Lower Saxony Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Car

Nearby autobahns run to Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin, with good connections to Bremen, Cologne, Amsterdam and Brussels. Major car rental firms are in the Hauptbahnhof, including Sixt (general reservation 01805-252 525, local 363 830) and Avis (general reservation 0180-555 77, local 322 610).

Train

Hanover is a major rail hub, with frequent ICE trains to/from Hamburg (€36, 1¼ hours), Munich (€101, five hours), Cologne (€56, three hours) and Berlin (€53, 1½ hours), among others.

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Air

Hanover Airport (HAJ;977 1223; www.hannover-airport.de) has many connections, including with low-cost carrier Air Berlin (01805-737 800; www.airberlin.com), British Airways (721 076) and Lufthansa (0180-380 3803).

The S-Bahn (S5) takes 16 minutes from the airport to the Hauptbahnhof (€3.20).

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