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From time to time fake policemen are operating in Frankfurt, mostly on the main shopping street Zeil or around the city hall area. They are two men,walking up to people they recognize as tourists and tell them they'd have to check their passport. Then they tell them they'd have to check if the tourist doesn't have any fake money. As soon as the tourist takes out the money, they either
-run off
-say it's fake and they'd exchange it and walk off
-or replace it by paper.
The tourist loses his/her money.
The real police have caught some of the fake colleagues, but this scam is repeated again and again.
REAL police don't ask for your passport if there is no apparent reason to do so.They are entitled to check ID,but usually they don't do. And REAL police will never check your money on the street to see if it is fake.
If you are approached and are not sure what to do, tell them you're happy to go to the police station with them .None of the fake police will like to go there. Leave a Comment
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 Coughing weather at the
Frankfurt Opera by Nemorino
In other words, people who do not have a acute illness of some sort can usually refrain from coughing just by deciding not to do it. Try it. It's a matter of will power, but not as difficult as it might sound.
It also helps if you are not dehydrated. Drink something before the opera and in the intermission.
And have some cough drops with you, but not the kind that are individually wrapped because they make too much noise when you try to unwrap them. The opera house in Hannover has Fisherman's Friends for sale on all levels of the building, but in Frankfurt you have to bring your own.
Another theory of mine is that people tend to cough more at the opera if they don't understand what is going on. So try to read up on the piece before you go, then you will get more out of it and not start coughing just out of puzzlement or frustration.
And if all else fails, at least put a handkerchief over your mouth so it isn't so loud. Leave a Comment
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 It's lovely, but it isn't the
opera house by Nemorino
This is sometimes the fault of the taxi drivers. If you just say "Take me to the opera house" they might well think you mean the Alte Oper, which is more conspicuous and better known. And lots of people do want to go to the Alte Oper, to see concerts or musicals or some such.
To make matters even more confusing, the Frankfurt Opera actually does present two or three operas each season at the Alte Oper, but these are concert versions only.
And the Frankfurt Opera orchestra, which for historical reasons is officially known as the Museumsorchester, does symphony concerts at the Alte Oper quite regularly.
So it's no wonder people get confused. Just be sure you know where you're going before you start off. If it says Opernhaus on your ticket, that means the new one, and if it says Alte Oper that's the old one.
While you're at it, don't forget to look at the small print at the bottom of your ticket. If it says RMV KombiTicket then it is also valid for public transport to get to the opera house and back, before and after the performance. Leave a Comment
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 Don't be late! by Nemorino
They will sometimes let you in anyway because they are really nice people who have trouble saying no — they are mostly music students who can’t bear to let someone miss half an opera just because they got stuck in traffic and arrived two minutes late.
Actually I would prefer to have them stick to the rules in this case, because it is really disturbing to everyone else if latecomers are admitted after the opera has started.
Also, be sure you know when the opera starts. Most operas in Frankfurt start at 19:30, and you soon get used to that, but some of the longer ones like Berg’s Lulu, Händel’s Ariodante and Mussorgskij’s Chowanschtschina start half an hour earlier at 19:00, and some of the really long ones like Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde start at 17:00 in hopes that they will be done before midnight. Leave a Comment
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 Seats off to the side in the
third balcony by Nemorino
At the opera house on Willy-Brandt-Platz in Frankfurt you should try not to sit way off to the right or left side on the balconies, because you can't see the whole stage from there. If you always take the cheapest seats, as I do, try not to be more than four or five seats away from the aisle. In the first row of third balcony, seats 2-10 and 58-66 aren't very good either.
There isn't much leg room up in the third balcony, by the way. Sort of like flying economy class (complete with nice views of the Frankfurt skyline, by the way).
Another problem with the third balcony is that we can't always see things that are happening at the very top of the stage. In the staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte from the year 2000 we never saw the volcano erupting, which I'm told was very impressive when it worked properly. In Der Walzertraum by Oscar Straus we could only see the legs of the women playing in the all-girl band on the upper deck of the Titanic (they had nice legs but we wanted to see the upper half of them, too) and we never saw the iceberg approaching until it was already there and the whole stage was vibrating from the shock of the collision.
And in Luigi Dallapiccola’s Volo di notte we couldn't see the dancer-in-the-sky from the third balcony, which is a shame because she was really lovely. Leave a Comment
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 Good for Frankfurt, Bad for
Darmstadt by Weissdorn
If you come from anywhere other than Rome, New York, Duesseldorf or Berlin, you can believe it, too.
The Autobahns surrounding Frankfurt are well-known for their traffic jams. Consequently the secret short-cuts only the natives know are just as jammed.
If you plan to travel on the Autobahn I suggest the following:
1) Try to travel outside rush hour: NOT between 7-9 am and 3-6 pm
2) Plan carefully where you want to go BEFORE you drive. There are not many places where you can stop the car and read the map again.
3) Plan about +45 minutes if you want to go to a destination outside of Frankfurt; i.e. Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Wuerzburg, Mainz, Gelnhausen, etc.
The website below will give you up-to-date info about traffic jams, construction sites, and where you can get the best prices for petrol / gas /diesel. Leave a Comment
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 Poor Security at Night in this
Station by WeissdornLeave a Comment Phone: Police Emergency No. 112
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 No electronic devices or
bags! by WeissdornLeave a Comment
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All those postings sound really negative. Frankfurt is a beautiful town and -in daylight- you don't need to necessarily avoid the area around the main station. If you use your common sense and don't go into dark corners, don't stare at drug addicts/prostitutes or even take pictures of them and don't react if somebody that looks suspicious tries to talk to you, you will not have a problem! Enjoy your stay in frankfurt! Leave a Comment
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Avoid the area between RR station and Taunusanlage (especially Kaiserstr. and Elbestr.) as those are the worst streets. Drug attics and all kinds of other criminals walk around!
Map: http://www2.stadtplandienst.de/map.asp?sid=c3807a761b4bbf5c77106d752b9c1516&id=866&num= Leave a Comment
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