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Recent reviews mentioning Strasbourg

48.99533, 8.38297

Unsuccessful. It might not be a good spot to get a ride to the South. I did not find any to Strasbourg
But there are many cars and good space for a car to stop for you, which is a bus station. Cars come from a side road as well.

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min 🪧

―Anonymous, Sun 17 Nov 2024, 16:00

46.49539, 5.31317

Very strange place indeed when trying to go south. Took me around 4 frustrating hours in 40°C to get away from here. I tried asking at the gas station, asking the truck drivers and thumbing at the exit. The last one mentioned worked in the end.

I think the reason why this is such a strange place, apart from the fact that the gas station serves both directions, is that this highway is not the most used one when going south. Notice that when you put into the GPS a route let's say from Strasbourg to Lyon, it prefers the highway A6, that runs parallel on the west to this one. However, at the exit from A36 close to Dole it is signed that this highway leads to Lyon. Which I believe makes all the drivers that don't use GPS take this highway. Which was in the end my experience. I encountered lots of older local drivers unwilling to take hitchhikers, or families that were fully packed.

rating: 2/5, wait: 240 min 👍, ride: 436 km ↓

―dalby, October 2024

49.00417, 8.44224

WE waited by the light, make sure to activate it so it turns red for the cars. 15 min wait and a car took us to Strasbourg/kehl

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min

―Anonymous, August 2024

49.94749, 8.60934

A bit quiet gas station. A guy who was going to Freidburg picked me up. He ended up driving me all the way into Strasbourg.
Sign said "Strasbourg".

rating: 4/5, wait: 45 min 💬+🪧, ride: 206 km ↙

―Anonymous, August 2024

49.39559, 8.66933

Got very lucky at this spot. Didn’t even start raising my thumb, I was checking out the area and the speed of the cars first, and a man who was filling up his car with some gas saw with my backpack and directly asked me where I was going. I was going to Strasbourg and he left me in Haguenau, which is near. Looks like the people who are filling up gas are going into further directions, so it’s important to catch their attention and even go ask them directly.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 114 km ↙

―Toni, July 2024

48.68539, 5.72572

Hitchhike a truck to strasburg. Many trucks going to germany. I got there at night. I missed half of the trucks by being ready at 7. Start earlier!

A french trucker told me iti s frequented by many truck drivers going to germany. Maybe you should be smarter and wait for one instead of going to strasbourg.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬+🪧, ride: 123 km →

―fluido, July 2024

49.24277, 3.91939

Got a ride to Metz after asking for 5 min. Great spot overall to get to Metz or Strasbourg.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬, ride: 194 km →

―JumpingRabbit, July 2024

45.72939, 9.02884

We were hitchiking with a "Germany" sign for like 15 minutes and got a ride to Zurich. The driver was going all the way to Strasbourg though. It was a French car. Overall, there's a lot of Switz cars, some French and German. Everyone's going north.

Side note: Be careful, in Switzerland the EU phone tariffs don't apply and the prices for phone services skyrocket. Make sure to make your plans before you enter.

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 246 km ↑

―ondbocc, February 2024

48.72484, 7.69119

Not very crowdy after 20h, we had to sleep there. We don’t think it is the best place if you want to go to Germany. But easy stop to go to Strasbourg

rating: 3/5

―Basico, February 2024

49.17931, 6.05354

Good spot to go to Strasbourg. Do not hesitate to ask :)

rating: 3/5, wait: 35 min

―Basico, February 2024

47.44097, 6.72939

Large service station, open & warm 24/7. Cars to Germany, Strasbourg, Switzerland etc.

rating: 5/5, wait: 80 min, ride: 81 km →

―Gbimbel, December 2023

48.97464, 8.15099

Even though the place looks a bit misplaced, I got a ride fairly soon. Some lady took me to Hochfelden where I jumped train to Strasbourg. Also, when I walked to that place from the train station Lauterbourg, was a bit lazy so I hitchiked a van in 2 minutes for that 2.5 kms'!

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min

―Lea, August 2023

48.64572, 6.13899

seems like the perfect spot but never rlly worked for me

Had to wait 3h while trying to reach Strasbourg, didn't got a direct ride. Another time I gave up after yet again 3h.

rating: 1/5, wait: 3 min

―Tilia, April 2023

49.54295, 6.1178

5min to catch a car to Strasbourg using France sign.
***01/01/2020*** transportation will be free in the country so you don't have to worry anymore about 4euro to arrive to Berchem

―Anonymous, August 2019

48.56241, 7.95736

It was a bit hard to get to Freiburg on a saturday afternoon. Many people going to Strasbourg, local traffic aswell. After one and a half hour got a lift from a german couple.

―Anonymous, June 2019

48.82882, 2.74135

Good spot, got a direct ride to Strasbourg after 30min. Many german cars so quite easy to go far.
The only thing is that it's quite long to get there, but you can hitchhike in the industrial area and hopefully save 20min walking :)

―Anonymous, April 2019

49.21015, 4.07953

Good spot, most of the cars go in Strasbourg direction but it is possible to get a ride to Paris. If you come from the centre, it's worth asking someone to bring you here and then continue because thanks to the péage cars slow down here and there's huge place to stop. Stand just after the péage gates, next to the road!
2 persons (me &my girlfriend), dir. Paris, Sunday, 15 mins.

―Anonymous, August 2018

49.21022, 4.08004

49.17931, 6.05354

Many cars are going to Paris, some to Strasbourg and less to Germany. We were standing there longer than 1.5 hours, but found the car to Wroclaw. It was like magic (1000 km). So maybe you will be lucky also. Traffic are really good

―Anonymous, October 2017

49.243, 3.92051

We caught a ride to Strasbourg in a few minutes! There are lots of nice truckers going to Poland as well!

―Tabea, August 2016