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Guest Contribution

The guest contribution

Your way to more holiday enjoyment

Welcome to the beautiful island BorkumWe're delighted that you've chosen to stay on our island and hope you feel at home and have an unforgettable vacation. Enjoy a relaxing time on "the most beautiful sand dune in the world."

Dear Guests,

We want you to Borkum Feel completely at home in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea! Well-maintained and supervised beaches as well as clean and well-developed parks are therefore a matter of course. Furthermore, we want to offer our guests, both young and old, an interesting and varied entertainment program – whether sporting or cultural and musical. To make this excellent tourist infrastructure possible and to enable you to use our services free of charge or at a reduced rate, the city of Borkum a guest fee is charged.

Important to know: Please remember your guest card! Without the presentation of the guest card, access to the facilities such as the Gezeitenland ~ Water & Wellness, the Nordsee Aquarium, the Spielinsel, the new Leuchtturm or to offers from the Kulturinsel cannot be granted smoothly!

Borkumthe promenade with the pavilion
Borkumhe pavilion on the beach promenade

guest contribution calculator 2026

Would you like to calculate the applicable guest contribution online?
Under the following link, you will find our guest contribution calculator

Aerial view of Borkum

Free use/offers

  • access to all beaches and promenades including the guarded beaches (DLRG/seasonal)
  • public Toilets
  • Tourist information Borkum
  • Information over Borkum
  • Events such as BEACH DAYS BORKUM, wine festival, Borkumthe light week “Lücht up Börkum” and sound colours Borkum
  • “Music & Sea”-Kurkonzerte on the promenade (seasonal)
  • Use of the reading area in the Kulturinsel with various newspapers from all over Germany
  • indoor play and craft activities for children, 1,00 € entrance fee for adults
  • Varied beach entertainment
  • use of the Thalasso exercise course
  • Free Wi-Fi in the area of Nordsee Aquariums, the cultural island, the Gezeitenlands, the tourist information, the municipal utilities, as well as on the promenade
  • Guest Welcoming in the Cultural Island (See noticeboard for dates)
  • rental of boules balls at the Tourist Information (against a deposit)
  • beach ashtray at the tourist information office or at the beach tent rental companies
  • The digital travel guide: WebApp “MyBorkum" (willkommwww.borkum.de/en)
  • Digital City Rally about Actionbound: to the city rally
  • Sharemagazines: Digital reading circle in Borkum-Wi-Fi with numerous daily newspapers, journals and magazines

Reduced/subsidized offers

  • FKK-Budjes with its own privacy area
  • Reduced admission to the Spielinsel for adults 1,00 €, children free
  • Reduced admission to Gezeitenland ~ Water & Wellness (swimming pool, spa treatments, fitness and wellness)
  • Reduced admission to the Nordsee Aquarium
  • Reduced admission to the new Leuchtturm
  • Reduced pitch fee in the Tennisinsel
  • Concerts and events in the Kulturinsel (e.g. Blues Night or Klangfarben Borkum and the open-air concert of BEACH DAYS BORKUM)

 

Additional services

The guest contribution not only enables the financing of public facilities and events, but also other tourist services that you as a Borkum-Guest are offered, for example

  • the trained Lifeguard at the designated bathing areas
  • credentials for beach entertainment and beach cleaning
  • the care and maintenance of the Green areas and children's playgrounds
  • credentials for benches and hiking trails across the entire island

Frequently Asked Questions

The guest contribution is a fee that health resorts can charge per day or per overnight stay. It is earmarked and may only be used for local tourist purposes. With us, you therefore have free access to all beaches and supervised bathing areas, guest facilities and spa parks. If there were no guest contribution, many services would not be available or some would have to be paid for individually at a high price.

Any person staying on Borkum is staying for leisure purposes as a day guest or as a holidaymaker or is undergoing a health cure/rehab and does not have a permanent residence on the island.

All participants in sporting events are also subject to a visitor's tax.

Persons staying on the island solely for business purposes are exempt from the visitor's tax for the duration of their work. This must be proven to the landlord by providing a certificate from their employer. These persons are not registered and do not receive a visitor's card.

Children up to the age of 12 are exempt from the visitor's tax. Holders of a severe disability card receive a 50% discount with a disability rating of 100%; holders of a severe disability card with the "B" designation and their accompanying person also receive a 50% discount.

contribution amount from January 01.01.2026, XNUMX

  guest fee (per night) annual guest fee
Adult 4,80 € 144,00 €
Severely disabled people whose degree of disability is 100
and severely disabled people with official ID
with the mark "B" and their accompanying person 		2,40 € 72,00 €
children 12 - 17 years
(Children under 12 years free)		 1,50 € 45,00 €
Severely disabled children (12 - 17 years),
their degree of
Disability is 100 and severely disabled children (12-17 years) with
official ID card with the symbol "B" .
The adult accompanying person
pays the reduced adult rate (see above).		 0,75 € 22,50 €
Day Visitors from 12 years 4,00 €

The rental seasons are not the same as the tourist tax seasons. Subject to change/as of January 2026.

Your landlord collects the guest contribution from you and pays it to the guest contribution office. Guests who are not staying with a landlord but are staying privately (e.g. visiting relatives) and annual guest card holders can pay the guest contribution at the guest contribution office in the Kulturinsel, Goethestr. 25. On weekends and public holidays you can also pay your guest contribution at the tourist information office. Please note the special opening times!

For the opening hours of the guest contribution office, please click on "find out more".

Learn more

After paying the guest fee to your landlord or at the guest fee office, you will receive a valid guest card. Please always carry this with you along with an official photo ID, as you will be checked by an employee of the spa and tourist service. You will need the guest card for smooth entry into the Gezeitenland ~ Water & Wellness, Neuer Leuchtturm, Nordsee Aquarium, Spielinsel, Tennisinsel as well as when purchasing tickets for events and lectures in the Kulturinsel.

relatives' annual guest card

Using the application (PDF) from the download area, you can apply for a personalized annual pass for your family members who do not live on the island. This requires free admission to the household. The application is available from Borkum living family members in person with proof of this at the guest contribution office in the Kulturinsel, Goethestr. 25.
The fee for issuing the annual guest card for relatives is €10,00 per person. The city Borkum reserves the right to request documents to verify the relationship/residence/employment in Borkum to request.

Source: Guest contribution statute valid from 01.01.2025, § 3 para. 5

"Persons who have their main residence in the survey area or who are employed or in training can apply for an annual relative's guest card for their relatives pursuant to Section 4 Paragraph 2 Letter a) who have been taken into the household, stating their name, address and relationship. This annual guest card can be used to access tourism facilities and events; it is not transferable and must be shown to supervisors when using tourism facilities or attending events."

Source: Guest contribution statute valid from 01.01.2025, § 3 para. 5

Walking along the shore
Beach walk on Borkum

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