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Frankfurt : 1.5-2 days (Late September)

Posted by (Hong Kong) on

Hi, my 1st time in Germany, need some advice on the following:

  1. will travel from Munich to Frankfurt on 30Sep. Is train the best option and book it thru Bahn website? Should stay at hotel near train stn or airport (flying to London 2 days later) ? Any recommendation on hotel?
  2. 1st 0.5 day after arriving from Munich, prefer to walk around Frankfurt and then dinner. Any recommendations on sight-seeing and may be local cuisine?
  3. 1.0 full day at Frankfurt, planning to take train to Rudesheim (duration 1h 10m) and join River Rhine cruise (1 hour? no details found yet). Is Rudesheim a good and recommended place to see the River Rhine and join the cruise? If not, where else? Should I visit more places before returning to Frankfurt? Totally flexible on where to spend late afternoon and dinner (somewhere or Frankfurt?)
  4. Next morning, have a full morning before going to airport at 12:xx to catch 14:35 flight to London? Anything worth to do last minute at Frankurt ?

Really appreciate any kind of advice to any or all of the above. Need to finalize travel plan and accommodation pretty soon I guess before they get full. [Major interest is take photos at beautiful scenes. NOT interested in museums or historically old buildings.]

Thank you very much.

Posted by
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Are you flying into Munich airport and then immediately going to Frankfurt, or are you staying in Munich? If the latter, definitely train. If you are flying into Munich and out immediately look into domestic flights, as there is no long-distance rail station at Munich airport and trains into the city centre are quite slow.

You need to book rail tickets NOW on www.bahn.com to have any chance of getting a discount fare. At two weeks ahead you may still end up having to pay full price.

I don't have any recommendations for the Rhine, I'm afraid. Most sightseeing opportunities in central Frankfurt are historic buildings. You might enjoy a sightseeing trip along the Main in central Frankfurt. The boats leave from the Eiserner Steg suspension bridge, my opinion is that the eastward trip is more interesting than the western.

A recommendation for a place to eat in Frankfurt would be Solzer, which is at 260 Burger Strasse in the Bornheim area just outside the city centre, close to Bornheim-Mitte U-Bahn station.

I would suggest staying near the Hauptbahnhof rather than the airport, as there is a good service to the airport. The neighbourhood has a bad reputation in some circles but in my personal experience the area to the south of Kaiserstrasse (the street running east from the station) is perfectly OK. North of Kaiserstrasse may be a bit dodgy.

Posted by
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In Frankfurt I would recommend walking around the Romer district. It has great outdoor shopping/eating districts to people watch and some of the more interesting buildings. You could also head from there up to the Zeil if you have any interest in window shopping or just seeing the sights of Frankfurt. The Rhine cruise is best if you go up to Bacharach and head north from there. You go easily go as far Koblenz, catch a train up to Cologne and see the cathedral, then hop on the fast ICE back to Frankfurt for dinner (the shortest train ride will get you back to Frankfurt in under 1 1/2 hours). On your last day in Frankfurt, if the weather is nice, you should go up to the top of the Main Tower for amazing views and great photo options.

Hotel recommendation- I stayed at the Hotel Neue Krame, which is a few stops on the tram to the train station, but it was very nice and in a great location. If you want to stay near the station, I spent one night at the Hotel Paris (between flights from Beijing and back home to USA). It's just south of the station in a good neighborhood. The streets to the immediate east of the station are full of sex clubs and sex stores, so you might want to avoid that area.

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