The Totally Awesome Mainz Card
by sarahjayn
Only the Germans could be this cool and practical: presenting the Mainz Card. It is your access to free museums, total run of public transport, etc. And it keeps you, the tourist, from bothering innocent Mainzians with questions about currency exchange and the like. It's a perfect deal!
Here's all the stuff I just basically copied from their website:
Free entry to the following Mainz Museums: Gutenberg-Museum (Printing), State Museum Mainz, Museum of Natural History, Cathedral and Diocese Museum, Central Museum of Roman and Germanic History, Museum of the History of Roman Shipbuilding, Museum of the History of the City. Except special exhibitions
Free use of the Mainz Public Transport System
Free entry to the Mainz Casino
20% reduction on tickets for the Köln-Düsseldorfer-Shipping Company
Free entry to the Mainz Swimming Pool
10% reduction on tickets to the Frankfurter Hof
10% reduction on tickets to the Mainz State Theater
Free participation on Guided Tour „2000 Years Mainz at every Step" meeting place: Saturday, 10 a.m. at the Mainz Tourist Office (only German language), during July and August also daily at 2 p.m. (in German and English language). Meeting point in front of the Cathedral Information Office.
and it's only six Euros.
Man, I love German practicality. It was so much easier just flashing my little card (mine had Zebras on it - kick ass bonus!) than hunting for change or buying separate transport tickets when I wanted to go someplace.
You gotta get one before you go, though, because I didn't see it really advertised anywhere.
www.mainz.de
Stadtpark - green space
by yooperprof
The Stadtpark is a lovely "nature-space," lying just outside the Sudbahnhof amidst rolling hills and lush plantings. Even in January, things were in bloom here - admittedly, it was quite a warm Janaury, but I can understand why soldiers from Rome two thousand years ago might have liked it here.
It's located between the Altstadt and Oberstadt neighborhoods.
Rhein Trip
by antistar
Plenty of boats depart from Mainz all through the spring and summer, heading up the Rhein towards Cologne. Although the stretch between Mainz and Bingen isn't as fantastic as the subsequent Rhein Gorge, it is still a great experience and you can pick up a boat here instead of getting a train to some ugly tourist hole like Bingen. A trip up the Rhein is something everyone should do in their lifetimes, but try and get yourself a nice sunny day, preferably in the summer when the valleys are all resplendent and green. The costs aren't too high, and K-D Linie will give free trips to those who can prove it is their birthday. Some of the other less well known companies give cheaper tickets, but the K-D boats are the queens of the line.
No cheaper place to eat
by merak about Menseria at Mainz University Campus
The Mensa is open whith warm dishes at least from Mon. to Fry, from 11.30 to 18 (17 on fridays) h.
The plate of the day (the right post seen from the front) is very good sometimes and costs only 1,45 Euro- if you pass the cass as a student, which is normally no problem. Otherwise it would cost the double. One big plate of soup costs 60 cent only- cheaper than in Macedonia! Every day there is a good vegetable soup. A cup of soup only 30 cent. One big plate of french fries 1 Euro. Other things more or less like in other places.
Now they are controlling harder if you are a student. Whithout card (pass) you have to pay the double :-(
But if you have to make copies, there is no cheaper place! In the Mensa house there is a shop held by a Persan where you pay 3,5 cent for one copy, if you have at least ten. Soups are generally of fine quality.
From Hauptbahnhof, take the bus 54 (Lerchenberg), 58 (Wackernheim) or 68 to Friedrich- von Pfeiffer- Weg, cross the road bridge, turn to the right, then to the left until you arrive at a main pedestrian walk in the campus. Turn right again and enter the building (upper floor) at the end of the way. Enter only the upper floor, because downstairs you could only pay by student card.
A park for the people
by travellingdan
A park for the people, "Volkspark" - that's the name of the largest greenspace Mainz has to offer. It is located north of the city centre and includes a large grass area where you can play football/soccer, picknick, grill or just relax in the sun. There's also a adventure-playground for kids, a cafe, a minigolf course and across the street you find a bakery. And on the northern end of the Volkspark there is the youth hostel.
If you walk towards downtown Mainz to the southern end of the park, there is another park - the Rosengarten (rose garden), which is only separated from the Volkspark by a small street. There you not only find roses but also a little zoo with flamingos, goats, sheep, tame - and green wild parrots flying around!
The "Favorite Park Hotel", which is located at the street between Vorlkspark and Rosengarten also offers a aquarium and terrarium inside the lobby - as well as a restaurant and a beergarden with children playground.
The Volkspark is a perfect start or ending point for a walk to discover Mainz. From the park you can either go directly to the old city (via the little goat and sheep "zoo", cross the street at the redlight under the bridge and head towards the movie theatre "CineStar"). Or your can head to the rhine river (by taking the bridge after Favorite hotel on the right over the street and railway, and head down towards the rhine walkway).
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Kute Gutenbergs
Cruising the Rhine River from Koblenz to Mainz
The Gutenberg Museum
The monument to the Beer drinker
