How to reach Mainz
Airports
Frankfurt Airport (FRA)
The Frankfurt Airport is served by more than 1000 flights each day to and from nearly 300 destinations in over 100 countries. It is well connected to Mainz by the regular local train service.
To take a train to Mainz, follow the signs to the "Regionalbahnhof / local trains" at the airport to get to the regional train station. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket vending machines at the train station. Please note that they only accept coins or banknotes of up to 20€. The correct ticket is called "Einzelfahrkarte nach 6500" (which is Mainz/Wiesbaden) and costs 5.80€ per person.
The local train "S8" to "Mainz Hauptbahnhof" (Mainz Central Station) is the easiest option, which departs every 30 minutes during day time. Alternatively, you may take any regional train ("Regionalbahn/RB" or "Regionalexpress/RE") stopping at Mainz Hauptbahnhof.
Hahn Airport (HHN)
The Frankfurt Hahn Airport is served by the budget airlines Ryanair, Wizz Air, and SunExpress. There is a non-stop coach service to Mainz Central Station (bus stop "N") leaving from the airport coach station ("Busbahnhof"). You can find the valid schedule for the time of the conference here.
To get to the coach station, turn right when leaving the terminal and walk past the parking lot. The coach fare is 15.49€ payable to the driver.
Railways
The german railway network provides a very comfortable, cost-effective and environmentally conscious way to travel. There are two classes, the slightly more comfortable and significantly more expensive first class ("1./Erste Klasse") and the normal second class ("2./Zweite Klasse").
Tickets can be purchased online via the web services of the Deutsche Bahn. If the expected total for your railway tickets exceeds 100€, you may want to consider the purchase of a "Probe BahnCard 25" for 17.90€, granting you a 25% reduction to all second class railway tickets for three months.
How to reach Erbacher Hof (Grebenstraße 24-2, 55116 Mainz)
By public transport
Erbacher Hof is a 9 minute walk from the Mainz - Römisches Theater train station and a 17 minute walk from the Mainz – Hbf (main train station). Alternatively, you can take a bus.
- On the right in front of the main station, all buses leave from stop I to the bus stop Höfchen/Listmann. From here it is about 5 minutes on foot. You walk in the direction of the cathedral, in front of the cathedral across Liebfrauenplatz, on the right is a small street - Domstraße. It leads to Grebenstraße and directly to Erbacher Hof.
- From the Mainz - Römisches Theater train station, it is about a 9-minute walk in the direction of the cathedral. Exit in the direction of the city center on the left along Holzhofstraße. Cross the street at the traffic lights, straight ahead into Jakobsbergerstraße, half-left into Augustinerstraße (pedestrian zone). Continue straight on in the direction of the cathedral, turn right into Grebenstraße. The Erbacher Hof is located after approx. 150 m on the right side.
Walking from the main station (A) to Erbacher Hof (B)
Walking from Römisches Theater (A) to Erbacher Hof (B)
By car
- A60 exit Mainz-Laubenheim, drive approx. 5 km straight ahead towards the city center, turn left into Heugasse, after a few meters you have reached Grebenstraße and Erbacher Hof.
- A643 exit Mainz-Mombach, drive approx. 5 km straight ahead towards the city center, turn right into Heugasse, after a few meters you have reached Grebenstraße and Erbacher Hof.
Erbacher Hof does reserve parking spaces in their underground garage free of charge for people with walking disabilities who have a "G" ID card. Parking in the Erbacher Hof underground garage is limited (fees apply, no reservation possible), but there are other public parking garages in the immediate vicinity.
How to get to the Institute for Nuclear Physics from Erbacher Hof
By public transport
Walk about 10 minutes to Schillerplatz and take the 53 tram line with direction "Lerchenberg". Leave at the fifth stop, "Friedrich von Pfeiffer Weg". The Institute for Nuclear Physics is a few minutes' walk from there.
Walking from Erbacher Hof (A) to Schillerplatz (B)
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Walking from tram stop "Friedrich von Pfeiffer Weg" (A) to the Institute for Nuclear Physics (B)
