Accommodation in Bremen

Bremen: Stadtmusikanten, Schnoor und Überseeluft

Bremen tells its story at every step: the Roland statue and town hall on the market square are UNESCO World Heritage, the bronze Town Musicians gleam at the front hooves from all the touching, and in the Schnoor quarter, fifteenth-century houses crowd along lanes barely shoulder-wide.

Sleeping arrangements are Hanseatic and varied: Atlantic Hotel Universum lives next to the science museum, in Bremerhaven the Atlantic Hotel Sail City rises like a sail above the Havenwelten, and aboard Alexander von Humboldt – Das Schiff you spend the night in a genuine windjammer berth. Inland, houses like Behrens-Hof keep the Lower Saxon inn tradition alive.

Between the Böttcherstraße, the Schlachte embankment and the Teufelsmoor just outside town, the programme stays relaxed and northern. Book directly with your host and there's no agency fee – and local knowledge tells you where a waterside table is still free on the Schlachte at night.