Pentecost always means a long weekend and even holidays in some federal states. At the start of the Pentecost holidays, travelers must have a lot of patience. Because it gets crowded on roads, rails and in the air.
At the beginning of the Pentecost holidays, travelers in the southwest must expect full streets, platforms and airports. The Ministry of the Interior expected lively travel and excursion traffic on the trunk roads from Friday to Monday, as a spokeswoman said on request.
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According to the ADAC, the biggest traffic jams threaten here at Pentecost
The most massive traffic disruptions are expected on Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and Whit Monday. The ADAC expects long traffic jams in the metropolitan areas of Hamburg, Berlin, Rhine-Ruhr, Rhine-Main, Rhine-Neckar, Stuttgart and Munich and on the trunk roads to the North and Baltic Sea coasts.
Full lanes especially on Friday and Monday
Also the Deutsche Bahn expected fuller trains. The main travel days are Friday and Whit Monday. A spokeswoman recommended traveling on these days only with a seat reservation on the ICE and IC trains and checking the departure dates before starting the journey. If an ICE is fully booked, IC connections could be a good alternative on some routes, as these are usually less busy.
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Those who fly on vacation over Pentecost should be there early enough
Stuttgart Airport expected around 500,000 passengers from Friday to the end of the holidays, which is more than last year, the spokeswoman said. This Friday in particular will be “very lively”. For a journey that is as relaxed as possible, passengers can already check in online, according to the spokeswoman. In addition, the following applies: the less hand luggage, the faster the check. The check-in counters should open from Friday until the end of the holidays from 3.30 a.m., half an hour earlier than usual.
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport is also expecting the first wave of travel from this Friday. The Head of Air Traffic, Eric Blechschmidt, advised travelers to be at the airport at least two and a half hours – better three hours – before departure and to plan a longer arrival time. In addition, the luggage and security regulations should be observed.