Germany · TOURS IN KASSEL
Good tours in Kassel fill up weeks ahead and the great ones go first. Below: the 7 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
This two-hour open-top bus tour takes you from Papinplatz past the Orangerie, Auebad, Wilhelmshöhe Castle, Vorderer Westen, and Kassel’s main city sights. Headsets provide commentary in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, or Spanish. A break at Herkules gives you time for photos, coffee, and city views.
Spend 90 minutes with a live German-speaking guide exploring Kassel from the town hall. You’ll connect the city’s medieval past, Protestant Reformation, Grimm brothers, early museums and theater, documenta, and postwar rebuilding. The tour is wheelchair accessible, costs $15, and returns to its starting point.
Join a three-hour German-language walking tour through Kassel’s lost old town at night. Your guide leads you behind closed doors into vaults, corridors, the Drusel Tower, and casemates, while sharing stories about electors, kings, prisoners, and everyday life in earlier Kassel.
“Interessante, kurzweilige Führung durch die Altstadt von Kassel. Leider hat mir die Besichtigung von Gewölben, Gängen und der Kasematten gefehlt. Trotzdem viel über das frühere Leben in Kassel erfahren.”
Join Kassel actress Andrea C. Ortolano as Lotte Moser for a three-hour German-language comedy tour by sightseeing bus. Expect fictional tales of love, suspicious endings, flirtatious jokes, Kassel views from the Herkules, Gründerzeit buildings in Vorderer Westen, and a meal at a guesthouse. This is theater with sightseeing, not a standard history tour.
Meet your German-speaking guide at the main entrance to Wilhelmshöhe Palace for a 90-minute walk through Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe. Expect stories about the park’s origins, its striking buildings, botanical features, and views toward Hercules. The tour costs $15 and returns to the palace.
You follow a smartphone game from Druselplatz through Kassel’s Old Town, solving riddles near Königsplatz, Friedrichsplatz, the Orangerie, and the market hall. Sir Peter Morgan’s app adds an audio tour and mini-games for private groups of up to six. Plan for about 2.2 miles, a charged phone, and possible setup time.
You explore Kassel's Wilhelmshöhe with a smartphone game and audio tour from the Sir Peter Morgan Academy. Starting at the castle, you walk about 4.3 km in three hours, solving riddles near Hercules, the aqueduct, and other landmarks. It is a private, self-guided activity for up to six people, with no live guide or phone provided.
Pick a river, a century or a beer hall.
