Hello all, and thank you for your assistance.
Arriving FRA from Berlin, November 12, 2014, mid-morning, on AirBerlin. We are staying that night in Oberwesel.
Help - I know there is a train option from the airport to Oberwesel without train or station changes?
Does anyone know 1) what train, 2) where to get it at FRA, 3) cost and 4) approximate time (it appears from my research to be about 90 min?)
Thank you!
Direct trains to Oberwesel go every 2 hours at 24 past the odd hours (9:24, 11:24, etc) taking one hour. There are also connecting trains every 2 hours at 59 past the odd hours (9:59, 11:59, etc) taking 1 hour and 29 minutes. This is the S-Bahn to Mainz and connecting to a Mittelrheinbahn to Oberwesel.
All of these go from the Regionalbahnhof and cost 15.30 euro.
www.bahn.com
Thanks, Sam!
Do you by chance know what the boat line is along that stretch of the Rhine? I would imagine the schedules are limited by the "off season."
P.S. SAM - the train runs from the air/rail station at the Frankfurt airport, correct?
There are two rail stations at the Frankfurt airport. The trains mentioned run from the Regional Bahnhof, which is under the building across the access road from Terminal 1, not from the Fern (AIRail?) Bahnhof, which is farther out and services only long distance trains (ICE, IC, EC), which don't go to Oberwesel.
An easy way of finding the Regional Bahnhof if you don't have much German is to follow signs with a white-on-green S symbol. This is the standard German symbol for "S-Bahn", or suburban trains within a major city. Although you don't want an S-Bahn train, it's the same station.
"Although you don't want an S-Bahn train ..."
If you arrive at a random time on the platform in the Regionalbahnhof, there is a 70% chance that the next connection to Oberwesel will be the Regional Express at 9:24, 11:24 or 13:24, but if you arrive within 35 min of the RE's leaving, there will be an S-Bahn at 59 past. If you take the S-Bahn, you will get to Oberwesel an hour sooner than if you wait for the next RE. The change of trains in Mainz is pretty easy. The S-Bahn comes into Mainz Hbf on track 1. The RB leaves from track 11, which is a stub track across the platform at the NW end, opposite from where the S-Bahn came in.
The K-D is the big Rhine tour boat company and it does shut down in mid October. You can buy a Rheinland-Pfalz ticket for 23 euro for the first person and 4 euro for each additional person. That will allow you to ride the local trains up and down the Rhine on both sides of the river after 9 am weekdays. There is a ferry at St Goar to cross the Rhine, and a railway bridge at Koblenz over the Rhine. You can use it like a hop-on-hop-off train. The local trains are once an hour.
