Considering the Hotel Nikko Dusseldorf in Düsseldorf?
A VT member wrote the following comment about visiting Düsseldorf:
learn to cope with ticket-machines and schedules by sjazeerah
A significant difference to other Multi-cultural-centres like London or New York: In London English is spoken in Public, in busses etc. in spite of all the people from different continents. In Dusseldorf, at many places nowadays, neither German, nor English, French or Spanish is spoken. You may ask several people how to get to x and y place and you never get a sufficient reply even if you used your german you once studied hardly at school. Although all children learned English at school for min. 4 years since the 1960 - no one dares to use it due to lack of practise. The problem is (like with the french) that all intern. movies and TV serials are synchronised. We never hear English reading german subtitles on TV or at cinema. A big disadvantage nowadays. That's why I recommend you to study the system of schedules and maps and display. It is easy to understand but you need 10-20 minutes of concentration to get through it.
