May 28, 2025
A wonderful tour - Thank you to Thomas for a knowledgeable, humorous, and very interesting tour.
Thomas spoke excellent English and took great trouble to explain things in German and English.
I found the tour emotional at times. I leaned a lot about Hannover and I cannot wait to return to this resilient, historic city with such kind people.
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Oct 22, 2023
Great tour for German-speaking guests, not so much for English speakers - The design of the tour is great! It covers most attractions at the city center. Our guide is very knowledgeable and fun as well. He brought us Leibniz biscuits to taste on the tour. However, the tour is conducted in German. The guide would catch up very briefly the content in English while walking towards the next atrraction. If I didn't use real-time Google translator, I would miss most of what he said.
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Jun 10, 2023
Recommended - The tour was great. Bi-lingual guide was very nice and was able to pay equal attention to German and English speaking tourists. We learned a lot of historical facts.
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Aug 21, 2023
Red Thread self guided walking tour - There is a Red Thread self led tour you can do by following the red line painted on the pavement starting from the Information Centre in the main square outside the Hauptbahnhof. You can buy a guide for the walk for €3.50 in the Info Centre. The walk is about 4kms long.
It’s definitely the way to see Hanover if you’re fit and mobile. It visited all the areas we wanted to see, at our own pace.
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Mar 30, 2023
Informative tour - The tour is really informative and our tour guide very good. We learnt many things about the city and it's people.
The only fault I would state was that it was hard with it being spoken in first German then English. Hard for the guide tell the same story twice.
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Sep 26, 2021
Good tour—if you speak German. - I booked this tour after the Viator site stated that it would be an English tour. However, out of 22 participants, I was the only English speaker. Therefore, naturally, 80% or more of the tour was in German. The tour guide tried to include some English just for me, but she had to do the vast majority of the explanations in the German language. It seemed like a great tour, but I was unable to understand much of it.
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Jun 15, 2025
It wasn't in English. - When booking it said it was in German and English, but it was not. The visit was in German and although the track made an effort I ended up translating with my phone.
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Aug 18, 2023
Very superficial - I wasn't prepared for that. What I experienced was not a city tour. A city walk apparently only means a few thin anecdotes. The guide offered hardly anything informative and certainly no reliable facts; some of it was demonstrably wrong, as I was able to find out later by googling. Overall, it was extremely superficial. What is the content? What is interesting? I couldn't find out.
But there was a lot of fiddling around. A few chauvinistic puns here, a bit of joking around there. A few guests dutifully played along. But then the comment that stolen bikes would now be in Poland was questionable. That's not acceptable!
Visit-hannover.com would do well to check whether a quality promise can be kept. Given the other positive reviews, today's tour seems to have been more of an exception. That would be to be hoped for.
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May 8, 2023
Not good - Advertised as suitable for English speakers. The guide then announced that he would do it in German as he could tell us more. Shame we couldn't understand most of it. Luckily for us another customer translated bits. Basically an hour long walk with more than 20 other non English speakers. Probably not worth the money if you can't speak German.
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Apr 29, 2023
Not as advertised - The tour is sold as bi-lingual and we specified English as our language on the booking form. The guide did not speak English and it was left to another paying customer to translate the significant parts of the tour. Definitely not as advertised.
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