We’re planning a trip to Germany in May. We’ll be arriving in Frankfurt airport around 2pm and we take a train the next morning. Given that we’ll be pretty jet-lagged, what should we plan to do that first afternoon and evening? Maybe just do Rick’s three-hour walk through the city? Or perhaps that will be too tiring…
I would like to check out the Kleinmarkhalle, although I realize it’s not the best spot to grab dinner…
Dining ideas
VERY expensive, but with a nice Skyline View „Restaurant Franziska, Hainer Weg 72, Frankfurt am Main“ You would need a reservation. I love the food and drinks.
Expensive „ Restaurant Oben, Meliá Frankfurt City, Senckenberganlage 13, 60325 Frankfurt- nice View.
Just few minutes from the Airport „ THE ROOF , b'mine Frankfurt Airport, Georg-Baumgarten-Str. 1, 60549 Frankfurt. Nice view to the City or to the Airport. Prices „normal“.
Sightseeing idea
Palmengarten
You have time to visit the Kleinmarkthalle as long as it is not on a Sunday. They close at 18:00 during the week and at 16:00 on Saturdays. There are places in there to eat, go upstairs to Daheim in Lorsbacher Thal. Have a Frankfurt Schnitzel.
You don't say when in May you will be here, so you might be here when a fest is happening.
Frankfurt Green Sauce Festival 2-9.05
Frankfurt Fressgasse Fest 21-30.05
Frankfurt Wäldches Tag (City Forest) 22-26.05
Rose Days, Frankfurt Palmengarten 29.05-9.06
The walk that Rick has in Frankfurt could really be improved. He skips some of the best and most important sights in Frankfurt. Like the new Alt Stadt, Franconoford, the Karmeliter Cloister, the Alte Nikolai, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Wall, or St. Leonhards.
My suggestion is you get in touch with Frankfurt on Foot. While their schedule group tour is in the morning, they could customize a private tour for you.
Being outside and on your feet is probably one of the best things you can do to conquer jet lag.
...Frankfurt airport around 2pm...
I wouldn't expect to reach my Frankfurt hotel until 16:00, and that's if your flight is on time.
After an overnight transatlantic flight, the most I would hope for in the way of "plans" would the following, in this order... check in, shower, beer, dinner, then a walk around the immediate neighborhood for as much time as it takes to avoid crashing before 20:00. A 3-hour walk would not be a consideration.
Are you staying in central Frankfurt and then catching the train at the Hauptbahnhof?
I often travel through Frankfurt and enjoy having a coffee, a drink or a meal atop the Galeria (open until 8:00 PM except Sunday). It has a great view of the city and is in the midst of the very walkable shopping and historical part of town.
I’m staying at Hotel Victoria, just two blocks from the Hauptbahnhof. I’ll check out your recommendation! Is that the one inside the shopping mall?
I’m staying at Hotel Victoria, just two blocks from the Hauptbahnhof.
I’ll check out your recommendation! Is that the one inside the
shopping mall?
The Galeria is a 6-7 story department store attached to a shopping mall. It is about a 15 minute walk from your hotel through a park and along business and shopping streets. You will be heading away from the Hbf. You can also go back to the Hbf and take the S or UBahn to Hauptwache.
From your hotel, take the tram to the Römer. There are 3 different ones going by, the #12, #11, #14. It is just a few stops.
There are multiple restaurants here, the river, the Kaiserdom, the Alte Nikolai, and the Kleinmarkthalle is a 5 min. walk from here.
Trust Ms. Jo. In May you'll find it's light out until 9pm, which gives you some time to look around. The area right around the Hauptbahnhoff is kind of seedy. If you don't want to take the tram back from the Romer you can easily walk along the river.
Having spent a couple days in Frankfurt last September I second everything Ms Jo said.
