Hitchhiking from Eisenach
Hitchhiking to Eisenach
Recent reviews mentioning Eisenach
50.95179, 7.32005
The route here is quite complicated (we took a train and two buses, unsure which ticket to buy and then we had to go 35 minutes). There are a lot of trucks and a few cars. We only just arrived, and someone took us to Erfurt. We were traveling as two people. It's a good place to travel east.―Anonymous
51.00678, 10.18213
I got here around 12:30am and asked the staff if I could sleep on the bench in the McDonald's part and they nodded their heads. I covered my eyes with the cardboard and it was good enough, I started looking for a ride around 5am which may have been a little too late as many trucks already left around 4-4:30am but I was hitchhiking on Tuesday which menas a lot of truck drivers are in the area to unload or load their trucks and are returning West. After 2 hours of standing with a sign for Chemnitz/Dresden I finally got a ride with a Czech trucker who dropped me off not far from Chemnitz where I could find another ride. Should be much easier to find someone to Poland on Thurday or Friday.―Anonymous
50.26657, 7.2276
Do not rcommend getting stuck here late, dead gas station, very few cars passing by and many going north, and truck drivers just coming to sleep. I got super lucky waiting at the exit of this Rastplatz as a Polish truck driving on the highway saw my sign for Koblenz and decided to stop at the exit lane of Rastplatz. He was able to drop me off as far as Werratal Rastplatz near Eisenach―Anonymous
51.00694, 10.17845
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50.99334, 10.29436
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50.99334, 10.29436
Eisenach A4 direction east: Erfurt, Jena, LeipzigKasseler Straße, good spot
get there with bus 5 from the railwaystation in direction of karlskuppe
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51.00694, 10.17845
low traffic and no space to pull over - you'll have a bit of a wait here.―Anonymous
50.9927, 10.44126
If I'm not mistaken, this is the main service area between Erfurt and the A5. You can change directions here, and get towards Berlin/Saxonia/Poland or Frankfurt/Göttingen―Anonymous
50.9927, 10.44126
Wrong. Look for Eisenach-West instead.―Bernardo
51.00783, 10.25158
Gas station "Eisenach".Was tough to get a ride to the north but a lot of cars in the direction of Frankfurt.
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51.00783, 10.25158
i wanted to go from west to east on a monday afternoon in summer. even though the rasthof and fuel station is accessible from both directions of the A4 most of the cars stopping there went from east to west - it's on the "wrong" side. some car-owners, who seemed to go east, spoke only polish and russian. this place is out in the sticks and it depressed me basically because i waited there for 1:30 hours. depressing was the decay of the former hotel there, now a fitness centre, the lonely old prostitute waiting for a job, the weathered former sex-shop, the fucked up local guys sitting there all day long on their plastic chairs. never again!―Alice d25
51.00783, 10.25158
I wanted to go to Kassel, which was not easy. Finally I was taken to the next highway exit and did it without the highway. Guess southwest (to Frankfurt, etc.) is much easier.―Fidel42
51.00783, 10.25158
my parents live close to this place and I always use it to go anywhere. if you want to go east you have to go to the lower gas station. unlike the previous commenters, I think this is a good place to go east.―Fraughtwithsounds
51.00783, 10.25158
Both fuel stations are north of the highway. I think people going from west to east are less likely to stop here than people going from east to west. Since you don't really have a nearby alternative from west to east it's still okay though.―Kriechstrom
51.00783, 10.25158
Great spot. rainy day helped. nice multivan stoped for Frankfurt. many people stoped to ask, but they were going half the way, and we wanted a direct ride. So yes, finally got it easy. :)―Bohua
51.00783, 10.25158
I got a ride to Kassel (~15 minutes).―Dynamo
50.92123, 10.54844
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51.00007, 10.31889
Es war Sonntagmorgen um 9.00, dass ich einen Ride suchte, dafür bin ich mit 20-30 min sehr zufrieden!―Postfrosch
50.92249, 10.55241
ask people at mcdonalds. got a ride to Gießen from the first person I asked.―Fraughtwithsounds
50.98114, 10.34864
Impossible to get a ride to the west, so a nice local took as to the petrol station at the west end of Eisenach . There it was easier―Bohua