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

Usually a good spot if you want to go to Valenciennes (everyone seemed to be going there) and further down to Paris. I wanted to go to Lille though and it took me a full 3 hours to find someone. I did find a right directly to my destination though, they even did a detour for me, so that was super sweet. It was pretty late at that point (I waited from 7 to 10 pm so I imagine that it was getting late might have toggled a little pity)

Found a car in the direction of Mons, France pretty fast by asking around. A lovely person too that gave me control of the aux.

We got pity picked up ...a lot of traffic but a lot of families so a bit difficult to get picked!!

I swear we were gonna write a new sign and we just got picked up!!!

Stand a bit further, where the on and oframp split. There's a side rod there where drivers can pull in. Had a few offers for direction Brussels but I waited for a ride towards Lille and got it after 38 minutes.

Very high traffic island. Stood on top of it and was very visable.

With sign "Gent". Got a ride to halfway (Sint Niklaas).

To Antwerp.

Took a bit of time but got the perfect ride to Paris

Solid spot, got a ride on the E40 easy

Arrived after sunset, the second guy I asked drove me straight to Aachen

Was about to give up because the sun was setting but then I got a ride to Liège

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.

got stuck there mid trip as the night fell, the station employee was really nice, let us sleep in our bags inside and gave us tea, we found a ride eventually in the middle of the night, the rode through belgium without stopping and left us just after the Netherlands border

Poland is so easy to hitchike broo random bus stops I didn't even have a sign and a guy in a TRUCK stopped on the bus stop and took me to tarnow. Poland is the easiest country to autostop in my opinion (I've hitchhiked in Germany, Belgium, france, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, bosnia so I guess I know what I'm saying)

Two people hiking on Thursday noon, within 45 minutes 5 cars stopped, out of which 2 were going to Dortmund and the last one brought us to Belgium, good spot.

Was asking around to get towards Paris. There were mainly Belgium plates, only few French and Dutch. Eventually took a ride to the next gas station south of Gent