Best Bars around HDI Arena?

HDI Arena is a venue in Hannover

There is a really nice pub to have a few beers near the clubs old stadium. 96 Gäststätte doesn't hide its allegiance to the club, with the bar and the terrace being decked out in Hannover colors, scarfs and pictures from famous nights long gone by.If you get off the metro at Waterloo you should make a stop in the Waterloo Biergarten – it's not hard to find with enormous TV screen and the smell of freshly cooked kebabs and Bavarian sausages filling the air! Elite 96 is a traditional terrace clubhouse that is also really popular with Hannover fans – located by a football pitch, it really is a footballer's pub! by a training pitchNordkurve is slightly nearer the stadium than the other bars and is rammed full on a game day. A classic fans' pub, it has a delightful beer terrace as well with a huge screen set up, building up the atmosphere.

"Nordkurve” is THE place to go before a home game of the football club Hannover 96, only about 300m from the stadium. It is where all the local fans meet and chat about football. They even have a small museum within the pub. My favorite place! Other very close option (about 300m) are "Julian's Bar & Restaurant” and "See Biergarten” which are beautifully located right next to a lake. Great places to have a drink or two after a match, with a bit of luck you might even meet some players.

As with everywhere in Germany, the beer in Hannover is excellent and the beer gardens that serve it commensurately good. Waterloo Biergarten on Waterloo Straße is close enough to the HDI Arena - certainly within walking distance - and have a massive outdoor area which fills up with fans on matchdays, particularly if the weather suits. Und der Böse Wolf, in the city centre on Heesestraße is also a fan favourite, although more to do with the Hannover 96 fanatic landlord more than anything else.