We're considering a stay in a hotel near the Hauptbahnoff. Can anyone give us information on the neighborhood? Is it safe? We've read conflicting information and would like an inside point of view. Thanks!

What city in Germany?

I never felt unsafe thee when we stayed at the Le Meridien Hotel right across from the train station in Munich. We walked around the station to restaurants and the department store Herties.

The Hauptbahnhof in Leipzig is a great place. Lots of shopping and dining options. The neighborhood to the northeast of it is not so great. I wouldn't walk up that way after dark.

That means, The Main station! We also stayed at the Le Meridien in Munich and Amsterdam as well! Did you take the red and yellow boxes of shower stuff home with you? We did LOL

I would be reluctant to stay around the Hauptbahnhof -- one of the less appealing parts of Frankfurt, IMO.

I'll make a leap and assume you are talking about Munich. The area around the main train station has several great budget hotels. La Meridian, Drei Lowen, Drei Lowen Residence, Germania, Deutsches Theatre, and a little further away (5-6 blocks) the Uhland. The area has several sex shops and strip joints and therefore an occasional seedy charachter in the evening hours. I don't think of it as unsafe but I would tell my daughter to go with a friend at night rather than alone, as I would in the downtown area of any city in the world.

The Hauptbahnhof area is a great jumping off point for the fussganger (pedestrian)zone that starts at Karlstor. All in all my wife and I always stay in that area at the Drei Lowen Residence or the Uhland and we feel like Munich is a very safe city. Enjoy your trip. Be sure to have a meal at the Augestiner down in the Fussganger zone. It's very Bavarian. Try the weisswurst.

Der Hauptbahnhof could be in Switzerland or Austria as well.
I like the one in Zürich.
Stuttgart is not a bad place either.
At least it is not in Vienna!
That city did not have one the last time I looked at a map.

Come to think of it, does Berlin have a Hbf? There is an East and a Zoo.

Vienna has W. Sudbahnhof, W. Westbahnhof and Wien Mitte but no Hbf that I know of...

Is that Der Sexshop or Die Sexshop? Das Sexshop?

Thanks for the replies. The input is appreciated =o) It sounds like any large city with train stations, always be aware of our surroundings and we should be fine.

Huh?

Hi Rufus T. (any relation to Ernest T.?)

My reliable Harper Collins German-English Unabridged Dictionary says it is der Sexshop.

The little m is clear enough.

The plural however is die Sexshops.
But die is the plural nominative form definite article for all German nouns.

Or it could be den Sexshop if the term is used as the direct object or used with a preposition indicating motion towards the establishment.

German two way prepositions escape my conscious memory at the moment, which, at the moment, is resisting any data searches.

I am still trying to figure out where der Hauptbahnhof is. The last I remember it was "dort gegenüber".
The last time I heard that, however, I was in Bremen, and I am sure there is more than one of those edifices in Germany, e.g. München has one I know.
So does Zürich, which isn't in Germany unless something has happened since last September.

Well, garbage in; garbage out.

Am I crazy or did the original poster return and still not clear up what city she was asking about?

I prefer the Hotel Eingang. It's on Einbahnstrasse around the corner from the Hauptbahnhof.

Presumably you are speaking of the Hauptbahnoff is in Munchen? That is what immediately came to my mind. In Munchen, the area is not that bad, I am sure there is a decent hotel within walking distance to the station that is clean and affordable. I have always stayed in Munchen or with friends outside the area near Fussen.

Patrick, you are not crazy. Yes she did and no she didn't!

Hopscotch
I love it!! Gute reise! CJ

OK! OK!!!! I admit it! When we recently stayed in LeMeridien across from the Munich Hauptbahnoff our room WAS a sexshop. I'm just glad the place is air conditioned.