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Not pickup after 6 hours in Airport Berlin-Schönefeld

I wanted to go to Usti nad Labem (after Dresden). I was at the airport. I arrived there around 12pm. I waited, waited. I trusted this place because on hitchwiki it was written that it's the best place to go to Dresden. The only traffic sign was Dresden by highway and I had a big sign Dresden. I was confident to find a lift. I waited, waited, a lot of cars, nobody stopped. I tried without sign, then 2 cars stopped but they were not going in the right direction. After 6 hours I finally gave up and went back to Berlin where I was sleeping before.

On the evening I was so disappointed, I looked everywhere. I looked for liftsharing, for train. I finally chose liftsharing for Dresden and wanted to hitchhike the rest. I tried to call 4 persons: 2 didn't answer, 1 was full and the last didn't speak English... Then I didn't have a choice: Hitchhike again.

I looked on hitchwiki and saw the spot for go to Leipzig. I wanted to go to Dresden by Leipzig. But I noticed that there are two petrol stations, one for the west direction and another for the east direction.

Then I went on the petrol station on the east direction where of course most of the people go to Berlin, then I found somebody in 20 minutes to go to the next petrol station, then somebody to go a bit in the direction of Dresden quite quickly, then somebody for go to Dresden easily too. I think I will remove this place near the airport and tell to use this petrol station. It's much better. Any objection?


Rémi


The airport spot indeed is not very good, but you should be flexible as well when hitching. Taking a ride to the next on-ramp could probably help you more than neglecting rides and wait until 'the one' is going to Dresden. Other details, what weekday was it? But yes, Schoenefeld spot is not one of the best. Once I hitched there to get west to Hannover, took a ride east to Poland, switched sides at the first on-ramp (K-Wusterhausen) and then hitched on there along ramps to Michendorf.
Michendorf is probably the one you mention about cars going west and east. If you had a look on the map, you would see that there's a highway split just behind Michendorf going west (Hanover) and south (Leipzig, Munich). This service station _is_ perfect for hitching south, all the times I was there I got ride offers to at least Leipzig or Munich. Maybe it just wasn't your day? Also, the one in direction east is pretty okay, there should be some Polish dudes going to Poland, so you could have taken a ride there on to the next service station before the A10/A13 split. Though most cars go to Poland, rides direction Cottbus are pretty common. So it actually is possible, but as mentioned before, you probably just chosed a bad day for hitching. Good luck further on on your trips! --Platschi 10:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I would not delete the airport as an option. I would add that it does not always work there. Michendorf can be mentioned as a spot for Poland more clearly. --Kb 00:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

correction: way to Poland

i'v delated north poland out of the north/baltic title - i wanted to used this rout to get to szczecin (stetin)i lost 3h cuz u need to get the to the next highway to the right

Bus #263 from Grünau S-Bahn

I read on Ikea's website that this bus goes to the Ikea mentioned in the article; that is near the gas station [1]. So I took the bus, and as the map implies, I expected the bus would go all the way to the Ikea. However, the bus ended some 3km from the Ikea at the end of Berlin and at the end of a residential area. I think it did not go all the way because of the fact that when I did this it was a holiday. When I was approaching the mall, I saw a Metro and the petrol station in question on the other side of it. I do not know if it is possible to walk through the Metro because the entrance gates were closed. I ended up walking around and behind the mall which includes the Ikea, a Toys R Us, etc. Once there I walked over a bridge and towards the autobahn and I walked alongside the autobahn for 1km to reach the petrol station. I think if it is not a holiday there is a better way to get to this petrol station using bus #263.

(Elizabeth 11:20, 25 March 2008 (CET))

cleanup

While I was doing a sort of structural cleanup, I've seen some tips that seem outdated or a bit unclear (Tempelhof for instance), but I'm too tired to fix this now. --Kb 00:05, 27 September 2009 (UTC)