Any advice for someone traveling to Frankfurt for a week?

Question

Im going to be spending a week in Frankfurt in early August. Does anyone have any tips, recommendations as to where to stay, what to see, what to do?

In addition, how are the people towards the Americans? Hows the weather? And how expensive are things?

Answer 1

Yes, get out of Frankfurt and travel to the smaller towns surrounding the big city: Mainz, Wiesbaden, etc. They have nice little Markt Platz areas and great little Hofbraus...and if you have a day or two without your parents and little sister, try going to the Alps near Chiemsee and around Kufstein, Tirol. The weather and people are friendlier and nicer down there and the scenery is beautiful!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Frankfurt is ok as far as prices go. Not cheap, but if you avoid the tourist areas, you can buy food etc at an ok price.

Things to see: I love the Schirn exhibition hall right in the city centre. They do amazing things with art, lots of great ideas. From there, you can walk across the Römer ( a square with old buildings) to the Paulskirche, which is essentially where democracy in Germany originates from.

Find a nice pub where you can sit outside and drink some apple wine. Walk up (or down) Berger Straße, look at the small shops, maybe browse through the books at the Oxfam shop. Check out what is going on at the Mousonturm, lots ol live art perfromances there. The opera has quite a good reputation.

Can't tell you much about accommodation as I usually stayed with friends. But I was at a youth hostel right on the river Main once and that was ok.

Answer 4

Well you'd think that Americans do not enjoy the best reputation these days in Germany. But let me assure You that is mainly only for Mr George W B. Normal US citizens are still most welcome!! really!

not without a reason is Frankfurt the most american city in germany(thats what the germans think)

Anyway, besides that there is great things to do in and around frankfurt.

-If you want the opportunity to encounter with locals and their local food, try fichtekraenzi(www.fichtekraenzi.com)

or go to the kleinmarkthalle-little food hall (www.kleinmarkthalle.de) and ask for a warm graef voelsings rindswurst at one of the butchers. this is a must! its a sort of thick boiled frankfurter with the taste of 100 frankfurters!

-If you like electronic music, try the cocoonclub (www.cocoonclub.net)

-or a bit arty and contemporary: frankfurter kunstverein (frankfurt arts club) a good destination to scout out the citys

Answer 5

Hello and greetings from Germany.

I have never been in Frankfurt, it´s the economic capital of Germany, but no typical tourist place.

Where to stay depends on your age and money. Cheap but of good quality are hostels:

http://www.jugendherberge-frankfurt.de/

Hotels are comparable cheap in Germany, you pay less for a single room then for a double room. But you should make a reservation in the internet or in a travel agency before, never go directly in a hotel, the prices are much higher.

for sightseeing in Frankfurt:

http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.ph...

Most people speak good English, at least in every hotel or official place. The weather usually is good in August, is one of the most warm months. But it already cools down in the nights, you should take a jacket with you.

Germany is comparable to USA in the costs. Supermarkets are cheap, so you can live cheap if you want. Petrol is quite expensive if you want a rental car or take a taxi.

If you take the train you should look for special offers, public transport in cities is not very expensive.

Americans are sometimes seen to be superficial and loud, maybe it´s good to be a little reserved.

But you will have no problems with the people.

Answer 6

Depending on your tastes--and whether you've been to Germany before--there's plenty to do in Frankfurt, or not much, the same as any large city.  Frankfurt's the closest thing to an American city the Germans have, in that most of the buildings are modern and the streets are comparably wider--a byproduct of the fact that Frankfurt was leveled during WWII.  Frankfurt itself is interesting, and a good place to spend a day or two... the folks there are fairly friendly and like most German cities, plenty of them speak English.  You'll find quite a few Americans, too, since not only do a lot of American and Brits come through Frankfurt, but many of the resident American military families in the area visit Frankfurt regularly--I did, when I was living in Wiesbaden.  There's even an English-language movie theater, about a block away from the Hauptwache in the center of town.

If you're in Frankfurt for a week, I'd highly recommend visiting some other places in the vicinity, depending on how far you want to go, your preferred mode of transportation, and the kinds of things you want to see.  The prettiest stretch of the Rhein river is not far away--it starts by Rudesheim and Bingen, and goes up to Koblenz--where the Mosel River meets the Rhein.  That stretch of the Mosel is also worth seeing.  You also have some well-known cities worth seeing, near Frankfurt... Wiesbaden, Mainz, Worms, Heidelberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Wurzburg, Koln (Cologne), Trier, Koblenz, Limburg, Cochem, Nurnberg (Nuremberg), Karlsruhe, Stuttgart... and many others, many many others.  Like castles?  There are practically hundreds of 'em within a day's drive from Frankfurt.  If you have an idea of what kinds of things you'd like to see, I'd be happy to give you some personal recommendations, or tell you of places I've been to myself.  If nothing else, I'd recommend following the same practice I used while I lived in Germany:  look at a driving atlas of the places/route that look interesting to you, look up information about them online if they're a well-known destination to familiarize yourself with what's there and how to navigate to/from/in those places, and go.  It's really just that simple... sightseeing in Germany's a breeze.

Answer 7

some people are a little diliking of americans but allaround the food is nice the people are pretty well manered for hotels go

to hotels.com its a very inexpensive hotel site good hotels fare prices hope to have been of service

Answer 8

In Frankfurt they have many hotels. There is so much to see, the main River, also you can Cruise with the ship the whole Rhein/ Main area. It is beautiful. Shopping, restaurants, cafes, Discos, botanic garden "Palmengarten", the zoo, Grueneburgpark (look like central Park), big Airport, big train station, Sachsenhausen the south side from Frankfurt the famous Apfelwein restaurants. Down town Frankfurt look like a little Manhattan with the skylines from the bank metropols.

The weather will be nice and warm in August. Frankfurt is multicultural city, there living all kind a people from all over the world. They are friendly to Americans also, US Military was there over 50 years. They closed all the bases and shopping areas after the gulf war. The prices is Normal. Just remember the $ is low and Euro is strong right now. Moving in Frankfurt and round Frankfurt easy they have S-Bahn and Subway (U-Bahn).

Have fun, I was living in Frankfurt over 24 years.