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Hitchhiking from Mainz

Hitchhiking to Mainz

Recent reviews mentioning Mainz

49.93604, 7.26742

Walked down to this spot that included cars exiting car park. Was not going to pay more for the coach than my flight cost from the UK. Had a sign "MAINZ/FFM BITTE" - Waited just over 12 mins, got a ride straight to Mainz - satisfying overtaking the over-priced coach 15 mins after it passed me!

rating: 4/5, wait: 12 min, ride: 90 km →

―Anonymous, February 2025

49.87344, 8.34257

In front of the road into the parking places, lots of traffic, but hard to stop, had a sign for Mainz and finally in 30 minutes a car picked up, but honestly a really poor area for hitching

rating: 3/5

―estohiker, February 2025

49.6639, 8.32914

After checking the castle pretty decent spot for going to the north direction, quite some cars might go to the either b9 to Mainz or autobahn to west, wait time of 5 minutes

rating: 4/5

―estohiker, February 2025

49.90692, 7.22268

Did not try but this would be a good spot to continue on Hunsrückhöhenstraße in the direction of Mainz/ Frankfurt. There is a bus stop after the crossroad. Try to get to Raststätte Hunsrück West.

rating: 4/5

―valle111, July 2024

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

47.97044, 7.72015

No problem at all, to get north. Also longer distances possible (Mainz, Darmstadt...)

―Anonymous, August 2014

50.05185, 8.57107

When I start from Mainz, I always take the train to the airport and ask people when they pay for parking. I found lifts in every direction on the A3 and A5 from here, but usually there are more people going direction Köln or Karlsruhe.

―Anonymous, July 2014

50.30036, 8.23691

Living in Mainz I sometimes take the train to Bad Camberg (free with Student pass) and then walk up the hill to this rest stop. There's no proper sidewalk so you're kinda on the road a bit, but it's not too far of a walk.

―DerPicknicker, October 2013

50.38088, 7.57776

Very good! You can simply hitchhike to Cologne (north) or to Mainz/ Frankfurt (south). There is a lot of business traffic. From this patrol station you can take the following motorways: A 48, A 3 or sometimes to A61

―Anonymous, October 2013

49.97402, 8.27064

Take the tram 50, 51, 52 from "Mainz Hauptbahnhof" to "Mainz-Hechtsheim, Kurmainz Kaserne". If you get out at "Kurmainz Kaserne" you can already see the motorway. Walk about 5 minutes along the main street. Directly before the drive-up there is a traffic light and a traffic island where you can stand and ask drivers to bring you to the A67 (close to Darmstadt there is a service station). To get on this traffic island you have to cross four lanes.

―Anonymous, September 2013

50.15397, 8.59998

I have repeatedly attempted to hitch hike from here to Mainz or Wiesbaden without much luck. Getting from here to the Airport is easy and I have successfully hitch hiked from the airport in all directions many times.

―Flasher702, April 2013

50.05156, 8.57385

Roads have changed. This marker is now near a nice spot on the upper level at the end of the departure gates. There is a spot on the road just after this where people can stop or they often just stop right in the road as everyone is doing it to drop people off anyway. I have used successfully several times and often use Frankfurt Airport as a stopover point to get a new ride. No problems getting rides to Wiesbaden, Mainz, or east on the A3 during the day with 10minutes wating. Had trouble getting to Giessen at night.

―Flasher702, April 2013

50.05881, 8.25442

I tried this spot to get an hike towards cologne using the A3 and stood there for more than one hour.. afterwards I drove by train to Limburg to the gasstation and got the hike within five minutes.
The spot has really a lot of travel, you haven't time to rest your arm for more than 10 seconds, But most of the cars are driving to locals like Mainz, Frankfurt or to the airport.. But maybe I just had bad luck

―Anonymous, September 2012