NH Frankfurt Moerfelden, Frankfurt

Frankfurt in the middle of nowhere airport

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 ...

dangaroo 25.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Frankfurt Hahn

Frankfurt's Fawlty Towers?

Advantages: Great Little Hotel, Superb Location, Excellent Value...
Disadvantages: A Few Idiosyncratic Problems ...

BACKGROUND: My husband and I were visiting friends in northern Bavaria last summer, and decided it would be quickest to drive down from Frankfurt. I've visited Frankfurt on several occasions in recent years, usually for the International Book Fair, and whilst I have no complaints about the city itself, I've generally no real inclination to linger there any longer than necessary. My husband, however, had never been to Frankfurt before, so we decided to break our trip and spend a night in the city en route. I booked our room at the four-star Hotel National online, about a week in advance. We arrived in Frankfurt on the 7th of July 2005, the morning of the London bombings. As we passed through the arrivals gate, a German television news crew pounced at us, and a rubbery, suntanned man in a linen suit thrust out a microphone. He was ...

snowbunni 05.01.2006 (15.01.2006) · Read full review
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Review of National Hotel, Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt Airport - big, but not great

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 ...

From_The_Continent 10.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Frankfurt (FRA)