Kiel - u Boot u 995

[Native Floridian]

We do not want to go to Hamburg when we are in Kiel. Does any one know about the u boat museum? How would one get there. Is if worth the trip?

Is there any thing else along the way? Thank you for the help. CC is the best.

[HeinBloed]

We do not want to go to Hamburg when we are in Kiel. Does any one know about the u boat museum? How would one get there. Is if worth the trip?

Is there any thing else along the way? Thank you for the help. CC is the best.

 

 

It's not in Kiel but in Laboe which is the other side of the Kiel Fjord...

 

 

and here you find all information to get there:

 

http://heinbloed-cruiseguides.blogspot.com/2009/05/laboe-germany-navy-memorial-submarine.html

 

Regards,

HeinBloed

[Kingsbridge]

I took the ship's tour from the Eurodam when we were in Kiel. We were unlucky with the weather in Kiel and had heavy rain and gale force winds. I found the Naval Memorial mildly interesting with lots of information about ships and naval battles and casualties in the World Wars. When you go into the U Boat, it is very small inside. It takes about 5 minutes (tops) to walk through it. There is a little cafe there when they gave us a snack. We also saw the end of the Kiel Canal.

 

If the weather had been better, I would certainly have preferred to go to Hamburg or Lubeck on the train or even on a ship's tour. As HeinBloed has pointed out on other threads, it is easy to get to the train station from the dock. For me, the U Boat was more of a time filler than anything else. Because the weather was so bad, I didn't bother to wander around Kiel itself, but I didn't see anything that I was sorry to miss. Hamburg is a very interesting large city and Lubeck is a small and charming historic town which is very walkable.