Comments on: One more wonder from Frankfurt Airport http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2010/02/06/one-more-wonder-from-frankfurt-airport/ General Aviation and Aviation In General Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:18:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Julien http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2010/02/06/one-more-wonder-from-frankfurt-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-31639 Julien Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:42:31 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/?p=3218#comment-31639 Thanks for the tip! I saw <a href="http://www.golfhotelwhiskey.com/egelsbach-edfe/" rel="nofollow">your guest post today</a> on EgelsBach on <a href="http://www.golfhotelwhiskey.com/" rel="nofollow">Golf Hotel Whiskey</a>, I'll check it out the next time I'm around the area. I'm not sure I'll come to Germany this year, it looks like the whole of Germany is planning to visit us in Australia :-) Thanks for the tip! I saw your guest post today on EgelsBach on Golf Hotel Whiskey, I’ll check it out the next time I’m around the area. I’m not sure I’ll come to Germany this year, it looks like the whole of Germany is planning to visit us in Australia :-)

]]> By: Vincent http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2010/02/06/one-more-wonder-from-frankfurt-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-31615 Vincent Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:37:56 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/?p=3218#comment-31615 Julien, if you like sushis and Asian food, try the restaurant at behind the check-in counters in terminal 1. And if you've a car, take the 20 minutes drive to Egelsbach airport and have lunch at the Schubeck Check-Inn restaurant there, it's one of the best in the region. Julien, if you like sushis and Asian food, try the restaurant at behind the check-in counters in terminal 1. And if you’ve a car, take the 20 minutes drive to Egelsbach airport and have lunch at the Schubeck Check-Inn restaurant there, it’s one of the best in the region.

]]> By: Julien http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2010/02/06/one-more-wonder-from-frankfurt-airport/comment-page-1/#comment-31606 Julien Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:04:13 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/?p=3218#comment-31606 I used to work for a large three-letter German software company located not too far from Frankfurt actually who had the same approach to complex systems: keep the system complex and train (i.e. charge in that case) the user. Funny that you mention the hike from the parking to the very last Lufthansa gate, I had that very experience a few years ago. A good thing they don't charge for luggage trolleys. Finding your way from the international terminal to the train station also got interesting last year with all the construction work going on. My top FRA experience has to be trying to find a gas station at night before returning the rental car. The usual gas station (the one next to the Lufthansa employee car park) wouldn't take my credit card, so I kept driving and ended up driving around Cargo City, where everything looks the same. Then I found the other gas station, the one you cannot see from the terminal because it's in a dip behind a bridge. Fun times. After that I always refuelled at the last gas station on the A5. One last thing that amazes me about FRA is that such a large airport cannot have a good restaurant, or maybe I just haven't found it. I used to work for a large three-letter German software company located not too far from Frankfurt actually who had the same approach to complex systems: keep the system complex and train (i.e. charge in that case) the user.

Funny that you mention the hike from the parking to the very last Lufthansa gate, I had that very experience a few years ago. A good thing they don’t charge for luggage trolleys. Finding your way from the international terminal to the train station also got interesting last year with all the construction work going on.

My top FRA experience has to be trying to find a gas station at night before returning the rental car. The usual gas station (the one next to the Lufthansa employee car park) wouldn’t take my credit card, so I kept driving and ended up driving around Cargo City, where everything looks the same. Then I found the other gas station, the one you cannot see from the terminal because it’s in a dip behind a bridge. Fun times. After that I always refuelled at the last gas station on the A5.

One last thing that amazes me about FRA is that such a large airport cannot have a good restaurant, or maybe I just haven’t found it.

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