Off to Frankfurt on the ICE in First Class
From Berlin we had to get to Frankfurt for a couple of personal engagements. Most travelers like me know Frankfurt because of its major international airport and have probably never ventured to the city center. As a German, Andreas didn’t really think much of the city, so we didn’t have anything really planned for our overnight stay, except for an Egyptian exhibition (more on that later) that we had bought tickets to. We bought our ICE (Intercity Express) train tickets a few weeks before we had left for Germany on the Deutsche Bahn (DB) Web site. I learned from Andreas that if you purchased your tickets in advance, you can get significant discounts on the various DB-run trains. Our tickets were discounted about 50% because we bought them early.
I was surprised by how empty our car was!
Leg room on ICE train in first class
I absolutely love train travel, so I was excited to be taking the train to Frankfurt. First class on an ICE train gives you ample leg room space and aisle space because of the 1 seat, aisle, 2 seats configuration. Though I wished the seat reclined back more. In first class, there is a train attendent that passes through for food and drink orders. Also on select ICE trains, you can even pay for Wi-Fi service. The ICE train stops less frequently than the other train options, so our trip to Frankfurt felt extremely fast.
Refreshments
A train car behind first class was the cafe car, where we had a really nice dinner and refreshments. Our train ride to Frankfurt would be one of many train rides we would be taking on our German holidays.
All images taken with Instagram.
