Getting There

Overview

Düsseldorf International airport (www.duesseldorf-international.de) is well-designed and easy to get around. It has a 24-hour left-luggage office, a Reisebank and car-rental desks. S-Bahn buses Nos 1 and 7 shuttle between the airport and the Hauptbahnhof every few minutes. A new airport train station with direct ICE, IC and InterRegio services means you can swap quickly from plane to train.

Eurolines (www.eurolines.com) buses provide daily trips to Paris (9 hours) and Warsaw (18 hours), to London twice weekly (9 hours) and to Prague (13 hours) three times weekly.

Autobahns from all directions lead to Düsseldorf city centre; just follow the signs. Parking in the centre is pretty much limited to parking garages.

Düsseldorf is part of a dense S-Bahn network in the Rhine-Ruhr region and regular services run to Cologne and Aachen as well. There are frequent ICE trains to Frankfurt (1.75 hours), Berlin-Zoo (4 hours) and Munich (5 hours).