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Recent reviews mentioning Cologne

51.12318, 6.79745

Great spot if you're hitchhiking from Cologne to the Netherlands. You can get here from Nievenheim train station and bus WE2. After that it's just a 15 minute walk to the station.
If you look on Google satellite, you will spot a small trail after the bridge over the highway. It is traversable but I wouldn't recommend it as it leads through hunting grounds that are private property. Better to take the long way around. Either way, the service station is accessible on foot through a whole in the fence or on the small road.

Waited for 5 minutes, then found a friendly man and his girlfriend who took me one service station further to GeismĂĽhle. There was low traffic on Saturday, but I got lucky and found somebody quickly.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬, ride: 30 km ↖

―daganzebuaatramper, Sat 08 Feb 2025, 13:01

48.82058, 9.17499

Great spot! Asked one person and found a ride straight to Cologne (could've gone to DĂĽsseldorf even).
I obviously got lucky, but there seemed to be a good amount of traffic.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 💬, ride: 355 km ↖

―daganzebuaatramper, Thu 06 Feb 2025, 14:59

50.92849, 6.77713

Definitely would avoid this station. Took us 2 hours to find a ride, not even in the right direction. Honestly juste get the first car that will take you Somewhere else. But good spot for gotting to Cologne

rating: 2/5, wait: 180 min

―Pierrot, August 2024

49.80595, 8.05258

Rastplatz, got a ride to Cologne.

rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 195 km ↖

―denwer, August 2024

50.82336, 6.01927

Good Place for Cologne, as everyone above said.

rating: 4/5

―Anonymous, September 2022

51.46742, 7.59326

Extremely good spot if you want to get to Cologne but it is difficult to get a lift to A45 and Frankfurt.

―Anonymous, May 2020

51.94383, 7.54886

Extremely good spot if you want to get to Cologne but very difficult if you want to continue towards A45 and Frankfurt.


―Anonymous, May 2020

49.40823, 8.66877

Got a ride for two people to cologne after waiting for 5 minutes with ”frankfurt” sign, monday around noon

―Anonymous, September 2018

49.81188, 8.57897

i came here by car aswell from the south and got a ride with the third person i asked direction cologne. it was saturday afternoon and the petrol station quite busy

―Anonymous, March 2018

51.20101, 6.75336

after 30 min we was in a car. low speed in red signal and high speed in green signal. We go from Dusseldorf to Cologne

―Anonymous, August 2016

50.4468, 7.84806

No Problem to Cologne, hard to find someone to go on A48 to the West. Maybe you can find someone for A61 and change direction in Mendig for A48

―Quarim, June 2016

49.81188, 8.57897

I don't agree with the first guy. I came to this place at 22:00 in the night and no cars were stoping here. I camped near the gas station with my tent and on the next day I got a ride with the very first guy that I asked. Got a ride after Frankfurt direction Köln (Cologne)

―Gustavobretz, June 2016

50.16967, 8.29311

good spot! got a lift towards Cologne pretty fast

―Anonymous, March 2016

50.74364, 7.07748

I was trying to get a ride towards Aachen and failed. When I changed the sign to Cologne, I've got a lift in a few minutes. Although I agree that it is not the best spot.

―Anonymous, October 2015

49.31718, 8.57431

Oct 15 in the morning.
Good place to go Mainz/Wiesbaden/Frankfurt or even Cologne.
Just wait at the restaurant :)
Got a lift to Cologne after 40 minutes.

―LaZubi, October 2015

50.09693, 8.35309

Lots of cars going to Cologne and the Ruhr Area. Some Dutch cars and few Belgians.

―Anonymous, September 2015

50.94917, 6.93388

Saturday morning destination Netherlands. Few cars avaible when it is red and no space to stop when it is green. And many cars stay in Cologne.

―Anonymous, July 2015

47.86351, 8.7861

I was lucky I think. I arrived around 10 am and it was very very calm although the station was quite big. Fortunately there was a car heading to Köln/Cologne which could took me a long end in my direction.

―Anonymous, May 2015

49.68934, 8.6033

Switch rides here if your driver is heading in Cologne/Holland direction and you are trying to stay on A5 to go Frankfurt/Berlin/Hamburg/anywhere else really.


―Anonymous, February 2015

51.15808, 7.22733

Reasonably good towards Cologne on a Sunday, but probably great for that direction on weekdays. I waited for little over half an hour for someone to take me to Cologne Deutz.

―Maxim1110, November 2014

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