You can find cars here going to pretty much anywhere in Germany

Only had to go to the next gas station on a Sunday morning

Used this spot two times this week, worked well each time. Stand in the light if it's dark !

While heading to Ireland, a family heading home from Poland took me with them for a night in their van and even offered me a night in their guest room.

There is traffic going to Genk, the Netherlands or Germany. Also some UK plates.

Casually hitchhiking while waiting for the bus. Seconds before it arrives, somebody picked me up.

I held a sign for Gent and got a ride in 20 minutes. It works, but It's not the best place for cars to stop because there is no bus lane. I think a lot of people were reluctant to stop because of this.

Electric car charging station. We were lucky to get to the next station.

Enough Dutch folks here

Accepted a ride straight to Beauvais train station as it was getting dark

We rejected a ride 15 minutes in to the next gas station before Gent because this one is so big. This was a mistake, next one was much easier to get a long distance ride though

Best spot to hitchhike South from Leuven. There's a bus from the centre till there. Always found a ride quickly from there. There's space for cars to stop.

Beaucoup de passage, les gens roulent vite mais ont de la place pour se garer. Plusieurs personnes se sont arrêtées mais n'allaient pas dans notre direction

Personne n'a voulu nous prendre. Nous allions à Lille mais les gens montaient vers Bruges. L'air est en travaux en ce moment (octobre 2025) ce qui doit jouer sur l'affluence... Nous sommes parti de l'air pour rejoindre la N43

Pas énormément de passage mais on s'est fait emmené rapidement jusqu'à Lille

Pas mal de passage, on s'est fait prendre rapidement jusqu'à Nazareth ! Top

Manque de place pour se garer, peu de gens qui s'arrêtent ou qui n'allaient pas dans notre direction (Gand). Une dame nous a finalement déposé à l'air 3km plus loin !

Pas le meilleur spot, aucune place pour se garer. Personne ne s'est arrêté donc nous avons changé d'endroit

Got a ride quite quickly, but not all the way to luxembourg

People just start accelerating at this spot, so my guess is that they won’t easily reverse or brake

banger, i find this one reliable to go far into france direction reims. heading northwest, don't bother taking rides shorter than aire du haut-koenigsbourg. there's plenty of ppl going long distances, especially luxembourg/belgium. also loads of german cars.

Easy ride out to A1 toward north and Belgium , some traffic and trafic light for cars to stop. Picked up in 20 with a cardboard that said A1. Should be easy to get north once you are on a highway stop

nice gas station! At the dressing there are tables where you can eat and relax and if you stop in the summer can even sleep! We were thrown here at about 6 pm and by night we could not find the car, although we went to ask almost everyone, although in the morning (from 6 to 7) we were found to Dyorthmund. Most cars went to Amsterdam, some to Belgium. This is a good spot because everyone goes somewhere far away from Hanover's license plates. In general, the drivers of cars and trucks rest in the parking lot, many people can be asked

Best spot to go North from paris, a lot of Belgium cars and people going to Lille.

Ok, this was not great spot south, if you are heading south I would discourage you from going here, but it was kinda nice spot towards Belgium. Be aware a lot of migrants are lurking around after dark, we had two of them jump on top of our truck and drove them to Belgium (they were not happy about that and banged on our roof). It was definitely one of my crazier stories, but it was kinda fun. Just to be aware of that. (Normally I would sleep around here, but I would never sleep in this place, it was not safe, therefore I went back north to Belgium)

BAD SPOT TO GO TO KÖLN. Was unlucky because nobody went there but very lucky to have a guy that dropped me to my final destination in Belgium. Thanks Dariusz! :) asked around

I was desperate because it was really cold and windy and rainy. Like the worst weather ever to hitchhike. I asked a bit around with no success but still had ok feedbacks. Kicked out of the MacDonald (fair enough) decided to use thumb and sign "A4 West" and got a lift to Francfort. In my case I will be dropped at the gas station Reinhardshain Nord to go to Köln and Belgium. Thanks Heike!

Good space to pull in, many cars. We found a lovely guy going to Belgium after just about 5 minutes.

Approached someone and immediately got a ride to Belgium. This seems like the best way to get from Koln to the west. Highly recommended!

May favourite starting spot to get out of the area to the Netherlands/Belgium/France. So far has worked out for me fairly quickly every single time. This review is super late, but I was there in May in the afternoon and found folks going my direction in half an hour by asking around. It only took half an hour because they wanted to finish their meal (which, totally fair.) I think the finding itself only took about 10 minutes.

Bike path on the road, not much traffic going in direction of Belgium. Most people seem to scared to stop on the bike path or are too fast.

Tried to get out of Calais in direction of Belgium here, waited almost the whole day here till we gave up.

low traffic but a couple from belgium stopped and i had a nice drive to foca

A nice lady picked us up on her way home. She dropped us of at baraque de Fraiture, the highest point in Belgium. McDonald's on the roundabout

I got very lucky with an amazing ride with a nice Spanish couple going on holiday. I went up and asked the guy if he was going towards Belgium and if I could go with him. We even had a shot of vodka to say goodbye. M23

Tried to get from here to Belgium as I've heard of people being stranded further down at Folkestone/Dover. Am aware that channel crossings are challenging so I won't let my ambitious targets hurt the rating of this spot. Was offered a ride once every hour but none of them were to Belgium or even across the channel. 5 hours in I decided any car that could take me further along the M20 would work, and got a ride to Dover 5 minutes later. I put an extra pin here as this spot worked much better than the spot near the gas station. Cars are forced to slow down, they have time to access you, and you can sit on the rocks to put yourself on the same eye level as them.

After something like 5 minutes we got ride through Belgium to the edge of the France from young couple in electromobile.

Has a rest area and a gas station. After trying some things I got a petty lift from a couple who were chilling there. Pretty good lift because it took me to Breda. (I think people didn't take me because my sign said Belgium and they don't understand that they don't have to bring me all the way)

Definitely avoid this spot. Almost no traffic. After being stuck there for over 2 hours with literally no one stopping I consider myself lucky that I've managed to get ride to Belgium

Fantastic spot to get to Belgium but be careful when walked from the Capellen station, there was a fence and closed gate. It was not an easy climb.