Cookies are present for the best experience on our website. We do not collect personal information. If you continue to use the site we assume that you consent. Ok Read more. Bargain Travel Europe guide to Europe on a budget for unusual destinations, holiday travel tips and secret spots missed by travel tours. Get a Rail Pass. More an like an alleyway blocked at both ends by a steel gateway, through which only men are allowed to travel by city ordinance so last century , the legal prostitutes of Hamburg's Reeperbahn are some of the most beautiful in Europe.
Amsterdam with its Red Light District is perhaps more well known but actually more staid than raucus St. The officially registered girls sit behind glass windows of the row, on display like a department store of delight. They will offer better deals than inside the official gates, but buyer beware, the price can go up for what you thought was included. But the Reeperbahn and St. Pauli is far from sex only. It's a Hamburg party.
There are many music and dance clubs mixed among the sex and toy shops, from Jazz to Rock at popular live performance venues with international bands and performers to boogie till you drop discos of young and maybe not-so-young Hamburgers dancing the night away until the wee hours. In the area of St. Pauli District, a short distance from the Reeperbahn, you can find many local bars Kneipen and restaurants.
And sex performance theaters where almost anything goes can be found a few blocks away on the street of "big freedom" Grosse Freiheit Strasse.
The Reeperbahn sort of officially closes at 5am - mostly for street cleaning purposes and nothing says Reeperbahn like stepping over drunken young Germans passed out on the sidewalk at 4 am from a night of clubbing. On a weekend in late September the Reeperbahn Festival offers a chance to enjoy international music bands playing at the clubs, discoteques and stages in and around the Reeperbahn. Compare best hotel and vacation deals in Hamburg on TripAdvisor.
