Tour: Hamburg STEM Weekend Destination: Hamburg, Germany Itinerary: 3 days/2 nights in resort Additional days can be added subject to individual school needs. This tour can be combined with Bremen STEM to make a 5 night tour Day Afternoon Evening 1 Pizza dinner 2 Breakfast AIRBUS Factory tour Prototyp Museum with guided tour Dinner at hotel Miniatur Wunderland inc behind the scenes 3 Breakfast Hamburg STEM Weekend Morning Electrum Museum or Hamburg Dungeon, Plaza of Elbphilharmonie, Hop-on/Hop-off bus (inc visit to Tower of St Michaels), Energie-Bunker Wilhelmsburg inc guided tour Travel to Hamburg, transfer to hotel and check-in Transfer to airport, check-in and return flight to UK As with all sample itineraries, please be aware that this is an “example” of a schedule and that the activities included may be variable dependent upon dates, weather, special requests and other factors. Itineraries will be confirmed prior to travel.
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Tour: Hamburg STEM Weekend Destination: Hamburg, Germany Itinerary: 3 days/2 nights in resort Additional days can be added subject to individual school needs. This tour can be combined with Bremen STEM to make a 5 night tour
Day Afternoon Evening
1 Pizza dinner
2 Breakfast AIRBUS Factory tourPrototyp Museum with
guided tourDinner at hotel
Miniatur Wunderland
inc behind the scenes
3 Breakfast
Hamburg STEM WeekendMorning
Electrum Museum or Hamburg Dungeon, Plaza of
Elbphilharmonie, Hop-on/Hop-off bus (inc visit to Tower of
St Michaels), Energie-Bunker Wilhelmsburg inc guided tour
Travel to Hamburg, transfer to hotel and check-in
Transfer to airport, check-in and return flight
to UK
As with all sample itineraries, please be aware that this is an “example” of a schedule and that the activities included may be variable dependent upon dates, weather, special requests and other factors. Itineraries will be confirmed prior to travel.
Day 1 – Travel to Germany Dinner
Travel to the Hamburg, Germany. Transfer to your hotel, check-in and get settled. Enjoy a pizza dinner before bed.
Sample Hotel: Meininger Hamburg City Center or similar Meininger Hotels offer excellent student accommodations at great value. Students sleep in multi-bedded rooms; staff sleep in single or double occupancy, based on your quote. Breakfasts and dinners are taken at the hotel. Packed lunches are available for purchase, dependent upon your preferences.
Welcome to Germany! Herzlich Willkommen in Deutschland!
Hamburg - a major port city in northern Germany, is connected to the North Sea by the Elbe River. It's crossed by hundreds of canals, and also contains large areas of parkland. Near its core, Inner Alster lake is dotted with boats and surrounded by cafes. The city's central Jungfernstieg boulevard connects the Neustadt (new town) with the Altstadt (old town), home to landmarks like 18th-century St. Michael’s Church.
Day 2 – Door to the world Breakfast & dinner included; lunch on own
After breakfast at our hotel, use the public transportation tickets to travel to one of the major homes of the European aircraft consortium – Airbus at Finkenwerder. The included 2.5 hour tour promises to inspire students showcasing the A319 all the way up to the impressive A380. (tour content subject to current production within the factory)
After a break for lunch (not included), make your way to the Protoyp Museum. During the guided tour, your students will be given an insight into a number of inspiring personalities from the automotive world. Delve into the power behind their creativity, the power of engines and view a hand-picked selection of cars from 80 years of automotive history from the original Porsche64 from 1939 to modern Formula 1 racing cars. Experience the driving simulator and experiment with the miniature wind tunnel.
Return to your accommodation for dinner before heading out to one of the largest attractions in Hamburg – the fantastic Miniatur-Wunderland. Miniatur-Wunderland is the largest model railway system in the world and has, in fact, been voted the most popular tourist attraction in Germany. Visitors can admire different countries and even an airport in miniature size. Besides the impressive miniature versions of Hamburg, the mountainous German region of the Harz, the Austrian Alps, France, Italy, North-America and Scandinavia ─ and several construction sites are open for curious visitors as well! The bustling miniature city is home to over 50,000 “Wünderländer” (as the inhabitants are known) and includes Hamburg’s main attractions such as the Tierpark Zoo as well as the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof where 1500 trains arrive daily. (1 guide for 1 hour included – 15-20 mins per group – max 10 people per group).
Day 3 – Auf Wiedersehen Hamburg Breakfast included – a packed dinner can also be added for late departing groups
After breakfast at your hotel, make your way back into the centre of Hamburg using public transport and visit Electrum – the Museum of
Electricty. Nothing works without electricity - electricity has accompanied us through our everyday lives for 130 years. Around one thousand electrical appliances from this era can be admired in electrum. On an exciting journey through time, visitors encounter interesting and curious electrical devices from the past. In the electrum, old familiar and long forgotten articles can be admired. Those interested in technology can go on a journey into the past here. The interesting exhibits include an old tube radio, candy-colored hair dryers, rustic gramophones, black-and-white televisions, flap toasters and much more. In addition, from the Siemens dynamo to the "floating frying pan", there are many astonishing and unknown things to discover from the world of electricity. The included guided tour will give your students to opportunity to ask whatever questions they may have.
If you wish, alternatively, visit the Hamburg Dungeon for a morning of exploration of the 360° sets with gripping storytelling, 11 interactive shows, state of the art theming and special effects and 2 awesome underground rides. Please bear in mind that this tour will be in GERMAN only.
In the afternoon, take the Hop-on/Hop-off bus for a 90 minute tour of the city of Hamburg (audio-guide included). Time permitting you are free to jump off the bus at any stop to visit any of the attractions your school would like. Make sure to alight at St Michael’s Church for a visit of the tower.
Another stop to alight at is the Plaza de Elbphilharmonie where your students can enjoy the breathtaking views over the harbour and city of Hamburg from the viewing platform of the impressive old harbour warehouse and modern glass structure which stands 37m above it.
After collecting any luggage from your hotel, board the coach for the transfer to the airport. En-route, visit Hamburgs’ Energie-Bunker. The former air raid bunker in the district of Wilhelmsburg was transformed into a symbol of renewability. Having languished almost unused since the end of World War II, the monument has now been renovated during the IBA Hamburg and converted into a power plant using renewable forms of energy, with a large heat reservoir. This supplies the Reiherstieg district with climate-friendly heat, while feeding renewable power into the Hamburg distribution grid. The air raid bunker on Neuhöfer Strasse was built in 1943 to demonstrate the supposed valour of the home front. Thousands of people sought shelter from the allied bombing raids in two such bunkers, one in Wilhelmsburg and the other in St Pauli. With its flak towers, the bunker also formed part of the German war machine. In 1947 the interior of the building was completely destroyed by the British Army in a controlled demolition. Six of the eight floors collapsed, and the rest was too dangerous to access. Only the outer shell of the structure, its walls up to three metres and its ceilings up to four metres thick, remained almost intact. For over sixty years, further use of the building was restricted to a few adjacent areas.
Now the bunker, which had been in danger of collapsing, is being renovated and preserved as a monument as part of the Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg (International Building Exhibition). The history of the bunker and the former residents of the Reiherstieg district are the focus of an exhibition in and around the building. The Café and its 30 metre high terrace offer a
unique view over Hamburg, the city's harbour, and across to the Harburg Hills. Monument and Energy Bunker - With a solar casing on its roof and southern side, the “Energy Bunker”, visible from a distance, marks an important milestone on the road towards supplying the Elbe islands with renewable forms of energy. By using, in an intelligent way, a combination of solar energy, biogas, wood chips, and waste heat from a nearby industrial plant, the “Energy Bunker” is set to supply most of the Reiherstieg district with heat, while also feeding renewable power into the electricity grid. When completed, the bunker will generate approximately 22,500 megawatt hours of heat and almost 3000 megawatt hours of electricity. This meets the heating requirements of around 3000 households and the electricity needs of around 1000 homes, equalling a carbon saving of 95 per cent, or around 6600 tonnes of carbon per year. As a local power plant, the “Energy Bunker” represents a decentralised energy policy that creates local jobs and income.
Innovative Technology in a Smart Network - At the heart of the project is the large heat reservoir built inside the former air raid bunker. In the years to come it will transform the building into an “Energy Bunker” capable of supplying a district covering an area of more than 1.2 square kilometres (120 hectares), thanks to the integration of different types of environmentally friendly heat and electric power units. The project's most innovative feature is its large-scale buffer storage facility, with an expected total capacity of 2 million litres (2000 cubic metres). This is fed by the heat from a biomethane-fired combined heat and power unit, a wood combustion system, and a solar thermal unit, as well as the waste heat from an industrial plant. The buffering effect of the storage facility will result in a significant drop in the thermal generation performance, from 11 to 6.5 megawatts, enabling the economic use of renewable energy as part of the heat supply concept. The concept is the first of its kind in the world, advancing knowledge about the practicality of the control and hydraulic technologies used. In addition, an extension of the project is currently being researched by SMART POWER Hamburg. In future excess wind power from northern Germany could be transformed into heat in the reservoir, or heat from an extra combined heat and power unit could be fed into the reservoir at times of low wind and sunshine, and used to generate electricity. The included guided tour will explain to your students all about the history of the bunker from a war structure to an innovative lighthouse project of the energy transition and learn more about urban development in Wilhelmsburg.
Important note: If your school is visiting during the working week, there is also the opportunity on the final day for your students to enjoy the German Aerospace Centre DLR-Lab in Hamburg as an alternative to the above programme. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is one of the largest and most modern research institutions in Europe. This is where future planes are developed, pilots trained, rocket engines tested, and images of distant planets evaluated. In addition, the approximately 8,000 DLR employees are researching next-generation high-speed trains and environmentally friendly methods for energy generation - and much more ...
In the DLR_School_Lab TU Hamburg-Harburg, children and young people are taken on an adventurous journey into the world of aviation: at the world's third largest location for the civil aviation industry, flying is of course of particular importance. But Hamburg is also known to be one of the largest port cities in Europe, so that shipping is also dealt with in the DLR_School_Lab. The pupils carry out exciting experiments by hand and discover the fascination of technology and science and that it is fun to find out why a heavy aircraft can take off the ground or how ships can find their way safely to their destination even during storms and swells. Please be sure to ask us for more details as to the specific workshops available if you wish to travel at times that do not involve a weekend as DLR Lab is not available at weekends. Don’t be sad because as the Germans say, “You always meet twice in life!”
Auf Wiedersehen
Hamburg STEM Weekend
Minimum Booking Numbers: 20 students What’s Included: Return flights 2 nights’ accommodation in Hamburg
Airport transfers Public transportation tickets 2 x HVV (9am earliest
journey) Breakfasts & dinners daily starting with dinner on your
night of arrival and ending with breakfast on your day of departure
Entrance fees – Elbphilharmonie Plaza, Electrum Museum or Hamburg Dungeon, St Michael’s church tower and Miniatur-Wunderland, Prototyp-Museum (inc guided tour), Airbus Factory Tour
Hop-on/Hop-off tour Energie-Bunker Wilhelmsburg Tour escort 24-hour emergency cover
What’s Not Included: Lunches/beverages during the days in Hamburg Dinner on final day – this can be added on request
Public transport not mentioned above Checked Baggage on flights Fully comprehensive insurance (mandatory) Transfers to/from home airport if travelling by air Cost of visas, full or collective passports Cost of inoculations or medication required for travel Sightseeing / Entertainment Options not shown in
Itinerary Hotel incidental deposits & bills – meals, mini-bar items,
recreation charges, purchases billed to room, Any gratuities – coach drivers, maid/ bellman services,
Visions Ambassador, local guides
As always, our staff are always available to you to answer any questions you may have regarding programming. If we may serve you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact us.
