Air traffic Aeroflot, Transaero, Lufthansa, S7-Siberia, Air Berline, Germanwings operate daily direct flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg to almost all major cities in Germany: Berlin, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Koln, Munich, Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart, Hanover, etc. On direct flights, the flight takes 3 hours from Moscow. There are always offers from low-cost airlines in this direction; in order to buy a cheap ticket (from 100 euros in both directions), you need to monitor flights on the websites of low-cost airlines, for example, from Air Berlin. You can also fly to Germany from other cities of Russia - Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Tyumen, Novosibirsk. The cheapest tickets, apart from the offers of low-cost airlines, are offered by Russian airlines. The average round-trip ticket price is $ 250- $ 400. Sometimes foreign airlines also offer special discounts, such as Lufthansa. The cheapest tickets are to Berlin and Stuttgart. In addition, a number of airlines offer connecting flights to various European cities. At the peak of the ski season, charter flights to Bavaria are carried out. By train There are four direct trains from Russia to Germany. The Moscow-Berlin train runs three times a week (in the summer - six times a week). Travel time takes 27 hours. Moscow-Cologne runs daily from the Belorussky railway station and passes through Smolensk, Warsaw, Magdeburg, Hanover, Dortmund and Dusseldorf. Travel time is 35 hours. "Moscow-Frankfurt am Main" is also daily, it passes through Vyazma, Warsaw, Pozdnan, Berlin. Travel time - 31 hours. The Moscow-Brussels train travels through the western regions of Germany. Trailers run from Kaliningrad to Berlin every day, the journey takes 15 hours. If you are going to travel a lot in Germany, then the EuroDomino ticket will provide you with a substantial discount. This is a multi-use travel document that gives the right to travel on one of the railways belonging to the Euro Domino community. The number of trips is not limited within the card's monthly validity period. Another way to save money is to cross the Russian border not by an international train, but by a local or bus. By car and bus Various bus companies and travel agencies organize trips to Germany from many cities. In Moscow, most often landing is made at the building of the German consulate on Leninsky Prospekt. This is one of the cheapest ways to get to Germany, but also the most tiring and time-consuming. Travel time takes at least 1.5 days. If you get to Germany by your own transport, the distance from Moscow to Berlin will be 1,835 km, to Zurich - 2,638 km, to Brussels - 2,557 km, to Luxembourg - 2,533 km, to Amsterdam - 2,448 km, to Warsaw - 1,254 km, to Paris - 2533 km, to Vienna - 1919 km, to Prague - 1960 km. Water transport The ferry of the company "Silja Line" runs between St. Petersburg and Rostock every four days in summer. The journey takes 42 hours. You can also buy a Finnlines ferry ticket that runs twice a week from St. Petersburg to Germany. Travel time is 62 hours. Ferries offer travelers a fairly high level of service on the Baltic Sea, they are allowed to carry vehicles and pets. Domestic The largest international airports in the country are Frankfurt Airport and Berlin Tegel Airport. Frankfurt Airport is located 12 kilometers southwest of the city of Frankfurt am Main. You can get to it by train, bus or taxi. High-speed trains run from the airport to cities - Cologne, Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, Basel, Amsterdam, Hamburg. Tegel Airport is located 8 kilometers northwest of the center of Berlin. The Frankfurt-am-Main Airport has a sister city - Frankfurt-Haan, which is located 100 km west of it. From Haan Airport it is very convenient to travel by plane throughout Europe. Raynair can offer tickets for 15-30 euros to Oslo, Milan, Venice and Barcelona. It is also convenient to travel around German cities using domestic flights operated by many airlines, including Germanwings Air Berlin, Raynair, Lufthansa. The public transport system in Germany is recognized as one of the most efficient in the world, its distinctive features are punctuality, reliability and quality. The country has a surface metro (S-Bahn) and an underground metro (U-Bahn), long-distance and suburban trains, buses, trams. The subway in Germany starts working at four in the morning and closes at one in the morning. On weekends, the metro is open 24 hours in some major cities. Buses run regularly, taxis can be ordered everywhere, car rental is practiced in most cities. Evgenia Lisina HomesOverseas.ru HomesOverseas.ru would like to thank Keith Lehmann from L&B Immobiliya EuRus GmbH and Nadezhda Prinz from Prinz Dom for their help in preparing the material.
