment Hotel Leipzig opens in November 2017 in the city’s historic city centre and beside the medieval market square. Adina Apartment Hotel Hamburg Speicherstadt opens in February 2018 in the centre of Germany’s second largest city, between the famous redeveloped warehouse district ‘Speicherstadt’ and the main shopping district.  

 

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Pop into Berlin

IN September, October and November, visitBerlin opens pop-up restaurants in Cologne, Frankfurt and Hamburg. The Berliner Stadtmarketing-Organization is running for a short week in trendy locations for the diverse gastronomy scene of the capital. The temporary restaurant in Cologne is the first stop on the tour through the three German cities. From 2018, "Pop into Berlin" will be touring Europe.

"Pop into Berlin" in Cologne from 19 to 23 September 2017 in Marienstrasse 71-73, 50825 Cologne

"Pop into Berlin" in Frankfurt from 10th to 14th October 2017 in the Alte Textilfabrik, Taunusstraße 19, 60594 Frankfurt am Main

"Pop into Berlin" in Hamburg from 7th to 11th November 2017 in the Basecamp Hamburg, Warnholtzstraße 4, 22767 Hamburg


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Hamburg sees tourism sector boom

HAMBURG'S tourism sector has been booming for several years and has turned the city into the most successful tourist hotspot in #Germany. 

Over the past 10 years, the number of overnight stays in #Hamburg has more than doubled, and record numbers have been achieved every year for the past 15 years. A total of 6.6 million guests generated 13.3 million overnight stays in Hamburg in 2016, which corresponds to an increase of 5.5 percent compared with the same period of the previous year.

The majority of international overnight guests came from: 

• Denmark (396,000, an increase of 7.8 percent
• Switzerland came second, with 340,000 overnight stays, an increase of 10 percent. 
• The UK showed a positive development with a growth rate of 8.5 percent.
• United States (+6 percent) and 
• China (+30.7 percent)

All of which will help position Hamburg as a top ten European tourist destination.

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BA increases German flights

BRITISH AIRWAYS has announced plans to expand its German network and aircraft fleet at London City Airport this summer with two new routes and an additional Embraer 190 jet. 

BA will launch new thrice-a-day flights to both #Berlin and #Hamburg. Together with the existing services to Dusseldorf and Frankfurt, the airline will operate more than 70 flights each week to Germany direct from London’s Docklands.

This is the first time that British Airways has operated to Berlin from London City. The new route will start on June 19 on an Embraer jet, with each-way hand baggage only fares from £49. While Hamburg is currently served by British Airways’ franchise partner SunAir, starting May 8 BA will serve the route using larger Saab 2000 aircraft, more than doubling the number of seats available. Each-way hand baggage only fares are available from £79.

Luke Hayhoe, British Airways’ general manager commercial and customer, London City, said: ‘Germany is a very important market for us and these new routes give both our business and leisure customers a much wider choice of destinations with a well-timed schedule.’

The airline has recently announced more seats to European holiday hotspots this summer from Heathrow (to Athens, Lisbon and Gibraltar) and from Gatwick (to Tenerife, Lanzarote and Funchal).

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Travel Matters . . .

EUROWINGS will fly from Hamburg to Ibiza three times a week (Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays).

EASYJET is to launch flights between Luton and Dubrovnik, Croatia, for the summer, and from Gatwick to Tivat in Montenegro. The service to Dubrovnik, which starts on May 24, will operate twice a week. Flights to Tivat, also twice-weekly, start on June 16.

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Frohe Weihnachten*

BMI REGIONAL presents its pick of the best #Christmas markets in #Germany …

Munich, Marienplatz: From November 27 to December 24, Marienplatz in Munich offers unusual Christmas gifts, such as wood carvings from Oberammergau, gingerbread from Nuremberg, and glassware from Bavaria. bmi regional one-way fares from Bristol to Munich start from £81.

Hamburg, Town Hall Square and Fleet Island: The prettiest and largest of Hamburg’s nine markets is held at the Town Hall where bakers from Aachen and woodcarvers from Tyrol offer treats and stocking-fillers. Highlights include punch served by clowns, and circus acts. Santa Claus shows up three times a day at the Town Hall from November 23 to December 23, and each Saturday in Advent features a festive parade. bmi regional one-way fares from Bristol to Hamburg start from £91.

Frankfurt, Romerberg Square, Paulsplatz, and Mainkai:Frankfurt’s Christmas Market is one of the oldest and most popular in Germany and is a showcase for arts and crafts, and seasonal food and drink. With more than 200 stalls in the Romerberg market place and St Paul’s church, entertainment includes concerts, trumpet fanfares from the balcony of St. Nicholas’s Church and bell-ringing from the church carillon. The market runs from November 25 to December 22.bmi regional one-way fares from Bristol to Frankfurt start from £81 per person.

Dusseldorf: From November 19to December 23, there are Christmas-themed attractions in seven locations throughout the city, all within easy walking distance of each other. More than 200 stalls will be selling festive treats from handicrafts and decorations to mulled wine and Reibekuchen (potato pancakes). The market on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz will have an ice rink and vintage merry-go-round. bmi regional one-way fares from Bristol to Dusseldorf from £79.

*Happy Christmas in German

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