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Actually, I've read that the rubber-flex figures are known locally as Flossies. Well, they've come to Duesseldorf and it looks like they are at work establishing their own colony on the banks of the Rhine!
Ibis Gelsenkirchen
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2 Stars - 8 Opinions
Bahnhofsvorplatz 12, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, 45879, Germany
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DUS transportation info needed.
We will be flying into DUS for a weekend and have found a Mercure Hotel near DUS airport for only 20 Euro per night.
My question is:
Is it easy to get to the city and back from the airport?
Are there passes for the metro/train?
Should we take this low price and deal with the transportation or pay 100 Euro and be in the city?
Thank you so much!
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
Stick to the Mercure, I say. 20 Euro is such a bargain, and - if I recall correctly - getting from the airport to central station in downtown Dusseldorf took about 15 minutes. There are two S-Bahn commuter trains, one leaving from the terminal, the other one from a newer station nearby. A monorail connects the new station with the terminal (at no extra fare).
As for tickets, check this site:
http://www.vrr.de/en/index.html
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
Near is relative. The hotel is in Ratingen and actually closer to Essen than to Düsseldorf. To name the next 2 closest cities with over 500.000 inhabitants. 13 km from the airport.
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http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
From: [Station/Stop] DUS
To: [Address] Ratingen, Lintorfer Weg 75
From: [Address] Ratingen, Lintorfer Weg 75
To: D
1 hour by bus. But at least a direct bus.
you need VRR price level B tickets
Single ticket is EUR 4,10. Mini group (2-5 persons) day ticket is EUR 15,90.
These are zone-to-zone tickets. Thus it plays no role if from/to Düsseldorf Airport or to/from the city centre of Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf = 1 zone).
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
> The hotel is in Ratingen and actually closer to Essen than to Düsseldorf.
Uh-oh, didn't know that. I thought it was a typical airport hotel.
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
"Ryanair-syndrome"
If Ryanair can call Weeze (75 km west of Düsseldorf) "Düsseldorf-Weeze", Mercure can also call a hotel in Ratingen "Düsseldorf Airport".
In Munich 13 km from the airport would be however not that bad and "airport hotel" quite OK, as the distance to the city is some 40 km.
In this area this is however strange. Ratingen has alredy nearly 100.000 inhabitants. And to Essen (582.000 inhabitants) it's just 10 km, while to Düsseldorf (578.000 inhabitants) centre it's nearly 20 km.
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
I knew that Ryanair is (still) playing this game, but I had no idea that it was epidemic with hotels joining the game.
I'm not even sure that the thread starter knows that he won't fly into DUS.
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
As OP is using "DUS" I guess the OP will fly to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS). Weeze has the airport code NRN.
But I'm pretty sure that there are people flying to "Düsseldorf" and getting a shock when learning that they have landed in the middle of nowhere, close to a town named Weeze.
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
Hi,
Thanks for all the responses.
I am flying into DUS airport directly from Detroit, and not on Ryanair.
I know the hotel is a little distance from the airport but it has a free airport shuttle.
I did go ahead and book the room for 20 Euro.
Re: DUS transportation info needed.
If you are actually AT the airport, it is easy. But, for the cost and time near the center is better. I have used Hotel Lindenhof and a single was 55 Euro, and it is across from the Schumacher Brauerei on Ost Strasse. There is another in the Altstadt worth trying, it is the hotel above the Fuchsen Brauerei. Both weel knonw watering holes, and the Alt Bier is great.
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Kaiserswerth
Kaiserswerth is a very picturesque medieval village about 9 km North of Düsseldorf. You can either get there by tram, go for a boat ride from downtown Düsseldorf or even walk there along the Rhine. See the ruins of emperor Barbarossa's castle and finish your trip by sitting in one of the beergardens overlooking the Rhine.
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It turned out, however, that shoddy construction practices had seriously destabilized the tunnel walls. Large metal clamps that were supposed to hold the walls in place had not been built in, but had been stolen and sold as scrap metal, and the daily construction reports had been systematically falsified.
Now it happens that Düsseldorf, 55 kilometers downstream from Cologne, is also building a new subway line. The same construction companies are involved, and even some of the same workers have been working on both projects. The daily construction reports in Düsseldorf have been falsified just as in Cologne, and the state's attorney is investigating allegations that also in Düsseldorf essential building materials have been stolen and sold. So presumably the Düsseldorf tunnel is also in danger of collapsing at some point, just as the one in Cologne did.
Both of these new subway projects are quite controversial, by the way. Critics consider them to be mainly prestige projects and a way of freeing up the streets for more and faster cars, to the detriment of us non-motorized human beings.
This was Italian at its best but now it's sold
A small place with lovely Italian atmosphere and very tasty food! One time we sat there for hours just having lots of drinks after our dinner enjoying the atmosphere. They even brought us some tasty grapes then.
*** Update October 2006 *** We visited the new restaurant in the same location. It's good as well. Still has the great atmosphere, the food is good too but not so special anymore, more like "your normal Italian restaurant. Old Serenissima: Pizza with Parma Ham and Rocket and a little of the extra garlic you get with it. Be careful - the chili sauce you get with your pizza is really really really hot. Even though Steve might claim it isn't. Ask how he felt the next day though ;)
New restaurant: Gnocci with tomato and mozzarella sauce.
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