This ferry is a life saver. It saves me 30 minutes along with gas mileage every time I need to make…read morea trip to Wollstein. This ferry is always punctual and the guy who collects the money is super friendly. It cost 4.20 Euro for a one way trip from Oestrich Winkel to Ingelheim (and vice versa) for one passenger in an average sized car. Each additional person in the car you add on 1.30 euro. And they never charge me anything for bringing my dog! Tip: bring cash!!

From the owner: Die ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH ist der ebenso traditionsreiche wie zukunftsorientierte Betreiber…read moredes Öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs in Hessens Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden. Unsere Busse sind seit Jahrzehnten eine Selbstverständlichkeit im Wiesbadener Stadtbild. Das daraus resultierende Vertrauen in uns verbinden wir als fortschrittliches Verkehrsunternehmen mit vielen technologischen Innovationen: Unsere junge, rund 250 Fahrzeuge umfassende Busflotte ist insbesondere im Bereich der Abgasreduzierung und -filterung beispielgebend. Die ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH beschäftigt circa 1.000 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, etwa zwei Drittel davon arbeiten im Fahrdienst. Sie befördern in unserem 630 Kilometer langen Streckennetz auf insgesamt 41 Linien jedes Jahr über 55 Millionen Fahrgäste. Als Partner im Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) sind wir Teil eines der größten Verkehrsverbünde in Deutschland. Das Gebiet des RMV umfasst rund 14.000 Quadratkilometer in den südlichen und mittleren Landesteilen Hessens sowie in einigen angrenzenden Kommunen. Rund fünf Millionen Menschen leben in diesem einheitlichen Tarifraum.

This is a huge railway station. Huge and busy. They've got loads of shops and restaurants to cater…read moreto every need. It's pretty easy to figure out where you need to go and which platform to be on for a train in or out. I think there are 20-30 different platforms. We took a DB (Deutsche Bahn) to and from the Black Forest without any issue. The trains are clean, smooth, and FAST!

It was quite an amazing train station with two dozen railway ramps, so check and double check which…read moreplatform your train is coming on. Our ramp moved, but fortunately, we figured it out. There are lots of restaurants, amazing bakeries, and coffee shops to choose from and if you wait inside in the restaurant area, you must make a purchase. Unfortunately, the train schedule is quite different on Sunday and we ended up having to leave the bullet train and get on a smaller train at another platform, carrying luggage up and downstairs. Then we drove a while longer on the train and then had to change trains yet again. We are so grateful to the people who helped us finally get to our hotel!

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.