Things that would be useful: a list of cheap accomodation...

It seems as if the same expensive hotels keep coming up when you search for accomodation in Kaiserslautern on the web.

What would be good would be a list frmo locals of accomodation you can%26#39;t find on the web, with prices and things to recommend them.

I am looking for an apartment for 4 people for 3 or 4 days in Kaiserslautern for example, any suggestions?

tom.

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There are often some other hotels and apartments on a city%26#39;s own website. That is true with K-town.

kaiserslautern.de/tourismus/…

I believe that a Ferienwohnungen is a vacation apartment.

Regards, Gary

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kaiserslautern.de/wm2006/…

And - I%26#39;m a bit lazy - what I answered to a similar question:

Kaiserslautern (aka K%26#39;town - the biggest US community outside of the US)

www.kaiserslautern.de/index.html?lang=en

If you cannot find something in Kaiserslautern (the smallest venue city with 100.000 inhabitants and not part of an conurbation).

Map of the VRN area

www.vrn.de/frames/karten_plaene/content.html

But something in Mannheim (the biggest city in the VRN with 325.000 inhabitants).

A single ticket Mannheim - Kaiserslautern is EUR 7,00.

Such a local public transport network are zone-to-zone tickets, not point-to-point tickets like normal train tickets. Thus from any train/tram/bus stop in Mannheim to any stop in Kaiserslautern. Latter is in this special case not necessary - it%26#39;s the stadium closest to a main railway station, just a short walk.

Covered with such a ticket are ALL types of local public transport

- regional trains: RegionalBahn RB and RegionalExpress RE

- S-Bahn trains

- U-Bahn (only in some bigger cities, like Nuremberg, Hamburg)

- trams (only in bigger cities)

- buses

and even sometimes ferries (e.g. in Hamburg)

More interesting are however the day/24-hours ticket offers. And the mini group tickets.

A 24-hours ticket for the whole VRN area is EUR 12,00.

A mini group (2-5 persons) 24-hours ticket for the whole VRN area is EUR 17,50.

These mini group tickets for up to 5 persons are available nearly everywhere.

More common than 24-hours tickets are (calendar) day tickets. Sometimes the mini group tickets have also the restriction that they are valid on weekdays only past 9am. Normally a day ticket is however valid not just till midnight but till 3am of the next day.

Must sees (there are many more nice spots) in the VRN area:

- Heidelberg

http://www.cvb-heidelberg.de/index_eng.html

…heidelberg.de/Altstadt-Information/english/…

As Heidelberg is esp. in the US very well known it%26#39;s mostlikely not the place where you%26#39;ll find the best hotel deals. Mannheim to Heidelberg is e.g. just 14-17 minutes by train.

- Speyer

www.speyer.de/de/tourist/sehenswert…