Intercityhotel Mainz, Mainz

Nice city in the heart of Germany

Advantages: beautiful historic area,in the heart of Germany
Disadvantages: at times a little expensive

Well I am living in Germany and in the Frankfurt area. Therefore I know the Frankfurt area quite well. When you see the ever growing Frankfurt airport you realized that Frankfurt is a city always on the move. Frankfurt is located in a region called the Rhein-Main Area. Surrounded by citys nearby (within 45 Minutes) called Mainz, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt and Giessen, Frankfurt is really the heart of this region. Also a one hour drive away is the beautiful and historic city of Heidelburg.Quite near is also the Taunus and the Odenwald(`mountain`areas),that are really nice to see and of course the city of Rüdesheim,famous for its Drosselgasse. Frankfurt has a few things you have to see,when you are there. At first you go to the inner city and walk over the so called Zeil,which is the main street for shopping in Frankfurt. If you decide to see ...

Superfly25 13.11.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Frankfurt/Main (Germany)

An Absolute Disgrace

Advantages: Flew to Frankfurt
Disadvantages: If there is a pilots strike they will abandon you

I have recently been away on business for a meeting at one of our German offices. This meant flying into Frankfurt Airport, in order to get the best of my time and fit in with other meetings and business I flew from Manchester by BA and intended to fly back by Lufthansa. I have done the journey before and generally I had an ambivalent attitude towards Lufthansa. They were neither particularly good and yet there was nothing specifically bad or annoying about them. That is, until my flights last week. Now many people may not be aware that Lufthansa are presently going through a number of pilots strikes. I certainly was not aware until I got to our offices in Mainz and they said that these strikes were happening every Thursday. I was due to fly back 22:20 by Lufthansa. There was then a huge amount of confusion as to whether the flight ...

polydeuces 20.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Lufthansa

Does (almost) exactly what it says on the tin

Advantages: It's compact, and facilities and access have improved greatly over the last year
Disadvantages: It's nowhere near Frankfurt!

I suppose the best way to start this review is to deal with the bad points of Frankfurt (Hahn) airport. For one thing, it is actually nowhere near Frankfurt ? this is clear if you read the small print about the airport on the Ryanair website or elsewhere, but many passengers have bought their cheap flights and touched down in Hahn, only to find that they are still well over 100km from the city it purports to serve! Now, of course I can see why that the airport carries Frankfurt in its name, but it?s just not true ? this former US airbase is actually situated in the Hunsrück, a range of rolling hills to the northwest of Frankfurt, and the nearest large population centres are Trier and Mainz (oh, and Luxembourg!). But then, a far greater number of people worldwide have heard of Frankfurt than those other places, so the airlines ...

JVL 09.12.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Frankfurt Hahn