Frankfurt

Info on Frankfurt

'Frankfurt is a city in Germany. It's the financial center of continental europe, but is also a cultural center and a nice place to spend a few days. There are great museums, restaurants and bars, clubs, two operas (well, the Alte Oper is not strictly an opera anymore, but puts on all kinds of musical performances), etc. There are close to 200 couchsurfers as of Dec. 2006. Read more about the city at wikitravel [1]

Transportation

RMV is responsible for regional transportation. Schedules, maps, etc. are available at: http://www.rmv.de In general it's very fast and a one-way trip costs around 2 euro. You can also get day, week, month tickets which can work out a lot cheaper depending on how much you use the system. It costs a bit more to the airport and places outside the city.

Airport(s)

Frankfurt Rhein-Main [FRA]: Second biggest airport in europe, 2 terminals. Reachable in 20 minutes.
Frankfurt Hahn [HHN]: some small spot between Frankfurt and Luxembourg! Reachable in 1,5 hours!!!

Shuttles

from/to FRA: loads of trains (S8 and S9) running through the day time into the city. Fair is 3,60€ one way.
from/to HHN: many shuttle buses during the day. Fair is something like 15€.

Bikes

There is a variety of rental bikes all over the inner city areas in Frankfurt. They are provided by DB (Deutsche Bahn) and can be rented via credit card and registration.

Parking

There are different zones in Frankfurt where there is a special regulation with parking called "Anwohnerparken" where you need a special permission (Anwohnerparkausweis). It's ment to provide parking space for residentals. Please check for times and zones before you park.

Cultural

Museums

Senckenbergmuseum:
Filmmusuem:
Goethehaus:
Städel:

Cathedreal & Churches

Dom (Cathedral): Kings got crowned here.
Paulskirche: Place of the first german parliament.
Historical Buildings:
Römer: old townhall, kings presented themself after their crowning to the people.

Recreation

Frankfurt has loads of beautyful and peaceful plaxces to chill out and rest, believe it or not.

Parks

Grüneburgpark: between Westend and Bockenheim, includes a korean garden and open air theatre during the summer.
Günthersburgpark: between Nordend and Bornheim, open air events for free during the summer (Stoffel)
Ostpark: in Ostend, big lake
Rosengärtchen: includes the famous and wonderful Chinese Garden

Nightlife

Bars:
Live Music:
Dance:
Karaoke: e.g. "Werde Frankfurts Rock Karoke Star [WFRKS]" in Sinkkasten, Thursdays in An Sinbin, ...

Events:General/Specific

Museumsuferfest [MUF]:
Mainuferfest:
Nacht der Museen:
Luminale:
Nippon Connection:
Fantasy Film Festival:
Sound Of Frankfurt [SOF]:
Stalburg Theater Offen Luft [Stoffel]: variety of free open air events during july and august in Günthersburgpark [2]

Accommodation

Hostel

Riverbank
Main Train Station
In case you can't find a couch, there are some youth hostels: http://www.jugendherberge-frankfurt.de/ If that's full, there are some hostels / reasonably cheap hotels around the train station. Be careful, though, because it's right by the red light district and some of the places might be more of the rent by the hour variety.

There is a CS Group about Frankfurt

Couchsurfing

Coffee or a drink

Mailing List

For mails from other cs and/or hc members from Frankfurt and the surrounding area feel free to check the following yahoo group which will provide you with instant updates on all sort of interessting things to do. You can read messages here: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/HCGroupFrankfurtRheinMain/ or even subscribe sending an email to HCGroupFrankfurtRheinMain-subscribe@yahoogroups.de

Media Mentions

Weblinks

Frankfurt

Frankfurt website Frankfurts official website

Journal Frankfurt Whats going on in the region

Rhein-Main area And even more going on here

Working

For jobs and employment in Frankfurt, check out JobinFrankfurt

Music

Batschkapp Frankfurt No1 Live Music Club

Nachtleben Batschkapps Little Sister Downtown

Elfer Club As old as Batschkapp

Clubkeller Maybe the best indipendent friday night you can ask for

Cookys Another well known Club downtown

Das Bett Very nice and small venue, free jam sesison every thursday

Schlachthof Wiesbaden Outside Frankurt, but nevertheless

Jazzkeller Frankfurts finest since 1952, jazz session every wednesday

Club Voltaire Frankfurts oldest political-cultural venue, open session every first friday

Interkulturelle Bühne intercultural or multicultural

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