IF THIS IS IN FRANKFURT, THEN FRANKFURT MUST BE HUGE! (Frankfurt Hahn Airport (HHN))

Member Name: leeanne160480

Product:	Frankfurt Hahn Airport (HHN)
Date:	30/03/09 (57 review reads)
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I don't think much of Frankfurt Hahn Airport, although I have flown home from here 3 times. It does it's job, but I just don't think of it as a great airport.

Since we have flown with Ryanair a few times, they always land at this airport when flying into Frankfurt. As with Ryanair, this is a secondary airport and far far away from actual Frankfurt. For to go to the main centre of Frankfurt you have to travel 90 miles. Although there is a direct coach outside the Airport, which costs 12 euroes each way that takes you straight to the city centre, after you have been on a flight for 1 hour 40 minutes, then having to be on a coach for 2 hours maybe isn't people's idea of fun. Also if you consider that if there is 2 of you, then with the coach fare then that can bump up your cheap flight by another £50! There is Frankfurt International airport, which is 15 minutes from the city centre, but the flights are expensive from there.

The airport isn't that large, but it seems to be a busy airport. At the front there is check in desks listed as A and B. A covers desks 1-7 and these are at the front of the airport, B is along the front, then a turn right, so it doubles up on its self, but it is up a ramp. In the main area there is 1 shop, and 1 cafe/bar area. Up the stairs is a watch tower area to see the planes. Straight next to the check in desks you can see everyone going through baggage check.

When you are in departures it isn't that exciting either. There is 7 departure lounges and they perhaps have less than 100 chairs in each area, so you will get people standing. If you go into the departure lounge, but want to leave the room to perhaps go to the toilet or to a shop, although these are still part of the departure area, you must take your passport and then show it to the guards again to get back in!

Through in departures their is a duty free shop, a newsagent, 2 cafe's and a sandwich shop. As usual these are quite expensive for to buy bits and pieces, but you know what airports are like.

I know it does it's job, but it isn't as glitzy as other airports that i've been to, and the location is so far away from the city. Then again this what normally happens when you buy a cheap flight!

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