Bad Vilbel is mainly just a suburb of Frankfurt, with boring housing developments and several bottling plants for mineral water, but I often cycle there because it's close by and there are two nice cycling routes to get there and back, one along the Nidda River and one through quiet streets and fields.
So that's where I go when I have no particular destination and just want to ride around a bit.
It takes about half an hour from my house in Frankfurt to the border of Bad Vilbel, and another ten minutes to the castle.
Updated Sep 30, 2005
If your bicycle has a flat tire or something you could always take the train to Bad Vilbel.
The S6 suburban train (S-Bahn) in the direction of Friedberg goes there four times an hour on weekdays, but only once or twice an hour in the evenings and on weekends.
The train stops twice in Bad Vilbel. To go to the castle or the old mill, get off at the second stop (Bad Vilbel Bahnhof, not Süd).
From the center of Frankfurt there is also an express bus to Bad Vilbel, line number 30. For the castle or the old mill, get off at the stop Altes Rathaus (=old town hall).
Updated Aug 7, 2005
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