"Getting to/from Airport" Frankfurt am Main Transportation Tip by sue_stone

When we travelled to Frankfurt we caught the train from the airport to the centre of town, and back. I had read that train was the easiest and cheapest option, though we did hit a snag initially when buying a ticket.

We found our way to the station (connected to airport Terminal 1) and decided to use a ticket machine. It took us a while to work out what ticket we required, and although we did buy a ticket to the correct station, we ended up buying one for the Inter-city trains, not the local S-Bahn train. This meant that we paid about 3 times more for a ticket than we needed to! Oh well :-/ Anyway, it was interesting catching the impressive inter-city train to the central station, which took about 10 minutes.

On the way back to the airport at the end of our visit to Frankfurt, we had by now of course mastered the ticket machines and purchased the correct (cheap) tickets back to the airport, via S-Bahn line number 8, from the central station.

There is also a bus that runs from Terminal 1 to the centre of town. It departs from outside Arrival Hall B, and you can purchase tickets from the driver.

Mode: AROUND
Type: Subway/Metro
Website: http://www.airportcity-frankfurt.com