Empire Riverside Hotel in Hamburg offers eight event rooms for 10 to 350 guests each, and up to 1,000 people when rooms are combined or whole floors are booked. Every room has daylight, which suits full-day seminars, product launches and hybrid meetings. The hotel stands at Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 97, above the Elbe and the harbor, and has its own restaurant and sky bar.
Seminars and company events
The hotel states that it has eight rooms of different sizes, with capacities from 10 to 350 people. Elsewhere on the site, smaller events are described as up to 50 people and larger ones as up to 400, so confirm the ceiling for your layout. Rooms can be combined, or whole floors booked, for events of up to 1,000 guests. Each room has at least one full wall of floor-to-ceiling panoramic windows, so every room has daylight. Hybrid events that mix an on-site audience with online participants are offered, with equipment and technical support. Rooms can be viewed beforehand by appointment. Enquiries go through the online booking system, by email or by phone to the events team.
Rooms and capacities
The site gives the size range rather than a room-by-room list, so ask the team for the plan and layouts for your headcount. The range is wide enough to hold a board meeting of 10, a workshop day with several breakout rooms, or a plenary of a few hundred. The skyline bar on the 20th floor, named 20up, may be booked exclusively for receptions, subject to availability.
Accommodation
Bedrooms run from Riverside Cityblick and Hafenblick rooms of 25 square meters on the middle floors, through Deluxe rooms of 30 square meters, to Upside, Riverview and Skyview rooms on higher floors with guaranteed harbor views. Junior suites of 40 and 45 square meters sit on floors 16 to 19. A Deluxe room adapted for accessibility is available. The total number of bedrooms is not given on the pages read. A sister property, Hotel Hafen Hamburg, stands 400 meters away under the same ownership and management, and combined packages for rooms and bedrooms are offered.
Catering
Lunch for events is served in the waterkant restaurant or in the foyer of the meeting room, depending on the number of attendees. The hotel also has the Skyline Bar 20up and a restaurant named DAVID'S. Menus and event catering formats are not published, so request them with your dates.
Getting there
The hotel is at Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 97, 20359 Hamburg. A public underground car park with 250 spaces lies directly beneath it. Spaces cannot be reserved, and the entry height and width are limited to 2 meters, which matters for vans and coaches. Wi-Fi is free at 25 Mbit/s, with a paid upgrade. Quoted prices include VAT and the Hamburg culture and tourism tax.
