Dresden Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Dresden airport (881 3360; www.dresden-airport.de) has mostly domestic and holiday charter flights.

Dresden is 2¼ hours south of Berlin-Hauptbahnhof (€32). For Leipzig choose from hourly ICE trains (€26, one hour) or RE trains (€18.30, 1¾ hours). The S-Bahn runs half-hourly to Meissen (€4.80, 40 minutes). There are connections to Frankfurt (€76, 4¾ hours) and Prague (€26, 2½ hours).

Dresden is connected to Leipzig via the A14/A4, to Berlin via the A13/A113, and to the Czech Republic via the B170 south.

For ride shares contact Mitfahrzentrale (194 40; Dr-Friedrich-Wolf-Strasse 2).