Pub crawl on Hamburg's Reeperbahn
After completing the day's programme, many tourists are drawn to trendy, notorious St. Pauli for a somewhat different form of sightseeing: a pub crawl on the Reeperbahn.
The Reeperbahn is famous far beyond the borders of Germany and represents the mixture of dubious half-underground, tourist party mile and lived history of Hamburg that exerts an unbroken fascination on visitors every evening.
What can travellers expect on a pub crawl on the Reeperbahn?
The Reeperbahn survives not at least because of its shady reputation. But here the all-clear can be given: it is no more dangerous there than on any other big city party mile. This is ensured by the police officers of the well-known Davidwache in the middle of the Reeperbahn, where almost all party-goers stroll past in the course of an evening. What every visitor should be prepared for is the red light milieu, which is very strongly represented here. As you know, there are countless strip clubs, live sex shows, sex shops and prostitutes on the Reeperbahn. Male passers-by should be prepared to be approached several times by certain ladies and gentlemen in order to lure them into the corresponding clubs. Those who are not interested in these offers do not have to worry. Nobody is forced to do anything, it is only necessary to be friendly one time or another, but determined to say no.
Große Freiheit
Those who plan to go out in the Hanseatic city should know that a party on the Reeperbahn starts best on the Große Freiheit, one of the side streets of the Reeperbahn and a famous sight in its turn. There are numerous small pubs here that often lure their customers with bait offers, such as a free sparkling wine for women. In one pub each beer costs only 1.00 €, in another the celebrity factor is guaranteed by the operator Dragqueen Olivia Jones. There is something for every taste. The later in the evening, the more people will be romping around on the entertainment mile and an exciting pub crawl on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg will practically become a self runner.
