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Travel to Duesseldorf

Flying to Duesseldorf

Airlines operating regular flights to Düsseldorf International Airport include British Airways, Air Berlin and Lufthansa. Budget airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair offer cheap flights to Düsseldorf Weeze Airport, 78km (49 miles) northwest of Düsseldorf.

Flight times: 

From London - 1 hour 20 minutes.

Travel by road

Summary:

An excellent motorway network connects the Netherlands and Belgium to Germany's famous autobahns. Traffic drives on the right and the minimum age for driving is 18 years. Signs suggesting a recommended speed limit of 130kph (80mph) are posted along most autobahns; other limits are 80kph (50mph) on major roads and 50kph (30mph) in towns.

Drivers must carry a national driving licence from their country of origin. Trailers and caravans are allowed in without documentation. A Green Card is advisable but not compulsory. Without it, drivers with motor insurance policies in their home country are granted only the minimum legal cover in Germany - the Green Card tops this up to the level of cover provided by the driver's own policy.

The main German automobile association is the Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil Club - ADAC (tel: 0180 510 1112; www.adac.de).

Emergency breakdown service:

ADAC (tel: 0180 222 2222); ANWB (tel: 0800 0888).

Coaches:

National Express/Eurolines (tel: 0871 781 8178, in the UK only; www.nationalexpress.com) runs a direct coach service from London to Düsseldorf (13 hours). The main coach station is Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (Hbf), Konrad-Adenauer-Platz.

Travel by rail

Services:

Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (HBF), Konrad-Adenauer-Platz, is the city’s main railway station, well equipped and very busy with links all over Germany and the near-continent.
Eurostar (tel: 08432 186 186; www.eurostar.com) runs from London to Brussels in 1 hour 51 minutes. From here, you can travel to Düsseldorf via Aachen or Cologne with Thalys (tel: 0900 9228; www.thalys.com) or InterCity Express (tel: 0180 599 6633; www.bahn.de) services, which take around three hours.

Operators:

The German rail network is operated by Deutsche Bahn (DB) (tel: 0180 599 6633; www.bahn.de).

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