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TORTUE Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany · Hotel Price swings 120%

TORTUE Hamburg in photographs

When to go

The cheapest month we have found is January, at around USD 245 a night - -29% against what this hotel usually asks.

Where to book

• Book on Booking.com - Free cancellation options, guest reviews and a familiar checkout.
• Book direct with the hotel - Usually the best price, and the only route where a loyalty discount applies.
• Hotel website - Photos, facilities and location.

Where a hotel takes bookings on its own site, we send you there first. It is usually the cheapest way in, and the only one where a rewards discount counts.

Our notes

TORTUE Hamburg

TORTUE Hamburg is a design boutique hotel with 128 rooms and suites in the middle of the city, in the Palaishaus between Stadthausbrücke, Große Bleichen and Neuer Wall, beside Jungfernstieg. According to the hotel, it is a member of Design Hotels and it is also listed in the Michelin Guide's hotel selection. The name recalls the years between 1806 and 1814, when Hamburg was a department of France and Napoleon himself stayed in this historic quarter; the hotel presents itself as a French-flavoured house in a historic building, newly designed by international designers.

Rooms range from 22 to 72 square metres in seven categories, from petite and classique to the Grande Suites, with high ceilings, balconies and extra-long beds. The hotel states that a non-alcoholic minibar and WLAN are free and that guests receive free entry to the Fitness First at Rödingsmarkt. It runs three restaurants, the Asian restaurant JIN GUI, brasserie TORTUE (French cuisine, also serving the breakfast) and chez l'ami (steaks and fish), plus four bars: bar noir, the cigar lounge bar bleu, bar privé and the day bar petite TORTUE, and a rooftop bar, jardin TORTUE, reserved for house guests.

The Elbphilharmonie, Speicherstadt, HafenCity, the Rathaus and the Hanse-Viertel and Neuer Wall shopping streets are all within walking distance, and the main station is a few minutes away by S-Bahn or U-Bahn. We include TORTUE for its character and city-centre position. Photographs: the hotel's own website, tortue.de.

The area

Hamburg has called itself a Hanse city for the better part of eight centuries, and the title is not just civic nostalgia. Emperor Frederick I granted the young port a charter in 1189 giving it free trade rights up the Elbe to the North Sea, and in 1241 Hamburg and Lübeck signed the alliance that grew into the Hanseatic League - the network of merchant cities that ran Northern Europe's trade for the next three hundred years. Hamburg became one of the League's three biggest members, its port shipping beer, grain and salt cod as far as Bergen and Novgorod, and the "Free and Hanseatic City" in its official name today (one of Germany's sixteen states, still governed as its own city-state) is the same claim to independence the medieval merchants made. The Speicherstadt, the red-brick warehouse district on the harbour, is the nineteenth-century version of the same trading instinct, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The other Hamburg story worth knowing before a visit is the Beatles', and it happened a few streets from where these hotels stand. Between August 1960 and December 1962, an unknown five-piece from Liverpool played hundreds of nights on and around the Große Freiheit - the Indra Club first, then the bigger Kaiserkeller next door, then ninety-two straight nights at the Top Ten Club, and finally the Star-Club, by then a genuine local draw. It was in Hamburg that Astrid Kirchherr photographed the band and gave them the moptop haircut, that Stuart Sutcliffe left the group to study art and stay with her, and died here in 1962, and that John Lennon later said the line Hamburg still uses to sell itself: "I might have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg." Those clubs sat, and mostly still sit, in St. Pauli - the district everyone in Hamburg simply calls "the Kiez," a specific and slightly disreputable stretch of nightlife around the Reeperbahn that has been the city's red-light and entertainment quarter since the street's rope- makers gave it its name four centuries ago, and that turns, a few blocks inland, into some of Hamburg's most ordinary, lived-in residential streets.

What it costs through the year

EUR figures are indicative conversions of the USD figure at 2026-11-06 (1 USD = 0.8939 EUR), not prices any hotel quoted. The hotel bills in its own currency.

All prices are for two adults over three nights, converted into US dollars at the rate on the day we saw it. They are what we saw on the day, not live availability, and not an offer. How we do it.