• st0v@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    If you can train is less than say 6 hours. Trains are hands down better.

    They are much more reliably on time.

    The station is usually much closer than to the ultimate destination than an airport.

    There’s little or no waiting in queues or what not, in a lot places you can roll up the platform 10-20 mins before departure.

    The seats are better for pretty much every class of ticket. sans a standing ticket but Planes don’t have those.

    Once you factor getting to and from the airport, messing about with check in, security, and boarding at around 6 hours a train is better than a 2 hour flight.

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        1 year ago

        Oh man, I take an ICE roundtrip over twenty times a year. These days I have to plan a buffer of 2 hours between ETA and my Termin. These are tears well informed by experience.

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        1 year ago

        Fuck Dusseldorf airport. Fuck Frankfurt airport. Fuck them right in the ass. But also fuck validating your train ticket at the other end of the platform seconds before getting on the train.

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          1 year ago

          I’m an American and went to Cologne a few years back for Carnival. Flew into Frankfurt Airport, the train was right there and I was at my destination in about an hour traveling along a scenic river. Absolutely amazing!

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            1 year ago

            My experience with Frankfurt has been that it’s always under construction and I have to be diverted around said construction to get to my connecting flight.