Typical train station in Europe. Shops inside for food and drinks. Multiple tracks. Fairly clean…read morethough there are homeless people hanging around... again, typical Europe.

This is a good train station, but like any train station at night, just be aware of your…read moresurroundings. I had boarded a train at night heading towards the direction of Frankfurt and there was a vagrant spitting on people. Needless to say, I moved myself away from this area as others did.

One of Frankfurt's main train stations, this one is more of a "through" station than a terminus…read morelike the Hauptbahnhof but it still serves the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn. It is in the Sachsenhausen district that is south of the Main river. Easy pedestrian access and with plenty of road access, a block off the main Schweizer Straße that goes through all of Sachsenhausen. I found the station extremely easy to negotiate and exit, heading towards my restaurant for dinner.

I landed up here because we were wandering around South Frankfurt and I couldn't be all that…read morebothered walking back to the hotel, so I decided to come here. From looking at the transport map it seems as if this station is actually the terminus as opposed to the main station because it seems that a lot of the trains pass through the Frankfurt Bahnhof, go in a loop under the city, and end up here. The thing that stuck in my mind was the the queue at the McDonalds was horrendous. In fact it was so bad that we decided to jump on the train and get some dinner back at the main railway station.

Typical German train station. One exception- the men's bathroom, which charges one euro, would not…read moregive change. Rather frustrating! Use exact change if you use the WC!

The Mainz train station is pretty standard for Europe. We had to catch a very early train to the…read moreairport for our flight home and overall I'd say we had an average experience here. The ticketing was fairly frustrating, but we'd grown accustomed to that as the electronic ticketing system in Germany, despite there being an English option, is not at all easy to navigate unless you are familiar with it. By this time in our trip we knew what to expect and had built in some time to navigate it and had a vague idea of what we needed so it went fairly well, but with the same little computer hiccups we'd come to expect from the system. The overall train station was, in my opinion, a bit grimy, and well loved, but it had some little cafes that were open early which was a win, and some fairly clean restrooms, though you had to go all the way to the basement for them. Overall, not a lot to report here. It could be modernized, cleaned up a bit, and improved, but it gets the job done.

After visiting metro stations in France and England, going to the ones in Germany just don't seem…read moreto be the same. These German ones just seem to be rather function. Then again, you don't have to make your way through a labyrinth of tunnels to get to the platforms going the opposite way, since the platforms are just one big room. I guess that works well.