Frankfurt Regional airport logistics to help Kimino out
[quote=angus magee]frankfurt hahn is a ways from frankfurt but not impossible. there is a bus going to frankfurt int. and the hbf. but once you pay that and factor in the time of travel it is not such a deal. i was supposed to fly in there one weekend last april but the volcano scuttled those plans. i do remember that the bus was around 12€ one way, maybe 15?[/quote]
frankfurt regional airport is 135 km from oase. it takes 1 hour and 20 minutes to drive that distance due to the road works and speed restrictions on the a61. you can get car hire out of frankfurt regional airport for 20€ per day. when i drive from fra to oase it takes about 18 minutes whether from terminal 1 or terminal 2. so yes, the time taken from fra or frankfurt regional airport would add on an extra hour's driving time. this is true.
driving from frankfurt regional airport to oase and back to frankfurt regional airport and staying locally in the f'dorf area for one night clocks up less than 200 km so you can do the sixti.com for 2 days car hire (40€) and do oase for 2 days or palace and oase and have a car to get you in and out of frankfurt regional airport as well. all you will be adding on is the extra 1 hour car drive at either end. you do make savings if you are happy to take a little more time flying in and out and of frankfurt regional airport.
now to cost though. kimino says he paid 15€ for a return flight from italy. i doubt you could get anything that cheap from air italia or lufthansa. i think the cheapest flight i ever got from lufthansa was 99€ which is a wee bit more than 15€ by a factor of 6.6.
the frankfurt regional airport bus to fra and the hbf is indeed 12€ one way so 24€ return or 18€ return if taking the return within 24 hour ticket. add that 24€ to 15€ for the flight and it is only 39€ to get to fra or the hbf. even then the 39€ is still 2.5 times less than the cheapest lufthansa flight at 99€. if you cannot make the flight then all you have lost is 15€ since you have not prepaid the bus tickets. if you cannot make the lufthansa flight then you have lost 99€ since those flights are generally not refundable or transferable.
frankfurt regional airport is real easy to get in and out of. you can be landed and off the plane, through immigration and onto that frankfurt regional airport bus within 5 minutes. you cannot do that in fra airport. you are still walking to immigration control after 5 minutes after landing.