Frankfurt in the middle of nowhere airport (Frankfurt Hahn Airport (HHN))

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Frankfurt Hahn Airport (HHN)
Date:	25/02/09 (52 review reads)
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Advantages: Fast and efficient, lots of cheap connections

Disadvantages: Silly location, might as well put it in Luxembourg

A few years ago, I flew in to Frankfurt Hahn. Frankfurt Hahn accepts all the budget traffic for Franfkurt but it's also one of the cheapest and well-connected budget airlines in Germany, so it sees people from all over the country heading there.

I flew in from Warsaw on a very cold morning, the weather was around -20 when leaving Poland and it took a while to de-ice the plane. Having not slept the night before (decided to stay up and head to the airport a few hours early in order not to wake anyone), my friend and I were ready for some kip on the plane. That wasn't going to be though, as a pedantic gay cabin crew member called Konrad pranced up and down the aisle bothering people who just wanted to sleep! Not only was this character very active but he was also very talkative, never off the speaker - anyone would think he wanted to be a DJ. Wizz Air had a problem with their water, so there was no coffee available either.

Having touched down in a field somewhere near France (the airport is located a ridiculous 120km from the city) after an incredibly uncomfortable and irritating flight, we collected our bags and made our way through border control. All very Germanic and efficient.

The exchange rate at the airport was awful and as our intentions were to buy a car to take down to West Africa and sell, we could do with saving every bit of money we had - the 12 euro bus at an awful exchange rate was out of the question. The American friend in question is a huge sufferer of bad luck and felt our chances of building on the naff flight with two guys hitchhiking looking like junkies from the lack of sleep and cold were minimal. Mr. Positive here though thought differently.

My lips were cracked after a cold winter (my determination to reject any lip balm and the like anyone had to offer probably helped) and although the weather was quite a bit warmer at Hahn, my cracked lip just decided to split and spurt blood all over my chin. Despite looking a bit like a horror film character at the time, we waited no longer than 4 minutes near the terminal and there we are - a very authoritave German waved us over from a distance. Turned out to be a doctor who had driven up from Munich to drop his friend off, he tapped in the address of our friend in Frankfurt to his Sat Nav and drove us the 120km, right to the door of our friends as it was roughly on his way.

Hahn is in a ridiculous location but the services can't be faulted, there's a lot of cheap connections to be had too.

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