We all know that cities like to welcome businesses. So when you welcome as many traders as Dusseldorf does you can rest assured the transport connections will be as sound as a pound.

The majority of people will drop in at Dusseldorf airport, Germany's third busiest and served by all the major carriers including BA, Lufthansa and Easyjet from the UK.

On arrival hop on a regional train straight to Dusseldorf Hauptbahnhof (main station). These run directly from the terminal - hop on an S7 and you'll be in the city in ten minutes. You can buy tickets from the machines on the platform.

No, it's not Big Ben: The Dusseldorf main station.

Taxis are your alternative and expect to pay 20 euros to be chaffeured to either the main station or the old town.

Dusseldorf Airport also has its own station on the main railway line (connected to the terminal by free sky train) and this links you in to the whole network, making the likes of Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Aachen and more just a short ride away.

Cologne-Bonn Airport is a second option. There are occasional ICE trains that directly connect the airport to Dusseldorf station on their way to further destinations. However, the chances are you will need a one stop strategy. Take a train from the airport, change at Koln Messe/ Deutz on to the main line and Dusseldorf is less than half an hour away. The journey takes under an hour and will set you back less than 20 euros for a one way fare.

You may also end up flying to the low-cost hub Weeze, or as Ryanair cunningly calls it Dusseldorf (Weeze), although the airports listed above are closer to Dusseldorf. Ryanair is the main carrier there, no surprise. It's a short distance to Weeze town train station which links to Dusseldorf, or you can catch a bus.

You can of course train it all the way from Blighty too.

The whole trip can take under six hours - two hours, Eurostar from London to Brussels, two hours Brussels to Cologne (a slightly speedier line from December 09), half hour on to Dusseldorf. Costs start at around 59 euros each way - check out the German train operator DB as it does offer one or two special tickets per day at a discount price.


When you're in Dusseldorf, it's entirely feasible that you can cover most of it on foot - it's not that big. However, if the 20 to 30 minute walk from the train station to the old town doesn't take your fancy, grab the efficient U-Bahn which will do the journey in all of three minutes - a short trip ticket costs 1.30 euros. The main stop for the old town, in easy reach of most places, is Heinrich Heine Platz.

The area is served by U-Bahn and trams. If you're going to football, your match ticket covers the ride there and back