The train from FRA does indeed stop at the airport station which is
connected to the airport itself. I've used the ICE to go from
Frankfurt airport to Amsterdam several times and it is both scenic,
comfortable and inexpensive compared to most flights.
Go to:
http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml
And enter Frankfurt and Maastricht as the endpoints, you'll want
to choose "Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf" as the starting point
if going from the airport (which also has a nice connected Sheraton
hotel if you need to overnight on the way in or out).
Train time is around 3 and 1/2 hours with 3 changes, but I'd actually
recommend going all the way to Utrecht on the German ICE which gives
you only one change but adds nearly 2 hours, because the German ICE
is a much nicer train and changes can be a hassle if you have a lot
of luggage.
If you decide to use the train, you can order the tickets online and
they will arrive (at least to California) in less than a week, and
they even have an attended e-mail box where you can ask questions and
get answers.
Ole
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On Sun, 24 May 2009, Stephan Wenger wrote:
For a German, the most intuitive way to get to Maastricht would actually be
to go through Cologne, Dusseldorf, or Frankfurt. From Koeln or Duesseldorf
it should be around an hour by car---no more than two hours even considering
traffic. Both airport have a rather limited number of intercontinental
flights, but good connections within Europe. From Frankfurt, when going by
car, add another hour.
For those not able or willing to rent a car, you can also take the ICE
(German bullet train) non-stop from Koeln or Frankfurt (central, but I
believe this one also stops right at the airport) to Maastricht; it takes
about 3.5 hours from FRA and is in part a very scenic ride (other parts are
just tunnel-bridge-sound-wall sceneries, but the train goes at 280 km/h
there).
Stephan
On 5/24/09 5:57 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch(_at_)muada(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On 22 mei 2009, at 16:55, Ray Pelletier wrote:
The IAOC is pleased to announce the beautiful, historic city of
Maastricht in the Netherlands as the site for IETF 78 from July 25 -
30, 2010.
Beautiful, historic and nowhere near a reasonably-sized airport.
It takes a 3 hour train ride (longer during weekends) to get to
Maastricht from Schiphol (Amsterdam airport) and a 2 hour one from
Zaventem (Brussels airport).
Trivia: Maastricht has the same population as Ann Arbor. So the IETF
meeting would temorarily increase it by 1%.
Not sure if making attending IETF meetings as difficult as possible is
a winning strategy.
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