Frechen Nord
Good starting spot to get to Aachen and beyond to Belgium or NL, easy to reach with public transport too. I wasn't even there at a good time (Mid-November on a weekday, very foggy weather) and still found a ride to Aachen pretty quickly by asking around.rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 💬, ride: 51 km ←
―thebeekeeper, Thu 07 Nov 2024, 12:30
rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬+🪧, ride: 169 km ←
―joni161, June 2024
First driver I asked took me till Aachen (he even went to Maastricht). Perfect
rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min, ride: 66 km ↙
―Anonymous, November 2023
Walkable from the nearby S-Bahn Station for fellow hitchhikers that prefer to start at a highway service station.
Got a ride to the station before Aachen (first car I asked) right away, and easily made it to Ghent (my final destination) in Jan 23.
rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 51 km ←
―V, April 2023
Many people going to Aachen,
some belgian cars too.
―Anonymous, September 2019
Super good to take the S-bahn to Koningsdorf and then walk to this Gasstation done it like 10 times now, never more then 15 minutes wait
―Anonymous, June 2015
Great place on weekdays, and still good on a Sunday: caught a ride for two here to Liege on a Sunday morning in October. Also: the view is pretty good. :)
―Maxim1110, March 2015
Hitchhiked several times to get to The Netherlands from here. Usually rides less than an hour to get a ride (mostly to southern Limburg (Maastricht/Heerlen), but sometimes also towards Venlo).
―Maxim1110, November 2014
I HH from Koln to Brussels, to Louvain-la-Neuve and to Namur several times ! all of them on Friday or Sunday. I just love HH in that place! The best is to ask directly.
―PaoloCaracol, August 2013
Found a lift direction aachen in 5 min, not much traffic but still okay, on a wensday afternoon may 2013
―Amauryfraise, May 2013
April 2013: was trying to get to Belgium. Third driver I asked took me to the Raststätte Aachener Land Nord, where a lot of Belgian drivers stop.
―Anonymous, April 2013
found a ride to brussels (directly) in about 5minuts!
―Anonymous, December 2012
The location is not too much effort to get to. The 3rd person I asked took me to Gent, Belgium. There were a moderate flow of cars and some being of many different nationalities.
―Anonymous, August 2011
To get there you need to ask people around, it's a bit mess with a roads liding there. It is a big parking+cafe, so you can talk to people or stay on the exit with a sign. We traveled to Paris, so we asked tracks-drtivers and finally found one. Most of the people who stopped drive not far than Aachen. It's a pity.
―Anonymous, April 2011
hitchhiked towards Belgium twice from here. both times, I found cars pretty fast!
―Anonymous, February 2011
Decent Rasthof to continue further to the west (Belgium - Aachen - NL), You can even access it from Cologne by taking a train to Konigsdorf and walk from the station to the Services (Augustinus Str and Marienhofer Weg)
rating: 4/5
―Anonymous