Mercure Frankfurt Airport, Kelsterbach

Advantages: Nice enough hotel, good for meetings
Disadvantages: Keep in mind the time you need to transfer to the airport

...and charge well over the odds for their proximity. And the third group - the Cinderellas of airport hotels - are the off-airport hotels, often offering cheap (or not so cheap) room and parking deals and far too often, not as close to the airport as you'd expect them to be. Last week I needed a room for an overnight stop at Amsterdam airport and when the two hotels at the airport came back with ridiculous prices in the £250-350 per room range, our secretary put her foot down and booked me into the Mercure Amsterdam Airport at a price of Euro135 for the night. My first reaction was horror - but I calmed down once I realised I was confusing the Mercure with the Ibis (another in the Accor hotel chain) where I'd once spent a very noisy and uncomfortable night. Once I knew it wasn't the Ibis, I was fine and quite happy to save a load of money... Read review

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Advantages: Fast and efficient with lots of cheap connections
Disadvantages: Silly location, might as well put it in Luxembourg

...A few years ago, I flew in to Frankfurt Hahn. Frankfurt Hahn accepts all the budget traffic for Franfkurt but it's also one of the cheapest and well-connected budget airlines in Germany, so it sees people from all over the country heading there. I flew in from Warsaw on a very cold morning, the weather was around -20 when leaving Poland and it took a while to de-ice the plane. Having not slept the night before (decided to stay up and head to the airport a few hours early in order not to wake anyone), my friend and I were ready for some kip on the plane. That wasn't going to be though, as a pedantic gay cabin crew member called Konrad pranced up and down the aisle bothering people who just wanted to sleep! Not only was this character very active but he was also very talkative, never off the speaker - anyone would think he wanted to be... Read review

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Advantages: all kinds of facilities you can possibly think of
Disadvantages: bad signposting, overcrowded, few shops in duty free area, minimum transit unrealistic

...Frankfurt Airport is Europe's second biggest airport and the home base of German carrier Lufthansa. Yet its ability to deal with the demands of 21st century airtravel is limited, and passengers already have to suffer today. In total passenger figures, Frankfurt/Main Airport (or Fraport, as it is called now) is second only to London Heathrow among European airports, and ahead of Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam Schiphol. FRA (the airport's three-letter-code) is divided into two terminals: The sections A and B of the old Terminal 1 are used by Lufthansa and its Star Alliance partners, 1 C hosts Lufthansa partner United Airlines, rival American Airlines, and some small exotic airlines. 1 A & B have been mostly overhauled and extended by Lufthansa between 1998 and 2000, but the old-fashioned structure still shines through... Read review

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