Vaterstetten Ost

friday morning, around 11AM, July, going towrds Berlin
spent the night in my tent behind the station in a little patch of trees, very quite. loads of trucks and cars, i took me a bit to get a ride until the next gas station on A9
i was hitchhiking at the entrance of the highway since there were not many cars stopping for petrol, mostly for food/toilets (at least at this time)
a police car drove pass me and said nothing (its always my biggest fear)
station is good. expensive, but there are toilets for truck drivers that are free and they have drinking water, so dont get fooled by the shops

rating: 4/5, wait: 99 min, ride: 33 km ↖

―mutterichbindoom, July 2025

Waited 3 and a half hours to get a ride even two rest areas further (don't get dropped at Halledau West btw if you want to go north, it's just on one side of the A9 and less cars going north stop there), many people went just fairly locally or, and that depends on the season, were families returning from vacation and had no space

―Anonymous, February 2020

I got a ride to Zwickau it was so lucky... but this rest area is perfekt to get a ride to northward (direction Regensburg or Nuremberg)

―Anonymous, August 2016

Weekday, end of august, 3pm. Average traffic, lots of cars full, found a car to Augsburg after 30min (wanted to go to Stuttgart and then France).

―Fred57, August 2014

Me and my girlfriend wanted to go to Stuttgart (A8) in a sunday afternoon, we had to wait for like 2 hours to get a lift to Augsburg. No shades, expensive water at the station... Not a good place to hike

―Bence16, August 2014

Waited about two hours until I found someone going to the A9 north. (Weekday evening)

―Kkmm, August 2014

I waited like two hours at the gas station to get a lift up the A9 northwards...well it was a holiday, no buisiness people :/

―Burmica, June 2014

We were 3 people trying a ride to the north, direction Prag, we asked a few people, than we got a ride direct to Prag! Is a big and really good gas station!

―Artgpereira, June 2013

Reached this gas station at 2 a clok in the night, so we slept a round in the petrolstation, really nice service there. in the morning 6am we ask fucking everybody for a lift to the north. but all truckers went into munich and other cars also for work. at 8am this changed and somebody tooks us to nrnberg but in the morning in the week this spot was shit! probably its diffrent on the day.

―Anonymous, January 2013