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There are a few Bremerhaven hotels to choose from if you find yourself pulling into this port city. You would definitely want to splurge on a room in this town. The youth hostels are not the set up to give the best experience. They close early and so you would miss the night out on pub row. They call it the Alte Buerger. It used to cater to the many sea men that came in on the cargo ships but today they don’t stay long and are not allowed to get off the ships because of time restraints. It is a smaller city and not one that is first on the list to visit when in Germany but perhaps you had to travel through to get to somewhere else or maybe you are interested in the emigration center that resides there. This is the main attraction that would bring visitors in by choice.

The Bremerhaven German Emigration Center is actually an amazing exhibit. They but some real thought, time and money into creating this port legacy. It goes to show you that Bremerhaven Germany was a real hub to not only trade and cargo ships but to emigrants leaving Germany. This was once a place that gave sail to the hopes and dreams of many people and families searching for a better life. The museum opened in 2005 to tell the story of some 7.2 million people from all over Europe who decided they were going to try to build their dreams in another land. The building itself has a nice modern resemblance a wooden ship with white sails. It is filled with life size mannequins dressed in nineteenth century styles of many cultures. They have the sound of the people talking in many languages for you to hear through the bustling of hall sounds while you look at artifacts people may have been carrying. Then they have a life size model of the areas of the ships they may have been traveling on so you can see what they may have been experiencing along their voyage.

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