In central Hamburg, the Best Western Plus Hotel St. Raphael, Hamburg, Germany, is a comfortable hotel close to the main station, with individually furnished rooms in a timelessly elegant style, free Wi-Fi, a breakfast restaurant with a rich buffet, a bar for an evening nightcap, a fitness area with rooftop views, and a conference room for up to 30 people.
The main station, the central bus station and the main shopping streets lie a few minutes' walk away, with museums, the playhouse and the airport easy to reach by public transport. The Alster lakes are close by.
Hamburg is Germany's great port city, laced with canals and crossed by more bridges than Venice. The twin Alster lakes shimmer at its heart, ringed by promenades and sailing boats, the red-brick warehouses of the UNESCO-listed Speicherstadt line the harbour, and the wave-roofed Elbphilharmonie rises above the river. Nightlife along the Reeperbahn lights up the St Pauli quarter after dark.