# points

country: IT
nickname: Lev-amatuni
datetime: 2014-02-24 20:31:43.000000
comment:
Me and my beautiful wife tried toward Bologna for 3 hours!! We are nice looking and friendly. That just awful. The only cars which stop - all went to Prato. 
Finally we changed our direction to Lucca and it became much more easy.  


country: FR
datetime: 2011-06-25 22:50:08.000000
comment:
Me and a friend with HUGE packs because we are bringing our instruments were worried about getting a ride due to the size. I speak very very little french so I was also worried. We took the RER to poissy, slept on near the cathedral outside, the police were very nice and didnt bother us, we woke up the next day grabbed some old bread for free and took the bus to auberge. At the bus stop you take your first right (if your walking in the direction you were coming from. Set up at the rest staition, my friend held a sign and I walked up to people and asked if they were going west on 13, the second person I asked said sure thing. He was heading towards Rouen but he dropped us off at a nice rest area where he even found a ride for us because our french was poor. Really good spot to hitch from.


country: FR
nickname: Mikan
datetime: 2014-02-24 18:31:06.000000
comment:
not so easy to find someone going to le mans. after 30min i got in a car that was going almost to rennes, which was ok since i wanted to go to nantes.


country: IT
nickname: Sam iam
datetime: 2011-10-04 02:57:16.000000
comment:
Last time I was there it didn't have much traffic, but it still looked like a good place for hitch-hiking (for the empty spaces specially).


country: BE
datetime: 2011-05-16 09:33:48.000000
comment:
Very good spot - you are very visible an plenty of room for cars to stop. Got a ride within 10 minutes towards Eindhoven/Nijmegen.


country: BE
nickname: Thejourneyramino
datetime: 2014-08-24 20:42:15.000000
comment:
We were HH very late so it was harder to get a ride. We tried without a sign but locals advices us to use the sign and we got a ride! Two guys heading to Maastricht.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-04-09 14:08:33.000000
comment:
To get there you need to ask people around, it's a bit mess with a roads liding there. It is a big parking+cafe, so you can talk to people or stay on the exit with a sign. We traveled to Paris, so we asked tracks-drtivers and finally found one. Most of the people who stopped drive not far than Aachen. It's a pity.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-08-07 01:20:14.000000
comment:
The location is not too much effort to get to. The 3rd person I asked took me to Gent, Belgium. There were a moderate flow of cars and some being of many different nationalities.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-04-28 18:38:16.000000
comment:
April 2013: was trying to get to Belgium. Third driver I asked took me to the Raststätte Aachener Land Nord, where a lot of Belgian drivers stop.


country: DE
nickname: Amauryfraise
datetime: 2013-05-08 22:16:02.000000
comment:
Found a lift direction aachen in 5 min, not much traffic but still okay, on a wensday afternoon may 2013


country: DE
nickname: PaoloCaracol
datetime: 2013-08-27 11:35:29.000000
comment:
I HH from Koln to Brussels, to Louvain-la-Neuve and to Namur several times ! all of them on Friday or Sunday. I just love HH in that place! The best is to ask directly.


country: DE
nickname: Maxim1110
datetime: 2014-11-25 20:24:23.000000
comment:
Hitchhiked several times to get to The Netherlands from here. Usually rides less than an hour to get a ride (mostly to southern Limburg (Maastricht/Heerlen), but sometimes also towards Venlo).


country: DE
nickname: Maxim1110
datetime: 2015-03-04 20:23:17.000000
comment:
Great place on weekdays, and still good on a Sunday: caught a ride for two here to Liege on a Sunday morning in October. Also: the view is pretty good. :)


country: DE
datetime: 2015-06-15 11:33:00.000000
comment:
Super good to take the S-bahn to Koningsdorf and then walk to this Gasstation done it like 10 times now, never more then 15 minutes wait


country: FR
nickname: Cikuuzis
datetime: 2011-10-04 22:14:38.000000
comment:
I was going to Lyon and as soon as i left the truck that took me there from Germany i arranged another one to Lyon. I think is better to look for trucks cause when i was there (Monaday 09:00 AM) there were very few cars. 


country: FR
nickname: Ocapito
datetime: 2013-10-05 14:57:40.000000
comment:
Got a really long ride from here to Valence plus I had another offer till around Dijon so seems a good place to get further west and even south direction Lyon.


country: FR
nickname: Fraughtwithsounds
datetime: 2015-05-08 14:49:57.000000
comment:
if you are on foot and want to enter the service area look for a relatively low wall with some pallets in front of it. You can easily climb it and there is a pallet on the other side as well to get down. 


country: FR
datetime: 2016-03-08 17:03:59.000000
comment:
A small petrol station with little traffic, can be very windy (in march). There are toilets inside and another gas station going to the other direction which is good. Got a ride to Lyon in about an hour but many people ignored us before the ride


country: BE
datetime: 2011-10-05 09:31:42.000000
comment:
Ramp in direction east is open (October 2011). First car stopped, right on the ramp to the highway. A Lot of space to stop for cars and they go slow.


country: BE
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-30 00:34:09.000000
comment:
There´s a nice hard shoulder there, but a very very annoying advertising panel right in front of it obstructing the view. (10.2014)


country: BE
datetime: 2017-04-09 19:21:22.000000
comment:
If you are going to Gent/Oostende, avoid this place, there is no place for cars to stop, speed 80/100. Absolutely not recommended. Instead you could just walk to the petrol station 3 kms away, that is simply AMAZING for hh. or you take even a bus to zellik for getting closer to the petrol station. If you are going to Antwerp, Maastrich this place could be good


country: NL
nickname: Paul Smits
datetime: 2011-05-23 13:00:42.000000
comment:
Got stuck here for a while. It's really deserted. But I had the luck of stopping a German truck driver who took us to Magdenburg!


country: ES
nickname: Danielo
datetime: 2011-02-14 09:37:36.000000
comment:
Watch for the privet security, they are asked to chaise away hitchhikers. They asked me to do it with a banner a bit further, and not to talk to the drivers as I normally do.


country: ES
nickname: Jackortega
datetime: 2011-12-01 18:11:41.000000
comment:
Just asking people worked for us and got us a lift in 20 minutes to Zaragoza. It works to be extra polite, clean and well-dressed.


country: ES
nickname: Phidias81
datetime: 2012-07-11 00:44:33.000000
comment:
It's a good place, we took a ride in 20 minutes froma taxi driver without even asking, but it' a little bit expensive, 2,95€ for the train that is leaving you about 2-3 km walking from the gas station + 2€ for the single bus ticket if youb are too far from the train station


country: ES
nickname: Astala27
datetime: 2012-07-26 13:58:43.000000
comment:
Go to the exit and stand with a sign walk to the cars to slow them down ;) We got a ride to Madrid who was a little bit fast 200 km/h with brand new Mercedez. BTW there are really good peaches on the way to this gas station.


country: ES
datetime: 2012-10-29 23:18:52.000000
comment:
very good location! 
the gas stayion is threee kilometers south (the direction the train came from).
thanks!


country: ES
nickname: StrawHatCob
datetime: 2012-11-20 10:35:50.000000
comment:
Good spot, lot of trucks going to a few places. I was lucky enough to find one who took me the entire way to Valencia.


country: ES
datetime: 2013-01-18 11:23:38.000000
comment:
if i catched in direction to valencia I would have a drive in 15 minutes... but to Zaragoza I've waited over than six hours in over then 40 degrees.... shit place, drivers have to pay for autopista and there is similar way nearby- autovia in the same direction for free... finally i walked several kilometeres across orchard, desert :D under highway and reached a2 sliproad, after  minutes i was in the way to Zaragoza


country: ES
datetime: 2013-09-16 21:10:39.000000
comment:
Perfect place to hitch to Valencia (10 minutes). 
Bad place to hitch to Lleida or Zaragoza - almost no one goes in that direction.


country: ES
nickname: Foerno
datetime: 2013-11-03 16:41:47.000000
comment:
2 hours to get a ride in the direction of zaragoza. this is on a road with tolls, so many peope skip it,


country: ES
datetime: 2014-03-06 19:10:52.000000
comment:
Update: it is R4 and I was told by people there if I wanted to go to Valencia I had to go to the eastern side of the highway aswell, which I did and got a ride to tarragona after 30 min. 


country: ES
datetime: 2014-03-09 13:40:07.000000
comment:
When I got there, only a few trucks and cars were using the gas station.

But after 30min somebody took me in the direction of Zaragoza.

Sign + Thumb Up at the exit of the gas station worked for me.

Also very well accessible from the train station.


country: ES
datetime: 2014-07-29 20:16:29.000000
comment:
For those who found "description" a bit confusing...: when getting out of the station, walk towards the left-handside, just oposite the direction we came by train... The dirt track is on the right handside.


country: ES
nickname: Besnik19
datetime: 2014-09-17 13:02:40.000000
comment:
We thumbed here with a friend of mine (1 girl+1guy) and noone stopped for us. To be honest, apart from the trucks there wasn't even such a big traffic. After 2 hours of waiting in vain we decided to take A-2 instead. Maybe asking people around could have worked out better.


country: ES
nickname: Blaitc
datetime: 2014-11-23 22:40:24.000000
comment:
Probably a good place to catch rides to the south (Tarragona, Valencia and further) but not to the west (Lleida, Zaragoza, Madrid...). Cars in that direction take A2, wich is free.


country: ES
nickname: Teark
datetime: 2014-12-22 13:19:50.000000
comment:
Good place to get a ride. Took me less than 10 min (asking to truck drivers) to get a ride to Madrid.


country: ES
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2015-02-11 23:51:01.000000
comment:
Fuimos 2 (chico / chica).
La primera persona a quien hemos preguntado nos cogen hasta una aera de servicio cerca de Tarragona (alli fue mas dificil para conseguir hasta Valencia).


country: ES
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2015-02-11 23:51:56.000000
comment:
We were 2 (boy and girl).
The first person who we asked offer to pick up us until a gas station near Tarragona (there was mor difficult to continue to Valencia).


country: ES
nickname: Myachina
datetime: 2015-07-07 13:36:33.000000
comment:
it was a good place, got a lift to Madrid at 10 pm after a loong day of hitchhiking.
But it was VERY DIFFICULT to find a way to it from the train station. In the end an inhabitant picked us up and helped us find the service area. we were really desperate. Good luck!


country: ES
datetime: 2015-08-18 23:09:21.000000
comment:
ticket from barcelona center (3 zones) - 3,40 €
not a good place to go towards zaragoza/lleida, we found 4 other people trying to hitchhike this direction at the station for more than two hours (most of the cars go to valencia), so we moved to A2 where it was easier.


country: ES
datetime: 2019-08-06 16:56:12.000000
comment:
Really good spot. It is easy to get to the spot and it’s quite cheap (the train cost 2,2€). It is really easy to get ride to Valencia. The majority of the cars passing were (at least during the summer) from France or Germany, so quite easy. We got ride in 5 minutes. 


country: PL
nickname: Bodzioslaw
datetime: 2011-10-13 12:43:31.000000
comment:
13 Oct 2011: the bus is no longer free. 2 zlotys now. And leaves from "Okęcie" or "P+R al. Krakowska" bus stop.
Then you have to walk a little bit from Janki to the nearest bus stop (good place for cars to stop).
However, the place is good, really, specially in summer. One holiday we got a direct Warsaw-Cracow lift after... 30 minutes?


country: PL
nickname: Zimmer hans
datetime: 2013-05-02 12:30:19.000000
comment:
We were lifted there from P+R al. Krakowska by a friendly guy (thanks you once more). From here we found another lift quite fast, after 15 min. Prepare card with written direction.


country: NL
nickname: LucasJV
datetime: 2015-03-12 14:35:38.000000
comment:
Average for rides to Roosendaal/Bergen op Zoom, not much traffic, got lucky after about 30-40 minutes.


country: NL
datetime: 2015-06-25 13:26:58.000000
comment:
Ok place. Lady of the service station offered me a piece of cardboard, without asking. Asked some young swiss guys but they were full, did offer to take just my girlfriend though...  

Waited about an hour at 7:30am on a monday (because of the amount of local traffic) but a friendly belgium guy took us to the big service station just over the border. 


country: BE
nickname: Haho15
datetime: 2013-05-05 22:19:24.000000
comment:
Good enough indeed - I got a ride to end of Belgium (Kortrijk) but a few French cars were full, so for Lille this is a valid spot, as well.


country: PL
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2011-12-14 19:54:28.000000
comment:
Had some bad luck earlier on, but a ride from here within 5min. Try to get a truck, there's almost no difference in speed on these roads and they might ask for a ride using their radio!


country: PL
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2012-12-28 22:27:43.000000
comment:
Yet nice for local / region hitchhiking, and who says there are no drivers to Poznan / Frankfurt/Oder - there should be, some avoid motorway to avoid toll. Anyway, nice way for countryside hitchhiking now! :)


country: LT
nickname: Stasas
datetime: 2014-06-20 23:33:19.000000
comment:
You can easily find a truck driver going to Poland direction. Or just to Marijampole, Where is bigger gas station.


country: LT
nickname: Niklavs
datetime: 2014-07-29 13:13:04.000000
comment:
From my experience the best way here is to stand on the road some 100m before the gas station with a PL sign


country: LT
nickname: Ivan Đogić
datetime: 2015-10-03 12:15:47.000000
comment:
Good spot, I was on my way to the gas station but a car stopped before I got there. Having a sign Poland was very helpful. 


country: LV
datetime: 2011-11-14 22:51:01.000000
comment:
Sometimes it's better to hitchhike without sign here and go to Brocēni. There you can hichike with a sign, because there are more drivers coming out of Saldus.

I suggest you to stand after road cmin out of Neste. A lot of drivers stop there and after a meal they are more possibility they will lift you.


country: LV
nickname: Sipmester
datetime: 2012-10-15 18:30:36.000000
comment:
it was very painful hh-inh here. there were many cars but nobody stoped. finally i got a ride because the driver had seen me 70 min before and i was still there.


country: LV
nickname: Cikuuzis
datetime: 2011-10-04 22:56:07.000000
comment:
The name of the spot is misleading - this place has nothing to with Salaspils. It is a roundabout 2km form town called Ķekava.

Well usually it is a very good spot, i don`t know why on 24.08.2011 it took me 4h to get out of there. Before that it was never longer than 10-15 minutes. 

You can get there from Riga by taking minibus Riga-Ķekava and the stop is on the opposite side of the main Riga train station building - you will see a lot of yellow minibuses, just go and look for the bus NR-6844. Here is a schedule (they are very frequent):

http://www.rtp.lv/index.php?lng=lv&part=34&us=&part2=45

When you will get out in Ķekava, you will have to go 2km along the A7 until you will see roundabout, then take the exit towards Kaunas and start your trip to different parts of Europe.. 


country: LV
nickname: Mateo
datetime: 2012-09-14 12:39:42.000000
comment:
Two people using a Lit flag got picked by a truck for 60KM towards Bauska. We stood after the trrafic circule, where there is some place for cars to stop and waited for about 20 minutes.


country: LV
nickname: Lopoloip
datetime: 2013-06-28 15:38:45.000000
comment:
It took me about 1 hour to wait, yeah cars are going waaaaayyy to fast, but luckily I go a lift to Riga


country: LV
datetime: 2011-01-03 12:04:41.000000
comment:
Definitely best place if you are going to Talsi, Ventspils, Kuldiga, Tukums, Kandava. Take a train to Priedaine (15. min. from Riga) and then take a walk through pine wood (on the other side of station walk takes some 10 min.) 


country: LV
datetime: 2011-01-03 12:09:20.000000
comment:
Take buses 4 or 32 to this spot. They leaving from center 13. janvāra iela (13th January street). HH next to the highway near the bus stop.


country: LV
datetime: 2014-05-28 22:22:20.000000
comment:
took a bus from Riga to get here, it comes from the north before the junction. couldnt even get here, i got picked up even earlier as walking from the bus stop to this place on the connecting road from northeast direction


country: LT
datetime: 2013-01-30 10:38:38.000000
comment:
From August 2012 – My driver was heading to Vilnius and I was heading to Kaunas/Poland, so he was kind enough to drop me off here, after the split. There was a bus stop with space for cars, but trucks are going too fast to stop for you. This is the Via Baltica of course, the one main road connection Tallinn to Warsaw, so if you find a spot with space for cars to stop, you should eventually find your ride


country: LV
nickname: Dustythumb
datetime: 2013-05-06 23:35:03.000000
comment:
Cars drive by quite fast, but the hard shoulder is nice and wide and visibility excellent. Got a ride in no time from here to Klaipeda.


country: LV
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-30 17:18:42.000000
comment:
Someone working for the Valmiera municipality dropped me there. There is an intercity bus stop direction Valka. There wasn't so much traffic so taking the bus could be a last solution. It's like 2 € but it is very slow (more than 1 hour for less than 50 km) and you are dropped at some kilometers from Valga in Estonia.


country: LV
nickname: Wattouatt
datetime: 2015-10-31 20:37:48.000000
comment:
This place is a very good spot if you want to go to Tartu, I just rose my thumb and a car stopped to take us.


country: DE
nickname: Wolak
datetime: 2012-06-01 13:38:54.000000
comment:
Most of the cars here are going towards Berlin. There's also great deal of locals. We wanted to get out of the city towards Rostock, and after 2,5h guy driving to Hamburg took us about 90km away.


country: DE
nickname: Exchange
datetime: 2013-03-28 13:11:55.000000
comment:
Many cars with Hamburg plates and others heading there. Within 15 minutes I could have hitched a ride there. Unfortunately a lot fewer were heading for Rostock but after about 1 hour and 10 minutes I managed to fetch a ride there.


country: DE
nickname: Fetergent
datetime: 2014-06-20 16:32:21.000000
comment:
It's a bit tricky and takes some time to get there if your starting point is Berlin. But it's the best spot ever, the thrid car I asked took me to Rostock.


country: DE
nickname: Witowitold
datetime: 2014-06-30 14:24:43.000000
comment:
Good place. Please don't make the same mistake that I did reaching this place from S-Bahn station. When you go along the highway stay on the side of the fence that is closer to highway. Don't count that later there will be another whole.


country: DE
nickname: Onioncat
datetime: 2014-07-05 19:40:54.000000
comment:
5 min waiting and got a lift to Hamburg from a Norwegian car. Cool, but same mistake with the green fence, had to jump over it and wounded palms deeply. 
Girl, solo.


country: DE
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2014-08-06 21:44:57.000000
comment:
I just checked it last week and the fence is ,,trodden,, now, so everybody can easily walk through over it... But be careful in the woods alone!:]


country: DE
nickname: Housetier84
datetime: 2014-08-09 13:47:59.000000
comment:
Nice Spot a little walk do not have to mutch stuff on your side. 10 min waiting and a nice car direktly in the City of Hamburg


country: DE
nickname: LeoCarona
datetime: 2016-06-21 17:31:22.000000
comment:
Most of the cars going to Hamburg. I planned to go through Rostock on my way to Denmark, but this guy who looked really helpful offered me a ride to Kiel, so I changed my mind. On the way I have seen some other gas stations before the roads going to Kiel and Rostock split. So maybe you can accept a ride to Hamburg or Kiel at this gas station here, and you just ask for the driver to drop you off at one of the next gas stations where you still might find people going to Rostock, if that's what you want.


country: LV
nickname: PavietranySzar
datetime: 2014-02-09 14:40:55.000000
comment:
It's a good place, but there may be not so much traffic. So everything depends on how lucky you are.


country: EE
nickname: Noe noe
datetime: 2013-08-10 23:59:14.000000
comment:
I should be a good one, but it was Sunday afternoon and there weren´t many cars. Anyway it is the right spot to Tartu.


country: EE
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-30 17:28:18.000000
comment:
After walking hours from Valka, passing next to a military exercise on the border, I ended up casualy on that spot and it worked directly !  


country: HU
datetime: 2011-06-16 22:59:20.000000
comment:
I like this place, because from here the suburb of budapest ends, so cars going direct to gyor or wiena


country: PL
nickname: Uncle sam01
datetime: 2017-01-02 23:40:04.000000
comment:
I waited about 1km down the road from here (towards Warsaw) - can't add it due to hitchwiki maps being stupid. Anyway, that spot was absolutely horrendous, this one is slightly better as there's a McDonald's and shops.


country: PL
datetime: 2011-07-24 11:37:45.000000
comment:
Very nice spot, but I wanted to be smarter, and get bit longer ride. After 10 minutes two guys wanted to give me a lift to Myślenice, but I refused. I was standing there with Rabka plate for 2 hours, and finally went to Myślenice anyway. So it's nice spot, but don't try to go further than Myślenice. There you can get next ride quite easily.


country: PL
nickname: Looking for Stu
datetime: 2012-12-02 17:16:53.000000
comment:
Mixed feelings about this stop. I waited a long time with my Rabka sign, but just as I was about to give up a hero took me all the way to the Slovak border. He wasn't even going there. I guess 90% of hitching is luck. :)


country: PL
nickname: Awesome hiking
datetime: 2013-05-04 15:07:46.000000
comment:
it's not a good spot, we're waiting there for almost 2 hours, besides we had company, two other hitch-hikers were waiting there too so maybe it was the reason why we spent so much time there


country: PL
nickname: Erathiel
datetime: 2013-05-13 00:15:20.000000
comment:
This is actually quite a good and popular spot, I have used it several times and never waited longer than 20-30 minutes, sometimes even caught rides in no time at all.

There are quite a few drivers to Myślenice, but if get one remember to get off BEFORE the town as there are no good spots neither there or for the next 10+ km so you'll have to go back anyway ;)


country: PL
nickname: Vesta
datetime: 2016-04-20 00:15:49.000000
comment:
We´ve been waiting there around one hour and the we get a ride only to Myslenice. Continue to Rabka from Myslenice is really difficult, but there is a bus stop before exit to a motorway, where you can try it.


country: PL
datetime: 2011-07-24 12:06:54.000000
comment:
For some reason nobody wanted to give me a lift to Slovakia. Maybe because there was low truck traffic on this day. Finally got a short ride to Spytkowice.


country: PL
datetime: 2013-05-02 19:57:18.000000
comment:
just one cigarettes and until 5 minutes i have with (girl)friend direct to slovakia ( behind Tvrdosin) abort78


country: PL
nickname: Lorcs
datetime: 2015-05-21 12:28:10.000000
comment:
a lot of local traffic, but still a good spot to slovakia as all the drivers go quite slow after the junction


country: PL
nickname: RazorSK
datetime: 2015-12-08 16:36:34.000000
comment:
2 guys, 6.12.2015, Sunday morning

Very low traffic in direction to Slovakia, there were a lots of cars going to Zakopane direction. We got ride in hour with sign “SK”.


country: CZ
datetime: 2012-08-27 08:12:23.000000
comment:
I got here a lift by help of the truckdriver who took me to this point from Slovakia. He asked on radio for me a lift to Krakow and I got it in 1 minute


country: CZ
nickname: Hiiamfrompoland
datetime: 2013-07-22 12:30:05.000000
comment:
In the afternoon a lot of people working near the border are heading home. We met a women going to Frydek after work. 


country: CZ
datetime: 2011-01-15 22:40:34.000000
comment:
Now there is no problems here wih police etc., very good place for cars to comfortaby stop. I'ts about a one hour walk from city centre. Good to hitchhike to Slovakia and Hungary


country: CZ
datetime: 2011-10-17 10:24:32.000000
comment:
this a good place for goig in brno or wien but for slovakia there is not a lot af car.
N.B. goob place for hitch during night there a lot of light peaple see you very easy


country: CZ
nickname: Onmyown
datetime: 2013-05-02 17:33:17.000000
comment:
An excellent place to go to Brno and further to Austria. However, it is best to try asking truck drivers on the parking lot. Took me and my friend about 10 minutes, and we were not the only hitchhikers!


country: LV
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2015-08-16 16:00:37.000000
comment:
I was heading to RIGA, after 1 hour of waiting time 2 French girls picked me up with their home made caravan! A bit embarrassing place, but good one! :)


country: GB
nickname: Tarea32
datetime: 2013-10-12 00:58:52.000000
comment:
Great spot, got a ride north easily with a sign saying M40 where I could easily keep hitching all the way to Glasgow


country: LV
nickname: Ostkreuz
datetime: 2011-07-19 00:04:23.000000
comment:
It's not the best place, but there is a lot of traffic and room to stop.

Take a bus (1, 19, 28) to the open air museum, stop 'Brivdabas Muzejs'.

Tried first with sign 'Tallinn', didn't work. The much closer 'Saulkrasti' got us a ride in minutes.


country: SK
datetime: 2011-09-19 21:37:22.000000
comment:
Maybe good in the morning, but the few cars stopping here during the day are just locals. No way to the Czech Republic...


country: SK
datetime: 2012-05-12 22:20:06.000000
comment:
A very good option. Lots of trucks and cars. I was here with my friend. We waited here for like 45 min (only becouse we were afriad of asking people becouse it was our first time hichhiking) and got  a ride directly to Prague!! 


country: SK
nickname: Amines
datetime: 2012-07-20 13:25:42.000000
comment:
once again I was here, this time alone at 6:00 in the morning it took me 2 minutes to find a ride to Malmo, Sweden :)


country: SK
nickname: Ans
datetime: 2012-07-24 23:16:30.000000
comment:
Don't mix up with the gas station at Tesco/McDonalds (I nearly did). But then I got the truck straight ahead from here (Lamac).


country: SK
datetime: 2012-08-14 18:57:46.000000
comment:
Stayed there from 6am to 9 am, asked every driver, tried it with sign, didnt get a ride gave up and took the bus to Prague


country: SK
nickname: Amines
datetime: 2012-08-16 23:48:05.000000
comment:
Another time been here. this time it was no great. took me 45min  maybe to get a ride to gas station at kuty. it was 6am. When I returned here I saw 2 hitchhikers hitchhiking here and another 3 on the other side.


country: SK
nickname: Suman Mircea
datetime: 2013-05-08 17:23:48.000000
comment:
Very good place, tried it 2 times, once got a ride to Prague (December 2012 and it was dark outside) and once to Brno (March 2013). Both times I stayed AFTER the gas station (~15m from it) practically on the highway but still on the lane that comes out from the gas station so no cars were coming on it with speed. Both times I've been picked up by cars that weren't coming from the gas station. It's technically illegal but might be faster, use at own risk !


country: SK
nickname: Alcanlo
datetime: 2013-12-19 20:18:07.000000
comment:
I was there in the afternoon and there wasnt many cars stopping in the gas station. I tried standing by the road (in the white area) but the police kick me out from there heh (anyway its difficult cause cars go too fast). After that a truck driver offered me a ride to Brno. Waited for 50 mins


country: SK
nickname: Vulla
datetime: 2014-08-04 18:00:07.000000
comment:
No cars really! nothing just 2 cars every 10 minutes!and so i and another random Hitchhiker decided to hitchhike on the highway there is enough space for cars to stop safety!! we found a directly ride to Praga in 10 minutes!


country: SK
nickname: Keramadohal
datetime: 2016-09-09 13:18:20.000000
comment:
Great place to hitchhike north to Brno/Prague/etc ... Came here, asked people and the second Czech car took me directly to Brno. So it was like 2 min and I was on the road :-D ... Gosh, people, just smile, use your mouth and be polite!


country: CH
datetime: 2012-08-22 14:56:11.000000
comment:
Not sure if I was here or at the French/Swiss Border Control but cars going to France have to slow down at these booths and there is a tiny parking just afterwards - great spot. Many people go to Mulhouse etc.


country: CH
datetime: 2016-07-13 22:12:28.000000
comment:
Spoke really good french to the border guards and they were happy to let us hitch. Got a lift to Luxembourg after about 15min but lots of offers elsewhere :)


country: FR
datetime: 2013-07-17 21:32:15.000000
comment:
In the afternoon I got out of a car and before I could walk to the right side of the roundabout another car stopped and brought me to Thann my destination


country: FR
datetime: 2013-04-03 23:14:43.000000
comment:
maybe it is in the morning better, but in general, the little curve and the small exit (before the motorway starts) where cars could pick you up, is not really considered as a spot but rather deter the drivers from stopping here. I stood after the traffic lights, so maybe 200 metres before the beginning of the motoway, but I gave up after 90 minuts (6pm) because nobody heading to metz was willing to drive me at least to the next service station.


country: FR
nickname: Reggae-girl
datetime: 2014-11-17 17:53:15.000000
comment:
It is a good spot for going to Metz. Usually I waited about 30 to 45 minutes, which isn't great, but in the end somebody stopped.  


country: FR
nickname: RomanSmoll
datetime: 2015-08-18 10:59:57.000000
comment:
tuesday morning.rain,1.5 hours..not the best expierience.But i don't know how to place the new point so i just have to recommend you to go after the last crossroad before the highway starts. there were 2 other HH girls hitching and we all got a ride from the spot i mentioned instead of this bus stop


country: FR
nickname: Reggae-girl
datetime: 2016-06-01 13:35:46.000000
comment:
Very good spot for going to Metz. 

If you stand before the bus stop cars can pull over and stop there or in the very small lane just before the bus stop. 

I used this spot more than 20 times and always waited about 30 minutes. 


country: FR
nickname: Reggae-girl
datetime: 2016-06-01 13:40:54.000000
comment:
The next Service Station to the North is in about 20 Kilometers right before Pont-a-Mousson (so in case the driver goes to Pont-a-Mousson he could drop you at this station). 

There it is very easy to find cars to Metz/ Netherlands/ Luxenburg. some cars also go to the North of Germany but it is very difficult to find cars in the direction Saarbrücken.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-02-23 01:51:50.000000
comment:
If you want to go to the north you better walk then try to hitchhike. It is a nice place to get in touch with the Brandenburg Mafia, but not a single average car-driver will stop at this station


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-22 20:34:18.000000
comment:
Most cars were continuing on A1 and I wanted to get on A43 to Oberhausen at least on my way to Eindhoven. 


country: DE
datetime: 2011-09-22 16:37:44.000000
comment:
you can get there easily by bus and foot. take a bus to "roxel" and then you will get there in less than 10 minutes 


country: DE
datetime: 2013-03-25 14:41:14.000000
comment:
Good place to go to the south. Try to find a car wich go in direction Siegen (A1-A45) to pass Dortmund. 


country: DE
nickname: Paczix
datetime: 2013-10-12 21:54:22.000000
comment:
Good place to go to the south. 
We were here at 6 pm, asking drivers to go to Netherlands, but we didn't manage and finally we caught a guy to go to Recklinghausen.


country: DE
nickname: Maxim1110
datetime: 2014-11-25 20:20:43.000000
comment:
Waited for about 1,5 hours here on a  Sunday morning going to Cologne. A lot of local traffic, but eventually someone took me to Remscheid (40 km from Cologne).


country: DE
datetime: 2015-05-11 01:17:44.000000
comment:
After 1 hour of waiting another guy and me got a ride to Kassel. Quite a good one. Loads of cars going south! 


country: DE
datetime: 2020-05-17 21:15:00.000000
comment:
Extremely good spot if you want to get to Cologne but very difficult if you want to continue towards A45 and Frankfurt.


country: ES
nickname: Ludmil
datetime: 2016-11-18 14:32:51.000000
comment:
It is really good spot with a lot of space and it's no far from the city but the most of the car are going to the villages on the way to Granada. But it is not a highway so you can accept shorter rides and than hitchike another car. For me it worked very well and I arrived to Granada after few hours,


country: FR
nickname: Yasintoda
datetime: 2014-09-19 13:30:32.000000
comment:
excellent spot for lyon or valence. Just after the tramway line, there is a lot of space for the people to stop.


country: FR
nickname: Amede74
datetime: 2015-05-06 18:23:08.000000
comment:
Very nice place to get a ride to Valence (SOuth) or Lyon-Paris (North). As mentioned by Yasintoda, broad a sign right after the tramway line. 
Get out the tramway E after crossing the river or ask people Porte de France


country: FR
datetime: 2019-08-26 19:18:46.000000
comment:
Best spot to leave the city in direction Paris and Marseille (North and south) 

Caught a car in 30min in a rainy day without a panel, we were two persons boy and girl. ask the first car who will stop for you to drop you in the gas station if you want to go south.


country: NL
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2012-01-28 22:42:48.000000
comment:
Must be one of the best spots ever, I always find a ride here within 5min. Especially at the end of the day around 15.00-16.00 you will find lots of guys in the car alone driving back in the direction of Utrecht/Amsterdam and willing to take you.


country: NL
datetime: 2017-08-08 21:15:36.000000
comment:
Got a ride really fast to Apeldoorn. Also got free cardboard from the hotel next to the road when I asked for it!


country: DE
nickname: Bernardo
datetime: 2011-11-04 17:37:07.000000
comment:
Instead of a bus you can also take the local train to Reiskirchen from Gießen and walk back to the motorway in ~15 min. 


country: AT
nickname: Vivianerose
datetime: 2012-08-31 13:19:23.000000
comment:
Good place, used it for to go to Maribor and later to Zagreb. Once you get on the A9... Had to wait 45 min, but was a holiday, and about 30 min. Had a sign for the first, but a sign with A9 on it is better I think


country: AT
nickname: SOADdict
datetime: 2014-05-11 07:20:28.000000
comment:
 This spot here isnt accurately placed, since there are no roads where it is located. The correct one is the one at the bus stop, which I thought it is a good spot to go to Vienna, but it took me 1h40m to leave the spot on a sunday 6p.m.. The "after traffic lights" discussion is outdated, because it is not possible to wait there properly and to increase chances, I suppose.


country: CZ
nickname: Riddergraniet
datetime: 2012-01-06 01:01:44.000000
comment:
If you go to the bus stop on Bucherova just before the ramp to the highway, you have an excellent, safe way to ask for a ride. Cars can stop at the bus stop and then quickly merge into traffic and the ramp to the highway again.


country: CZ
nickname: GrandMarnier
datetime: 2013-02-27 09:30:40.000000
comment:
Cars drive fast and appear very quickly right from the curve but there is a line where they can stop for you and the traffic is very high. Good chance to stop car quickly to Plzeň, Germany.


country: CZ
nickname: Kundrt
datetime: 2014-02-22 22:10:31.000000
comment:
Hitchhiked dozens of times here, mostly got cars to Pilsen, sometimes to Germany or further, sometimes shorter.

Hitchhiking time varies from none (several times someone has just seen me walking and waited down there for me) to 2-3 hours. Normally 15-20 minutes.

Police don't care about you there, only once they stopped and after quick evaluation of safety they let me there.


country: CZ
datetime: 2016-08-14 14:31:48.000000
comment:
This place is not forbidden (it's not a highway). We (2 guys) hitchhiked with another unknown pair (1 guy and 1 girl), they waited 20 minutes and in another 20 minutes, we were also succesful (both with "PLZ" sign, but we got to CZ-DE borders).


country: DE
datetime: 2011-07-08 17:23:32.000000
comment:
I'm a local, the tag is wrong; Köschinger Forst is further up north between Hepberg and Stammham; however a really good spot!


country: DE
nickname: Mochilero
datetime: 2014-10-17 17:22:07.000000
comment:
Unfortunately I had not that much luck with catching a ride. It took me approx. 1,5h to catch a ride in the direction of Munich. There are a lot of people going towards the south, but didn't take me with them as they were mostly in business suits and told me they were not allowed. So I was pretty lucky to catch a ride in a truck.


country: DE
nickname: SuperFreaky
datetime: 2012-09-11 09:34:29.000000
comment:
It is hard to find the place, because you need to walk through a living area because on the direct street is no sidewalk. It works, but it is hard to disdinguish which car goes/comes from the motorway, and which comes from the town. 


country: DE
nickname: Santa klaus
datetime: 2012-08-31 18:09:32.000000
comment:
Hard to ride north of HH. Very few traffic. Maybe its better to find somebody who goes beyond Hamburg on the stop before?


country: DE
nickname: Andreasgamlau
datetime: 2013-08-19 12:18:31.000000
comment:
Many going to Hamburg early in the morning, but found car after 1 hour at 8 in the morning. Also a fine place to put up a tent in the night.


country: DE
nickname: Andreasgamlau
datetime: 2013-08-19 12:20:12.000000
comment:
and it is possible to get there and get away with a bus if necessary, or you can easily get there by foot.


country: DE
nickname: RobertoCarlos
datetime: 2012-10-02 09:35:40.000000
comment:
Instant pick-up to Kiel. There is a Burger King at the station and many people seem to stop there before entering Kiel.


country: DE
datetime: 2019-08-15 15:35:22.000000
comment:
After 1,5h got a lift to Kolding (DK) 
few traffic towards Denmark, mostly cars going to Kiel, but its possible to get to Denmark from here.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-02-23 13:05:18.000000
comment:
Vierwenden gas station avoid during summer months,full cars and only station in region,local rides mostly.


country: LT
datetime: 2010-08-18 03:01:35.000000
comment:
It's pretty confusing to reach this place by public transport but I think it's better than IX fort. You have to get to Garleva and then walk a bit direction  of Mariampole till you till you reach E67. Here you have petrol station, enough place even for a truck to stop and staight way to PL. Just make a sign  PL. It will be easier. I tried this place and it worked perfect in any time of a day. 


country: LT
nickname: Batlicka
datetime: 2016-07-16 00:08:36.000000
comment:
It seemed me very good, but now is part of this road in rekonstruction so car in direction to PL have to digress to left stripe, so the wide and long stripe is unused


country: LT
nickname: Phfantoom
datetime: 2013-02-15 08:50:27.000000
comment:
Its the only one place to HH from Kaunas to Alytus and its very good. And if you are going to Poland you should consider this way because its easier to catch a car when traveling not alone. Trucks goes through Mariampolė and cars goes through Alytus. And when you pass through Alytus its way better road to Poland. Its my opinion of course, but im lithuanian and use only this road to Poland


country: LT
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2015-01-07 23:19:54.000000
comment:
Decembre 2014, j'ai attendu ici 5 minutes avec ma copine. Nous avions un carton UKMERGE et avons été amené jusqu'à ANYKCSIAI.


country: LT
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2015-01-07 23:20:51.000000
comment:
December 2014. 5 minutes waiting with my girlfriend.

We had a UKMERGE sign and a ride pick-up us to ANYKCSIAI.


country: LT
datetime: 2013-04-25 18:41:00.000000
comment:
I don't know why, but in this place everyone is very friendly... Try shaking your hand to the truck driver, he will definetelly pull his horn fot the sound of 9000 :D 


country: LT
nickname: Tomasmarc
datetime: 2014-07-21 14:22:22.000000
comment:
This is where drivers expect to see the hitch-hikers that are going to Vilnius, one of the most popular places in Lithuania. No better option than this one for Vilnius or Minsk.


country: LT
datetime: 2021-09-04 20:44:14.000000
comment:
Indeed the perfect spot! Hitchhiked here around 3:30 pm on a Friday, got a ride to Vilnius under 10 mins.
Car coming up isn’t at high speed so it’s relatively easy for them to pull by


country: LT
datetime: 2014-05-28 22:30:29.000000
comment:
altough you miss the traffic coming from north and from Klaipeda in this bus stop (only cars from the south come through here) it is still a quite good place towards Kaunas/Vilnius


country: CH
datetime: 2015-02-23 14:25:45.000000
comment:
The place is not bad, of course better than "Weil am Rhein". So if you want to go in northern direction (Germany) better choose this place. We waited about half an hour, then we got a lift to Karlsruhe.


country: CH
nickname: Nazgadron
datetime: 2015-10-18 16:10:10.000000
comment:
Half hour before we got a ride to Karlsuhe. You can cross the highway via the bridge. On the southside there is a gate that was open to get off if needed, so no need to jump a fence :)


country: CH
nickname: Yarex
datetime: 2016-06-20 14:24:42.000000
comment:
Many German cars and ofcourse locals. This time had to wait a bit longer than usual but after that direct lift to Freiburg.


country: CH
datetime: 2014-10-23 21:08:51.000000
comment:
wated more then 4 hours, to find a ride to sankt gallen directon germany, but we where 2 people and over lunch time a lot of people just go there to eat  between 11-3


country: CH
nickname: Hydra supertramp
datetime: 2013-10-03 12:59:02.000000
comment:
Still construction works as of October 2013: only one side is open, BUT traffic in both ways, works just fine!


country: CH
nickname: Hydra supertramp
datetime: 2013-10-03 13:00:05.000000
comment:
I got a car straight to Zürich after about 30min asking around (not at the gas station, but at the picknick area).


country: CH
datetime: 2015-04-23 12:22:07.000000
comment:
Got a car for two direction Zurich after only 10 min of asking in front of the new shop.
Both directions have now reopended by the way


country: CH
nickname: N67
datetime: 2012-05-03 21:45:06.000000
comment:
I think not a little room for cars... especially, if you move a bit below, there the lane getting wider.


country: CH
nickname: Sonia pl
datetime: 2012-09-07 13:59:44.000000
comment:
There is no very big traffic on a gas station, but you can easily find a car going south (dir. Montreux). I think the spot is good.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-02-01 15:52:01.000000
comment:
We began our trip here as we live in Freiburg.  We found a ride to Basel within 45 minutes.  Too easy.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-12 20:09:40.000000
comment:
very good place, we also began our first hitchhiking-trip there and found a ride straight to milano after 45 minutes!


country: DE
datetime: 2014-03-08 00:57:03.000000
comment:
got there on Tuesday meeting two hitch-hikers. they told us they've ended up there waiting 24hrs for a lift to France.


country: DE
nickname: Fossilhitchhiker
datetime: 2014-08-23 19:39:35.000000
comment:
arrived here at 2 o'clock in the night and put up my tent in the village just outside the Rastsstatte here, did some cheap shopping in the village and started the next morning but stood here with a couple of other hitchies some 3-4 h, but having fun
got a ride tot Besançon, France with a teacher on the French School at Frankfurt


country: DE
datetime: 2015-11-09 18:33:23.000000
comment:
I (27 years old, male) got a ride towards Zurich on the 6th of August at 10 pm after 1 hour. Most of cars going to Switzerland. Few towards France. Looots of hitchhikers :)


country: DE
nickname: Julia L.
datetime: 2016-03-21 19:33:44.000000
comment:
ALSO works towards France if not so well as going South... I mostly had to wait around an hour to get a ride over to France.


country: DE
nickname: Michaeln
datetime: 2016-04-04 11:21:52.000000
comment:
On a friday evening (20:00) this gas station was almost abandoned. When we finally got a ride it brought us to our final destination Basel (CH)


country: DE
datetime: 2016-08-14 22:18:21.000000
comment:
We (2 guys) just asked (no hitchhiking with a sign) and first car (not truck - they ignored us) was success. He took us to French borders.


country: DE
datetime: 2017-05-03 14:35:25.000000
comment:
On a normal workday morning, most traffic drove to Switzerland. Had to take a lorry to get to into France


country: DE
datetime: 2014-03-10 00:22:33.000000
comment:
in case someone else ends up here, don't walk to rieselfeld, walk to paduaallee, it's shorter and better to walk. just follow the road crossing the river.


country: LT
nickname: Maruf89
datetime: 2016-08-07 12:26:32.000000
comment:
Tricky to get here as you have to walk up a hill but once you do there are many cars going towards Kaunas. I got lucky and a Polish truck driver took me to Poland!


country: LT
nickname: Mikael
datetime: 2010-08-11 23:30:01.000000
comment:
From here you can walk to the next HH spot furthermore on the road, where it's no busses going anyway.


country: LT
nickname: Jwil
datetime: 2013-06-30 23:19:28.000000
comment:
All the cars passing here are going to Vilnius or Moletai. Nevertheless, I had to wait 25 min to get a lift. It rained and my desesperate look made a car stop!


country: LT
nickname: Lutu
datetime: 2015-09-14 23:20:50.000000
comment:
I don't know what happened, but it took me 2 hours of desperate waiting to catch  a car, it was most terrible experiences in my life. In case of thousand of cars nobody took me 2 h


country: LT
datetime: 2017-11-15 22:01:45.000000
comment:
54 or.maybe 56 meters south there is a crossroad and you can take another way, 25 cars passed.while 26th took me an 7 mins later i was in Valciunai


country: LT
nickname: Rytis9
datetime: 2015-06-09 15:47:35.000000
comment:
I've hitched here several times. 1h+ waiting time is not unusual here. Not a great spot but someone stops eventually. In my experience, it's usually the cars that are entering the highway on the acceleration lane stop . There aren't many of them, though.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-04-25 15:15:40.000000
comment:
good he highwayspot to hitch out of town on the A5 in both directions!
wait in the middle of the road while cars are turning left onto the highway. stood there for 20 minutes while it was raining. easy!! 


country: DE
nickname: Achi
datetime: 2013-09-01 14:43:14.000000
comment:
I was standing on the pedestrian walk next to the on-ramp with a sign. Didn't even wait for more then 5-10 min 'till the first car stopped and took me onto the A5 


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2014-04-23 22:27:12.000000
comment:
Don't really like the spot, people can't stop anywhere and it seems there's mostly local traffic. We changed for a spot directly along the Dreisam road.


country: LT
nickname: Oscypek
datetime: 2012-07-03 18:07:54.000000
comment:
Waited an hour to a ride to Klaipeda. Too fast cars, but there is no alternative, because one gas station is on other side of the motorway and other is on local road.


country: NO
nickname: Keramadohal
datetime: 2013-03-27 20:40:11.000000
comment:
First I waited at the exit from the gas station / McD and that wasn't the best idea because nobody stops you when they are already leaving ... Then I sat in front of the gas station with my sign next to me and after a while some guy picked me up :-) I guess the 1,5 hour waiting time was just because my inexperience and because I'm a boy :-D


country: NO
datetime: 2017-03-29 15:48:47.000000
comment:
Got a ride ~200km north after waiting in front of the gas station for a little over an hour. I turned down two  earlier rides going less than 40km as I had a longer route in mind. I was a female traveling alone with my snowboard and I wasn't asking around because this was my first time hitch hiking so I was a little shy. So overall i would say this spot is decent but it is Norway so longer waiting times are normal.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-01-12 11:52:24.000000
comment:
don't like this spot but still the best option for going south. Gas Station owner usually forbids hitchhikers to ask around at the gas station but u can stand next to the road using a sign


country: BE
datetime: 2011-12-25 09:54:58.000000
comment:
Got a ride here from Bruges, and from here it was only a 5 minute wait to get a ride all the way to Brussels city center.


country: DE
nickname: Kriechstrom
datetime: 2011-12-30 00:48:50.000000
comment:
I agree, the cars from the opposite direction can hardly stop if the haven't been waiting at the traffic lights. However the spot is okay.


country: DE
nickname: Kriechstrom
datetime: 2012-01-04 12:34:35.000000
comment:
How to get here: take Bus 94 until "Zschonergrundstraße" or local railway to "Dresden Kemnitz" (not to confuse with the town Chemnitz 100 km away)


country: DE
nickname: Guidoz
datetime: 2012-01-07 00:38:51.000000
comment:
easily got a lift to Chemnitz (65km away) even if it was winter, raining and still darkish as it was early morning. Should work fine.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-06-02 17:46:01.000000
comment:
Perfect to go west. You will get fast a ride to Chemnitz. There is a big gas station called "Auerswalder Blick". You can keep going there.


country: DE
nickname: Hartigan
datetime: 2012-10-10 12:44:28.000000
comment:
I was waiting bit more then half an hour on Thrusday and got a jump with the direction to Leipzig ... 


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2012-10-25 16:57:22.000000
comment:
Waited more than 1hr, but then had a ride of ~150km :) Didn't use a sign, maybe would be better to use it on this spot.


country: DE
nickname: Longhaul
datetime: 2013-03-08 23:51:16.000000
comment:
This is good spot; just after the crosslights, near the bridge, at the entrance in the highway there is place for the cars on the outer lane to stop. I got a ride from here in 15 minutes :)


country: DE
datetime: 2014-03-04 15:49:40.000000
comment:
Waited here for an average 5 or 10 minutes, getting a direct lift to Chemnitz is easy. You may need to stop at "Auerswalder Blick" near Chemnitz for a lift to Leipzig or Zwickau / Plauen. Havent tried direction Berlin or Prague


country: DE
datetime: 2014-09-08 12:19:10.000000
comment:
just ask people to get to the petrolstation "dresdner Tor", which is just 5 mins from there. there you can ask people to go to leipzig chemnitz or erfurt


country: DE
nickname: Yooks
datetime: 2015-05-07 01:10:56.000000
comment:
Not the best spot ever. The sharp turn from both sides makes it hard for drivers to notice you and stop in time.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-07-11 16:54:20.000000
comment:
As most people not the best stop because of the sharp turn which makes it hard for drivers to notice and stop in time.... but still a good to average place... I got a lift to straight leipzig within 20-30 minutes on a thursday around 5:30 in the morning


country: DE
nickname: Micho
datetime: 2015-08-15 22:46:19.000000
comment:
Tracks can't stop here (too less space) and at the morning  (6 am) there are only locals (DD). Probably it is easier to catch a car to Leipzig that to Chemnitz.


country: DE
nickname: Platschi
datetime: 2011-02-08 14:14:09.000000
comment:
Best is to stand on the island in the middle, people normally don't hesitate to stop on the road as traffic is low anyway.


country: NL
nickname: Platschi
datetime: 2011-02-08 14:17:42.000000
comment:
They killed the bridge, now all traffic to Hengelo passes the roundabout, just behind it is a bus stop (at University entrance), might be super-easy now to get to Hengelo.


country: GB
nickname: Colinc
datetime: 2013-11-05 03:35:50.000000
comment:
Frankley  Southbound  can be  quite  bad  , often  up to  2 hours , and   there is  often  only 30 cars   an hour ...  No   car  driver  would   stop here as it is  a sh*** hole


country: BE
nickname: Old Man Cam
datetime: 2012-09-08 23:25:31.000000
comment:
lots of traffic. as mentioned above, make sure you are clean shaven and generally look like someone people might consider taking across international borders.


country: BE
nickname: Aki
datetime: 2012-10-14 23:50:10.000000
comment:
I arrived here a bit at a bad time I think, took me 45min to get a ride towards the UK.
Was here on a Tuesday 3PM or so, no holidays or anything. Spotted about 5 cars with UK-numberplate in my 45min waiting time.


country: BE
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-30 00:43:24.000000
comment:
We put a Hitchwiki sticker in this place! (on a traffic sign by the exit) We got offered a ride going straight to Newport, Wales, our destination! Camped there. (September 2014)


country: DE
datetime: 2015-07-06 15:08:41.000000
comment:
I stayed in one of the parking places for cars near the sidewalk but it must have a place for a car to park for you. I stayed on this street Schwarzwaldstraße 20, right before the turn near the bridge. Got a ride in 5 min to Villinden Schwenningen


country: PL
datetime: 2011-05-08 12:50:20.000000
comment:
very easy to arrive. i tried to hh on a bus stop and it was hard. cars are going way too fast, but if you are good asking drivers in the red light, go for it. but i guess that this is one of the best places where to hh


country: PL
datetime: 2014-02-16 18:43:40.000000
comment:
Easy to arrive, a bus stop on which even big cars can stop (although not the lorries, probably), good visibility and the traffic lights just before the spot. I was going to Suwałki, somebody stoped and took me to 1/3 of the route. I've waited only 10min.


country: PL
nickname: Hattivat
datetime: 2014-09-13 14:17:32.000000
comment:
Much better than the spots further to the south, but still not optimal. Took slightly over an hour to get a ride to Bialystok.


country: PL
datetime: 2015-03-29 03:17:20.000000
comment:
Got a ride towards Bialystok/Lithuania within 15 minutes - pretty good spot, even with a nice bench to chill out when you are more people.


country: PL
nickname: Mvanvoorden
datetime: 2014-06-05 07:33:31.000000
comment:
Spent here 4 hours, lot's of traffic but no one wants to stop. May be it's because it was after 16.00 that I got there. Better walk on 4km and try along the S8.


country: PL
datetime: 2011-04-23 00:16:27.000000
comment:
A great place! First, it's easy to get to: just take any bus going to "Psie Pole" (from the centre: D, N, 128, 131, 141, there's also more from other parts of the city) and walk 100 metres past Lidl. You can also simply take a train to Wrocław-Psie Pole.
Second, there's always plenty of cars and enough space for them to stop. I hitched there many times, and never waited for a ride longer than 30 minutes. If something doesn't work, you can always take a bus or train.


country: PL
nickname: Razdwatrzy
datetime: 2011-04-24 14:14:53.000000
comment:
It's definately the best place to catch something directly to Warsaw or Łódź - especially in the mornings you don't have to wait more than 10-20 minutes here. 


country: PL
nickname: Spokojna Woda
datetime: 2014-07-23 00:07:01.000000
comment:
Personally I claim that this place is strange. Sometimes I managed to catch a car within 10, 15 or 25 minutes. But it also occured that after 2 hours of senseless hitchhiking I surrendered and left the place. Since most traffic is going through A8 now there are less cars using this way. People often gave me a lift only to Oleśnica.


country: PL
nickname: Dadzios
datetime: 2016-04-17 18:13:49.000000
comment:
The better way is to take a bus 908 to Łosice, because only few cars go to the Warsaw or Lodz this way.
There you have a parking place.


country: LT
nickname: Iogun
datetime: 2014-01-15 19:42:09.000000
comment:
Raised the thumb near the "customs" or "police" building, and in 20min nice Polish driver stopped and took me 50km before Warsaw.


country: NL
nickname: OCCASVS
datetime: 2011-05-31 17:03:17.000000
comment:
Waited there for a bit less than one hour in the morning. Got a ride to the gas station before Utrecht with an "A2 svp" sign. This is the last spot in Amsterdam, then you have the highway with cars passing very fast,


country: NL
nickname: FlorisBrand
datetime: 2013-05-04 21:06:46.000000
comment:
We were picked up within a minute on a holliday thursday morning 7am (Hemelvaartsdag)! (crazy luck of course) Ride to Emmeloord with a sign "Amersfoort/Groningen"


country: NL
nickname: Aleksu
datetime: 2013-05-27 15:38:43.000000
comment:
I found it a good strategy to actively ask drivers if they could drive me only 5 minutes own the highway to the Shell Station Harijn. This reduced the waiting time to less than 10 minutes every time.  


country: NL
datetime: 2013-07-29 13:41:49.000000
comment:
With a sign "A2" it took 15 min in the late afternoon to get lift to Haajrinn Station(10min by car to get to that great spot). I recommend to stay few meters before lights with a sign, there's enough place for cars to stop.


country: NL
datetime: 2013-12-18 16:05:37.000000
comment:
Magic : tried this place 3 times, and every time the first car took me, twice it was further than Utrecht! 


country: NL
datetime: 2019-09-29 11:12:22.000000
comment:
buena opción para salir de amsterdann en dirección a belgica, dure 2 minutos para que me llevaran a la estación de servicio antes de llegar a Utrech, solo tengan un cartel que diga a donde van.  


country: ES
nickname: Poebbels
datetime: 2012-02-08 21:05:23.000000
comment:
Good spot, easy to find a ride to Donaostia and France. PErfect to reach: From the bus terminal take a bus to Leteiko and get off at "Boroa". Jsut walk some 50 meters on, cross the national road over the bridge and in roundabout turn left to climb down over the broken fence.


country: ES
nickname: Mochilero
datetime: 2013-09-09 18:53:03.000000
comment:
I'd say if you are lucky you could catch a ride very quickly in the direction of Donostia. There are a lot of cars going to France or to Germany. I was waiting for 30-40min and then took a ride directly to Donostia.


country: ES
datetime: 2014-03-09 14:04:52.000000
comment:
I was not very lucky with this place.
Make sure you know the timetable of the bus ( I had to wait 1.5h for the next bus going there) and you are at the BUS TERMINAL (not the Central Station)...

Once you made it to the gas station (well accessible from bus station BOROA)  you should be able to catch a ride to San Sebastian.

I planned to get to Bordeaux but only made it to San Sebastian from where I hadto take the train...


country: ES
nickname: Kanimamboo
datetime: 2014-09-27 11:15:56.000000
comment:
It¨s still working. Getting out of Bilbao its very good to get to that station near Amorebieta. I waited 10 Minutes the last time.


country: ES
datetime: 2015-08-18 23:22:11.000000
comment:
busline A3514 or 3515, ticket for 1,85€
easy to get ride towards donostia even though there is not that much traffic.


country: ES
nickname: Astala27
datetime: 2012-07-27 10:20:21.000000
comment:
We came there from San Sebastien, and entered from tolls just 2-3 km ahead and we had a problem with one of the workers he insisted on not to let us and police was there but they didn't care and we went to the other side of the road slept (there is service road very clean and safe for camping) there at night and in the morning 5 am we pass the tolls from side of supermarkets and got a ride in 15 mins (crayz gay surfers who were going to catch the waves of France, best ride ever). You can you use the service road to the gas station but at night lots of dogs on that road (we tried may be 20 dogs on that 2 km road and cows, bulls wow! man it was crayz.)


country: FR
datetime: 2011-06-20 10:31:59.000000
comment:
Last year in the summer i tried to get a ride from here but after asking for 4 hours i went asking on the high way... at least 5 other hikers couldn't find a ride either.


country: FR
nickname: Kvardek du
datetime: 2015-10-21 23:39:00.000000
comment:
Not so easy to find someone going on the hishway but always successful in <1h (asking in french). In 2015 easy to reach from the bicycle bridge.


country: FR
nickname: Dylg
datetime: 2014-11-19 19:16:59.000000
comment:
Few cars on this motorway. Petrol stations are very quiet. I was hitching to Nantes, most cars going to La Rochelle. Finally i got a direct car, but i waited 45mn.


country: FR
nickname: Skavens
datetime: 2012-08-22 16:13:49.000000
comment:
I intended to go to Le Mans, and I was stuck there for almost 3 hours ! It was a saturday of August, so summer holydays, and few cars stopped there -mostly people going to Angers's center or doing some shopping around there- because it's a little oil service station and there is no place to stop to eat. I finally got a lift to the western side of Angers, near the petrol station.
I think (though I did not experience yet) that it's a better deal when, coming from Nantes, to jop out at the precedent oil station. 
Otherwise, you can take a lift to Angers' center and then try to reach the western oil station by bus.


country: DE
nickname: Hydra supertramp
datetime: 2012-08-17 13:49:20.000000
comment:
Easy to get North. We took a train from Freiburg to Schallstadt (without paying), then walked over the villages and past the cornfields - lovely in summer, maybe nasty in winter. Anyway, it was fun: took us one car to Heidelberg.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-07-06 15:04:50.000000
comment:
easy to go north, a bit difficult to go east, but I found a place to stay in Freiburg at the end of the city just befor the tunnel to keep going east


country: DE
nickname: Adamiksen
datetime: 2014-05-12 19:04:25.000000
comment:
A tiny Shell station, but quite a lot of cars. Got a ride in 5 min to Heidelberg ona  sunday afternoon!


country: DE
nickname: Maxim1110
datetime: 2014-11-25 20:22:31.000000
comment:
Reasonably good towards Cologne on a Sunday, but probably great for that direction on weekdays. I waited for little over half an hour for someone to take me to Cologne Deutz.


country: DE
nickname: Djianfrev
datetime: 2011-07-30 19:53:47.000000
comment:
To Dresden, it's safer to stay on the "southern" part of the crossroad: There are less cars, but drivers have time to see you and can stop easily.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-07-17 18:35:36.000000
comment:
no real possibility for cars to stop, you have to ask the driver at the stoplight. quite uncomfortable, but it worked somehow.


country: DE
nickname: Efim x
datetime: 2012-07-20 20:00:05.000000
comment:
a very bad place. there is nowhere to stop the car, do not recommend this place. better find something else.a very bad place. there is nowhere to stop the car, do not recommend this place. better find something else.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-08-30 23:36:55.000000
comment:
I come from Berlin and regularly drive with my car by this place in order to go to the autobahn. I sometimes see hitchhikers but, although I would be willing to give a lift, it is almost impossible to stop there. 


country: DE
nickname: Vivianerose
datetime: 2012-08-31 13:30:55.000000
comment:
Was difficult place. But guy stopped after red light later and took me to first gasstation on the way.


country: CZ
datetime: 2013-07-29 16:36:25.000000
comment:
Maybe not busy but the spot seems also not to be bad. Caught a lift to the next gas station after 20 min. The problem is not catching a car but that they rather won't take you far.


country: CZ
nickname: BulgarianJesus
datetime: 2013-09-18 14:24:49.000000
comment:
There are not many cars coming so don't waste your time standing with a sign. Ask everyone that comes if they go north or just until a bigger gas station. over all, this is not a bad place


country: EE
nickname: Soundhiker
datetime: 2013-10-17 17:55:25.000000
comment:
There a traffic light but i tried to write Tallinn, Gas station, or even Parnu and Marjamaa but nothing! It's better to walk and find a gas station in order to ask people directly!


country: FR
datetime: 2013-05-03 13:45:12.000000
comment:
My friend and I waited here for about 15 seconds. We walked to the point and turned around with our sign; the first person pulled over.


country: FR
nickname: Fred57
datetime: 2011-10-23 20:27:29.000000
comment:
Easy to reach with the tram, good spot to get a ride north or south, just ask the people at the gasstation.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-11-13 23:24:19.000000
comment:
Cool to be dropped off the highway/going north and south. Fred57 forget to tell you that there are very rarely controls in the tram, don't pay the ticket.


country: FR
nickname: Fernand
datetime: 2012-10-09 14:34:16.000000
comment:
Dropped there one sunday night; going in direction of Paris: found many locals only going around Strasbourg or people driving to North germany. Next morning direct ride to center Paris. Good spot. Safe sleeping place under the trees around the football ground.


country: FR
nickname: RazorSK
datetime: 2015-08-05 23:36:26.000000
comment:
2 guys, weekday 6PM

We were heading to Switzerland using sign with CH. We waited for two hours until someone took us to "Aire de Service du Haut Koenigsbourg" gas station, definitely try to hitchhike there if you are heading to Switzerland.


country: FR
nickname: Hiker
datetime: 2015-08-29 18:47:33.000000
comment:
One guy, one girl weekday 6PM

Heading north for Saarbrücken/Luxembourg. Waited for three hours and got no ride. Almost only locals. On the next day tried to hitchhike in the morning for one hour and a half with the same result. Not recommendable. There are some nice places to sleep, though.


country: FR
nickname: Mattfi
datetime: 2015-11-05 19:19:15.000000
comment:
I found a lift to the area of haut koenigsbourt at 30km in 10mn. And after i found a lift to Swiss! It was a tuesday at 12Pm


country: FR
datetime: 2017-09-14 19:40:05.000000
comment:
To go to Germany not so great. Try to find a ride to Kehl and continue from the Aral gas station there.


country: FI
datetime: 2011-07-15 15:34:20.000000
comment:
Not allowed for pedestrians but a good place after traffic lights. Not a lot of space indeed but got a ride from a big truck in Lahti direction.


country: FI
nickname: EggDestroyer
datetime: 2011-09-08 10:57:23.000000
comment:
We managed to get a ride from a taxi driver (!) on febuary in 30mn, but there's indeed not a lot of space. Decent spot but still looking for a better one.


country: FI
datetime: 2011-01-06 17:22:23.000000
comment:
That bus stop would probably be the bus stop in front of Kupittaa train station. Use Google Maps to spot it!


country: FI
datetime: 2011-07-15 15:28:08.000000
comment:
It's a bus stop right after traffic light so the drivers can see you when they stop for lights. A lot of local traffic so use a sign.


country: FI
nickname: Slaniex
datetime: 2012-07-03 20:07:56.000000
comment:
Really great place to hitch, cause drivers can see you and consider taking you with. But yeah, sign is necessary.


country: FI
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2015-08-16 16:06:40.000000
comment:
After 20 minutes I also got a ride directly to HELSINKI! :) And during my waiting 2 cars stopped, I just did not want to go with them to Salo! Excellent spot!


country: FI
datetime: 2017-06-03 21:05:15.000000
comment:
Good place but sign is must since there is a lot of local traffic. Waited for 40mins and got a direct ride to Helsinki:)


country: FI
datetime: 2011-02-21 10:07:45.000000
comment:
Stay in the last traffic lights just before the bus stop, at the start of the motorway. Drivers have time to see you when they are waiting at the lights. Hint: 20km sign works the best even if you'd be going all the way to Hämeenlinna or Tampere!


country: FI
datetime: 2012-01-14 13:57:19.000000
comment:
This bus stop is a great place to hitchhike from if you are going to Tampere. You can get close to the spot from Helsinki city centre with a tram no. 10 (get off at the last stop). Sign is highly recommended! 


country: FI
nickname: Mir-tab
datetime: 2012-07-19 00:20:36.000000
comment:
Maybe it was just bad day today, waited +1h with Hämeenlinna sign. But still the best spot to get out of Helsinki to Hämeenlinna and Tampere.


country: FI
nickname: Veska
datetime: 2014-05-08 19:20:07.000000
comment:
A lot of local traffic, but still the best bet for Tampere direction. If travelling light, even walkable (about 1h from downtown Helsinki), also blackriding the tram 10 is easy. If you get a short ride, be sure to get out at a petrol station (eg. Keimolanportti about 20 km away) rather than motorway junctions, which most are pretty quiet.


country: CH
datetime: 2011-04-14 04:39:55.000000
comment:
I waited an hour and a half here before rain clouds rolled in and I headed for the train to Basel.  I'm not sure why my luck was so bad here because virtually all the freeway from Zurich to Basel is getting on the freeway here. Good luck but be prepared to wait. Maybe its just because hitching out of cities can be a challenge.


country: CH
datetime: 2012-10-08 23:30:54.000000
comment:
Got the tram (4 to sportweg); got out and crossed the railways, put out our   Basel sign, and exactly 60 seconds after Osman took us with him. Good spot as far as we saw! (2, one female, one male)


country: CH
nickname: Jsburgos
datetime: 2013-04-11 01:27:58.000000
comment:
Got the tram and got down on tram 4 (Sportweg). Walked to the traffic light and exactly 15 seconds after I pulled out the 'Bern' sign a guy with a Van stopped and took me with him!


country: CH
nickname: Drumroots
datetime: 2013-10-06 18:07:39.000000
comment:
Got the tram (4 to Sportweg); crossed the tram tracks and walked back about 30m in the direction the tram came to the lay-by. I was 10 seconds into writing my sign for Bern when Max stopped for me. Great place!


country: CH
datetime: 2014-02-16 19:48:24.000000
comment:
Great spot! Plenty of cars passing by, drivers have enough time to notice you and there's enough space for them to stop. I got a lift to Bern in 10 minutes, which is amazing for Switzerland.


country: CH
nickname: Unrooted
datetime: 2014-05-23 02:15:53.000000
comment:
Waited for an 1hr30 to get a lift to Bern. It's a good spot, guess some people are just luckier than others! Also think it's better to stay by the layby rather than in it, to make it more accesible for drivers.


country: CH
nickname: Yooks
datetime: 2014-10-23 13:03:48.000000
comment:
I also think this is a pretty good spot. The three of us hitchhiked here with a sign that said "A1", autobahn logo before it, and "Solothurn" (our destination) underneath it.

We waited for 35 minutes until a van pulled over and picked us up. He could only take two of us because he didn't have more space, but I am sure our friend will catch a ride in no time.


country: DE
datetime: 2016-12-04 15:32:03.000000
comment:
its a decent spot. enough place for cars to stop, a small gas station and cars are not too fast. 
there are mostly local people but not exclusivly.
after 20 minutes someone took me to an autohof at the a2 (male tuesday 12 o'clock)

ein guter platz, gehnug nplatz zum halten, autos sind nicht zu schnell und man wird gut gesehen. die meisten fahren nur nach braunschweig, aber auch welche zur a2


country: ES
nickname: CZV
datetime: 2011-06-30 18:44:26.000000
comment:
Sevillan people, please learn about the existence of a hitchiking culture in a lot of other countries, otherwise some tourists will drop dead in your sun!  


country: ES
datetime: 2012-04-09 11:09:32.000000
comment:
We were a couple (aged 22 and 23) and we went to that spot according to what Hitchwiki said..we actually walked to there...so you basically have to watch out because there are quite a few oundabouts..so you actually have to pass 2 before you get to th right one..SatNav will work well if you have one in handy)..Otherwise the spot was really good and 10minutes after staying there a great Volvo stopped and gave us a lift to Jerez...great!


country: ES
nickname: ViliusG
datetime: 2014-10-24 22:17:37.000000
comment:
I trusted the coments about this being a good spot. Went there at about 4pm. Got a ride at about 5. Next day. There's almost no place to stop. But there's a place to build a tent.


country: GR
datetime: 2011-10-08 22:42:52.000000
comment:
You will find several shops. There was many cars, but all of them were full of people and baggage, so it was very hard to find someone how pick us up.


country: GR
nickname: Frederic Henry
datetime: 2012-05-08 10:22:53.000000
comment:
We got a lift from here directly to Romania, after 30 minutes waiting (but it was night); I don't know if it's better here or in the other part of the border if you want to go to Romania. We had the feelings that the this is the wrong way to Romania, even though we got a truck


country: GR
nickname: Jopoking
datetime: 2013-03-25 19:36:06.000000
comment:
Going to Bulgaria, it wasn't easy at all. Tried twice on the road around Kaptian Andreevo. Bulgarian people almost never stopped and even turkish truck drivers that I've made good experiences with in Turkey, didn't stop. Maybe it was just bad luck. But one truck driver said that if I stand directly at the point where trucks leave the border station they are way more inclined to stop. Didn't try it though.


country: GR
nickname: Podz
datetime: 2014-09-06 01:30:45.000000
comment:
Kapitan Andreevo just sucks. Try walking out of it. The new, big highway will be ready in a few years which will probably make things easier. 


country: GR
nickname: Amines
datetime: 2014-09-10 16:10:50.000000
comment:
july 2014- arrived at 17:00 here cca. stayed up HHikng until 1:00, woke up at 8:00 and HHed until 16:00 probaly then gave up walked to svilengrad 13km. And took the train to sofia (3,5eur for 300km not bad)


country: FI
datetime: 2011-06-22 14:20:24.000000
comment:
bus stop is definitely better, at least it's less dangerous than the ramp. but try to catch the car from the place near the gas station, it's better.


country: FI
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2015-08-16 16:03:36.000000
comment:
I got a direct ride to TURKU after 20 minutes, nice place! :) Just take care of the incoming traffic!


country: FI
nickname: Fraughtwithsounds
datetime: 2016-08-26 16:35:38.000000
comment:
hardly any space for cars to stop here.  if you walk 100 m onto the highway, behind th curve,there is more space. it's not legal but police passed me twice without stopping 


country: SI
nickname: Longhaul
datetime: 2012-05-21 00:48:00.000000
comment:
Sometimes this spot may be full of hitchhikers; still, it's very easy to get a ride towards GO and KP :)


country: SI
nickname: Sitko
datetime: 2014-09-20 11:20:14.000000
comment:
yesterday i'd been waiting for 1h 20min from 18.40 to 20.00 but it was my bad :D. still got a ride to šempeter pri gorici :)

estuvo esperando mi paseo para 1h y 20 minut pero estuvo mi mala porque empece tan tarde. al fin un tio me dio paseo :). una persona muy agradable :)


country: SI
nickname: Tintalinta
datetime: 2015-08-17 19:27:34.000000
comment:
it is very easy to hitchhike there. you came here with a sign of your destination and in a few mins, you are sitting in a car going there :)


country: SI
nickname: Ludmil
datetime: 2017-04-13 17:06:06.000000
comment:
I stand there with sign Trieste and after about 25 minutes a woman going to Piran took me. Maybe it wouild be better to stand there without a sign and took a ride to some gas station on the way.


country: SI
nickname: Longhaul
datetime: 2012-05-21 00:44:22.000000
comment:
I hitchhike from this place all the time towards CE and MB and my average waiting time is less than 10 minutes :)


country: SI
nickname: Yezzeur
datetime: 2013-06-03 01:34:26.000000
comment:
Space is limited and the cares are going to fast too stop. Took us 3 hours to get a ride towards Maribor.. but at least we got one. 


country: SI
nickname: Bojslo
datetime: 2015-01-03 19:43:40.000000
comment:
Good place - allot of cars - not enough place( a car blocks the road). I was hitchhiking to Zagreb(Croatia). Got a ride to Novo mesto in 30 min(sunday morning). From a highway gas station Dol, na Griču,...you can continue with other drivers. For Maribor and Vienna, I would recommend a bus station at the end of Šmartinska cesta.


country: SI
nickname: Bojslo
datetime: 2015-01-20 13:23:17.000000
comment:
As I revisited the place to hitchhike to Celje few days ago I wouldn't recommend the place any more as I did  in the comment before. The place isn't safe for a car to stop. A lot of them are speeding and if one car stops they can cause a road block or an accident.

Since I saw I couldn't get a ride there I went to a personally favourite place at the end of Šmartinska street. Bus number 2 - last stop.


country: SI
nickname: ESko
datetime: 2015-06-25 14:39:41.000000
comment:
going to Austria via this place is totally senseless! I was there over 2.5 hours, then a car stopped and I couldn't care less where it was going., I just wanted to get in at any cost...


country: GB
nickname: Upi4kumaterinu
datetime: 2012-04-17 20:19:02.000000
comment:
Two of us needed to wait for about an hour and a half to get a lift. The petrol station staff were brilliant and tried to help at all times (their advice was not necessarily useful, though- don't go to the place with "many cars" up the road that the guy might recommend)


country: GB
datetime: 2013-07-20 12:02:42.000000
comment:
Two of us waited an hour in the morning, petrol station quiet and not really heading to m20 but someone stopped on the road at our sign.


country: GB
nickname: Makuc
datetime: 2014-08-08 10:52:02.000000
comment:
A friendly lorry stopped for the two of us in the middle of the road after twenty minutes of holding a MAIDSTONE M20 sign.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-27 10:58:49.000000
comment:
a highly frequented highway restaurant with a lot of people going to the East. so it shouldn't take too long to get a lift.


country: DE
nickname: Sroomer
datetime: 2011-05-02 23:04:02.000000
comment:
At the end of the spring break I waited here for three hours. About every 15 minutes there was ONE car passing. When you hitchhike toward Stuttgart, try to get a ride at least to Ulm. 


country: DE
nickname: Mateo
datetime: 2012-09-24 14:11:07.000000
comment:
A seemingly good place to find a car (there are many) turned out to be a very bad spot. We asked maybe 50-75 people and "Thumb"  the exit non stop until found somebody to take us to Stuttgart (there were heading to Heliborn). Meanwhile we heard many strange excuses and almost lost our mind. Very hard work!
But, we did see a single female hitchhiker with no beg finding a ride to France in just 20 minutes. For us it was a lot harder and we got a lot of rude responses. Overall a bad expirince.


country: DE
nickname: Jan
datetime: 2013-06-02 11:11:47.000000
comment:
Insa and Jan found it ok to hitch from here in middle of May. Ask people at the service station and also have a sign to indicate you’re a hitchhiker. Feasible is to get a ride to Ulm or a little further.


country: DE
nickname: Chirimuyu
datetime: 2013-07-11 19:38:11.000000
comment:
I asked people at the station, where they are already out of their cars and rejecting communication with me is more difficult ;) Just took me 10minutes


country: DE
datetime: 2014-08-24 12:59:50.000000
comment:
I am originally from Augsburg and this is my favourite spot to start hitchhiking westwards. Ask people and you get a ride to Pforzheim, Stuttgart or Ulm in 10-40 min.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-11-20 13:29:41.000000
comment:
A very nice german truckdriver who was heading to Nordrhein Westfalen took me to my Destination Würzburg and drove me in the Citycenter with his 40to Truck. 


country: DE
datetime: 2013-11-08 14:28:58.000000
comment:
Sehr gut, um aus Braunschweig richtung süden weg zukommen!
Ruhig kleinere lifts bis bis zur nächsten Raststätte (harz west) bei seesen nehmen, dort ist man direkt auf der A7


country: FR
datetime: 2011-08-26 17:56:48.000000
comment:
Yes this service station is good, nearly everyone stopping here is going across the channel via Dunkerque or Calais. If you get stuck in Dunkerque town you can get bus 7 to Grande-Synthe and walk a couple km to this station. 25.8.11


country: FR
datetime: 2011-12-24 23:21:32.000000
comment:
I arrived here 4pm on Christmas Even 2011, waited almost 3 hours and only caught a ride as far as Calais. There was good traffic on the road, but not much passing through the petrol station.


country: FR
nickname: Jxroussel
datetime: 2013-07-23 00:44:59.000000
comment:
Got a ride in about 30 minutes to Calais, many people were going to the UK but did not want to take us across the boarder.


country: BG
nickname: Lopotour2
datetime: 2014-04-15 02:14:56.000000
comment:
I made a sign that said İstanbul/Свиленград and it took me about 40 minutes to find someone (I was trying to find a truck driver). If you want you can try and hitchhike a couple kilometers south to one of the truck stops (check Google Maps as I don't know the exact locations) where you will probably find a helpful trucker. Just after the gas station there is a spot for cars to pull over.

If you are walking here, try to not get (your shoes) too dirty from the mud and sand next to the road, as there is no sidewalk.


country: BG
nickname: HolyDrinker
datetime: 2016-07-08 00:03:31.000000
comment:
You can also catch a bus from VT to get here easily, it costs 70 stotinki I believe. Hitching with no sign got me picked up to Stara Zagora in 30 minutes.


country: FR
datetime: 2014-07-05 09:05:17.000000
comment:
Very good to the north. From Strasbourg station, take a train to Stephansfeld (direction of Saverne), 9 min, 3€80 without reduction, but just one station, possible no to take a ticket. From Stephansfeld station, go under the tunnel to cross the tracks. Then, you see 4 different ways. You take the second from your right, a path, without shield, without fence, really in front of you. Then, you walk in the forest, 10-15 min and then, the gas station. There is a small fence to jump over, but sometimes also a hole. I waited there 15-20 min.


country: FR
datetime: 2018-08-28 19:28:15.000000
comment:
Nice and calm station with nice people. Great towards North. There are plenty of local drivers stopping here and they are very kind. But eventually, we got a lift by a German woman an her son, to Verdun! 2 persons (me & my girlfriend), dir. Paris, Sunday 5 mins


country: DE
nickname: Mannheim67
datetime: 2015-10-31 06:43:13.000000
comment:
Northbound direction is closed. Date of post: November 2015.
The service area is under reconstruction and not working.


country: FR
datetime: 2013-03-04 16:12:24.000000
comment:
It is open indeed, it was quite busy on a sunday, a lot of people are going somewhere local/to the airport, but still quite good.


country: FR
nickname: Marosana
datetime: 2013-05-21 03:15:19.000000
comment:
Yes, many people are going to airport or are locals, but it is quite good place to start, we got a ride in direction Lille in 1,5 hour - but we were 4!


country: FR
datetime: 2018-09-29 13:02:10.000000
comment:
Many locals but I think it is the best place to hitchhike to the North! The door was open, I had no problem for entering ;)


country: FR
datetime: 2015-03-30 21:06:38.000000
comment:
very good. that's the place I hitchhike from when I'm going to Amiens or in the south. you can also ask for Paris. Just Take the subway until Lille Grand-Palais then take left in the Bolvard of Louis XIV and after left and first right. walk a bit a u ll see the highway entrance. you can hitchhike from there. 


country: NL
nickname: Bikepunk
datetime: 2013-08-07 17:03:28.000000
comment:
This spot is quite trycky to reach, but there is a lot of "not that fast traffic" with good visibility and a good place for the cars to stop.

I was really surprised how rude where the people though, in just 10 minuts I had a dozen of people giving me fingers or insulting me. :( That was the first time in many years of hitch hicking all over Europe !


country: PL
nickname: Harry666t
datetime: 2011-07-26 15:39:55.000000
comment:
Should be easy to find a truck going to Germany.
A guy from the gas station's crew offered to keep an eye on my things while I go around and ask. Really good spot.


country: PL
nickname: Liftegreven
datetime: 2011-11-27 20:16:20.000000
comment:
Tracks crossable - don't be shy. From a German POV: worth riding into Poland to get to this place, if stuck in north and going to Berlin.


country: PL
nickname: Proske
datetime: 2015-12-15 21:10:03.000000
comment:
Was here with a scouting group (well, first at the other station on the west which is useless).

We managed to get out of here within a time span of less than 2 hours. That's 23 people straight to Berlin!

Also, if you're coming from the bus stop and look at this direction and see a derelict station: you're looking at something else! this is further along (that's what sent me to the other, useless station)


country: DE
nickname: Santa klaus
datetime: 2012-03-01 11:33:01.000000
comment:
Had some Problems here. Not easy to find a place to stop, most of cars are locals who go as far as Pinneberg. In my opinion no good place for Kiel.


country: DE
nickname: Wukk
datetime: 2012-03-07 13:15:10.000000
comment:
top spot for Kiel. wait at the second bus stop with a big Kiel-sign. usually you find a ride after 30 minutes, especially between 3 and 7 pm, because people drive home from work


country: DE
nickname: RobertoCarlos
datetime: 2012-10-02 09:32:28.000000
comment:
Waited for 2 min on a friday at 1pm and got a lift as far as the last service station before Kiel (Brokenlande). Instant pick-up to Kiel from there.


country: DE
nickname: AlessandroCivisMundi
datetime: 2013-09-16 22:50:41.000000
comment:
Many cars were going in Hamburg's surroundings. I finally managed to get out, but I wasn't that lucky.


country: DE
datetime: 2020-01-10 18:31:49.000000
comment:
Good spot with a lot of traffic, but had to wait quite a bit (50min) for someone to pick me up going north. As mentioned, a lot of local traffic makes it tougher than what the spot promises. Still worked! ;)


country: DE
datetime: 2019-08-15 15:28:51.000000
comment:
Hitched here for an hour in the evening and got picked up by a polish truck driver, who drove me north of Hamburg, good spot 


country: DE
nickname: Kai
datetime: 2011-10-19 23:38:31.000000
comment:
I experienced almost the same. Its almost impossible to get a ride to the A7 southwards. I waited for 2 hours, trying to get a ride with a sign and talked to people directly, nothing. I then decided to change my route and go west on A2 and got a life within 5-10min.


country: DE
nickname: Quarim
datetime: 2013-02-15 14:27:02.000000
comment:
I Don't know what is wrong with Lehrter See nowerdays, i just want to go straight the A2 to Bielefeld but my last 3 waiting times all exceeded 60 minutes, thats why i decreased my rating to average


country: DE
nickname: Koekjestrommel1
datetime: 2014-05-03 23:18:41.000000
comment:
Second car I asked went to Amsterdam and wanted to take me. First car I asked also went in that direction but had no place left. Note that this was on the end of a Dutch holliday though


country: DE
nickname: Talliknalli
datetime: 2015-09-15 15:43:02.000000
comment:
had no difficulties to get to the A7 to the north, waited only 15 minutes, but it's true that the majority goes to the west (A2).


country: DE
datetime: 2017-06-06 12:38:58.000000
comment:
ok to cath someone going north wit direction Hamburg or Bremen. Nott so much traffic but quite okay to go West/North or to get a direct lift to Hannover


country: DE
datetime: 2019-09-13 12:47:35.000000
comment:
If you want to go to the north, just write Bremen/ Hamburg on your sign and let yourself dropped of at Rasthof Allertal at the A7 if you want to go to Hamburg and your driver goes to Bremen or vice versa. Big Station for Truck Drivers to rest.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-05-29 13:04:04.000000
comment:
Me and my brother needed about an hour to get away in direction bremen. most people were going to nearby cities in the area so it's quite difficult to get a ride for long distances


country: DE
nickname: Ilovefahrtwind
datetime: 2013-03-18 13:23:35.000000
comment:
arrived here on a sunday, very bad to get to koblenz. but the petrol station was open overnight, so i had a good resting place.


country: PL
datetime: 2011-05-20 03:02:16.000000
comment:
A great spot, me and my friend have just approached the petrol station, and the first person I asked for the lift took us in direction od Dresden in Germany. 


country: PL
datetime: 2011-07-10 12:54:25.000000
comment:
It took us some time to get a lift in direction Katowice. If you can't speak Polnish it may work better to work with a sign. To us it worked better than adressing people in English or German.


country: PL
datetime: 2011-07-17 23:36:57.000000
comment:
Some local guys told me this spot for hitchhiking to Dresden.
I took the FREE bus from bus station (which is near the train station) to Auchan. (Yeah, you are right, it´s a shuttle bus of Auchan). Near the Supermart, you will find a gas station. But it´s not so ideal. You´d better walk southwest until the highway of A4. There is also a small gas tank. I was there just showing the sign, then came a guy asking me where I was heading for. Cool!


country: PL
nickname: Bluephilosopher
datetime: 2011-07-17 23:41:41.000000
comment:
I´m sorry. The above comment is actually wrong.  It seems that I´ve wrongly clicked the place. It should be the one on the other side of the A4. I don´t know how to delete it.


country: PL
datetime: 2012-04-12 17:05:49.000000
comment:
not many cars but in direction to germany you can try to stop cars coming from town and going on highway.


country: PL
datetime: 2012-04-17 23:46:15.000000
comment:
Great spot for hitchhiking to Opole, Katowice, Krakow nad Ukrainian border. On the other site - to German border.

IMPORTATNT - THERE IS A FREE BUS from the main Wroclaw bus station to supermarket Auchan from which is 5 minutes walking to this spot.


country: PL
nickname: OCCASVS
datetime: 2012-04-21 15:50:35.000000
comment:
I've used this spot many times, and it has always proven reliable. This is the only and great spot for going east from Wrocław.


country: PL
nickname: Wolak
datetime: 2012-07-17 01:38:15.000000
comment:
15 mins of waiting in a terrible storm and we found a ride to Katowice :). Our driver was going even further - to Tarnów (east from Kraków).


country: PL
datetime: 2013-08-19 11:08:57.000000
comment:
got a lift as a group of 3 people within 30 min.
THE BUS IS NOT FREE ANYMORE! it's 1,50 zł per person


country: PL
nickname: Wolak
datetime: 2013-09-03 02:19:26.000000
comment:
IMPORTANT INFO - BUS from Wroclaw bus station to Auchan is NO LONGER FREE. Now it costs 1,50 PLN (I dunno if it's student ticket or everyone pays the same price). Student ticket for city bus alsko costs 1,50 PLN (normal - 3 PLN) so it's actually no difference now.


country: PL
nickname: Wolak
datetime: 2013-09-03 02:20:51.000000
comment:
Note that there are cars entering the highway from the ramp, so you can stick out your thumb, too. Worked for us!


country: PL
datetime: 2014-09-03 14:58:20.000000
comment:
After one hour of senseless hitching a guy picked me up and drove me to the toll-gates, a few kilometers farther. It is much easier to catch a car there.


country: PL
nickname: Maxim1110
datetime: 2015-08-17 20:03:34.000000
comment:
It's true what they say about the "Hitchhikers' sunday walk": we caught a ride for 4 all the way to Krakow in about 15 minutes.


country: PL
nickname: Cardinal
datetime: 2016-11-27 16:42:07.000000
comment:
Very good spot. Got a ride to Katovice by asking drivers. It took us (1 guy and 1 girl) around 5 minutes.


country: BE
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2012-09-29 18:48:06.000000
comment:
Hard shoulder is not very wide, careful when walking to this access lane, busy road. Great for Antwerp / Brussels. 


country: IT
nickname: Chucker
datetime: 2013-07-20 21:23:09.000000
comment:
We stood before the no autostop sign for half an hour. Two young guys left us on a gas station on the highway, halfway to Bologna.


country: GB
nickname: Joschi
datetime: 2011-03-15 11:43:21.000000
comment:
In my case having one more passenger than registered wasn't a problem for the driver who took me. Telling drivers you got valid passports etc. might help convincing them! And THEY DO NOT HAVE TO PAY EXTRA for additional passengers!


country: GB
nickname: Prochy
datetime: 2012-07-11 20:01:13.000000
comment:
I arrived around 10 pm so there was no chance of getting on boat as a foot passenger. There was already one very suspicious hitchhiker (seemed to be on the road for a long time) so I always came second in asking. Luckily I was first to meet a Polish guy who was also happy in the end because I could wake him up all the way I went with him to Germany.


country: GB
nickname: Lukas
datetime: 2015-09-25 10:21:43.000000
comment:
Something must have Changed. My friend told me that they closed the traveler center, Everybody buys their tickets online. This spot doesn't exist anymore!


country: DE
nickname: Cighir Victor
datetime: 2011-07-24 22:59:15.000000
comment:
Actually you can buy vignette right when you cross the border. 

Maybe hitchhiking to the east depends on the season: in the summer was very hard to get to Wien, mainly because people go on holiday down South.


country: DE
nickname: Sam iam
datetime: 2011-10-24 16:40:41.000000
comment:
Very small station and not many people stop here because they prefer going into Austria (see the next big petrol station east) where fuel is cheaper. Nobody that stops here is going to Italy btw, so don't waste your time with that.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-12-18 16:40:58.000000
comment:
Arrived here when it was getting dark and cold, couldn't get a ride. Tried to find a place to sleep by just asking people in the village, but the onces I asked were not so friendly. Slept in a hotel. Got a ride the next morning on the on-ramp, just behind the petrol station


country: DE
nickname: Challenge
datetime: 2014-08-30 10:53:39.000000
comment:
Thought it was a good idea since it was the last station before the border to get vignette, but it's a really small station with less traffic than expected. Got a ride after 30 min to Ljubljana, but that was pure luck. You might want to consider the next petrol station.


country: DE
nickname: Vert5
datetime: 2015-07-18 11:15:33.000000
comment:
Really small gas station and waited for a hour or more just to ride to Salzburg. We had to ask at the gas station. Despite the lot of traffic, not so many cars at the gas station... 


country: AT
datetime: 2011-08-30 15:01:29.000000
comment:
well in august 2010, i got stucked with a friend at that place, it took 2h to find someone just taking us to Lungau (next petrol station)


country: GB
nickname: Junkiee
datetime: 2015-08-31 23:27:11.000000
comment:
10 minutes direct ride to leeds...  seems little bit dodgy.. maybe dangerous and difficult to get there.. good luck.


country: IT
nickname: Astala27
datetime: 2012-07-26 13:33:19.000000
comment:
There is enough space to stop car but the traffic is so crowded in daytime. We got a ride just for 6 km outside the city. Nobody! Nobody even make an impression, or gesture, just horns


country: DE
nickname: AntonG
datetime: 2011-05-05 18:54:32.000000
comment:
Great place, just go to the road through the bushes. There are indeed lots of ants, so keep your pack on your back.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-07-05 10:55:10.000000
comment:
I got a ride straight to berlin within 15 minutes, without a sign on a sunday. The place also seems perfect for hitchhiking. There's already a little path through the bushes ;-)


country: DE
nickname: Baptiste
datetime: 2012-03-01 22:42:18.000000
comment:
i waited 1h10 with a paper for Nürnberg.
I changed the paper for Ingolstadt and i just waited 35 sec ( 4 cars)
i think it's a good place but most of the car come from Munich and don't go far away


country: DE
nickname: Agril Szanak
datetime: 2012-08-03 22:32:55.000000
comment:
I got a ride in less than 5 minutes to Regensburg, very good spot but in fact - you have to watch your steps because of the ants ;)


country: DE
datetime: 2012-11-18 23:13:03.000000
comment:
I met another hitch hiker here last Friday. The two of us didn't get a ride for for about half an hour. Then she got picked up alone after about ten minutes and I got a lift after five. Luckily, we met in Nürnberg and went all the way to Berlin together :) Also... The spot is right in front of the entrance to the Autobahn - a police car went by and didn't warn or ask us to leave!


country: DE
nickname: Vonbawherk
datetime: 2013-03-25 00:09:24.000000
comment:
3/2012. No ants! Good place cause the cars can stop at the end of the tunnel. A woman picked us up after waiting 30 minutes - try to do a little choreography to attract the attention of cars  ;)


country: DE
nickname: Kidsam
datetime: 2013-09-05 00:08:09.000000
comment:
August 2013. There are ants but they weren't so bad. I waited 40 minutes to find a car going in the right direction. 4 other cars stopped in this time. This is a good spot!


country: DE
nickname: Schworze
datetime: 2014-01-07 09:53:24.000000
comment:
waited for 15min with a sign to nürnberg. think it is the fastest stop to leave munich towards the north


country: DE
nickname: Micha
datetime: 2014-04-26 13:32:11.000000
comment:
bad place to start.. lot of cars going by but either they were unfriendly or didn't go to nuremberg. sign highly recommended, because people can still go everywhere from there. hard to focus on drivers with so much traffic zooming by, and I think quite some people didn't stop because it's not a good place to stop, although there is some space. I'll try a different spot next time. PS: lots of ants here!


country: DE
nickname: Yorick
datetime: 2014-05-31 17:23:21.000000
comment:
Super good place, you will maybe need a little to find a car ( max. 1-2h ), but will get out of the city for sure. My fastest lift was straight to berlin in 5min, and the longest I had to wait 1:30h-2h something like that. My best experience is to only show your thumb, people will stop and you can ask them where they go. Signs like "Berlin" or "Direction Berlin" will only confuse them, since they think they can only take you if they go directly to Berlin.


country: DE
nickname: Challenge
datetime: 2014-08-30 10:48:40.000000
comment:
August 2014. Really good place. If you're going far north, it's better to have a sign that says A9 than your final destination. I waited for 30 min with a sign for Berlin, but got a ride after 15 min after switching to A9. The warning about the ants is legit. :D


country: DE
datetime: 2014-09-09 20:12:15.000000
comment:
august 2014; we had lots of stops for Augsburg or Stuttgart but our destination were Berlin; we finally took a car to the next gas station on A9, Fürholzen.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-10-06 15:55:01.000000
comment:
august 2014. i waited quite a long time here (1,5), but most people who stopped weren't going my way. Probably it's better to get out to the gas station in Eching.


country: DE
nickname: Dyse
datetime: 2014-10-11 14:37:51.000000
comment:
A place of great hitch-hiking history. Fight with the ants and make your way through the bushes to discover a real hh-sight!


country: DE
nickname: Sattleryan
datetime: 2015-05-20 15:06:50.000000
comment:
May 2015, on a Saturday, 10am, no ants and rain, waited hilarious 2min to get the most epic lift in my life, directly to North-West Germany! I will come back here, for sure!


country: DE
datetime: 2016-05-02 13:45:42.000000
comment:
Perfect spot to A9 north. Beware of the people going to the airport or Augsburg, then you will end up on a different Autobahn.


country: DE
nickname: ESko
datetime: 2016-06-27 20:01:54.000000
comment:
June 2016, plenty of ants, but this is one of the best spots I've even been to. Two guys, a car stopped after 5 mins, going to Stuttgart (although we had a sign Nür), and then after next 10 mins a guy took us to Nuremberg. Get a sign!


country: DE
datetime: 2016-08-25 18:06:29.000000
comment:
We hitched from this spot today and it went really well. First car stopped after a few minutes. A car going our direction ( A9, North), stopped 15 minutes later. great spot!


country: CH
datetime: 2013-04-07 19:37:42.000000
comment:
waited 10 minutes to go to Bern
5m after gas station is good
spot is in 10min by walking from the train station


country: DE
datetime: 2014-03-13 19:25:18.000000
comment:
shit ramp, pull-over space between ramp and traffic light. gas station should work for both directions, very busy.


country: DE
nickname: Dersoeren
datetime: 2014-06-23 10:11:56.000000
comment:
Many locals, but also some cars going to osnabrück and also direction netherlands. The spot near the traffic lights worked good for me. I was very lucky, got a lift direct to the border germany/netherland (A33-A30). 


country: NO
nickname: Guussjaak
datetime: 2012-01-09 16:36:42.000000
comment:
Indeed metro line 3 to Mortensrud to last station, walk 300 meters and ask people at quite busy petrol station. Success guaranteed. Rides to Goteborg and further


country: NO
nickname: Derpy
datetime: 2013-09-08 20:44:01.000000
comment:
Pros: easy to get to, petrol station, hitching space.
90 minutes before taking a ride only 20km down the E8. Not a lot of traffic actually goes onto the motorway here, and those that do seem to go short distances. Perhaps an on ramp closer to the city would be better?


country: NO
nickname: Amarant
datetime: 2014-11-30 21:49:02.000000
comment:
I agree with everything that Derpy wrote. I stood here on a sunday in november when the sun was out. Had a sign saying Göteborg and placed myself just where the cars exited the petrol station. Two or three cars stopped and asked if I wanted to go to Ski. But as you can see on the map that's not on the highway so I kindly said no. After 1 and a half hour I took an invite to go Ås. This is a good place though. Not perfect since cars aren't always going south nor onto the highway but I think that you can most certainly get a ride a few miles south! Another plus is that you can make it all the way here for free. The subway is easy to use without paying, at least in november 2014. Ask some locals!


country: GB
datetime: 2016-12-05 15:37:18.000000
comment:
Terrible services to get dropped at... you can't hitch on the roundabout as no hard shoulder to stop and it is too fast.... you have to hitch at the exit to the services, cars going in 3 directions, and there's not enough traffic....


country: GB
datetime: 2017-09-10 14:34:17.000000
comment:
We got dropped here at 7pm and couldn't find another ride going west that evening. If you have a tent, climb over the gate to the field that is north/west of the station, there are good places to sleep there. Took us another 90min to find someone going west the next morning.


country: DK
nickname: CK
datetime: 2011-01-06 03:19:00.000000
comment:
With a snowed in emergency lane in winter, cars can only hold on the very driving lane.
Also, they go pretty fast once it straightens out. We were lucky only before the bend.


country: DK
nickname: Suman Mircea
datetime: 2013-05-08 19:54:41.000000
comment:
Very good spot, just stay right after the roundabout; if you are going towards Aalborg it might be useful just to thumb, take the first car and ask to be dropped half a km further at the traffic lights (that's what I did) and continue from there. Or you can walk there.


country: BE
datetime: 2019-07-01 17:47:03.000000
comment:
Hitched here June 2019, direction Brugge. Got a direct ride offer to Ghent in 15 mins, and another ride to 25km towards Brugge in another 15 min. Lots of space for car to pull by


country: DE
nickname: Fossilhitchhiker
datetime: 2014-08-26 22:09:21.000000
comment:
good place for going south with truckdrivers, they stop here to drink coffe and to eat or repair their trucks


country: DE
nickname: Grinsolt
datetime: 2015-10-05 21:52:51.000000
comment:
A very good place to go to the north sea or into Flensburg as well. If you walk down the road for about 300m, there will be a perfect Bus Stop.


country: DE
datetime: 2020-01-10 18:36:08.000000
comment:
Great place to enter Denmark by asking the Danes leaving the supermarket. Took no more then 30min even though it was sunday morning and the market had just opened.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-01-01 21:52:06.000000
comment:
Wanted to go south direction Paderborn and München, but after 3 hours had to drive to Hannover to get to the A7 there and head south.


country: IT
datetime: 2012-08-07 19:32:18.000000
comment:
as in the main description on hitchwiki, take bus 38/39 to basovizza and get out when it leaves the main road. draw a sign and try to get a ride from there. we waited for around 45 minutes on a tuesday noon and got a ride directly to rijeka.


country: IT
nickname: TeeTramp
datetime: 2013-11-03 10:36:31.000000
comment:
Waited next to the street about 45min on a tuesday, in summer 2013, with a sign we got a direct lift to Reijeka!


country: CZ
nickname: Tee-pee
datetime: 2012-05-05 16:35:29.000000
comment:
I was hh at the SOS stand just behind the ramp. There are police cameras monitoring the highway which I didn't know about - police came after couple minutes and I had to pay about 20€ fine.. not good..


country: CZ
nickname: Turemek
datetime: 2015-07-12 03:04:52.000000
comment:
Watch out for police, they will spot you in 1 minute. Better go to Cerny Most catch a lift from there


country: HR
datetime: 2011-10-08 17:07:56.000000
comment:
early august 2011 ; a very good spot ; the tourist info recommended this place better than the other side for going to bosnia, they said there were more cars ; my driver eventually said the opposite but took me to the border ; SPECTACULAR VIEW by the way in the no man's land between the 2 countries


country: HR
nickname: Czerwony
datetime: 2012-04-26 21:47:13.000000
comment:
I've got bad memories 'bout this place.
We were waiting there sth about 3 hours <sic!>, and luckily we caught our countryman - so here is advice for PL hitchhikers: zabierzcie ze sobą jakieś koszulki z napisem "Polska", pomaga łapać transport do samiutkiej ojczyzny ;)


country: HR
datetime: 2015-10-08 18:09:15.000000
comment:
Stocked there for 3 hours. After one more 30 minutes i took the bus. Tried in the off seaseon. So mazbe not the best time to try it there 


country: MK
datetime: 2011-06-12 19:56:48.000000
comment:
Day, time: Saturday, ca. 14:00

Hitcher: 1 woman

Traffic was light. Tried sign "PP" for Prilep, but ended up just thumbing over an empty delivery van returning to Bitola. 


country: MK
nickname: Teeshirt
datetime: 2012-05-02 19:46:04.000000
comment:
I was putting out my thumb while walking up this street (past the bus station) in the direction of Bitola and a guy picked me up to Resen before I had reached the end of town.


country: MK
nickname: Zimmer hans
datetime: 2013-10-28 19:49:14.000000
comment:
Day: Wedensday, ca. 12:00

Hitcher: couple, guy/girl

Traffic was average, we wanted to get to Bitola, after some cars passed us, two stopped and offered a ride (other city), but third one took us all the way to Bitola.


country: MK
nickname: Albaniaelb
datetime: 2015-04-05 18:57:15.000000
comment:
Its senseless. I wanted to go To Bitola from here but i waited 2 hours and 30 min. Only one car stoped (to Resne). 


country: DE
datetime: 2012-08-06 16:12:46.000000
comment:
maybe i was unlucky, but i waited for one and a half hour at 7 am to get a ride towards basel. they brought me to the first gas station after basel.


country: DE
nickname: Quarim
datetime: 2012-10-08 09:32:18.000000
comment:
very good for south - basel. a bit harder for going east onto the A8 direction munich. Very hard to get to france.


country: DE
nickname: Redjo27
datetime: 2013-01-30 21:40:35.000000
comment:
On a Wednesday in January, i went to Nürnberg and waited about 2,5h till a French business man offered me a direct ride. Nobody else did.


country: DE
nickname: Jan
datetime: 2013-06-02 11:41:40.000000
comment:
Great place to get south! Insa and Jan got a ride to near the Swiss border, without even asking, just because we walked around with a sign saying »CH«.


country: DE
nickname: Janpa
datetime: 2013-07-11 15:58:58.000000
comment:
perfect place to find long distance rides. if you want to go to Cologne/Ruhr-Area try to already find a lift to A3 here and dont go further up to Frankfurt.


country: DE
nickname: Gustavobretz
datetime: 2013-10-01 17:06:33.000000
comment:
many people offered to us (2 ppl) a ride but none of them would go to Baden-Baden (south). after 15 min a couple took us. It was a sunny summer day and many ppl around. no road works


country: DE
nickname: Amb45
datetime: 2014-04-27 19:52:54.000000
comment:
Very difficult to get a ride to Nürnberg A6. Waited for hours.  Perfect place for Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Köln, Hamburg. 


country: DE
nickname: RedFox
datetime: 2014-06-19 10:11:36.000000
comment:
Stopped 2x here, once towards heillbronn/east, once towars Köln/NW. Quite hard to get rides even during busy hours.


country: DE
nickname: Fossilhitchhiker
datetime: 2014-08-23 19:35:11.000000
comment:
stood here at Bruchsal West direction south
got a ride from 3 German guys in Volkswagen all the way to Freiburg at 23 h and arrived in Freiburg at 2 o'clock in the night
they had the music way to loud for an old man like me


country: DE
datetime: 2016-06-24 17:09:02.000000
comment:
I got an very nice lift to Basel. I think, its better to ask on the gasstation and on the parking spot!


country: FI
nickname: Mustikki
datetime: 2016-07-15 12:57:14.000000
comment:
It is a bus stop and there are traffic lights before it so the cars are driving slowly and it is easy to see you. I have hitchhiked from this place to lahti and helsinki many times. You will probably catch a ride to Vaajakoski/ABC and there is a good place to continue. 


country: FI
nickname: EggDestroyer
datetime: 2011-09-08 10:52:26.000000
comment:
Finns from JKL have recommanded us that spot too. It's really an excellent one, with plenty of space and trafic.


country: FI
nickname: EggDestroyer
datetime: 2011-09-08 10:55:01.000000
comment:
Quite good, tho it's a little harder to go to Lahti than Kuopio, because you'll either lose some trafic if you go on the bus stop (or have to take the 644 road which may become a trap), or put yourself on a spot a bit further the roundabout, where cars have a bit less space.


country: FI
nickname: Paul FR
datetime: 2014-02-25 22:37:53.000000
comment:
A good spot with a lot of car and a bus station, we were 2 waiting with a "Jyväskylä" sign, no car stopped. It was monday at 8am so it might be the reason


country: FI
nickname: Mino.ilmagico
datetime: 2013-08-12 22:05:20.000000
comment:
I would suggest it also as a first spot, take the bus 28 from Keskustori, get off at bus stop Vastarannankatu, and walk about 2 km, because it is very worthy, I got a ride from a russian truck straight to Jyväskylä and farther to Pieksämäki in only a few minutes!


country: DE
nickname: Kb
datetime: 2011-03-17 22:19:49.000000
comment:
It's not true, I know that people are hitching from this place. The cars have to stop at an illegal spot though.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-23 18:20:41.000000
comment:
i waited for half an hour and it worked. it's right that the possibilities for cars to stop are not perfect, but ok enough i guess...


country: DE
datetime: 2012-04-25 15:12:32.000000
comment:
its possible to hitch from here - BUT i recommend to walk like 500 meters along on the 'Faulerstraße' till it crosses the 'Schnewlinstraße'. Way much easier here!!!


country: SE
nickname: KiZi
datetime: 2016-09-07 23:51:20.000000
comment:
I was waiting there and asking for a lift to Link owing direction, but there were people at the local traffic, going to jobs mostly.


country: SE
datetime: 2011-01-12 01:52:34.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Stockholm here.
The guy even gave me 100 crowns so that I can afford the train fare from Stockholm to Uppsala! :)


country: SE
nickname: Ilmer
datetime: 2011-09-04 22:38:56.000000
comment:
Got a ride in about 10 mins, standing next to the road leading from the airport to the highway, just after the last carpark (next to the connect(?) hotel) so everyone drives by you.


country: SE
nickname: Teeshirt
datetime: 2012-05-23 15:55:36.000000
comment:
The Google map is a bit old, I think. There is a small roundabout with a gas station between the Connect Hotel and the long-term parking lot (långtidsparkering). I stood for two minutes by the gas station, hoping to catch traffic from the long term parking lot, when a lady passing by on foot offered me a ride to Stockholm. Otherwise, a better spot might be after the roundabout in the direction Stockholm (Nyköping).


country: SE
nickname: Carletes
datetime: 2015-10-09 18:04:14.000000
comment:
I arrived at 18.30 and it was almost dark on that time. I waited one hour and some guys from Morocco pick me up to Stockholm. You can walk around 10 minutes to the bigger road. It's not a big airport and that might be a problem to catch a car. 


country: IE
nickname: Herpait
datetime: 2014-09-08 21:31:24.000000
comment:
If you are walking out from Bandon you just pass the traffic lights and there's a hard shoulder for cars where they can stop. Recommended by a local. Got a light in 2 min.


country: NL
nickname: Mave94
datetime: 2016-03-19 10:40:05.000000
comment:
The fifth car took me to Harlingen. I think you don't have to wait long for a ride to Amsterdam, either.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-27 22:52:37.000000
comment:
so yes i alked there because the freakin bus in france never comes somehow but i got away pretty fast and good and with frank zappa music to avignon


country: FR
nickname: Renart49
datetime: 2011-09-21 01:15:54.000000
comment:
Direction : Nîmes/ Montpellier or Avignon. 
I walked 45min/1h from the city centre to go there. The spot is just before the entrance to the highway with space for cars to stop.I used a sign "PEAGE" which means "toll" in French. I wanted to go to the next péage "Péage de Lançon". 
It was a lucky day because I got a car in 10 min going to Montpellier :D


country: FR
nickname: Jeroenfm
datetime: 2012-05-21 22:38:06.000000
comment:
We were with 3 couples, all of us got out within the hour. One of us was asking at the petrol station the other one at the road with a sign. There is road construction going on, but it is still possible for the cars to reach the A1 quit easily. Lots of  'foreign' traffic, it was a Sunday in a holiday weekend.


country: FR
nickname: Wther
datetime: 2012-09-03 09:15:18.000000
comment:
One of the petrol station closed, but still a good place to hitchhike with a sign that says "Lille".


country: FR
datetime: 2013-03-01 19:53:23.000000
comment:
good pleace for ask in the lightraffic, good place for go to brussels, if somebody go to lille and you want go to brussels, its good but take care and go down in the petrol station before de difurcacion of the motorways A1 and A2 because if not you will continue to lille, and ther its not so easy go to brusels


country: FR
datetime: 2013-03-26 08:33:56.000000
comment:
Stood there with a sign "Lille" and asking people for 6 hours on a monday morning (4am - 10am). Across the street people assembled to travel together, but paid. Might be a deterrent. At night and early in the morning there are a lot of junkies hanging out there.


country: FR
nickname: Charmine
datetime: 2013-06-10 11:34:52.000000
comment:
The road is very big and messy and at first I didn't have much hope - but then I got picked up after five minutes! Those guys even were nice enough to stop for another two hitchhikers, so we all got very lucky at this spot :)


country: FR
datetime: 2014-10-16 17:08:09.000000
comment:
We were trying to get a ride to Belgium in the afternoon after having no luck elsewhere on an entry to the highway. First guy we asked in the Total station was a Belgian driving to Antwerp and wiling to taker us along. Maybe we were lucky but as far as I know it's the best spot to go to Belgium in Paris:)


country: FR
datetime: 2011-12-25 09:44:03.000000
comment:
Waited here for two hours without anyone even stopping. This place might be better if you speak french and feel comfortable confronting drivers directly. When we finally got picked up, though, it was a direct ride to Paris, so, I guess it was worth the wait.


country: FR
datetime: 2014-08-06 12:19:50.000000
comment:
I got a lift to Paris in less than 30 min but I was quite lucky because the man who picked me up was an hitchhiker when he was young and he travelled all over the world :)


country: FR
nickname: Dylg
datetime: 2014-11-18 23:00:48.000000
comment:
I often hitchiked to Paris/Rouen from this point. For the adventurous there is a train going to Phalempin (10min?) then you can walk to the petrol station (small road), it is a bit long but worth it (avoiding waiting a lifts from Lille)


country: FR
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2015-10-10 01:35:07.000000
comment:
Quite small gas station, on a late Saturday afternoon it had less traffic than a minor country road. After 1 hour of hitching another hitchhiker, a guy, showed up. We decided to take turns of 30 minutes to have equal chances. He got a ride just as his time was about to finish. We waited for some time more and only managed to get a short ride to a small gas station slightly off the highway (that in the explanation of the driver it looked like a more decent place to hitch).


country: FR
nickname: Yarex
datetime: 2016-03-08 19:25:45.000000
comment:
Mostly local traffic. I wanted to  get to Brugge. It took me 3 cars in the end. But anyway. You can try KORTIJK before and tham from KORTJIK is super easy.


country: BG
nickname: Frederic Henry
datetime: 2012-05-08 10:38:47.000000
comment:
It seems good spot, but we waited quite long time before get a ride (both to Plovdiv and to border of Romania).


country: BG
nickname: Casper79
datetime: 2013-01-14 07:49:04.000000
comment:
November 2012. We were waiting with my wife for 45 min. But at the end VW Tuareg drove us straight to Bucharest


country: BG
datetime: 2015-09-18 19:29:19.000000
comment:
you have to take Bus number 90 to get there (after you took tram 22 to its last station) Seemed like a good spot, but we waited for hours without anybody even stopping... maybe bad luck...


country: BG
nickname: Paczix
datetime: 2015-09-23 00:21:44.000000
comment:
We were standing here with BUCURESTI board so maybe it wasn't the best idea, but after 1 hour a car stopped and took us to Velke Tarnovo.


country: RO
nickname: Lopotour2
datetime: 2014-04-15 02:00:33.000000
comment:
It's not the easiest place to reach (tram to last stop and then a bus or mini-bus) but it is a good spot. Lot of traffic going south to Giorgiu or the border.


country: DK
nickname: Kralx15
datetime: 2012-06-15 14:59:23.000000
comment:
It's a excellent spot to go to Malmö. In 3 mins me and my girlfriend hitched a car with a sign. I think this spot is the most perfect spot in the world. 07/06/12 Thursday


country: DK
nickname: Adamiksen
datetime: 2014-05-17 20:42:09.000000
comment:
DONT choose this place when going to South or West- tried to get a ride with Jylland sign, after 2 hrs I gave it up. Choose instead "Danhaven". 
Perfect spot to Sweden though.


country: NL
nickname: Mrw.witteveen
datetime: 2012-09-30 13:37:29.000000
comment:
Great spot! To go either South (Breda, Paris, England), north (Hilversum/Almere), or east (Amersfoort, Germany). Hitched here 10+ times, I never have to wait long. 


country: NL
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2014-10-27 22:41:51.000000
comment:
Update. The hard shoulder at this access lane was lost in 2014. Therefore I rate this spot as bad now.


country: FI
nickname: Ferret
datetime: 2016-09-01 22:09:28.000000
comment:
Good but maybe worth walking to next bus stop... got lift after 30min but the bus stop is also a slip road.


country: LU
datetime: 2013-07-21 14:00:01.000000
comment:
it took not to long to get a ride to the petrol station mentioned, and from there 5 min for a ride to Brussels.


country: LU
datetime: 2017-04-12 19:11:01.000000
comment:
Amazing spot to get to the huge petrol station Aire de Capellen Su. I waited here not even one minute. The 5th car that passed me stopped. I hitched here on a Friday around 18:30.


country: BE
nickname: Kriechstrom
datetime: 2012-01-10 17:11:02.000000
comment:
Got a ride from here to Paris within minutes but I feel like I was lucky. Lots of foreign traffic, also from eastern Europe.


country: BE
datetime: 2012-06-25 17:36:03.000000
comment:
senseless for going in direction of Germany. Better walking 10 minutes and hitch at the entrance of the mothorway (the spot is on the map)


country: BE
nickname: Laurencebxl
datetime: 2013-12-14 19:01:13.000000
comment:
Begin september, we waited there 3 hours. We're 3 and wanted to go to Köln (and further). A lot of people stop in Aachen and there is not so much a big trafic.


country: BE
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-29 18:17:49.000000
comment:
The previous driver dropped me there and I even didn't try a thing. A car directly stopped and brought me to Köln. I guess luck was waiting for me there !


country: NL
nickname: Schworze
datetime: 2011-10-20 14:58:12.000000
comment:
in my oppinion better than the hitchhikerspot because you got the possibility to speak to the drivers


country: NL
nickname: MartiMarti
datetime: 2012-06-05 23:17:14.000000
comment:
better than the official spot for me too. We waited more than one hour but then we got a direct ride for Hengelo, to enter the Germany from there


country: NL
nickname: Vin
datetime: 2014-11-11 08:50:02.000000
comment:
Got a lift to Rotterdam in 20 mins at 4 PM on Monday. Good spot, no need for sign, just wait at the entrance to the shop and ask people around.


country: NL
nickname: Ringothedingo
datetime: 2015-04-10 00:50:40.000000
comment:
just speqk to people, easy. drivers told me its a bad direction to head to germany but always gets me on the way from here :)


country: NL
nickname: Csp
datetime: 2015-08-20 19:43:52.000000
comment:
This station was closed for maintenance when I went (18-aug) so I had to use the official hitching spot.


country: DE
nickname: Hydra supertramp
datetime: 2014-06-10 15:40:21.000000
comment:
We were four people - hitching home to Berlin - and got a lift on a beautiful summer afternoon one rest area further (Schlackendorf), directly onto the A24 with the next car.


country: DK
nickname: Stk
datetime: 2012-08-16 20:28:13.000000
comment:
Stood there nearly two hours with a sign saying »Anywhere« until a nice Dane showed compassion and took us one exit farther south -- where we got a lift within a few minutes.


country: DE
nickname: Joschi
datetime: 2011-09-28 00:02:41.000000
comment:
Free ferry: The ferry charges by car not by passengers (max. 5 persons) so that your lift won't have to pay extra for you!


country: DE
nickname: Xhikerx
datetime: 2013-04-29 18:38:56.000000
comment:
had to wait for some time but got a good ride, stand at the other side of the crossing though becouse there is trafic comming from the k49 as well.


country: DE
nickname: Frixge
datetime: 2014-01-08 22:11:53.000000
comment:
When you got the opportunity take a ride to the drive-up in Burg. There I had much more luck than at this busy spot.


country: DE
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-30 17:58:14.000000
comment:
Try to talk to everybody in the ferry, because after getting land, cars just won't stop !!! The drivers who took me in Copenhagen told me it was better to stop there as they were going to Oldenburg. I guess if it's possible, don't get drop after the ferry because there are some rush and then nothing and most cars won't stop again. Plus, I was there in the evening, I tried for one hour. Then I decided I'll spend the night in the trainstation. It isn't the worst place for an overnight : it's covered, warm, you can hide, there is a train at 5am going to Lübeck. And it's a nice place to meet some frustrated HH :D


country: DE
nickname: Bipkip
datetime: 2015-07-19 21:23:55.000000
comment:
I experienced that the closer you get to the ferry exit, the less speed the cars have (and thus the easier they can read your sign). This is much more to your advantage IMO than standing further, trying to catch traffic from the K49.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-07-28 06:05:11.000000
comment:
there is an entrance from a parking lot to the big street going to the freeway. Cars can stop there without hindering the traffic too much.
I was lucky and got picked up with some other guy within 15 minutes


country: NO
datetime: 2018-03-09 22:18:42.000000
comment:
Excellent spot to get out of the airport and towards Oslo. I did this twice, first 10.2017 and 03.2018. 20 mins and 10 mins waiting.


country: BE
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2015-11-02 08:16:33.000000
comment:
^ this is * the * spot for Eindhoven / Liege, to Brussels it is completely crapper than crap since it is the wrong direction!!!!


country: DE
datetime: 2012-12-04 13:44:57.000000
comment:
I completely agree! Nice spot to go south! I wait 15min until I got a lift to rest stop Münsterland.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-03-13 19:28:42.000000
comment:
sorry to spoil the good rating, but this place SUCKS! no stopping space, dense traffic and cars that might be going north, west or south. no likee. 


country: DE
datetime: 2014-04-15 17:43:16.000000
comment:
my usual spot to start for south and west. almost no way to get east, better start for this direction at os-nahne.
i had different experiences from 10 to 60 minutes waiting for a lift with a big sign. best to stand directly at the lights so cars can stop on the side of the bike line or go to the petrol station.


country: DE
nickname: Ruub
datetime: 2014-03-27 13:35:46.000000
comment:
Gasstations are a good hitchhiking spot because you can ask the people directly. There are several options on the Hansastr. and the Bramscher Str. 


country: DE
nickname: NoaJou
datetime: 2015-01-15 20:46:58.000000
comment:
I waited at the crossroads and the gasstation in pouring rain, I am guessing that must've been the reason that people didn't want to take me. In good weather I imagine that this spot is pretty good for hitch hiking!


country: DE
datetime: 2011-09-12 19:34:42.000000
comment:
Don't use the fuel station at the Kirchheimer Kreuz if you're going west towards Gießen or Cologne. It is not indicated in the signs if you arrive from the A4 from east, so nobody will stop from there.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-11-24 21:48:55.000000
comment:
the autohof is a bad place to get a ride. almost every car is local. not enough traffic. we waited for 3 hours. 


country: DE
nickname: ManuelW
datetime: 2014-03-02 13:18:15.000000
comment:
It was quite difficult to get southern from here into the direction of Würzburg (A7). It didn't work at the Shell station at all, and took quite some time at the Esso-station.


country: CZ
datetime: 2011-05-09 16:38:40.000000
comment:
Me and my girlfriend was waiting here almost 3 hours. After an hour there came some annoying gypsy children and started begging for something. I dont recommned this place.


country: CZ
nickname: Ada.pernik
datetime: 2013-07-06 13:59:14.000000
comment:
We got off the tram but we didnt go to the overbridge. The better place is go along highway about 100m. We got lift to Ostrava in 30min.


country: CZ
nickname: Marion
datetime: 2013-08-14 15:44:55.000000
comment:
15 minutes I was looking for the best place (16.6514944°E,49.1894497°N) and for 5 minutes i caught stop. BEST place for travel to Olomouc, Ostrava or Poland...


country: CZ
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-30 14:08:52.000000
comment:
Didn't succeed to get a ride to Ostrava. I guess I should rather have tried to head to Olomouc and then Ostrava. Plus, there was not so much traffic taking the road direction to D1.


country: CZ
nickname: Paja
datetime: 2016-04-20 11:36:51.000000
comment:
We waited just 5 minutes to get the lift to Olomouc, although the visibility is not so good and cars are driving faster there, but one guy saw us and he turned to go back for us.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-09 16:04:58.000000
comment:
Better not to stuck in this city. We got out of there by train...O_o  Our driver folowed further and he suggested to pick us out there... You should be ready to spend one night somewhere (hotels are expensive). Good luck!


country: FR
nickname: PMV
datetime: 2012-08-18 19:58:42.000000
comment:
seems good place, we waited for 30-40 min on a bus stop close to the crossing and got a ride almost to the French-Spanich border :)


country: FR
nickname: Jan
datetime: 2014-03-14 19:20:59.000000
comment:
The description is excellent! Insa and Jan used this spot in May 2013 to get to Bayonne and were picked up in a few minutes.


country: FR
nickname: Sevetse
datetime: 2015-03-14 02:58:47.000000
comment:
Super easy to get a ride here towards Bayonne. I waited perhaps 10min. Just make sure you are dropped off at a gas station that will soon show up and not in a roundabout like I did.


country: FR
datetime: 2016-12-10 16:30:29.000000
comment:
good, after 30mn someone took me to a gas station along A63, from there I had a ride to Irun with a truck.


country: DE
nickname: Fraughtwithsounds
datetime: 2015-08-02 23:10:51.000000
comment:
It's much easier to get on the A72 towards Chemnitz/Dresden than towards Hof/Nürnberg. During one hour of waiting there were only 6 cars with Bavarian license plates. 

To get there from Zwickau take a train to Voigtsgrün (€3,30 ) 


country: IT
nickname: Simonkfr
datetime: 2013-06-17 09:51:28.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Milano in 5 minutes and a ride to Bellinzona in about an hour. Good place for both directions. Give a smile to the station attendants so they wont bother you. 


country: DE
datetime: 2013-10-20 12:57:05.000000
comment:
well it's ok also get more north on a5 or at least to frankfurt. on that point there r cars direction Köln and so on, Rhein-Main-Area .... many dirction might be sometimes difficult to have an ov
erview.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-02-18 15:05:37.000000
comment:
Switch rides here if your driver is heading in Cologne/Holland direction and you are trying to stay on A5 to go Frankfurt/Berlin/Hamburg/anywhere else really.


country: DE
nickname: Samsi
datetime: 2016-02-09 19:37:53.000000
comment:
Not a good idea to change here to get into Darmstadt itself if your drive wants to stay on A5 and not head into the city.


country: DE
datetime: 2010-12-13 15:20:58.000000
comment:
ServiceStation
I asked 5 people in 10 minutes for a ride as they filled up. 3 were to germany, 1 was to england, and 1 was the ride I wanted: to the netherlands. 
towards direction = netherlands
to = amsterdam
facilities = fuel, food, WC 
hitch = very good 


country: CZ
datetime: 2014-03-27 02:25:56.000000
comment:
It's almost local traffic
I waited here with sign"Dresden"
but no car stop
after 2.5h I gave up and took bus


country: BG
nickname: Kacerrsvk
datetime: 2014-07-21 21:24:27.000000
comment:
We stood directly at the turn from roundabout to OMV gas station. Best time is sunday afternoon as lot of Sofians are returning to capital.


country: BG
nickname: Teeshirt
datetime: 2015-06-07 23:15:26.000000
comment:
We waited at the next gas station (Lukoil??) beside some flags. Got a direct ride to Sliven very quickly.


country: BG
datetime: 2012-08-01 11:33:11.000000
comment:
I also tried here and it's worthless. Also stayed for 3 hours and thanks to a local that took me to the next village, for 10 km. 


country: ES
nickname: Artti
datetime: 2013-03-24 18:28:15.000000
comment:
Hitchhiked there, I was asking around, because it was freezing cold outside. One truck was going to Lorca, but I kept waiting and then I was lucky and I got a ride to Barcelona. Also restaurant is open 24 hours. 


country: ES
nickname: LukasR
datetime: 2015-04-17 12:56:12.000000
comment:
Not too much traffic on a monday, but after asking around for about an hour I found a direct ride to Malaga


country: ES
datetime: 2017-11-21 22:59:12.000000
comment:
how to get there: as of 09/2017 there is a new metro line in Granada. take the metro to the last stop "Albolote" and walk to the gas station


country: ES
datetime: 2017-11-21 22:58:30.000000
comment:
no bus needed anymore to get there! as of 09/2017 there is a new metro line in Granada. take the metro to the last stop "Albolote" and walk to the gas station


country: FR
nickname: Renart49
datetime: 2011-09-21 01:38:39.000000
comment:
I got a ride in 10 min to Tours using a sign. A lot of space for cars to stop on the pavement about 100 m after the traffic lights.


country: FR
datetime: 2016-02-27 13:04:58.000000
comment:
Best spot for getting to Tours, lots of traffic in the afternoon because many people are heading back home. Had to wait for two minutes.


country: FR
datetime: 2015-08-11 11:02:29.000000
comment:
Stood there for 10 min. The 5th car passing by stopped. A businessman to chatellerault. So I was lucky I could say. 


country: FR
nickname: Manzana
datetime: 2013-09-16 17:55:52.000000
comment:
There is not a lot of people taking gaz here because it's expensive. Furthermore, it is not directly at the entrance of the highway. But it's always possible to find someone even if it's not the best place


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2013-09-22 16:09:52.000000
comment:
Had to wait for about 30 minutes (sandwich included) to find a car to Clermont from here. It seems like an ok spot, not to much traffic for a gas sation like this


country: CZ
nickname: Mateo
datetime: 2012-09-24 13:38:03.000000
comment:
Im not sure if this is the exact petrol station our last driver (from prauge) left us, but around this area we asked people around and in 20 minutes found a Slovakian guy that took us to Munich.


country: CZ
nickname: MilanCes
datetime: 2015-07-11 12:08:46.000000
comment:
I arrived by train here around 11pm, parking were full of trucks, all of them, except one, sleeping in trucks. In 10 min. I got offer to Nuernberg and Polish driver took me into Regensburg where I was heading to.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-03 22:06:26.000000
comment:
magic place! from one side of the road, you can go to lorient, quimper, vannes, ploermel very isealy, on the otherside, go just after the bridge to go to the north ( caen, rennes, mt st michel) wait the cars to stop before they turn., before the bridge you can wait a lift for paris, orleans, le mans!


country: GB
datetime: 2012-09-21 12:51:43.000000
comment:
il faut se poser avant le rond point car il n'y a pas de place a la sortie pour aller sur l'autoroute direction londres. il y a pas mal de trafic et les voitures sont ralenti ou arrêté avant le rond point donc elles ont le temps de nous voir et nous prendre. 


country: FR
datetime: 2010-11-29 12:40:39.000000
comment:
we often hitch from here and often get picked up right away, only once i had to wait a while. have gotten rides directly to toulouse, carcassonne, collioure, la ciotat, nimes, etc. one of the best spots i've ever been to


country: FR
nickname: Adriannqld
datetime: 2011-03-07 13:17:54.000000
comment:
Feb2011, Still a good spot. Cars did not have Spanish number plates but got a quick ride for 30min+ south to another toll booth, strongly recommend asking lifts to leave you at Toll booths.


country: FR
nickname: Renart49
datetime: 2011-09-21 01:22:30.000000
comment:
I took the tram to St-Jean-de-Vedas as advised. Then, you will see a toll but you must walk after to see a bigger one. You can easily walk on the grass and under trees on the right side of the road until the 2nd toll. When you arrive just near the 2nd toll, be careful when you cross the road coming from the 1st toll.
I got a ride in 5 minutes for Toulouse (270 km). Very very good spot !


country: FR
datetime: 2012-10-20 20:00:18.000000
comment:
I wait 2 hours at the first toll, and then i walked to find the second BIG toll and wait 5 minutes to go to Toulouse


country: FR
nickname: Shuang
datetime: 2013-05-01 21:10:23.000000
comment:
2013.04.24to direction of nimes,avignon DONT do it here,try the est of the city and get closed to A9


country: FR
nickname: GregGM
datetime: 2013-06-01 14:26:46.000000
comment:
Easy walk from the train station. Very nice toll to wait at. 2 ppl got a hitch to Toulouse within minutes.


country: FR
nickname: BeerMe
datetime: 2014-09-03 23:03:26.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Narbonne with a nice french couple. Shaded and people are nice, 2 other hh got a ride to Toulouse and Narbonne while waiting with me. (30.7)


country: FR
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-26 21:09:43.000000
comment:
Had to change the direction there (at night) and got a ride immediately (speaking to drivers). June 2014


country: FR
nickname: Milloum
datetime: 2015-04-07 19:11:58.000000
comment:
stop sans panneau au péage dir. Toulouse un dimanche soir à 19h, on m'a emmené jusqu'à la première aire (Fabrègues, 3km plus loin) où j'ai été pris sans pb.


country: FR
datetime: 2017-11-14 10:06:14.000000
comment:
ATTENTION : IL N'Y A PLUS DE PEAGE SUR L'A9 (QUI CONTOURNE LES ENTREES DANS MONTPELLIER). LE PEAGE ICI SE TROUVE DESORMAIS SUR L'A709 (QUI DESSERT LES ENTREES DE MONTPELLIER. NE FAITES PAS DE STOP ICI SI VOUS SOUHAITEZ DEPASSER MONTPELLIER (NIMES, LYON OU MARSEILLE...
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CAREFULL : TOLL LINE IS ONLY ON A709 TO GO INSIDE MONTPELLIER. DON'T STOP HERE IF YOU WANT GO AFTER MONTPELLIER (NIMES, LYON or MARSEILLE)


country: FR
datetime: 2015-08-19 20:19:25.000000
comment:
Not many cars in the evening, but waiting with a sign it took 10 min until someone picked us up to take us to Gignac (far places would be difficult). Not the best place for cars to stop.


country: UA
nickname: Globestoppeuse
datetime: 2013-09-30 14:17:08.000000
comment:
Warning ! It was not the last stop of my trolley bus, it turned before and I had to walk a lot :/ just make sure it's the one you're trying to get too - the spot is perfect once you are there ! ;)


country: FR
nickname: GregGM
datetime: 2013-06-01 14:06:59.000000
comment:
Walked here from Vernaison as described in the wiki for Lyon. Takes a bit more than 30 minutes. You can walk along the motorway hidden from the cars by trees along a fence whose side is cleared from bushes, but the terrain is strongly sloping down sideways so it's still not a very pleasant walk. 
There was little traffic here a late May workday early afternoon, but we (2 ppl) got a ride south to Valence quickly.


country: FR
nickname: Pooty
datetime: 2013-10-07 14:18:02.000000
comment:
Going to this place from the spot of "La mulatière" (south exit of Lyon) by hitchhiking, found a man to Sète directly by asking in the gas station.


country: FR
nickname: LukasR
datetime: 2015-04-01 20:00:24.000000
comment:
First driver we asked on a wednesday morning took us to a service station before Orange. Hitchhiking to this station from Lyon worked well, no need to take a train (maybe expect by night)


country: FR
nickname: UnarmedCherokee
datetime: 2014-04-19 01:30:37.000000
comment:
The instructions on the Paris wiki are very good, although would recommend walking here from Briis sous forges. Had to climb a fence to get in but worth the effort. 3 hitchers picked up in 45 minutes and plenty of traffic passes through here. 


country: FR
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-30 18:13:40.000000
comment:
To get there (10.2014), from the station Massy RER/TGV, we caught a bus to Briis-sous-Forges (1,75 euro) and from there walked to this gas station. We managed to find a part with a hole in the fence (more to the southern part of the station).


country: FR
nickname: Cigale
datetime: 2016-11-24 10:34:07.000000
comment:
EXCELLENT PLACE! There is a path for walking in the gas station (the road has a sign telling it's only for working people, but you can walk on it for 700m then you cross the parking and walk into the place!). Best spot in my opinion : just before the road from the gas station goes on the highway, there is a place where cars can pull off. I always wait here with a sign with usually 2 names (ORLEANS/CLERMONT, BRETAGNE, TOURS/BORDEAUX). Works perfectly!


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-03-16 17:32:57.000000
comment:
THE SPOT TO the west of France, the South, Brittany(Breizh), Occitania, the Basque Country, Massif Central, Spain...

hitchhiked plenty of times here. Never had to wait more than 10 minutes. I only take a car that make me advance for at least 2-3hours minimum. Pretty sure that you can wait for THE car whatever you're going to Bordeaux, Clermont, Roazhon(Rennes). Never took THE car to Brest, but I'm pretty sure it can be done.

Beware --> good to know : I once was expelled by the "douane" (special police force) from this toll while coming from brittany and searching for a car going to the center of Paris. It only happened once, in the direction I don't oftenly hitch (maybe 4 or 5 times on this side). On the other side, cops passed by my side ith their car but never said anything... 

If you're trying to go to the East (Germany/Romania/England,...), it's maybe the spot to stand by if you want to bypasses Paris while arriving from the South/West. Once I was stuck for about 3h near Paris (on the N104) while trying to reach the East...


country: FR
nickname: Yeye
datetime: 2013-05-30 23:49:48.000000
comment:
Direction Paris-Nantes, It's work very well, a lot of cars paying the toll, but not very pleasant (noisy, under cameras ...).


country: FR
nickname: Mandrosvit
datetime: 2014-12-28 09:33:55.000000
comment:
It is NOT GREEN stop, it is RED. We was taken by zhandarms from there. If you stay there you can get a big fine (bill)! 


country: CZ
nickname: Hfungus
datetime: 2013-06-24 16:18:59.000000
comment:
i ve stoped here more time the car to zlín (or otrokovice...where is public trafic) and i think, that this is good place for take a car...you are walking from interspar 1km.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-02-14 11:07:01.000000
comment:
The N4 has been completely rebuilt (differs from this map and Google maps as of Feb 2011) to remove border controls just before the bridge.  There is still a bus stop in the area but traffic is very sparse and goes all directions. Much better to walk to Kehl (10 mins) and hitch from the gas station at the entrance to the B28.


country: RO
nickname: Ferfred2
datetime: 2014-09-04 15:16:03.000000
comment:
Only go here if you are going far away, like Cluj or Oradea. There are a lot of prostitutes and other hitchhikers and it took us a long time to go back to Târgu Mures. I recommend you get the Bus to Balauseri that cost 5/7 lei and try from there if you are going to distance cities.


country: IT
nickname: Kochanski
datetime: 2013-06-05 12:07:47.000000
comment:
Very bad station, avoid. If your there ask for lift people going to the airport by A4, theres better station on the way.


country: IT
datetime: 2014-05-20 17:16:17.000000
comment:
Instead of asking on gas station we stood directly on roundabout for ~1hour and got straight lift to trieste.


country: DE
nickname: MlleLunatique
datetime: 2010-11-29 23:02:06.000000
comment:
Just asked a quite young guy who looked sporty for a ride to Munich and he offered me Augsburg. Many cars there!


country: DE
nickname: Vonbawherk
datetime: 2013-03-25 00:12:47.000000
comment:
Nice for go to Munich, loads of cars go there. Burger King area is the best point for asking. Time waiting: 15 minutes aprox. on Sunday!


country: DE
nickname: MlleLunatique
datetime: 2010-11-29 22:49:37.000000
comment:
The second guy I asked, took me to Nuremberg, which was my destination. The gas station is kinda small, but it's not that hard to get a ride here.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-09-02 22:44:40.000000
comment:
not good to travel down the A92 to Munich, nearly any car came, waited for like 3 hours at night, most cars go further the A3 to Nuremberg


country: DE
datetime: 2013-07-02 10:18:55.000000
comment:
same happened to us. we wanted to go to munich, ended up on a car to regensburg and then took the train from there, because we found noone going to munich.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-03-28 14:30:45.000000
comment:
AVOID if you want to hh to MUNICH!!! most likely people wont head there because the ones coming from Vienna already took an other route. If you are willing to wait you might be lucky after a while. Try and ask people for Landshut or maybe even Deggendorf (and ask them kindly if they could drop you at the highway A92 to Munich). No petrol stations on this route though, only parking lots!


country: DE
nickname: Yooks
datetime: 2014-10-09 21:46:02.000000
comment:
It took us two tries to hitch a ride, so we would say it was a good experience. A gas station is almost always a good place to hitchhike and so is this one.


country: IE
nickname: Herpait
datetime: 2013-12-03 14:33:56.000000
comment:
We tried this place twice, and even if the traffic was very good we had to wait 45 mins and after more than an hour, even we had a sign. Maybe just bad luck...


country: IE
nickname: Darach
datetime: 2015-09-11 15:50:57.000000
comment:
Can have mixed fortunes here, sometimes I get picked up after waiting 5 minutes other times 2 hours. Anyways, lots of cars, good visibility and space for pull in.


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-03-14 16:23:47.000000
comment:
Best spot to the East. If you want to reach villages up from Ar Vro Leon, do not hesitate to hitchhike from here to with the name of your village and one before. Every person going to Ar Vourc'h-Wenn/Bourg-Blanc, Lanniliz, Plougerne, Gwiseni goes by this roundabout before reaching the one of Gouenou !


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-08-24 16:29:46.000000
comment:
If going to Rennes/Roazhon or France (Paris, Le Mans, Normandy,...), this is the best spot on the North Coast. Don't hesitate to refuse cars only going to Morlaix/Montroulez. Last time, I even found a car to caen in only 30 minutes ! 


country: FR
nickname: Loberto
datetime: 2013-05-14 12:26:06.000000
comment:
Excelent spot, great place for cars to stop and for you to stand. we were two guys hitch hiking and we founf a car in les than half an hour.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-09 15:03:23.000000
comment:
when we tryed to find this place, we didn't succeed. May be because of repairation work on the road.  We spent 2 hours and than moved to another Hitch-point


country: FR
nickname: Lepoucedalex
datetime: 2013-07-08 02:52:37.000000
comment:
Probably one of the best spots to go south of Paris, towards Orléans. It is often crowded, but I rarely had to wait.


country: FR
datetime: 2013-08-02 12:38:11.000000
comment:
One high spot to go south of Paris, quite bad in comparaison with Villabé (dir Lyon/Marseille). but it can save you when there is non more RER... You need to move a lot to attract and interest drivers.


country: FR
nickname: Tommie.tailor
datetime: 2013-09-15 16:03:01.000000
comment:
yes, a very good place to go to the South, we stood around 30 minutes and caught a car who drived 4 of us. cars have to stop on the traffic-light before this spot so their speed is slower there.


country: FR
nickname: Thibemail
datetime: 2014-03-04 22:18:54.000000
comment:
If u want to catch the highway til west part of france, you will have less sucess because of the traffic and the lack of place, cars don't drive on the right side so they are far, and go direct on the périph exté


country: FR
nickname: Lukas
datetime: 2016-04-03 11:01:04.000000
comment:
looks a bit dodgy at first, but it's not to bad. (2016) try interacting with cars waiting at the traffic light. We got a Ride to Orleans within 45 min. 
Try to got to at least the next aire the service, you don't want to be stuck at a random paris-exit, better wait a little longer then :)


country: FR
nickname: Petequero
datetime: 2015-04-28 23:47:19.000000
comment:
I use this spot quite often and it worked well most of the time. You can use it for all highway directions if you get a ride to the big Orleans-Saran service Area (10 km heading to Paris). There you can cross the highway to head south!!


country: FR
datetime: 2011-07-30 21:33:33.000000
comment:
no long wait from this good spot. An excellent option when getting south or west. Take care, don't take a car which doesn't go to the saint arnoult peage at least, if you don't wat your trip becoming harder !


country: FR
datetime: 2011-08-01 21:49:47.000000
comment:
Good spot, very easy accessible by metro. Direct ride to Bordeaux! Waited an hour though and it was the first car that made a stop.


country: FR
nickname: Mjelonakluska
datetime: 2012-08-21 19:49:57.000000
comment:
it was supposed to be a good spot, but no one stopped during ~4h, maybe just a bad luck, but the bus stop before the bridge is a nice spot to catch cars that are standing on the traffic lights


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2013-02-15 16:11:05.000000
comment:
indeed, sometimes it happens that you have to wait for one hour and a half, I use it a lot (maybe thirty times or more), sometimes it was a great succes, sometimes, can't know why, it was harder. Still a good option !


country: FR
nickname: Adebro
datetime: 2013-07-13 00:18:42.000000
comment:
Around 30 minutes wait on a Wednesday evening (4:30 pm). 

The traffic jam of the peak hour probably made me wait longer than usual as it puts people in a bad mood. 
On the other hand it allowed me to talk to drivers while they were waiting for the traffic lights to turn green. 
And that's how I got a ride to Vierzon. 


I had a big back pack with me and 2 card boards. One with a "next gas station symbol", and the other with Orléans.


country: FR
datetime: 2015-10-27 12:48:16.000000
comment:
good spot, just make sure they´re going to at least the first service station on the n118, i´ve managed to have misunderstandings from here before and got left in random suburbs.


country: FR
datetime: 2018-03-17 16:04:03.000000
comment:
Although the location itself is good, The cars did not stop. The ones that did just stopped there to pick someone up and did not want to take another person. 2 people actually stopped for me, but they were going back inside Paris so that was no use. Also 2 people lowered their window just to take a picture of a hitchhiker... After 4,5 hours of waiting I gave up due to the bad weather


country: DE
datetime: 2011-03-22 20:51:04.000000
comment:
after standing at the two gasstations southwest from here for to long, i went here and instantly got a lift


country: DE
nickname: Kundrt
datetime: 2011-04-30 13:52:28.000000
comment:
I have different experience. We stand there 3 hours and nobody to Czech Republic. Everyone only to München and also lot of people to Berlin.


country: DE
nickname: Xkomczax
datetime: 2011-11-06 12:57:16.000000
comment:
A lot of cars going to the south direction (München, Regensburg), but almost nobody to the Czech republic. This is not only my experience, but I read a lot of messages saying the same on the  traffic signs and traffic barrier on this spot.


country: DE
nickname: Upi4kumaterinu
datetime: 2012-04-17 20:52:21.000000
comment:
2 of us waited for about 2 hours to get a lift towards the Czech Republic- we got very lucky. It was not a good spot, not much traffic, not many cars going that way. (It was Thursday evening, 5-7pm)


country: DE
nickname: Spiritsxxi
datetime: 2012-10-27 19:11:46.000000
comment:
Had to wait a surprisingly long time (30 mins plus) on a Saturday morning Sept 2012, going towards Passau. Maybe not such a good weekend spot.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-03-04 16:13:06.000000
comment:
in february 2013 there was almost nobody going in direction of the czech republic. got stuck here for 6 hours. traffic is good to munich!


country: DE
datetime: 2014-09-16 11:05:06.000000
comment:
monday night at 5/6 pm:
many going to czech republic, munich, austria. i needed A9 north (berlin) - no chance! but it's easy to get a lift to A9 southwards and then be dropped off at an "autohof" (the gas stations with mcdonalds and such by the exits, so can be reached from both ways of the highway) 2 exits south of nuremberg. from there it was easy to get up north. half an hour detour i would say, so definitely easier than waiting for cars going north here!


country: DE
nickname: Dan the man
datetime: 2015-12-02 20:19:48.000000
comment:
A lot of the cars are going south. Got my lift to Austria after asking people at the gas station for about 15min.
Got from here directly to Salzburg


country: DE
datetime: 2016-08-10 17:34:08.000000
comment:
We waited 3h for a ride to Passau on a Monday at noon time. But it was holiday season. Lots of cars going to Munich !

 


country: DE
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2016-08-13 23:48:39.000000
comment:
It is a really frequent and amazing spot. It was easy to find a ride towards Austria [direction Regensburg and Passau]. I got here by walking/hitchhiking from Fürth through Hüttendorf and Kriegenbrunn small villages, and in the end I crossed this magic forest, and then just walked into the resting area. Good luck!


country: AT
datetime: 2011-04-23 00:08:47.000000
comment:
My advise - walk 100 metres more out of the city (see the map), and get to a much better spot at a small bus stop.


country: AT
nickname: Krzych machinehead
datetime: 2012-06-28 14:04:59.000000
comment:
I was actually standing right next to the Merkur shop on Bruenner Strasse - arrived there at 4 pm and after 1 hour I managed to catch a car directly to Poland, and that was in November 2011 :) so that means it's a good place to hitch !


country: AT
nickname: Davidkuski
datetime: 2012-09-05 18:26:55.000000
comment:
Front of the Merkur is it very good place. The cars are slow because there have a light, and also can stop for you. But if you are going to Czech maybe try to go first to Mistelbach, this is the last city in Austria. And in 2012.aug here was the highway end.


country: AT
nickname: FernandoArmando
datetime: 2014-04-16 03:35:05.000000
comment:
After 3 hours there, it was dark and I only stopped a car. 
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Después de 3 horas alli, se hizo de noche y solo paró un coche.


country: AT
nickname: Unrooted
datetime: 2014-04-28 23:52:54.000000
comment:
Waves of traffic, due to traffic light further back, so is a bit slower than most spots. But you can hitch the lane turning to the shop which works well, more than enough room for cars. Traffic lights also give you a chance to speak to some drivers.


country: AT
nickname: ESko
datetime: 2015-03-29 14:44:25.000000
comment:
I walked a bit further than recommended. Wiki says its a good place, but I couldnt really see it, but if you walk further there's a place to pull over. I was there about 35 min, and then a woman took me to Mistelbach. ps: if you wanna buy food there's Mercur and then further on your way Hoffer. Choose Hoffer, its much cheaper.


country: AT
nickname: ESko
datetime: 2016-07-28 10:11:25.000000
comment:
Over one year later, I was here again, and have to take back what I said before. The place where I hitchhiked last year is not a good spot. This time I hitchhiked right next Mercur and ofter 20 mins got a lift to the highway. Unless it is Friday and lots of Poles and Czechs are going home the chance someone will take you to the Czech Republic is low, so hitchhike without a sign, and get as far as you can ;)


country: DE
datetime: 2011-10-22 17:07:01.000000
comment:
I got a ride to Augsburg from here by standing with a sign at the gas station entrance. Sees mostly local traffic though.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-02-28 10:17:32.000000
comment:
For every one car to direction Munich, you'll get 10 to Stuttgart. Not a good place at all for Munich, but excellent for Stuttgart. 


country: DE
nickname: OrdnaS
datetime: 2014-04-02 18:01:14.000000
comment:
I went to Karlsruhe on a Saturday 10am with a friend.
We didn't wait 5 minutes 'til someone picked us.


country: DE
nickname: Anawesomesummer
datetime: 2015-05-14 16:05:29.000000
comment:
worked very well for 2 people. we got to Karlsruhe in one lift! further would have been possible. 
happy hitching. 


country: DE
datetime: 2022-05-04 22:43:58.000000
comment:
Couple with a panel indicating Stuttgart/Karlsruhe. Not many cars stopping at the gas station. We changed place to go more in the city (before the bridge over the railways) and finally get caught after waiting more than one hour. 


country: RO
nickname: Erlendur
datetime: 2012-07-25 16:37:13.000000
comment:
Got a ride after circa 20min. A guy picked me up, he went to Onesti, even if I wanted to go further to Bacau. Better to take small steps then no steps at all.


country: RO
nickname: HoboSpirit
datetime: 2015-01-09 17:59:24.000000
comment:
Got a lift with a guy called Coco after maybe 30 mins, use a sign and theres a petrol station up the road too. I was hitching to Moldova via Iasi [Blog Post](http://www.hobospirit.com/hitchhiking-from-brasov-to-chisinau-via-iasi/)


country: BG
nickname: Mpetrovic
datetime: 2014-04-01 00:36:07.000000
comment:
have in mind that this hh point is not placed correctly. The place with a few restaurants is couple of hundred meters down the road to the east


country: FR
nickname: Hydra supertramp
datetime: 2012-08-19 11:13:33.000000
comment:
Good place! Arriving when there already was one guy going to Rennes who gets picked up once I finish writing my sign. Two others coming who are heading to  Angers and are also leaving before me. Another 20min and I'm gone as well. Fair enough!


country: FR
nickname: Hanselngretel
datetime: 2013-08-09 22:43:31.000000
comment:
At 11pm we got a ride to Treffieux (for the Multison) and at 2am we got a ride once to Rennes and once to Vannes !


country: FR
nickname: Gudule
datetime: 2015-02-27 22:32:56.000000
comment:
I met an other guy on the spot, we waited 20 mn and were both taken by the same car. Great to Rennes.


country: FR
nickname: Mikan
datetime: 2013-08-18 17:52:56.000000
comment:
i tried on a saturday morning in summer and there was not so much traffic, i had to wait quite a long time. i got a ride by two people going to le mont st michel (i was trying to reach caen).


country: FR
nickname: Mikan
datetime: 2015-03-01 13:42:46.000000
comment:
try to wait a bit before the roundabout or at the previous one, there is not much space to stop otherwise.


country: FR
datetime: 2017-03-31 00:58:32.000000
comment:
not so bad place towards Caen, but some cars driving fast. If you are heading towards Le Mont Saint Michel you can try in the same roundabout but next exit, towards Pontarson, I did and worked good


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-06-20 14:03:46.000000
comment:
If you come from cities close to bordeaux, you can be left here. I waited about 20 minutes before finding a car to Niort/Nantes-Naoned/Vannes-Gwened on a sunday morning (11:30 a.m). Frankly, I don't think it's an excellent spot but if you're asking people to leave you at a service station on the A10, it works.

When passing close to the service station on the west side of the peripherique, I saw much more cars stopping by...

It seems that the two spots work if you have to cross bordeaux !


country: FR
datetime: 2011-01-07 21:53:53.000000
comment:
there are 2 entrace to highway in nice, i wtayed in both of them for hours, in rain, the small road by the see is impossible also, but there is a localbus going to cannes for 1 euro, it takes 2 almost 2 hours cause it stops at every station but if you start your journey early in themorning its easier to hitch from cannes ,,,


country: FI
nickname: Äntti
datetime: 2013-06-10 18:10:58.000000
comment:
standing after the roundabout works also for hitching a ride north, as we found out. got a ride to Rovaniemi after a short wait.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-03-04 11:21:48.000000
comment:
Took this Point to get from the Highway into Freiburg. It took around 15mins. The Parking Lane on this Side is long and so easy to park for you


country: DE
nickname: Adamiksen
datetime: 2014-05-17 20:24:52.000000
comment:
I was lucky to get a ride to Basel, just 5 min after getting off from the previous car. Was standing ca.100 m before the parking place.The parking place itself didnt have any cars saturday morning.


country: NL
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-30 00:10:34.000000
comment:
We waited here for a very short time and eventually decided to move to the highway entrance where the cars could see us better.


country: DE
nickname: Platschi
datetime: 2012-11-12 14:13:25.000000
comment:
Same here, 5min maximum on a Saturday afternoon. Driver told me that from Ochtrup, people going east most likely use this on-ramp, not the one before (westwards)


country: DE
nickname: Dan Vertígo
datetime: 2015-07-26 15:06:23.000000
comment:
I didn´t to waste my time going around the lake so I took a ferry to Meersburg (direction Munich), it was only 2.9 EUR and it was a great view from a boat :)


country: FI
nickname: Äntti
datetime: 2012-09-09 16:48:28.000000
comment:
IMO better to stand after, not before the bus stop. more visibility there with still fair amount of space to pull over.


country: FI
nickname: MustacheHitcher
datetime: 2013-11-18 17:16:45.000000
comment:
Agree, tried to hitch to the north from the bus stop, right after the traffic lights. Although it seems, like a lot of space for cars to stop - no results. But hitching in the end of bus stop, I got a ride to Lahti direction in 1.5 h on autumn morning.


country: FI
nickname: Bonkers1990
datetime: 2014-06-18 00:36:40.000000
comment:
It is indeed better to stand just behind the traffic lights. There is also a trick you can try if you stand behind the traffic lights : if you push the button for pedestrians to cross the street, the cars get a red light and there is a bigger chance that they will see you and their speed is much slower. That's how I got a ride to Lahti after 20 minutes. 


country: PL
datetime: 2011-01-24 16:47:02.000000
comment:
If you are going towards Berlin the toll booths are your best chance. Here you get mostly local traffic.


country: PL
datetime: 2013-07-29 13:17:55.000000
comment:
Wanted to go to Berlin and a girl next to me to Wrocław. She got a lift after cira 1h20m, me - 3h. Better to write Niemcy(Germany) rather than Berlin. Necessary a well visible sign and a lot of patience. 


country: PL
nickname: Pawel.wita
datetime: 2013-10-17 21:23:23.000000
comment:
I went from this place many times and it really depends. Sometimes I had to wait like 2 hours and sometimes 5 minutes. It is a really strange place.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-08-22 15:10:43.000000
comment:
When in need of food don't forget to go to the nearest Lidl just about the roundabout - much cheaper than on the gas station! Ask lorry drivers if you can't find it.


country: DE
nickname: Fikret sohlberg
datetime: 2013-11-01 18:15:07.000000
comment:
When you are travelling west, it is best to ask drivers to take you to the next station in hockenheim.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-08-20 20:53:48.000000
comment:
I waited for a car in the petrol station two times, both with my girlfriend. First one in November of 2012 to go to Hamburg, we waited one hour. Second one in August of 2015, to go to Lübeck (but with a sign for Lübeck or Hamburg). It also took one hour


country: ES
nickname: Jackortega
datetime: 2011-12-01 18:09:34.000000
comment:
It took a while to arrive on bus and then walk 20minutes, but the first lorry driver we asked offered us a lift. You need to ask stopped lorries/cars. Easy to go to Madrid.


country: BE
nickname: Kriechstrom
datetime: 2012-01-09 20:04:07.000000
comment:
I've had a real hard time finding someone going to the German border here on a Monday afternoon. Almost exclusively local traffic and some trucks. I do not recommend this station.


country: BE
nickname: Taci
datetime: 2014-11-24 17:34:50.000000
comment:
in the morning to go to germany i always get a ride that stops me at the petrol station before köln... and i always have to wait +/- 1h30...


country: CH
datetime: 2010-12-16 18:44:03.000000
comment:
Relatively good spot, as you are protected from the weather and there´s enough space to stop. Although drivers won´t see you from far away, there are traffic lights right before the spot. You will need a sign.


country: CH
nickname: Kubegus
datetime: 2013-11-06 18:08:03.000000
comment:
Great spot. To Zurich less 30 min. The Bridge protect you and there are plenty of space to stop the car.


country: CH
nickname: Karinekerr
datetime: 2015-04-17 18:56:40.000000
comment:
HH in this spot yesterday, 40min, with a sign. The cars are slow because of the traffic lights. The police pass twice and just smiled to us. :)


country: CH
nickname: Pseudodoc
datetime: 2016-08-07 13:54:07.000000
comment:
Stood just on the corner behind the traffic light holding a sign. There is a shoulder on the onramp so people can pull over. Got a ride to Thun (was going to Interlaken) within 1 minute or so.


country: CH
datetime: 2019-08-11 06:52:10.000000
comment:
Took me less than 10 min to find a ride to Zurich on a Saturday afternoon. Decent traffic. Was standing under the bridge. 


country: DE
nickname: Mat
datetime: 2014-07-08 16:28:43.000000
comment:
Just before the double lane starts, there's a  cool  spot (bus stop) where cars are still going slow. Waited 1 hour to Ulm (with a Munich sign) a sunday morning


country: DE
datetime: 2014-08-24 12:56:48.000000
comment:
Waited 40 min. with a "MÜNCHEN / AUGSBURG" sign and got a ride directly to Augsburg where I wanted to go. Only good to get a ride south (B27) or east (A8).


country: DE
datetime: 2018-08-28 19:02:31.000000
comment:
Not in direction West! For that I suggest the other motorway entrances in Western Stuttgart (e.g. Vaihingen) Local people told us the same, too. But all in all, a good spot with many local cars which go about 50 km from here to South or East (on the highway). We got a ride in 15 minutes even on Saturday evening 11:30pm! 2 persons (me and my girlfriend), Saturday, 15 mins


country: DE
datetime: 2011-09-12 17:53:10.000000
comment:
I tried one time to hitch close to the highway southwards, nearby the gasoline station. But it didn't work. Only after asking several drivers on the gasoline station, I got a car heading into my direction. Better ask there.


country: DE
nickname: Sebbo
datetime: 2012-08-05 17:26:28.000000
comment:
Stood here once, going south, in summer, vacation/traveltime, most cars were full familycars, heading north or to Leipzig.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-08-03 15:53:04.000000
comment:
not the best place to start, waited there for hours with asking the people frequently. most oft them were going to leipzig or the country nearby. after 5 hours I decided to sleep behind the gas station and get a car by 'mitfahrgelegenheit' the next day to get away from that shitty spot. friends experienced the same there. better go to leipzig/merseburger straße!!!


country: DE
datetime: 2014-07-21 21:19:17.000000
comment:
We waited for 2 hours at the petrol station but most cars are local traffic going back to Leipzig so we tried our luck at the traffic light across the road and got a ride in less than 5 minutes.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-02-23 14:13:51.000000
comment:
I started once at the Aral-gasstation and I got away from there after 15 minutes in southern direction to Erfurt. So in my case it was very good and I just can recommend it!


country: DE
nickname: Filip.bartek
datetime: 2016-03-28 19:04:54.000000
comment:
A good place to get from the highway to a city train to Leipzig. The train stop is about 500 m away and easily accessible on foot.


country: DE
datetime: 2017-06-05 17:31:07.000000
comment:
A lot of traffic goes south here, some are going west (A4) direction of Erfurt. Very few go north-west with direction Magdeburg. Anyway i found a direct lift to Magdeburg after 45 minutes of asking people at the gas station. 


country: DE
datetime: 2019-05-22 08:23:24.000000
comment:
A Decent amount of people going north and south on A9. Not so many people heading onto the A14. I found someone quickly for going towards Halle ~Lukas


country: BG
nickname: Olmomp
datetime: 2011-11-04 22:43:20.000000
comment:
I hitched from where road and railway meets again, after customs. Could have easily continued on foot had I wanted to. Nobody even cared to check my passport on this side of the border, even though I was walking around a while, and very visibly so;)


country: BG
nickname: Ans
datetime: 2012-07-24 22:49:20.000000
comment:
You can always try. Got once over the bridge on foot at night, because nobody saw us. But usually someone will scream after you. And hitching is cooler anyway, if you're lucky, you can find a direct ride to Bucharest :)


country: BG
nickname: Delilah
datetime: 2014-05-05 22:32:46.000000
comment:
I hitched actually at first control point. Got a tourist bus going to Bucharest (for free) in 5 min. 


country: FR
nickname: Remigr
datetime: 2014-12-19 15:06:37.000000
comment:
I usually put a sign "Péage" to join the next toll which is about 15km further and it works really well! From there it is really easy to join the North


country: DE
datetime: 2011-07-02 14:16:37.000000
comment:
got dropped at the petrol station also and wanted to go to salzburg(with a sign!!). thought i was stuck here. but on the side of the roundabout where the traffic from rosenburg comes from i finally got a ride. might have been lucky though. was a friday afternoon, maybe then getting onto the autobahn again works better(?)


country: DE
datetime: 2011-10-07 20:27:40.000000
comment:
end july 2011, on the onramp to the motorway headed to Austria ; worked well, with rain and it looked like nothing...


country: DE
datetime: 2011-10-22 14:31:28.000000
comment:
Got dropped off here to go to Salzburg, there were a lot of people but we were hitchhiking for 1,5 day before we got a ride.


country: DE
nickname: Upi4kumaterinu
datetime: 2012-04-17 20:46:12.000000
comment:
Two of us did not get thrown away from there for a while, but waited with no success(travelling towards Nuernberg). Spent more time at the restaurant talking to people going out- again with no success. Eventually got a ride by talking to people on the parking.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-05-14 14:45:33.000000
comment:
Don't try it from there to the A7, nearly no car driving this direction, waited for 2.5h until decided to go somewhere else


country: DE
datetime: 2016-04-05 14:31:55.000000
comment:
Waited long time to find no one going to Nurmberg ... Finally a police car stopped, taked me to the police station for a control. Looking at the comments, i am pretty sure that it's the guy from the station who called them. Fuck this spot, seriously.


country: DK
nickname: Nate
datetime: 2011-03-03 15:23:30.000000
comment:
If going north to Goteborg you might want to wait until someone is heading to that direction rather than to just get across the bridge.


country: DK
nickname: Zenit
datetime: 2016-05-03 19:49:18.000000
comment:
You can hitch towards the South  from Lufthavn V as well. Most people go into the city though, and stopping space isn't so great. 


country: DE
datetime: 2012-09-25 17:00:52.000000
comment:
I started hiking there to Berlin and a Truckdriver took me directly there. didnt had to wait very long.


country: FR
datetime: 2013-07-07 23:17:32.000000
comment:
Very good way to go to Paris. Probably a good way to get to Bordeaux too. I find it good to stand a bit before the bus stop, so people have room to stop.


country: FR
nickname: Mikan
datetime: 2014-07-18 12:14:59.000000
comment:
may be nice for going north, but for the south or in direction of auch, people have to be on the left side of the road where there is no space to stop...


country: FR
nickname: Talliknalli
datetime: 2015-07-25 11:32:24.000000
comment:
Good spot to go north (Paris, Bordeaux). Easy access by bus. Stand by the bus stop where cars can stop easily.


country: FR
datetime: 2019-08-31 09:06:15.000000
comment:
A group of 3 waited 1 hour before me without success, I waited 1h30 no success as well. The nearby gas station worked better :)


country: PL
datetime: 2011-05-20 03:18:44.000000
comment:
Truly an only sensible place in Poznan to hhike in the direction of Germany, but really not a worst one. Just stand at the exit of the petrol station and sooner or later you should catch a hike. To get here, get first to Ogrody and switch there to bus no. 61 or 86, hop off at the stop called "Wichrowa", then walk 5 mins to the petrol station. The best bus ticket option is 1h ticket, a student one should cost around 2,50 zloty.


country: DE
nickname: Tramper
datetime: 2011-10-18 13:20:15.000000
comment:
after 20 minutes of waiting, we decided to look at the Aral gas station nearby. There we were more successful.


country: AT
nickname: Ostkreuz
datetime: 2012-10-21 16:02:59.000000
comment:
Agree with initial discription: not too much traffic, many people going to Vienna while we were headed in other direction.


country: AT
nickname: IsntThatIllegal?
datetime: 2013-07-14 12:30:14.000000
comment:
Took an hour to get a ride west towards Linz, though I eventually got a ride all the way to Mannheim (!).  Slow, but some people are going all the way into to Germany, so might be worth the wait.


country: RS
nickname: Phidias81
datetime: 2015-12-19 22:41:02.000000
comment:
Senseless if you are going toward Zagreb. It's worth coming here only if you go towards Novi Sad. If not still take the ride to the next gas station, much better chances there


country: RS
datetime: 2019-08-26 22:30:21.000000
comment:
(BOY AND GIRL) With a panel of Croatia in the exit of the gas station we waited quite a long time (2hours) we even used sometimes the highway side but it didn't work not because it's forbidden but we weren't lucky! I'm saying this because there is some drivers were entering from the exit side! yes! it's Serbia don't be surprised.

While we were hitchhiking there was a couple hitchhiking in the entrance of the gas station with a big sign novi sad and they caught a car in only 10min (highway side) and after they left another guy came to hitchhike again to novi sad and he caught a car in only 10min as well in the same place. so if your destination in Novi sad I think staying in the entrance is better otherwise stay in the exit of Macdonals I think is good and ask people (I didn't try)


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-02 01:19:54.000000
comment:
really not much sense hitchhiking to netherlands from this spot, it's much better to try to catch someone coming from Bremen (a1) above osnabrück. got stuck here for quite some time.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-11-05 19:05:18.000000
comment:
No sense to go to NL. Their were almost no cars. I had to go to the next gas station on A1 (near to damme), pass the bridge and hitchike to catch people coming from Bremen to NL.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-09-03 17:50:53.000000
comment:
perfect to go north,
A2 is crossing less than 100km to the South so nobody going East will stop here


country: EE
datetime: 2011-08-19 15:38:17.000000
comment:
the spot seams perfect but i waited for over 3 hours and then gave up and took the bus, very weird maybe i was just very unlucky...


country: SI
datetime: 2012-08-13 01:26:18.000000
comment:
In theory this is a really good spot, but on a summer Sunday I gave up after 2.5 hours of trying. Once you cross the bridge go straight down underneath and someone has cut the fence so you don`t have to jump!


country: SI
nickname: Pavjel
datetime: 2012-10-26 00:16:58.000000
comment:
today the truck driver said me at this spot, the best time to pick up here some ride is at 5,6 oclock in the morning when the truck drivers are wakeing up. he said this spot use to but quiet full at this time. however this is just when you are hitchhiking alone!


country: SI
nickname: Looking for Stu
datetime: 2013-04-25 20:54:46.000000
comment:
Great spot at the end of the truck stop just before the motorway entrance slip road.  I had a sign for Zagreb, picked up by two lovely Croatians within half an hour.


country: SI
nickname: DontWorryBeHippie
datetime: 2016-05-12 13:25:23.000000
comment:
Definitely the best spot to get a ride to Zagreb. Waited 15 min, picked up by a lovely young Croatian guy


country: SI
datetime: 2019-08-25 11:07:56.000000
comment:
Best spot to leave Ljubljana toward Croatia, after we(boy,girl) putted our backpack and hold the panel, germans camping car took us till Split in a rainy day.
Really easy to reach, just follow advices given by the guy of this spot haha and you will find yourself there


country: AL
nickname: Sam iam
datetime: 2012-05-15 21:22:13.000000
comment:
ATTENTION: The road from Skoder to Podgorica is unfinshed and the border section between Hani i Hotit and Bozaj is closed for construction until 17:00.
If you plan on ging to Montenegro, take the other border towards Bar.


country: AD
nickname: Nyufff
datetime: 2014-05-07 20:04:40.000000
comment:
its a great place with amazing view! but be careful to take warm clothes with you between october and may!!


country: HU
datetime: 2011-11-02 08:49:37.000000
comment:
this place isnt a good one. because its hidden, fast nobody stops who goes south, just the local guys


country: HU
nickname: Seminko
datetime: 2012-07-22 18:45:09.000000
comment:
I agree it is not a good place. Local cars, tankstelle is hidden.
After more than hour somebody took us to a more far away petrol station.


country: HU
datetime: 2013-05-31 23:10:18.000000
comment:
I use this place weekly to Szeged. Use a table with your destination, and there will be no problem. waiting time: ~10-30 min


country: HU
nickname: Gustavobretz
datetime: 2015-05-12 21:27:03.000000
comment:
I didn't have any sign, just my thumb up. It was Eastern, hot sunny day. Almost no car stopping here. Got a ride after one hour to the next gas station, which was much better.


country: CZ
nickname: Hfungus
datetime: 2011-06-25 15:28:04.000000
comment:
yes, this is a best place to go to bratislava, because you cann take a free caffee in ikea :), but you stay long time in petrol station.


country: CZ
nickname: Andress
datetime: 2012-07-07 19:34:19.000000
comment:
4 of us hitchhikers were waiting here to get ride in Bratislava direction, many cars went back to Brno, but probably still the best place for Brno-Bratislava 


country: CZ
nickname: Zimmer hans
datetime: 2013-08-03 09:26:16.000000
comment:
We hitchhiked easily to Budapest, but place is on the round-about, a little bit closer to the exit from petrol station. Good to have sign with name of the city.


country: CZ
nickname: Burrito
datetime: 2013-08-12 11:58:47.000000
comment:
We were dropped of here and catch easy ride to Bratislava (asking drivers at the gas station). Really good place. There are also many trucks heading further directions.


country: CZ
nickname: Alcanlo
datetime: 2013-12-19 20:28:53.000000
comment:
Maybe its a good idea to try different options. ask the drivers here and in the parking or go to the runabout with a sign if there are no many people stopped here.


country: CZ
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2014-08-06 21:32:18.000000
comment:
The best thing with the BRATISLAVA sign is that you dont even have to make an own table, there is the green one upperside:) just take it to your hands as it would be yours (tall people has advantage though)


country: RS
nickname: Maddis
datetime: 2012-11-06 10:01:44.000000
comment:
Better to ask people, or hitch from the street next to the Gas Station (one line for cars to stop). Go for Novi Sad, from there to Buda / Vienna


country: SI
nickname: DasSchöneBiest
datetime: 2011-10-06 11:36:35.000000
comment:
locals say this cross-way is the only possibility to get out of the city. direction Zagreb and Lubljana were supposed to work out. tons of cars, but nobody stops. stood there for about 8 hours!! maybe that was why we where to men. we saw women there who got picked up quickly.


country: SI
nickname: Looking for Stu
datetime: 2013-04-16 15:38:09.000000
comment:
First time I got picked up by a woman!  This is a good place to hitch.  Plenty of traffic from three directions, and the bus stop provides loads of space for drivers to pull in.  I got a ride to Ljubljana within the hour.  I used a sign with 'Ljub' written on it.  Apparently this means something like "my darling".  I got the wrong abbreviation, but I still got there! 


country: SI
nickname: Worldwidehitchhiker
datetime: 2013-06-21 17:17:15.000000
comment:
I waited here for 10 minutes with a sign "LJ" even if I was going to Vransko(Celje). 
It was around 6PM on a Sunday.
Very good spot from my experience.


country: SI
nickname: Yooks
datetime: 2015-03-04 02:05:50.000000
comment:
Pretty good spot. We got a ride before we even raised the sign. Of course this was just luck, but this spot has qualities like the distance from the traffic light, a lot of space to pull over, protected place to put your stuff and so on...


country: SI
nickname: Sitko
datetime: 2015-04-08 09:58:04.000000
comment:
it should be good but those that go forward go fast and they don't really seem to be willing to pull off. i was there looking for a ride from 20.15 to 21.45 on the easter monday with a sign for ljubljana. my bad but still they could've offered just a ride to the highway :)


country: SI
nickname: Kamerol
datetime: 2015-09-01 18:38:42.000000
comment:
In general great place to pull up to Ljubljana.
Last time we stood there it took us about 1h (Friday noon) to get a ride few kilometers down the road.


country: SI
nickname: Ludmil
datetime: 2017-04-13 17:01:05.000000
comment:
I was waiting the with sign LJ less than 1 minute. It' s really perfect spot for direction Ljubjana.


country: SI
nickname: Longhaul
datetime: 2012-01-02 22:18:14.000000
comment:
I hitchhiked from here heading to Graz / Gradec without any board, just thumb up. The waiting time was about 20 minutes.


country: SI
datetime: 2012-08-27 23:16:29.000000
comment:
We hitchhiked from here towards Hungary. Most people are going to Graz, so we had to wait so long. There were some other guys wo wanted to go to Austria, they only waited 10 mintues.


country: BE
nickname: LuciMK
datetime: 2012-08-20 19:33:22.000000
comment:
We wanted to go to Calais and this plase wasn't that good. So a guy stopped us and told us about petrol station at Jabber (about 2 km from here), that's gonna be better. It was. So not a perfect place for Calais etc..


country: BE
datetime: 2011-07-24 17:50:02.000000
comment:
Took about 30 min, but when 3 of us were picked up it was a BMW estate with air con - took us halfway to gent, even though we only asked for Oostkamp, they thought we'd be better off further down the motorway


country: BE
datetime: 2015-06-29 17:09:36.000000
comment:
1 guy 1 girl got a ride in around 2-3 mins, lucked out and he was going all the way to Gent. Around midday on a Monday. There's a petrol station straight after a set of lights.


country: BE
datetime: 2019-07-03 02:49:14.000000
comment:
Walked down a bit the road with a sign Ghent, got a direct ride within 5 mins. Lots of parking space for car to pull by along the whole road to the south


country: SE
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2015-09-16 19:09:57.000000
comment:
A very bad place for the cars to stop, but managed to get a quick ride to te Kungsbacka gas station.


country: SE
datetime: 2011-04-21 23:21:50.000000
comment:
Despite the above opinion, I would recommend this place to be best for going Northbound. The experience of ca. 50 odd hikes caught there, waiting time is ca. 2-10 min. Good luck!


country: DE
nickname: Wilhelmus
datetime: 2012-07-15 19:31:19.000000
comment:
Good for going East. A bit tricky cause after the gas station there is another restaurant with more people! Got a ride standing at the end.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-09-29 10:14:10.000000
comment:
best spot to go to a9 (north/south), because most people going a9 stop here instead of hermsdorf (directly at the autobahnkreuz).


country: DE
nickname: Wurzelkoch
datetime: 2015-06-15 15:25:40.000000
comment:
At sunday after a long weekend very crowdy. I could have got a lift to Berlin in about 5min (One third of all cars were from Berlin and I was even asked by people before I could ask). To Nossen it was a bit more difficult, but still 15-20 min.


country: DE
nickname: Incogitatus
datetime: 2011-11-23 03:11:01.000000
comment:
Even when it's dark out, it's quite possible, as long as there isn't a hitchhiking queue :)  Took me about 1.5 hours to get a lift directly to Hamburg.


country: DE
nickname: NoaJou
datetime: 2015-01-15 20:49:17.000000
comment:
Fantastic spot, managed to get a ride in a few minutes nearly all the way to Osnabrueck which was my destination. This was in the cold winter months so this spot is definitely recommendable.


country: DE
datetime: 2016-07-27 11:16:38.000000
comment:
Perfect place. You can talk to the drivers near the gas station or position yourself with a sign by the exit road


country: DE
nickname: Rory
datetime: 2016-08-11 22:17:11.000000
comment:
Very good spot for going east-Poland, Leipzig etc.
Good to go north to A1 (Osnabrück, Bremen, Dortmund,...) or to the netherlands even


country: CH
nickname: Simonkfr
datetime: 2013-06-17 14:43:20.000000
comment:
i found it very difficult to get away north at this station. it's a huge stations which makes it hard to get into personal contact with people. may be it works better when heading south, nearly everyone i was talking to went south. 


country: CH
datetime: 2013-08-10 02:17:41.000000
comment:
I'm sharing the oppinion, that the station is just kind of too big. Anyway, i got dropped off there at 10pm and ended up waiting the whole night until 5am until i found some truck driver who took me all the way to Milan.
In the nighttime the station is almost abandoned, and the Restaurants are closed.


country: CH
datetime: 2011-02-01 15:39:47.000000
comment:
My friend and I didn't have much luck here.  There wasn't enough traffic through the gas station and not speaking italian was a HUGE disadvantage.


country: AT
datetime: 2011-09-18 22:13:58.000000
comment:
Good place to go to Slovenia (I had 4 offers to Lubljana in 20 minutes), but it is hard to get a ride to the west (Villach etc.)


country: AT
nickname: Cimex85
datetime: 2012-03-05 16:41:28.000000
comment:
Got fined by the police for hitching here, took our passports until we payed. Threatened to put us in jail if they see us again since we had no more money to give them. Great spot :0)


country: AT
nickname: Looking for Stu
datetime: 2013-04-14 21:03:17.000000
comment:
Interesting spot.  It's a very small shoulder with not much room to stop, however as traffic is slow coming off the roundabout you'll get noticed.  Police passed me with no problems, although you are a bit exposed and on an unlucky day you might get told to move.  No problems getting a ride to Maribor inside ten minutes.


country: AT
nickname: Burrito
datetime: 2013-08-12 12:47:43.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Maribor in 30 minutes. No police were passing by during that time so I cannot say if it's risky.
Very good spot, lot of cars heading Slovenia and enough space to pull over.
Getting there is easy from the city centre. There's a bus (don't remember which - I've asked at tourist office) stopping close to that place.


country: AT
nickname: Kidp3
datetime: 2013-10-22 17:41:36.000000
comment:
Took 1 hr 40 mins on a Monday afternoon to get to Maribor, using a 'SLO' sign. Most of the Slovenian and Croatian cars wouldn't even make eye contact.


country: AT
nickname: Tal h
datetime: 2014-10-02 14:47:27.000000
comment:
cops were on the other side, didnt bother us, we hitchhiked in night time to slovenia, there is a place to stop


country: AT
nickname: Yooks
datetime: 2015-03-04 00:50:19.000000
comment:
Not a good spot. The police came and shooed us away. It's much better to hitchhike on the north side of the ring.


country: AT
nickname: Martinsltopf
datetime: 2015-08-10 17:19:02.000000
comment:
Cops didn't bother us, but tough spot. Cars go fast, and there's a tricky merge with people coming from the tunnel and heading for the city, meaning it's sometimes dangerous for cars to stop. I'd try my luck 100 metres further on, on the on-ramp, although the po-pos might not like.


country: AT
datetime: 2019-07-09 05:25:20.000000
comment:
July 2019, police again after 5min only there... but they ask to move a another place of the opposite side of turnover


country: DE
nickname: Jsmith
datetime: 2011-10-04 17:04:21.000000
comment:
Intention was Dortmund but settled for a gas station direction Duesseldorf which ended up working well.  Found many people, if not most, were headed south from cologne.  Hitched Friday mid-day.


country: DE
nickname: Wild
datetime: 2013-05-11 11:56:40.000000
comment:
A lot of people, going North and South as well. Good point, but it will be better not just to stay, but talk with refilling people. 


country: DE
nickname: Pusha89
datetime: 2014-03-02 13:43:31.000000
comment:
The only problem I found is that most of the people doesn't speak english. Also What I did was wait before the petrol station with a sign "D-Dorf" (Dusseldorf) so people could enter to the gas station to pick me up. 


country: DE
datetime: 2014-08-04 01:21:56.000000
comment:
Waiting before the gas station with a sign "Pott (GE / E)" (greater Gelsenkirchen/Essen area) made me wait not longer than 3 minutes. Hitchhiked mid-day on a Friday.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-05-03 12:58:37.000000
comment:
if you have problem with going to Berlin directly you can ask for the next Petrol station: it's Osterfeld just between Weißenfels and Naumburg (approx. 30km)


country: DE
datetime: 2014-01-05 15:12:02.000000
comment:
A second gas station has been built serving the cars going to Freiburg. Cars going to direction Stuttgart, Konstanz or Tuttlingen can be found in a reasonable time. I am from Löffingen so it's perfect for me to have such an amazing hitching spot right in front of my door. 


country: NO
nickname: Thumb-up
datetime: 2016-08-08 14:48:54.000000
comment:
on the other side of the road is a bus stop or similar. I stood there, cars could easily pull over there as well. On the right hand side of the road is not a lot of space to pull over I think.


country: NO
datetime: 2013-01-31 19:10:52.000000
comment:
Olderfjord is a nice place to go either to Nordkapp (I went there in summer) or west to Hammerfest. There's a restaurant and a bus stop. Either way there's some space beside the road and it's enough to low traffic.


country: NO
nickname: Asdam
datetime: 2015-06-27 20:40:49.000000
comment:
This is essentially a road of death because of the very few cars but some people will stop eventully :D 


country: NO
nickname: Sigurdas
datetime: 2012-10-03 02:43:28.000000
comment:
Didn't wait too long, despite winter darkness. No tourists in winter, just locals going to the villages a bit further up. Rides to Nordkapp are not possible in winter because of closed roads further to the north.


country: NO
nickname: Sigurdas
datetime: 2012-10-03 02:46:36.000000
comment:
I like the roads there. In winter there were almost no cars, nonetheless, the first or the second passing by stopped without me having even risen a hand (I was slowly walking to the South). 


country: FR
datetime: 2011-02-08 11:41:58.000000
comment:
difficult. after 2h people stopped to take us with them at the tourning point further down the  highway. big luck though...


country: FR
datetime: 2011-07-26 21:46:10.000000
comment:
Good road to Rennes, Saint Lô, Coutances... Just before the bridge
Bonne route pour Rennes, Saint Lô, Coutances... Mettez vous juste avant le pont, les voitures ont de la place pour se garer. Bonne chance


country: FR
nickname: Ocapito
datetime: 2011-09-27 22:52:42.000000
comment:
Under the bridge cars already go quite fast and it is already on the highway. Also at the roundabout cars didn't stop, think its a bit hard for them to see that they can. Walked into town a bit to a petrol station - most cars going to the A84 come from here anyways - where it was good.


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-08-24 16:14:10.000000
comment:
I tried this spot several times, it's a perfect one, lots of place to stop, many cars coming from caen and the south peripheric 


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2013-10-10 15:10:57.000000
comment:
every time I Hitch from there, I don't wait. It seems like a bad spot but it's not at all. Too many cars to be lost there


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-03-14 14:45:30.000000
comment:
I found this spot not quite interesting when going in direction of Paris or Roazhon/Rennes. You should probably wait for 20 to 30 min... Not to bad indeed


country: FR
nickname: SuperRoger
datetime: 2013-09-19 17:39:03.000000
comment:
First we tried the Parking Lot...after 40 min of waiting we went to the Peage, there it worked out get 2 cans of free beer :) and a Lift to Caen 


country: LU
datetime: 2011-09-07 09:31:02.000000
comment:
I'd waited here for more than one hour to catch anyone going in direction koblenz/frankfurt/saarbrucken


country: FR
datetime: 2013-02-02 11:11:58.000000
comment:
Absolutely not! If i believe what the maps is saying to me, It's still the downtown. So, bad place to me.


country: FR
datetime: 2012-07-17 01:59:41.000000
comment:
The problem is that you can go in very direction a few kilometers after the spot. Most people are going to Luxembourg. You can eventually find someone going in the direction of Paris but it could last a long..


country: BE
nickname: Juanar
datetime: 2014-12-05 12:48:40.000000
comment:
it's better to take the motorway E411 than de N4 if you wannna go to luxembourg or brussel.. N4 is just good if you go to Gembloux or Wavre


country: FR
nickname: Loly.r
datetime: 2012-08-31 20:39:42.000000
comment:
this is the best spot i know to go to paris, there's place for cars to stop and they're not going that fast. Is better with a sign (as usual). to reach this spot you have to take the bus 67 direction Brécé at the city center ("republique" for example) and go to the "Rondpoint de Bray" stop then you have to walk for 10 minutes to reach this place.


country: FR
nickname: Mikan
datetime: 2013-09-03 10:50:19.000000
comment:
tried this place to paris on a monday around 11, had to wait more than 2 hours before getting a ride to laval. on the highway sign, lots of people wrote it is not a good spot...


country: FR
nickname: Lois
datetime: 2017-02-02 22:31:43.000000
comment:
Coming from Lorient, going to Paris. The previous driver droped me off in this spot and I was afraid to stay stuck there because the cars and trucks are going quite fast on this roundabout and the space is not so good for the drivers to stop safely if there is many cars behind. But finally someone stopped after 10min to bring me to Le Mans.


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-04-13 13:05:24.000000
comment:
Best place is surely the toll station, anyway, you can ask drivers to go there. If he is not going on the motorway, you wan walk from the national exit to the toll. One kilometer and about 10 minutes to walk !!!!


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2012-04-13 13:07:50.000000
comment:
Frankly, never waited more than 10 minutes on this toll, searching for a car going to Paris. Don't hesitate to refuse cars not going until the paris toll station ! Lots of traffic going there !


country: FR
nickname: Memo
datetime: 2012-12-17 15:44:32.000000
comment:
I went until strasbourg ! You can also ask the people at the toilets and get there when it rains. When it rains you have better chance to be taken (it worked for me and a friend (girl) of mine)


country: DE
datetime: 2014-05-27 22:05:34.000000
comment:
Stay at "Bundesstraße" the big roads with orange signs, not "Autobahn". From Freiberg it's better to go first short distance to a bigger city, after you try stopping@ Autobahn.


country: NL
nickname: Fred57
datetime: 2011-09-18 15:31:35.000000
comment:
As said before, the guys there don't want you to stand on the station's property, so you can't talk to the custommers. Had to spend the night there in a tent. 


country: NL
nickname: Fossilhitchhiker
datetime: 2014-03-19 23:33:14.000000
comment:
took me hours sometimes to get away here, never had problem with the staff because I would stand next to the building where cars pass by when leaving the station
I never walk betweem the pumps because dangerous and staff will not allow this
stand here next to the shopbuilding 


country: NL
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2014-12-28 21:54:09.000000
comment:
Unfriendly anti-hitchhiker (anti-social...) staff here on one occasion (out of four). I recommend not to feel intimidated and do as you would like to do: asking for rides.


country: NL
datetime: 2015-04-03 13:46:55.000000
comment:
Didn't have have any problems with the staff. One even offered us stuff to make a sign of where we wanted to go. Got a ride to the next gas station behind Eindhoven in about 30 minutes.


country: FR
nickname: Haho15
datetime: 2013-05-05 23:13:50.000000
comment:
National rode is a bit fucked up bu generally better than then the peage above. Got a ride to Barca but it took a while - beware of the 'nice' ladies around - dont mix with them! Cars must distinguish you :D :D 


country: FR
nickname: Fikret sohlberg
datetime: 2013-05-14 09:25:36.000000
comment:
City seems really odd. But the spot is fine.
Lots of truckers and french, who came just to buy cigarettes in alcohol. 
Be careful there.


country: FR
nickname: Dzulajka
datetime: 2012-12-16 16:09:05.000000
comment:
A pretty big gas station, but by the time we were there, the traffic was very small (sunday evening). We got a ride to Barcelona after 20 minutes of asking.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-30 15:06:48.000000
comment:
Bon plan, mais les gens devraient faire moins d'enfants pour laisser plus de places dans leur voiture ! :)
Pour la solution de l'autre station-resto plus haut, même la dame de la station nous l'a recommandée, car tous les usagers de la rocade s'y retrouvent, comme elle est sur l'A10


country: FR
nickname: Astala27
datetime: 2012-07-27 10:46:34.000000
comment:
We have been sitting and waiting with a sign Paris, but we were not holding (just thumbs up) and some guys with a van stopped and took us really good place to hitchhike for Paris on the motorway.


country: FR
nickname: Fabregasowa
datetime: 2012-09-23 19:15:56.000000
comment:
we easily got lift to gas station before saintes ( we were going to paris). good spot to get to highway, definitely :) but i prefere askins people, than having a card or thumbs


country: FR
nickname: Dzulajka
datetime: 2012-12-16 16:39:11.000000
comment:
We didn't have any problem finding this place, neither getting a ride. Not a lot of cars, but enough to find somebody after about 30 minutes of asking. 


country: FR
datetime: 2015-10-25 18:36:33.000000
comment:
just perfect, many time i us this way to go to paris, at least they leave you at the first rest area on the A6.


country: FR
nickname: Astala27
datetime: 2012-07-27 10:53:35.000000
comment:
Good place but if you are an English speaker, you will have some difficulties about are they proceed on highway? or will they take the national road? at least try to learn these sentences in Spanish and French. Paris sign doesn't work you need to ask, otherwise you will wait a lot.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-04-24 12:25:25.000000
comment:
Not the best place in direction of Dresden, but you will get picked up anyway. Sign "Dresden" (or "Grimma" where close is a gasstation to switch cars) cause a lot of cars will stop, but going in other direction. 
To get there take tram 2 or 15 to last station and walk a few hundred meters to the gas station. 


country: DE
nickname: Elokuu
datetime: 2014-08-22 18:47:57.000000
comment:
Got a ride from the bus station all the way to Cottbus after around 40mins (on a saturday afternoon)


country: DE
nickname: W-o-l-l-e
datetime: 2014-09-18 09:12:42.000000
comment:
With a good visable sign I had no troubles getting away from there. Moreover, there is a gas-station about 50m south of this spot where you might ask people directly.


country: IE
datetime: 2013-05-06 13:02:47.000000
comment:
This information is incorrect, you should not be looking for rides to Cork from here on to the west of the country. Cork is south west.


country: IE
datetime: 2014-05-02 20:45:35.000000
comment:
It's really really nice place to find a ride to Cork. I stood at entrance of petrol station with sign ,no more 5 min after a driver picked me.
You can pay 3.05 Euro to take bus 69 from city centre to here.  


country: BE
datetime: 2012-06-25 17:32:05.000000
comment:
very good for going to liege, less for going in direction ardenne-luxembourg (i always waited at least half an hour, but one hour at most)


country: BE
nickname: PaoloCaracol
datetime: 2013-08-27 11:30:23.000000
comment:
This place is very good for going to South (Namur) or Brussels (North). Is a good spot also for going for a longer way to Luxembourg. Bad for going to Liege and the A4 (wait a lot for Liege!)


country: BE
datetime: 2017-09-14 19:51:05.000000
comment:
Pretty good place, better in summer, but not bad I would say. We waited for about one hour to get a ride to Luxemburg. Two guys on a weekday afternoon 2ish


country: FR
nickname: Zily
datetime: 2014-04-14 15:24:23.000000
comment:
2 girls direction to Belgium.
-Be careful if you picked up by a yelow van (stonned, drunk driver that goes with 170klm costantly) :P

Really good spot!


country: FR
nickname: Edithv
datetime: 2016-03-09 08:55:47.000000
comment:
Very easy to reach from the centre commercial (just follow the explanations on the hitchwiki page), we (guy+girl) got a lift straight to the centre of Paris in a few minutes.


country: FR
datetime: 2022-06-02 16:53:35.000000
comment:
You can go here by using bus 36 from bus station, stop at the station Martray and walk from there. You can check the schedule of bused and trains on twisto.com. ticket costs 1,80 euro


country: CZ
datetime: 2018-06-23 19:31:29.000000
comment:
For now- it isn't good place. This is old highway (Brno-Prague) and new one is near by it but it's too fast. And the gas station is in the opposite direction... You can wait on bus stop for someone, who take you on outskirts but you should have sign. I tried it and nice man take me (waiting: 5 mins) to Ostrovačice. Then I take (near new faster highway, waiting: 5 mins) car with girl in it. She take me near by Prague. 


country: CH
datetime: 2011-08-30 13:09:27.000000
comment:
That's a not bad spot to catch a ride under one condition - don't stand there with a sign, but rather go and talk to the people stopping on the traffic lights, and ask for a ride to  gas station outside Zurich.


country: HU
datetime: 2011-05-22 22:16:41.000000
comment:
Take the bus 2 until "Budai vám"! There is a big tesco, you cant miss it. You have to walk towards about 500 meters, and there will be a bus stop, where you can hichhike, also you can go another 200 meters, completely out of the town, where - as i know - the local students usually hichhiking.

I was hiching at the bus station, its at the bottom of a slight slope, so drivers are seeing you quite far from the bus stop. Maybe it is better, they have enough time to decide :). 


country: HU
nickname: Kovacspetyesz
datetime: 2015-04-14 09:15:33.000000
comment:
Good place, but there is a lot of suburban drivers who dont stop. after next crossing might be better


country: GR
nickname: Pite
datetime: 2011-01-10 00:13:34.000000
comment:
also a great place if you're coming from the west and want to go more east than thessaloniki. use a sign!


country: GR
nickname: Mil lady
datetime: 2012-08-18 10:50:13.000000
comment:
you can get here from Thessaloniki by bus 80 (see page for the city), good place to catch a ride to the west towards Igoumenitsa


country: GR
nickname: Rory
datetime: 2016-08-11 22:32:45.000000
comment:
A little hard to get a ride towards Igoumenitsa, Most people go t Katerini (direction Athens) but possible! We asked people while they were waiting.


country: DK
nickname: Leoautostopista
datetime: 2014-08-18 22:56:51.000000
comment:
I was hitchhiking here on a saturday around 5pm. The cars coming from Ellebjergvej were mostly passing very fast, but the cars coming from both sides of Gammel Koge Landevej were passing slow (there are traffic lights in all this junction here) and they could see me standing there. I got picked up in 10 minutes by a woman going to Koge, where she dropped me off in a good spot (where I've been hitchhiking other times) and I hitchhiked again to continue towards Odense.

HOW TO GET HERE

I just followed what a fellow hitchhiker told me "Get the s-tog train to the station Ny Ellebjerg. Then walk to a street called Folehaven and turn right. There you can start and walk by the road" and walking by the road I found this crossing spotted here where there's a bus stop and all that I already said. :)


country: DK
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-30 17:39:35.000000
comment:
Local and fast cars. I went rather to the Karlslunde S-Tog station, from where you can reach a petrol station on the highway.


country: DK
nickname: RaphaelPB
datetime: 2016-07-10 14:14:47.000000
comment:
Hitchhiked twice from here, to Aarhus and to Mons Klint, waited 15-20 min each time. The car can stop at the parking spots if there are not too many cars parked, the spot is not ideal but works.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-08-31 01:36:28.000000
comment:
Had to wait one and a half our till i found a truck-driver to direction frankfurt. Most people here are going to west (saarbrücken) or to mannheim. 


country: DE
nickname: Tommy90
datetime: 2012-10-11 00:54:05.000000
comment:
It is a good spot to get a quick lift during the rush hour in direction to Saarbrucken/Metz or Frankfurt/Karlsruhe...so many drivers filling up their cars!! In the weekend or at a holiday it could be a little bit difficult. Depending on the traffic, my waiting time was: 15 minuts till 2 hours. 


country: DE
nickname: Tommy90
datetime: 2015-07-14 00:52:22.000000
comment:
I got lifts to Saarbrücken or at least to the Rasthof RAMSTEIN or Raststätte WALDMOHR. Looks calm, but absolutely easy-going. 


country: DE
nickname: Incogitatus
datetime: 2011-11-23 02:52:52.000000
comment:
I anticipated a fast pick-up ... however, it took over an hour to get a lift. To begin, there was a hitchhiking queue with a guy that didn't know hitchwiki!  That is awesome!  His sign that said 'A35 Bonn' was small, so when I made him a new sign, he got a lift in 10 minutes.

It took me another 15 minutes to get a lift from here.  Super easy since there's a lot of traffic.  I believe our wait time was just due to midday local traffic and a hitchhiking queue.  So, 4 stars. 


country: RO
datetime: 2011-06-28 10:09:15.000000
comment:
It is a good spot, but usually there are many hitchhikers waiting there. A month ago I waited about 2 hours there before nightfall and nobody stopped for me, meanwhile 4 other hitchhikers were taken, though.


country: RO
nickname: Ainur
datetime: 2013-04-21 09:57:44.000000
comment:
Really good spot but it is a little bit crowdy - local people and tourists hitchhike from here a lot


country: RO
nickname: Radu122
datetime: 2014-09-03 00:21:55.000000
comment:
Best place for going to Targu Mures, Sighisoara. There are 3-4 hikers usually, so there is competition, but you can share.


country: RO
nickname: Ferfred2
datetime: 2014-09-04 15:02:42.000000
comment:
If you are trying to go to Târgu Mures, Sighisoara and further on like Brasov and Bucharest, maybe it is a good Idea to hitchhike until Campia Turzi. Many cars go until Campia Turzi or Turda only, but your chances there are bigger, since there is the conection with the highway that comes from Hungary/Oradea and cars that are going to Bucharest do not enter Cluj Napoca. I've hitched here multiple times and realized I wasted a lot of time with my "Targu Mures" sign. Dividing this trip into several hitchhikes is the best option.


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2013-06-16 13:45:52.000000
comment:
We accepted a short ride to Stillhorn petrol station, just south of Hamburg centre. Seems better to stay at this one tough, more traffic. Needed to get to Hannover but we got offered a ride all the way to Belgium :)


country: DK
nickname: Incogitatus
datetime: 2011-12-02 12:14:23.000000
comment:
Heading to Germany:  After walking around the entire complex, searching for a way in without security seeing me, I eventually just walked in near where the lorries park, and thumbed the cars about 200m after they paid the ferry fee.  It took 3 or 4 cars before i got a lift, and I didn't get harassed by anyone.  


country: DK
nickname: Kralx15
datetime: 2012-06-15 14:48:24.000000
comment:
Here is a good spot to Germany. There are many trucks stop here and  pay ferry fee. You can ask to all the drivers easily. One thing: Lot's of truck has only one spare seat. this is why it's a litle bit hard to hitch a truck if you are two. Me and my girlfriend did it here in 1 hour because we find a crazy Polish guy who doesn't care rules. Many cars go to Hamburg and all over the Europe. Even you can find a truck to Paris, Barcelona,Netherland etc. Just a little bit patient. :)

Secondly cars pay per car not per passengers. So, you can hitch a car also. Free ferry to Germany ;) 


country: FR
datetime: 2018-08-28 19:54:33.000000
comment:
Well, little chance to get a ride to the centre, I suggest to accept rides to the outskirts. E.g. Bussy-Saint-Georges, where you can take the RER and get to the centre more easily.
2 persons (me & my girlfriend), dir. 14th district, Sunday, 30 mins


country: HR
datetime: 2011-08-01 13:30:02.000000
comment:
this place is usually good if you'tre going to Budapest(varaždin), not really good if you want to go to Belgrade


country: DE
datetime: 2016-05-28 17:26:43.000000
comment:
we were two people going towards switzerland and got a ride in a couple of minutes to Herrenberg, Nurfringen (which is a really good spot to continue)


country: DE
nickname: Yhtam
datetime: 2016-08-22 23:20:03.000000
comment:
Got offered a ride to Basel withing 30 mins and a ride to Zürich within one hour. Monday morning in june.


country: DE
datetime: 2018-08-28 19:14:51.000000
comment:
Towards Karlsruhe. One of the spots with the biggest chance towards West in Stuttgart, I think. Though, it is not easy to get here by public transport from the city centre. 2 persons (me and my girlfriend), Sunday morning, Karlsruhe, 15 mins.


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2012-01-07 21:48:40.000000
comment:
The only problem here is that the parked cars are spread out over an area of about 500m. Try not to walk up and down too much ;)


country: BE
nickname: Guaka
datetime: 2012-10-20 22:11:33.000000
comment:
I've hitched into Brussels from here a couple of times. Can save you the  ridiculous price of the train to the center. (The other option is bus #12 but  it's not great if you're going to the center or to the west of the city.)


country: NL
nickname: VonTaks
datetime: 2012-01-25 14:27:38.000000
comment:
Low chance to make a car stop. You're going to try and get a ride while people are waiting for the traffic lights and thus have stopped already. Watch out for the buslane and for waterpools on the road. Trucks don't come splashing slow.


country: NL
nickname: Tommy90
datetime: 2014-03-28 14:24:04.000000
comment:
There is space, but not really much, there are lots of better spots in the world, but I waited 20 minutes for a lift to the next gas station. Maybe I was lucky. Pay attention to the busses if youstand directly on the bus lane. 


country: SE
nickname: Gnyrfta
datetime: 2015-10-16 20:37:06.000000
comment:
Waited 15 minutes about on a thursday midday, then got a ride south to Sundsvall from a cool painter that loved Sundsvall.


country: BE
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2012-10-07 19:56:35.000000
comment:
Bastogne-Arlon over N4 is much shorter and hardly longer in time than over the E25/A25 motorway. Belgian drivers know that, stubborn old Dutch drivers (who don't take hitchhikers) don't. You don't miss any petrol station on the E25 this way, and yes, Martelange has 20+ of them. Lot of transit traffic here. 


country: NO
nickname: Cigale
datetime: 2015-07-14 09:28:05.000000
comment:
Good place with some space for cars to pull over, traffic lights and people coming back from the airport. Gas station not far also. Bus 1 go near the place.


country: DE
nickname: Achi
datetime: 2013-09-15 15:43:28.000000
comment:
This might be the best spot for the direction Passau / Austria / Vienna, although there aren't that many cars leaving. I wasn't lucky at the actual truck stop, but had to walk down to the on-ramp in order to get a lift. 


country: NO
nickname: Mila.77
datetime: 2014-08-15 09:08:32.000000
comment:
Please add a full descriptions folks. After the school holidays which stop at beginning of august/mid august, this is a hot thing to do really. Here there might be trains but in other places you can easily get stranded. 


country: RO
datetime: 2011-08-08 15:26:18.000000
comment:
many international cars passing by this hitchhiking station. we waited 15, then a car stopped, that brought us directly to vienna. more stuff like this will happen there. very good hitchhiking place!


country: CZ
nickname: Fossilhitchhiker
datetime: 2014-03-20 20:08:30.000000
comment:
arrived on a spring evening but couldn't get away
I slept in Kormorni Hradek on a tenniscourt like space in a bed of the road entering Komorni Hradek
next morning got away in an hour


country: FR
nickname: Haggismn
datetime: 2011-11-10 18:30:02.000000
comment:
I had a horrible experience here. I was trying to get onto the A71 with a sign. After many many hours I decided to head North towards Paris and get off at a station service or another junction. Excellent spot for going north. Anything else - this is a terrible place!


country: FR
nickname: Hydra supertramp
datetime: 2013-01-04 22:41:51.000000
comment:
Yep, no need to hitch from here! Head north to the station service towards Paris/Tours/East instead, a mere 5min walk on a paved road.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-02-06 11:45:17.000000
comment:
If you're in toulouse, you can get there walking from the subway B. A good 15 minutes walk in the grass on the side of the  road, behind the security slide.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-08-26 12:22:16.000000
comment:
or, from ramonville metro station, take bus 79 to stop "commerces". then it's a shorter and safer walk and you can crawl under the gate to the toll. see details in the article


country: FR
nickname: Jackortega
datetime: 2011-12-05 23:44:51.000000
comment:
We took the bus, but perhaps you can go hitch from motorway entrance to the péage... safer and faster! We got a ride to Barcelona in 2mins! Use big BCN sign.


country: FR
nickname: Mimicracra
datetime: 2013-08-08 18:10:34.000000
comment:
i got a ride in 5 minutes, but the transport until there was very long, the gate was closed, i just had luck someone got out with his car at this moment... anyway, i really don't like to stand at péages, they are way too dangerous. i didn't feel safe having to cross the whole thing. But maybe it's the best way to hitch out of toulouse in this direction. It's the first time i try...


country: FR
nickname: Globestoppeuse
datetime: 2013-11-28 14:26:35.000000
comment:
The fence was changed, it is not possible to go under or over (>2m), plus the parking space is under roadworks. Better to hitch from the roundabout.


country: FR
nickname: Toub
datetime: 2014-04-06 23:18:58.000000
comment:
On March 2014, waited 2 hours near the roundabout, then walked to the toll and stayed on the right of the tool. We were 2 persons and have found a ride after 10mn.


country: FR
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-26 20:56:26.000000
comment:
Not possible to cross the fence. The workers didn´t let us hitch there and we decided to go back to the roundabout.


country: FR
nickname: Milloum
datetime: 2015-04-07 19:00:49.000000
comment:
was there saturday 10am, thumb barely out of my pocket when i got a ride to Montpellier. ce samedi matin 10h, à peine eu le temps de lever le pouce et hop :)


country: FR
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2015-04-17 16:48:57.000000
comment:
Le 10 avril 2015, n'ayant pas pratiqué ce spot depuis un an, j'ai eu la mauvaise surprise de découvrir un nouvel aménagement sur ce péage. Les automobilistes n'ont plus autant de place qu'avant pour s'arrêter là et on pert une bonne partie du trafic, les voies les plus à gauches du péages étant canalisées par des plots après la barrière. Néanmoins, avec ma copine, avec un carton CARCASSONNE, nous n'avons attendu que 5 minutes avant que quelqu'un nous emmène à CARCASSONNE. Ce gentil conducteur, habitué à prendre des autostoppeurs, nous a fait remarqué que ce que nous avions fait été dangereux. 

A voir les expérences futures ici...


country: FR
nickname: Rilien
datetime: 2015-11-19 13:02:13.000000
comment:
Got a ride from a girl who was heading to Foix for work so I was lucky as I was heading for Andorra. You can easily walk here from Ramonville as suggested with little danger as there is a small grass/dirt path along the motorway including a pretty flat area towards the end. 


country: FR
nickname: Smarkaty
datetime: 2015-11-25 21:34:05.000000
comment:
Not much place to stop but the first car stoped and we got a ride to Pamiers (we were going to Andorra) by the guy going there for work. 


country: FR
nickname: Klowndestino
datetime: 2014-04-18 20:19:57.000000
comment:
Unautre super endroit, tout le monde a une seule sortie et doivent ralentir au virage, donc bonne visibilitė. Pour bordeaux nous avons attendu 15min


country: FR
nickname: Lepoucedalex
datetime: 2014-06-05 17:47:31.000000
comment:
Il semble y avoir beaucoup plus de monde pour Bordeaux que pour la direction de Paris. Il y a aussi beaucoup de commerciaux avec qu'une seule place dans leur voiture. Mais parfait car les voitures doivent passer par un rond-point pour reprendre la route et ralentissent.


country: FR
nickname: Remiphilius
datetime: 2016-11-18 02:17:20.000000
comment:
On y a trouvé une voiture pour Saint Malo ! En dix minutes, nous en avions trouvé d'autres qui allaient vers la Lorraine, le Nord et la Normandie.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-04-10 01:22:47.000000
comment:
not a good place to go to northeast (dortmund, hannover) tried two times and didn't work, everybody is going to the northwest...


country: DE
datetime: 2012-12-31 01:33:15.000000
comment:
Can confirm. Went to the south once. Had to wait 1 hour, but only because many stuffed tourist cars. another time about 30 (?) minutes, but definately OK. Much traffic in both directions.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-12-31 01:34:05.000000
comment:
Sorry, just read the first comment to the end. It were dutch cars :-). It was in the summer holidays.


country: DE
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2013-01-16 10:41:23.000000
comment:
Finding rides towards A4/Aachen or A61/Monchengladbach/Venlo is harder in my experience as most drivers go further on A3 or into Koln or Ruhrgebiet.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-01-17 15:41:29.000000
comment:
Can confirm that. If you want to go to the A4 (Aachen) direction Netherlands or Belgium it's handy to use a sign for "Aachen", most of cars go to Köln or Ruhrgebiet


country: DE
nickname: Amauryfraise
datetime: 2013-05-08 22:13:50.000000
comment:
It was easy to find a lift ( asking the driver) there was a lot off traffic ( wensday afternoon) who bring me to the next petrol station direction aachen...


country: DE
datetime: 2021-07-31 23:27:44.000000
comment:
On an early monday evening during summer it took me 15min of asking half a dozen peeps to find a ride north towards Düsseldorf.


country: FR
nickname: Dzulajka
datetime: 2012-10-19 14:03:23.000000
comment:
There was no safe place to stop at the toll so we walked till the nearest reasonable place, just before the junction between the direction of Reims/Troyes and Paris where we could stop somebody safely (heading to Reims).


country: FR
nickname: Zerbinet
datetime: 2013-11-12 00:52:33.000000
comment:
Lots of cars, but as said before there is no safe place for hitchhiking. I didn't feel at ease. After 5 minutes the police (gendarmerie) saw me, they told me it was forbidden to stay there and took me to the next highway entrance, a quite deserted one :-( 


country: GB
datetime: 2011-03-26 23:30:49.000000
comment:
Beautiful setting, fresh air and scarce traffic. Nonetheless we got a ride after a few minutes. With such nice nature and Fort William in front of me I could  easily bear to wait longer.


country: DE
nickname: Dynamo
datetime: 2013-08-28 23:15:18.000000
comment:
I use this place when I´m comming from Berlin and the driver isn`t going to Dresden. Even in the dark (winter 9pm) you can find people there.


country: DE
nickname: Hiiamfrompoland
datetime: 2014-05-31 12:06:58.000000
comment:
Because of the date, there was not thut much traffic, but still great place where you can catch really long-distance hitch. 


country: DE
nickname: Feo
datetime: 2012-07-24 18:17:50.000000
comment:
A good amount of cars on a monday afternoon I was there. Waited 10-20 minutes, walking around asking. Eventually someone asked me if I wanted a ride.


country: DE
nickname: TeeTramp
datetime: 2014-05-08 11:09:15.000000
comment:
its dont seems that bad that spot, but i waited on a saturday more then 3 hours for a lift behind dresden....


country: DE
nickname: Arno Nuem
datetime: 2016-02-27 11:41:48.000000
comment:
Good spot, cars can stop easily. A truck picked us up after just a few minutes. Also it's an official hitchhiking spot authorized by Tramprennen :)
Although we wanted to go to Munich (via Chemnitz) we got in a truck going to Leipzig and got off a few km later on the service station Dresdner Tor. 


country: DE
nickname: CrazyKenny
datetime: 2013-08-14 22:04:23.000000
comment:
we were 2 people, found an italian lift to Rosenheim (100km southeast of munich) within 15min. Easy to get to Nürnberg or Munich. watch out for itialan / austrian / slowenian / croatian license plates for going far south, even to Italy or Croatia


country: DE
datetime: 2016-08-24 10:52:19.000000
comment:
On a monday morning i found a ride to Nuremberg (rest area Feucht).
Its the best Spot Point to get to Nuremberg or Munich (or with little luck further).


country: DE
datetime: 2011-07-08 17:31:36.000000
comment:
I agree, don't wait at the bus stop "Blutenburg" but continue until Kentucky Fried Chicken, excellent to go to A8 Ulm/Stuttgart...


country: DE
nickname: Prochy
datetime: 2012-07-11 16:57:22.000000
comment:
Should be excellent for Ulm, but we wanted to get to Deggendorf and no one stopped in one hour, then we went to the petrol station on the other side and a random Polish guy brought us to the other side of the city.


country: DE
nickname: Flo1990
datetime: 2015-02-18 23:36:33.000000
comment:
coming by the tram 17 to Amalienburgstrasse then take the bus 143 to Blutenburg station.

get off and walk 200 metres until you see a KFC (fast food).
direction north-west : AUGSBURG-STUTTGART.
started to hh together with a german who wants to be in Augsburg.
the second driver take us both.
i was with a sign: AUGSBURG-STUTTGART.
time of waiting: 7 minutes.
give me the ride for 218 km
the road it was under construction on other side-first half of July 2012.


country: DE
nickname: Chris1337
datetime: 2015-03-30 14:08:31.000000
comment:
perfect spot to go west. Lots of traffic. Nevertheless I had to wait 50 mins to find a ride out. Still the best place to go west. Probably better to have a sign


country: DE
nickname: LaZubi
datetime: 2015-10-07 10:55:20.000000
comment:
Oct 15; Agree with the others.
easy spot...u can be seen in the dark. If its late and cold get a bucket of chicken. Good place :D


country: DE
nickname: Tabea
datetime: 2016-08-26 17:03:31.000000
comment:
Good spot, but sometimes there are travel busses blocking the spot but you can always ask at the carpark of KFC


country: DE
datetime: 2018-08-28 17:39:12.000000
comment:
Great place, next to the KFC, stand after the corner, long space for the cars to stop. Easy to get here by bus from the centre. But this spot is not for the "bus stop" spot nearby. Nevertheless, I think this onne is better. Direction: A8. 2 persons (me and my girlfriend), Saturday, 10 mins


country: DE
datetime: 2018-08-28 18:55:19.000000
comment:
Quite busy station with resting area and McDonald's. Works well for both directions on the motorway but yes, maybe better for East, as mentioned in the descripiton. Although we managed to get a lift to Stuttgart in 5 mins on Saturday evening after sunset. I suggest to wait not exactly at the gas station exit but 20 m after that, under a big street lamp (so you are visible at night as well) because by doing so more cars will be within your reach. (On the map: Shell -> Robert-Bosch-Strasse, ~20 m to the North there's a loop, then a turn towards to big roundabout. Go straight and the first turn, which is the nearest to the highway, is the one I'm talking about)
2 persons (me and my girlfriend), Saturday, dir Stuttgart 5 mins.


country: GB
nickname: Jeensg
datetime: 2010-12-16 01:34:28.000000
comment:
Midleclass spot for getting a ride, eventually you'll end up on M1 for sure. For Dublin make sure to get dropped off at junction with A1!!!


country: GB
nickname: Thedefoo
datetime: 2011-11-28 23:16:32.000000
comment:
in late 2011, you just can't stay safely there, no place for the cars to stop nether; however the other side of the bridge isn't really better


country: ES
datetime: 2013-06-22 01:44:06.000000
comment:
Have been here for over 12 hours. Getting lifts to Almeria are frequent but not many lorrys/cars head to Granada and it is impossible to get as far as Seville in one lift. we are a group of 3, however single travellers aiming for Granada will have more success as Spanish lorry drivers don't take the safety risk of no seats for passengers 


country: ES
nickname: Janpa
datetime: 2013-07-11 15:43:21.000000
comment:
good option for direccion Valencia. If you want to go to Barcelona, try to find a lift that surpases Valencia or a lift that takes the paid highway following the coastline since people that go long distance to Barcelona are more likely to take this route.


country: ES
datetime: 2019-05-21 16:44:33.000000
comment:
We were waiting there like 6 hours to get to Granada. No one was going... After that time we decided to come back to Murcia.


country: ES
nickname: Sitko
datetime: 2017-01-29 11:20:30.000000
comment:
i actually got two rides to granada in 15 minutes :) many people go down there, just ask truckers and people who stop to eat/refuel. good spot and easily accessible. there's more 44d buses than just a few per day :) but beware because they don't operate on weekends


country: PL
datetime: 2012-08-27 08:15:55.000000
comment:
I do not recommend these place on Sunday and any other places in Krakow. Trucks don't ride on Sundays in Poland and there was a lot of local traffic. I waited here more than 1 hour with a board to Czech r and couldn't even leave Krakow. After that I waited another half an hour with a board to Katowice and nobody took me.


country: PL
nickname: Alexlitvinenko
datetime: 2014-07-29 00:21:51.000000
comment:
i stood at these place for 3 or 4 hours / but nobody didnt stop( also i spoke with people on petrol station most of them are going no nearest villages, also there was 2 ANOTHER boys and they didnt get a car too


country: PL
nickname: MarthaBereza
datetime: 2014-09-14 18:22:10.000000
comment:
Me and my friend (2 girls) where doing sign "Wrocław" longer than hitchhiking! :) in 2 minutes nice young couple took us and gave us an amazing and funy ride 


country: PL
nickname: Hitchhiking princess
datetime: 2014-12-30 00:27:54.000000
comment:
Good spot for Katowice and Wroclaw (Lower and Upper Silesian cities generally). Always working, sometimes longer, sometimes faster but no longer than an hour to leave the place. Moreover there are traffic lights just before the bus stop and gas station so cars are slow and you are visible. Spot is not so far from the city, but crappy city buses communication to get here, sometimes better on foot.


country: CZ
nickname: Radi
datetime: 2012-08-27 20:21:36.000000
comment:
stood there..i guess we just got lucky and got a ride to Dresden in less than 5 mins..there is not sooo much space for cars to stop and also they see you sort of in last second so also not much time to decide..but it's ok


country: FR
nickname: Poebbels
datetime: 2012-02-08 22:47:35.000000
comment:
Easy to go to Paris/North. You can cross the sides. If you come from the south and want to go to southern Germany, you have to bite the apple and try to go to direcion Besancon/Mulhouse. Should work within an hour.


country: FR
datetime: 2012-04-21 02:33:20.000000
comment:
Even at midnight you can get a ride, somehow useless to ask for truck drivers, refusing almost everytime for insurance reason (normal...)


country: FR
datetime: 2013-03-18 00:02:33.000000
comment:
Very bad spot to go to Paris, especially during holidays or week-ends returns. Had to wait for hours despite the heavy traffic of cars going to Paris. They were mostly fulls of stuffs, children etc.


country: FR
nickname: Janpa
datetime: 2013-07-11 15:55:47.000000
comment:
can take time to find a ride in direccion Mulhouse/Germany. There is a gas station between Bole and Besancon, so you can take rides from people going to Besacon.


country: FR
nickname: Ocapito
datetime: 2013-09-26 10:30:02.000000
comment:
Was not too easy to get a ride direction Mulhouse but mainly because of end of vacations (full cars). Finally got a ride directly to colmar.


country: FR
nickname: SuperRoger
datetime: 2014-04-25 15:30:27.000000
comment:
Good Gasstation going north via Nancy/Metz (in the Daytime). The station suff kicked us out in the night :( But in the morning we catched a ride to Wiesbaden ... Quite impossible hitchhiking in the night here. 


country: FR
datetime: 2014-08-24 13:34:01.000000
comment:
Monday morning, 2 people going to Paris. Got a ride within 10 minutes directly to Paris. Strategy: Asking at the parking spaces. If going to Paris, look out for number plates ending with 75.


country: FR
nickname: HoratioTheHitcher
datetime: 2015-08-17 18:56:08.000000
comment:
Good spot for Paris, best strategy is to ask parked drivers. Very busy with hitchers in summer it seems. A few British cars heading for Calais too.


country: FR
nickname: Eleo05
datetime: 2015-10-14 13:31:52.000000
comment:
Very easy place, we waited 15 minutes to get a car to Paris (we were two girls). The strategy is to ask to people who get back to their car and with the plates 75, 91, 92, 93, 95 or 77. 


country: FR
nickname: Petrolinmyfood
datetime: 2016-12-25 14:13:47.000000
comment:
great for North South traffic, bit harder to head East. after 20 min I found someone heading to Dole who dropped me at a service station (bois guillerot) to get on the West East axis. There wasn't much traffic and it was brutally cold but only waited 15min before I got a lift to Freiburg. 


country: FR
datetime: 2020-06-28 16:31:46.000000
comment:
6 offers to Paris till I asked some Germans who went towards Nancy (and then dropped my 1/3 of the way).


country: DE
nickname: Niklas
datetime: 2013-09-04 12:44:14.000000
comment:
Found somebody who was willing to give me a lift all the way to berlin in less than 15 minutes. But I wouldn't expect to be that lucky all the time :)


country: DE
datetime: 2018-07-25 20:33:50.000000
comment:
After trying all day to get out of Frankfurt we spent the ~€5 to get to Friedrichsdorf and got to this spot at about 20:00. The 2nd person we asked gave us a ride to Kassel. In my experience the best way to get out of Frankfurt. 


country: DE
datetime: 2014-07-10 02:31:04.000000
comment:
A small gas station with low frequency of cars, but much better than Schoenefeld. You can got there by foot from the willage, going along the highway through the forrest. It takes about 45 mins.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-10-16 13:42:31.000000
comment:
I use this place every week. Average waiting time: 30 min. I have to admit that this place is quite dangerous because some drivers are using the right lane illegally for driving.


country: DE
datetime: 2010-12-06 20:44:01.000000
comment:
friday, 3.12.2010, i waited 9mins and get a lift for 450kms to my destination.
(-10 degrees, and a lot of snow n' ice.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-01-06 10:46:01.000000
comment:
perfect spot. trainstation nikolassee easy reachable, talk to people refueling their cars, you can't go easier as this spot


country: DE
datetime: 2011-07-08 17:29:21.000000
comment:
We just asked people and after about 3 minutes we got a lift to Dresden. Chances are pretty good if you ask people at the gas station. 


country: DE
nickname: Sebbo
datetime: 2012-08-05 17:49:06.000000
comment:
August, 2012:
there is a construction on the Highway A115, thats why u cant access the petrol station from the highway going south. If u wanna go south, or west, try the petrol station on the A10, called Michendorf.


country: DE
nickname: Moritz0711
datetime: 2013-07-29 14:57:23.000000
comment:
Arrived and hitchhikers were even making a cue, I was already hopeless as more and more arrived, but then it all went really fast. Probably people were losing their fear when they saw that so many people are looking for a ride. After half hour I got a lift down south on the A9.


country: DE
nickname: Edithv
datetime: 2014-08-14 14:17:51.000000
comment:
Too crowded during summer (7 hitchhikers !) but most cars go to Michedorf so that's an option, otherwise patience and it works - got a lift to Amsterdam straight after 1h15 min. waiting


country: DE
datetime: 2015-02-23 14:20:28.000000
comment:
We went to Leipzig from the gasstation and got a direct lift after about 20 minutes although there were not many people and cars (around 4 pm).


country: DE
nickname: Bohua
datetime: 2015-03-15 09:31:11.000000
comment:
It's a very cool spot to hitchhike, but dont expect to get anything with a sign. you'll have to invade people's privacy and ask. That's te way it is! :) First asked took us via Leipzig to Erfurt, in the south. :)))


country: DE
nickname: Gangrelito
datetime: 2015-09-17 19:45:27.000000
comment:
Tuesday morning in August, 40 minutes and I found drive to Hannover. A lot of hitchhikers here, popular place I guess. I stood near exit, across Burger King.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-05-31 18:14:08.000000
comment:
waited quite long to get a ride to Poland. maybe because it was monday and most polish went from poland to germany that day to work. not much traffic that day


country: DE
nickname: Schworze
datetime: 2011-10-20 15:06:23.000000
comment:
the discription to get here is really good. thanks. you don´t need to climb up to the service station. there are some steps to get there. for me it was not a good spot, because i wanted to head to the north and i thought this service station is used for both sides, but its not. i had to reach the next station in the south and switch the side of the highway:D. but i think for heading south it is a good spot


country: DE
nickname: Flasher702
datetime: 2013-04-21 13:00:48.000000
comment:
I have repeatedly attempted to hitch hike from here to Mainz or Wiesbaden without much luck. Getting from here to the Airport is easy and I have successfully hitch hiked from the airport in all directions many times.


country: DE
datetime: 2020-06-28 16:34:12.000000
comment:
Couldn't get to Saarbrücken or even Kaiserslautern for 3 hours, then accepted an offer towards Mannheim. There's a fair amount of local traffic here according to the driver.


country: HR
nickname: Kali
datetime: 2012-12-04 23:25:36.000000
comment:
i hade similar expirience once, but i also managed to take a ride twice. 
theres a bus every second day.
in opposite dirrection was much more easy.


country: HR
nickname: Bojslo
datetime: 2015-05-27 16:26:19.000000
comment:
I was standing 100m before the raundabout and a nice woman stopped us and took us to the next town - Putini. From there we continued to Vrsar.


country: HR
datetime: 2011-10-08 17:05:29.000000
comment:
late july 2011 ; right at the end of town, just  a bit out of it, there is a sort of run down place (house / hotel ?) with space for cars to pull by ; they can also see you from afar ; worked for me


country: LV
datetime: 2011-06-07 15:36:22.000000
comment:
Its better to get to the next spot couse there are larger posibilitie to get a lift further than from here.


country: LV
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2015-08-16 15:57:41.000000
comment:
THE BEST place if you are heading towards KAUNAS or POLAND. I got a ride after 4 minutes (a latvian driver took me to Kaunas). Nice and safe place, as cars are going slowly because of the traffic lights! :] www.nincsmese.com


country: LV
nickname: Carletes
datetime: 2015-09-29 19:16:08.000000
comment:
I got a car after 30 minutes. There is a bus stop and cars go slow. Good spot for going to Lithuania. 


country: LT
nickname: Fraughtwithsounds
datetime: 2016-08-06 20:44:08.000000
comment:
Got a lift from the first guy we asked at the gas station. It was a polish guy going to Estonia on a Friday afternoon. 


country: FR
nickname: Alexan
datetime: 2013-04-29 22:45:30.000000
comment:
I was there in March 2013 and there was a big fence in front of the peage lines, making it impossible to get in. Furthermore there is a police station(van) a couple of meters after the peage,facing it. I put a new point on the map, where I hitch hiked succesfully afterwards.


country: FR
nickname: BeerMe
datetime: 2014-09-03 23:12:25.000000
comment:
I got a ride on the 30.7.14 from here to Barcelona. Waited a very long time despite the fact that there were long lines with hundreds of cars passing me. Some drivers gave me food and others tried to give me hope. all'n'all, it was a very good day.


country: FR
nickname: Haho15
datetime: 2013-05-05 23:12:42.000000
comment:
Completely agree this huge place is tricky for a peage - workers chase you and trucks cannot stop or directly go to sleep in the service area. If hitching to Barca - try toget a direct ride to Figueres or Girona ;) 


country: FR
datetime: 2014-03-21 15:24:08.000000
comment:
A lot of hitcher,  in Beginn of August a lot of tourist, but very difficault. There is a place (Truck stop) where you can have a shower for cheap an a cheap supermarket.


country: FR
datetime: 2014-06-19 10:31:26.000000
comment:
Got dropped here at the huge peage. Very tricky place because the lane is crazy wide. Got picked up by a nice truck driver who drove us further into spain.

we had no problems with guards or staff


country: FR
nickname: Azh
datetime: 2013-11-13 06:57:09.000000
comment:
I got a ride to Montpellier immediately.  Lots of traffic.  the driver who brought me here knew this was the spot!


country: FR
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2016-12-26 20:36:55.000000
comment:
Juin 2016, aux environs de 19h30, seul, avec une pancarte TOULOUSE. J'ai été pris au bout de 10 minutes, direct pour Toulouse.


country: FR
nickname: Lukas
datetime: 2017-03-28 20:30:57.000000
comment:
Beginning of March 2017, got a ride to Montpellier within 30 min. I think this is a good spot, although I was struggling a bit to get there. (fun fact: if you look at google maps street view there are some fellow travelers thumbing on the picture) :D


country: FR
datetime: 2020-06-28 16:20:54.000000
comment:
Got dropped at the roundabout when trying to get to Barcares, if you want to go that way, try the roundabout exit to the South, cars pull over there frequently and easily.


country: ES
nickname: Tabea
datetime: 2016-08-30 12:16:26.000000
comment:
We couln´t find anyone who would take us to Salamanca but lots of people went to Valladolid so in the end we took a ride in the direction of Valladolid


country: FR
datetime: 2011-09-01 16:31:39.000000
comment:
Pointless trying there, there is no where to stop, it's designed like this, you need to go further south in Lyon, near Oullin, or after where the 2 rivers meet! 


country: FR
datetime: 2015-06-28 14:04:08.000000
comment:
We were 2 guys in direction of Troyes, and waited for 2h but finally found a direct car. Most of the traffic is going out at the next exit.


country: FR
nickname: QuentinD
datetime: 2016-01-20 15:49:26.000000
comment:
A lot of cars are going out at the next exit but I found in 15minutes a guy going in Clermont-Ferrand A89 so that was perfect for me !
(There is a door open for entering in this gas station by foot)


country: FR
nickname: Petrolinmyfood
datetime: 2016-12-25 14:06:58.000000
comment:
got here from the Pont Kichener stop light in the center of Lyon, which worked pretty good even though there wasn't very much traffic at 7am. At the service station I only waited for about 10 min before getting a lift up to Dijon. The third person I asks said hop in.


country: DE
nickname: Cha
datetime: 2015-01-07 03:22:34.000000
comment:
OK for Radolfzell, if you need FN, Lindau, Munich it's not so good. Don't get stuck there at night/sunday morning, no cars! Seems like a very new rest stop with only a gas station (Tamoil? Never seen that one before).


country: DE
datetime: 2012-04-07 19:10:15.000000
comment:
april 2012 - actually a pretty good spot i found ; if you wish, you can sleep there as they have a hotel and breakfast buffet, but also if you feel like sleeping outside it's really good, as there is spacious green patches ; the view is great, it's a good place for young lovers to spend a night under the stars !


country: DE
nickname: Gustavobretz
datetime: 2015-06-18 12:04:47.000000
comment:
took me 30 min to get a ride to stuttgart. I asked many riders but most of them are going to Freiburg


country: RS
nickname: HoboSpirit
datetime: 2015-01-04 19:34:49.000000
comment:
Used this spot to hitchhike into Belgrade since my driver was going to Novi Sad (had come from Sabac) and previously Sarajevo. The driver had no English but set me up on a date with his daughter who did [Blog Post](http://www.hobospirit.com/hitchhiking-from-sarajevo-to-belgrade-an-epic-journey/)


country: RS
datetime: 2015-01-27 10:47:18.000000
comment:
Hitchhiked here many times, always works great. Just be aware if policemen are standing there, if they are in a bad mood, they could threat you with a fine and kick you out from the pay-tolls.


country: HR
nickname: FreekVO
datetime: 2012-06-03 08:57:01.000000
comment:
I think you will always find a ride to Split on this spot. But it might take a litl while, I waited for an hour or so. 


country: HR
nickname: Burrito
datetime: 2013-08-12 13:06:41.000000
comment:
We've waited here 1,5h on Saturday's evening with no luck. Managed to come back in the morning but our plans changed so we didn't test this spot properly in the end.


country: HR
nickname: Martinsltopf
datetime: 2015-08-10 17:10:02.000000
comment:
Cars go fast and a lot of local traffic. Also no shade, so the sun is relentless in summer. We stood here for a few hours fruitlessly, before heading in the other direction.


country: HR
nickname: Puckman
datetime: 2015-09-01 18:59:04.000000
comment:
August 2015, got a ride in one hour and half. It was end of afternoon and dark. A local next to the spot bring us cakes tho.


country: DE
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-30 13:03:39.000000
comment:
It's indeed worthless to go further than the street mentioned above. You can try the bus stop in front of the student's cafetaria (there is really cheap coffee and stuff to eat). But I rather succeeded to get a ride at the next bus stop after the bridge and there is a even a sign "Praga". And I went directly to Brno ! 


country: NL
datetime: 2011-06-12 15:43:30.000000
comment:
not very good on weekends: most traffic comes from the University area and that isn't very crowded then


country: BY
nickname: Looking for Stu
datetime: 2014-05-22 18:06:19.000000
comment:
Good spot with lots of traffic.  Don't be put off by locals hitching here - it's a popular place for getting rides.


country: BE
nickname: Abreycierra
datetime: 2016-06-13 18:45:24.000000
comment:
Perfect to go to Brugge-Oostende. We were a couple girl-boy with the sign Brugge and i took 1 minut to get picked up.


country: BE
nickname: Schworze
datetime: 2011-10-20 14:50:32.000000
comment:
there was a little construction side when i tried this spot, but there was still enough space for drivers to pull over. took me about 15min to find a ride to a´pen


country: SI
nickname: Sam iam
datetime: 2012-05-15 21:42:46.000000
comment:
There are also plenty o trucks taking the Eisenbahn tunnel to Salzburg and even Klagenfurt. Just ask around.


country: SI
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2014-02-10 23:12:08.000000
comment:
Seems worse/less crowded than the one before near Kranj. Still I got a ride in 10min to Stuttgart, but got lucky with that!


country: SI
nickname: Fred57
datetime: 2014-08-28 10:32:37.000000
comment:
Weekday, end of august, 8am. Not very crowded, lots of cars were full, found a lift to Munich in 30min.


country: DE
nickname: Mrm1985
datetime: 2016-03-24 03:22:08.000000
comment:
depends a lot on direction and time: Karlsruhe - no problem. If you want to get onto the A8 to Stuttgart, expect to wait a bit longer. Use a banner for that purpose and try to ask drivers with PF (Pforzheim) number plate...

Checking the road signs, there appears to not be any other service station before the road split in front of Karlsruhe. So better get off here or try to find an on-ramp at the crossroads.


country: DE
nickname: TheKylling
datetime: 2016-05-22 13:11:25.000000
comment:
It seems fairly easy to get lifts too Karlsruhe. However I waited 1 hour for a direct lift to Frankfurt. 


country: DE
nickname: Yhtam
datetime: 2016-08-22 23:14:53.000000
comment:
Got offered lifts to Karlsruhe, Frankfurt and Nürnberg within 30 mins. Got a lift to Pforzheim direction Stuttgart after one hour. Friday morning in June. Agree with Mrm1985, if you are coming from south and wanna go to Stuttgart and your driver drives north: This is the place to get off. 


country: DE
datetime: 2018-07-06 10:13:04.000000
comment:
 Direction South on the A5 towards Basel
Needed 10min to get a ride with two Australian guys who brought me to Freiburg. 


country: DE
datetime: 2019-06-06 20:31:47.000000
comment:
It was a bit hard to get to Freiburg on a saturday afternoon. Many people going to Strasbourg, local traffic aswell. After one and a half hour got a lift from a german couple.


country: PL
nickname: Wild board
datetime: 2014-09-14 15:19:44.000000
comment:
I've used this spot (even before the modernization) for the last 10 years whenever I've been going west. Thumbs up !


country: BY
nickname: PavietranySzar
datetime: 2014-06-16 15:34:36.000000
comment:
The district is getting more and more developed. So it's better to choose a spot closer to the end of the city.


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2014-02-10 20:44:22.000000
comment:
Nice place. Not so crowded but at least all traffic goes in your direction and raststatte Siegerland on the connecting A45 is close!


country: DE
datetime: 2011-03-26 22:48:35.000000
comment:
Quite a nice spot If you're going north- or eastbound. Average waiting time was about 1hour30min (stood there twice). Be patient and it will go swimmingly. If you need to resupply there are two supermarkets on the other side of the highway (5-10min walk). Go through the tunnel and you should see them.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-04-04 18:19:00.000000
comment:
very good to go from west (Frankfurt) to east (Erfurt/Leipzig/Dresden/Berlin) on the A4. stood there a few times, never waited longer then 15mins!


country: DE
nickname: CuleXus
datetime: 2011-04-06 20:10:40.000000
comment:
Again just a dream for a hitchhiker (going east). Drank a beer, smoked a cigarette and got a ride directly to Jena. Perfect!


country: DE
nickname: Alice d25
datetime: 2012-07-24 02:51:30.000000
comment:
coming from the A7 (goettingen, kassel - north) i wanted to turn to the A4 for going east on a monday afternoon in smmer. 
not soo many cars passed, most of them went north, very few went east. 
i waited for about an hour to find someone who took me 60 km further to eisenach. poor!


country: DE
nickname: Ebrithil
datetime: 2013-05-18 01:17:17.000000
comment:
very difficult spot! very small. most foreign drivers who dont know german or english so more difficult to hitchhike


country: DE
nickname: Postfrosch
datetime: 2013-09-25 16:04:36.000000
comment:
... very good spot to change direction to North or West. Allways good experiences if you ask the people at the gas station.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-10-20 12:50:02.000000
comment:
hitch hiked with a friend on a Saturday evening over there. we were 2guys. it was already dark. waited from 7:15 pm to 8:45 pm. which is not the best, but saturday evening, sun already got done and 2guys are not the best factors for hitch hiking.... so ok


country: DE
datetime: 2016-07-27 11:19:45.000000
comment:
Female, alone. Not too much traffic at the petrol station, but asking people I got a ride North in 15min. Many people were going east via A4


country: DE
datetime: 2011-03-26 22:51:14.000000
comment:
Good spot for going direction Dresden or Erfurt. Guess that's the best spot If you wanna leave Jena by the A4.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-09-10 11:29:38.000000
comment:
the one and only spot in Jena to get nearly everywhere (best for the A9 and A4 to Dresden) - used in dozens of times, waited there from 5min to 3h, direct lifts to Berlin and even Munich possible!


country: DE
datetime: 2013-01-01 22:11:31.000000
comment:
Good spot to go in the directions towards Dresden, and Frankfurt (A4) but also to Berlin and Munich (A9). At the gas station Hermsdorfer Kreuz is a tunnel which connects the 2sides.


country: DE
nickname: Krassberd
datetime: 2013-08-19 22:01:50.000000
comment:
I discovered the same experience. It seems to be impossible to go south. Most cars will use the A71 I guess. We walk to Hermsdorf West and got a lift in 5 min. Walking time is about 60 to 75 Minutes. You can try to catch a ride on the main road. 


country: DE
datetime: 2014-07-20 21:47:38.000000
comment:
Ended up thumping it across the bushes on the Autobahn on ramp, way more cars there and plenty of place to stop


country: DE
datetime: 2014-08-26 19:58:03.000000
comment:
stood at the exit of the parking lot for a few minutes with a sign and was immediately offered a lift to bayreuth.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-10-14 17:50:03.000000
comment:
Needed to climb over a tence to get to the gas-station where more cars are available than at the "Rasthof" where the cross-walk tunnel is. At the gas-station it's quite easy to get a lift to Bavaria.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-04-07 22:09:31.000000
comment:
ask drivers if can you pick you up just a few km to highway (doesnt matter which direction), and there is a good spot to catch.


country: DE
nickname: Yooks
datetime: 2015-05-06 16:29:48.000000
comment:
Like the last comment said, you should thumb without a sign and try to get to the highway a bit further ahead, the ramp there is a better spot as it narrows down your traffic.


country: DE
nickname: Cha
datetime: 2015-05-17 17:04:33.000000
comment:
If going north: Last reststop before Regensburg where A3 and A93 split - if you need to change cars, best get out here. 


country: PL
datetime: 2011-04-22 14:59:02.000000
comment:
I was travelling very often from there. The spot is really good, enough space to stop for a car. Someitmes it took me 30 min to get a lift sometimes longer. 


country: PL
nickname: Prosektor
datetime: 2013-07-30 17:37:25.000000
comment:
Good place, but cars are going very fast here, so sometimes you have to wait quite long. Advantage- it's easy to reach this place.


country: PL
nickname: Szymon
datetime: 2015-10-31 18:06:28.000000
comment:
If you fail to thumb a ride from a road, you can ask drivers on gas station. 
If you are heading to Gniezno, Toruń, Bydgoszcz direction, it's better to hike on Gnieźnieńska street, 2 km north from here.


country: PL
datetime: 2013-06-27 13:24:43.000000
comment:
Good spot, I got a ride from here directly to Gdansk in just 15 minutes, I think I was too lucky though :)


country: PL
nickname: Astikain
datetime: 2011-01-24 16:08:24.000000
comment:
Walked here all the way from Poznan (about 10 km). Nice cops were waiting at the toll booths and said the parking lot is the place to be. :)


country: PL
datetime: 2011-05-08 12:56:52.000000
comment:
very good, very good. but there is no bus 108. anymore - it is cancelled. now it is 718., it's a microbus, and it was really hard to find it in Ogrody.. the bus stop is just across the street, when you get out of the tram


country: PL
nickname: F.arbolino
datetime: 2012-07-21 17:55:48.000000
comment:
Direct ride to Berlin with a truck driver. Excellent spot with plenty of space for cars to pull over. 


country: PL
datetime: 2013-11-28 19:29:37.000000
comment:
Very good place to hitchhike.
With a big cartonboard with sign 'BERLIN' we were not waiting even 30s for the direct ride to Berlin ;)


country: PL
nickname: Prosektor
datetime: 2014-01-03 16:08:04.000000
comment:
Great place! Just jump over the fence like 100m after police station (there are already holes for legs made by others!).
One tip for the people without GPS - you have to move back from the bus stop and go to the direction of the flyover (place is like 25min by walk)


country: PL
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2014-02-17 21:23:48.000000
comment:
Bus 718/719 is indeed hard to find from Ogrody and doesn't go that often. Found a ride directly to my destination in Netherlands within 30min :D


country: PL
datetime: 2014-04-07 10:12:45.000000
comment:
We were expieriencing some problems on this spot. When we tried to jump over the fence the first time a security guy came and sent us away. After a few minutes we tried it again and succeeded, but when standing there with our sign a police officer told us that hitchhiking is forbidden over there and wanted to send us away as well. After some discussions we were allowed to stand on the end of the parking lot. 
Then it took us about 10 minutes to get away from this place.


country: PL
datetime: 2014-06-24 21:03:56.000000
comment:
Me and another hitchhiker waited 20min and got picked up by a Polish driver who was going to Zürich!


country: PL
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2014-09-02 17:50:58.000000
comment:
Climbing the fence around the parking area is not difficult. Look for the places where other people have already climbed (and a bit damaged) the fence. 


country: PL
nickname: Maxim1110
datetime: 2015-02-01 13:30:31.000000
comment:
Hitched here on a Thursday morning in January with a sign to Berlin. Found the place to be not as good as the comments here made me believe. The problem is this: the outer lanes will only have trucks, and they have room to stop, but it's tight. Cars driving the inner lanes will not have time to switch lanes to stop AND they're usually going too fast too really have a good look at you. I did try both the front and the back of the parking lot, as well as in between. After about 40 minutes I found a guy who stopped on the parking lot and gave me a ride to a service station about 60 km down the motorway. 

Maybe it's better to just have sign that says 'west' or something similar, both service stations in that direction are pretty close (something like 15 and 60 km) and are both very good.


country: PL
nickname: Rytis9
datetime: 2015-05-24 21:37:07.000000
comment:
Had a sign "Berlin", waited 5 mins, got a 500km lift with a CAR. Good life! One needs to climb the fence discreetly, though. A police car passed almost right as I was climbing it... The security personnel at the toll didn't say anything to me, although they clearly saw me. Just stand well before them. This way you will also be more likely to catch traffic going on different lanes.


country: PL
nickname: Micho
datetime: 2015-08-15 22:30:50.000000
comment:
We waited about 90 mins ( 2 guys) and we get a car do Berlin. It is good spot becouse people have to stop and take a ticket for motorway. I think we were just unlucky :) Don't give up!


country: PL
nickname: Emanuele19956
datetime: 2015-08-28 13:27:50.000000
comment:
I was heading to Berlin and got a ride after 10 minutes. Take the 719 bus and then walk for about 2.5 km. You need to walk along the highway and just a little before you pass the toll station there's a good fence climbing sport. It's obvious to see that other people have climbed it before, so go for it.


country: PL
datetime: 2018-07-19 13:12:56.000000
comment:
Very good spot, most of the drivers are heading to Germany and further. Feel free to refuse rides to Berlin if you're heading further west, as you can easily find a car going to Ruhrgebiet/The Netherlands.


country: PL
datetime: 2019-05-15 14:14:12.000000
comment:
The only disadvantage of this point is remoteness - rare buses with quite unclear schedule. Maybe it's even better to take a walk all the way from, for example, Auchan at the east. Once you are there, enjoy - the point itself is perfect.


country: IT
nickname: Emanuele19956
datetime: 2015-08-28 14:13:44.000000
comment:
This place was awful to me. The gas station guy is EXTREMELY unfriendly, as he threw me out insulting me and yelling at me just cause I was politely asking drivers if they were going to the highway. I gave up after 1 hour and a half.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-01-02 19:09:04.000000
comment:
I've left Hamburg Direction A1 south (Dortmund) a couple of times from this spot. Very little space for you to stand and for the car driver to stop. You will have to decide quickly whether you hop in or not, otherwise you might block the traffic. Sometimes I waited less than 10 min, other times more than one hour. 


country: DE
nickname: Posiputt
datetime: 2012-07-22 15:39:37.000000
comment:
i used this place once when the next on-ramp (othmarschen, about 1km walking distance) was closed. it was okay but not great, quite uncomfortable to stand and to stop. if possible, use othmarschen.


country: DE
datetime: 2017-08-16 11:57:24.000000
comment:
I live in Hamburg and use this place frequently. I'd say its average...as aforementioned there is little space to stop, but don't despair, somehow you will always get awy from from here!


country: DE
nickname: Kwy1200
datetime: 2012-05-21 07:26:13.000000
comment:
I was waiting under the bridge on the ramp towards Hannover, and got a ride from a nice driver in 15 minutes to Lepzig.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-09-22 14:49:42.000000
comment:
Asked drivers at the gas-station. Found a driver who brought me almost directly to my home near Bielefeld (A2)


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2013-09-05 17:25:12.000000
comment:
We were still discussing where to stand without putting our thumbs out when sb already opened their window and asked us where we wanted to go, perfect! Really crowded on a friday afternoon.


country: NL
datetime: 2016-11-30 14:29:45.000000
comment:
was here couple of times, always got a ride within 10 min to Apeldoorn or further. Due to the trafficlights and the turn to the ramp, all the traffic is not going really fast 


country: IT
datetime: 2010-12-17 18:13:31.000000
comment:
this side of Bolzano is better, when you want to go to the north (heading for Austria); in the other direction many cars will choose the southern (actually more western) exit to get on the road


country: IT
nickname: Sam iam
datetime: 2011-10-04 02:33:48.000000
comment:
I got told off by the toll station staff for simply crossing the toll station on foot. Careful cause I think it is in fact illegal.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-09-28 18:52:37.000000
comment:
took me 2h to get a lift to a place in thuringia. it was monday morning, many people just stopped before gooing to some places arround nuremberg.
 the point over there is again: u have traffic to nuremberg/würzburg and so on. you have traffic to highway direction frankfurt, ruhrarea, northern west germany, and u have traffic to leipzig... berlin... normal problems before big cities with many highways...


country: DE
nickname: Kidsam
datetime: 2013-09-05 00:11:36.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Berlin after 10 mins. I had a sign with 'B' on it and a smile, seems that was all that was needed.


country: DE
nickname: NathanGardner
datetime: 2015-02-08 19:54:53.000000
comment:
I had a sign saying Richtung A9 Nord. I stood near te Saturn V model rocket. There is a spotnear there where there is tramper graffiti written all over som signs. Stand exactly there!


country: DE
nickname: Ivan Đogić
datetime: 2015-10-03 12:10:48.000000
comment:
Good spot. I was there two times, both going to Berlin and for both getting a straight ride after about 1,5 hours. I like this spot a lot, very comfortable. A lot of forest and meadows around to pitch a tent if needed to stay overnight. 


country: DE
nickname: ESko
datetime: 2016-06-27 20:09:38.000000
comment:
two guys having a sign CZ. Almost nobody goes to CZ, because they mostly go through Regensburg, it would be a great detour to go through here. I believe that someone waited here 13 hours to get to Prague. Anyway, a guy stopped after 45 mins and told us he's going close to CZ. I thought he was taking A 6, but he took A9 and left us close to Hof, so we had to go to Dresden and then finally to Prague. But maybe we were lucky, because we could have waited here 24 hours to get a lift to Prague.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-09-12 12:50:00.000000
comment:
Aside of a Jet fuel station, so you can wait with a sign (cars can stop at the small intersection behind) or ask people. Still lots of local traffic, unfortunately.


country: DE
nickname: Burmica
datetime: 2012-12-07 11:50:57.000000
comment:
I waited two times directly in front of the Jet gas station and both times I got a ride within 5 minutes. 
There is no better way to travel.


country: DE
nickname: Coolf
datetime: 2015-04-20 15:05:46.000000
comment:
By asking person who are taking fuel at the petrol station.
It took me app. 20 min to get a ride torwards stuttgart.
most people i asked were from munic but still drove up north,
but still found a great ride ☺


country: DE
datetime: 2015-11-20 13:22:49.000000
comment:
Very good with a Sign. Asking People at the Petrol Station is not very helpful beause of much local traffic, but maybe you are lucky.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-07-20 21:50:27.000000
comment:
Also found a ride direct to Munich pretty quickly. And theres free wifi in the lofted cafe and burger king.


country: DE
nickname: Khorporative
datetime: 2011-05-19 22:17:12.000000
comment:
A big street with cars going all directions and autobahn starting right at the beginning of the ramp. There was almost no traffic at evening hours and I just quit after ~15-20 minutes.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-07-09 19:38:39.000000
comment:
this is a spot where I had easy times around weekend but hard times during the week and generally after sunset


country: DE
nickname: Krassberd
datetime: 2013-05-26 21:13:30.000000
comment:
Not a good spot for cars to pull over from city direction. For the other direction is a traffic light at least.


country: DE
nickname: Maltoe
datetime: 2013-07-15 14:06:53.000000
comment:
Average spot to get a ride to the circle autobahn (A10), if you're in a hurry. Not easy for cars to stop, you have to get in during the red phase of the traffic lights. Most of the cars will stay in town, but sometimes you get lucky and people will stay on the autobahn to get out of town, in which case you can ask them to take you to Michendorf (huge petrol station at the A10), from which you can go basically everywhere (south, west).


country: DE
nickname: RazorSK
datetime: 2015-06-15 00:01:57.000000
comment:
2 guys, Saturday at 18 o'clock, to Dresden

we tried both sides and didn't managed to catch a ride, on the one side there's no sufficient place to stop cars and on the other one wasn't really much cars going event that direction, we then moved to spot in southwest direction


country: DE
datetime: 2015-08-22 00:28:24.000000
comment:
Good location to go east. Especially friday super easy to go to Poland. I used it on a Saturday early morning and got a lift all the way to wroclaw in 20 minutes .


country: DE
nickname: Mrw.witteveen
datetime: 2015-09-14 15:54:35.000000
comment:
Used it on a weekday in summer, going in direction of Dresden. It's a fairly good spot, but not too many people turn towards Dresden form here. Watch out for the cars in your back, the ramp you stand on is very slim. Took me 45 mins to get a ride. 


country: DE
datetime: 2016-08-27 20:21:56.000000
comment:
Same as RazorSK - westood there for 1,5 h and didnt catch any ride at all (2 persons, saturday in august at 18:00). went back home when the sun got down.


country: FR
datetime: 2018-08-28 19:46:22.000000
comment:
It works for direction West quite well (from the other side of the highway).
2 persons (me & my girlfriend), dir. Paris, Sunday, 15 mins. 


country: NL
nickname: Nkdamn
datetime: 2012-08-23 23:39:48.000000
comment:
We were hitching here to get to Poland. I guess it's horibble place to Polish hitchhikers. Since 18:00 we get nothing, 'cause they were only few trucks. Petrol station is not working 24h, only to 00:00, so hitching in night is impossible. Also Police met us sleeping near the station... Hopefully we found car going streight to Poland. I'm still thinking it's not a clever spot because of many Dutches people driving only to the work.


country: NL
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2013-10-07 21:08:49.000000
comment:
Have a very different experience: well-frequented on-ramp with great visability and lots of space for cars to stop. First driver that stopped for us went to Deventer (eastbound). Would recommend this one for sure, for both east and south.


country: NL
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2013-11-28 22:34:56.000000
comment:
Was here again, now for direction Arnhem. First 3 cars that stopped all went to Deventer, so it really does seem like the perfect spot in eastern direction.


country: NL
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2012-02-21 17:51:52.000000
comment:
Most traffic to Deventer, but if you want to go further towards Germany just ask to be dropped off at the next petrol station 5km down the A1 :)


country: GB
nickname: Martox
datetime: 2014-10-18 12:28:24.000000
comment:
Lots of rich people coming from london mostly not used to seeing hitchhikers. Although the spot looked great. 


country: GB
datetime: 2022-07-09 12:40:08.000000
comment:
I came from Uxbridge and thought this spot must be good but most people didnt bother and never stopped. People are also going local or to heathrow. Ended up asking people at the traffic light.


country: DK
nickname: EggDestroyer
datetime: 2011-09-08 11:05:38.000000
comment:
As we couldn't find any ride in the ferry, we had to stop there. One first wave of cars was unsuccessful, then on the second one, a truck driver took us. People don't expect to see any hitchhiker there I presume, and a lot of cars are indeed full, but the spot is quite fair. Better than taking the very expensive train.


country: DK
nickname: Angrybanana
datetime: 2012-05-01 01:08:49.000000
comment:
I tried further down at the petrol station and it didn't work, The guards are friendly at this spot and you get to them before they pick up speed going past the station. They don't expect you and there is a large area to pull over into.


country: DK
datetime: 2014-03-14 01:06:13.000000
comment:
Waited directly in front of the guards' house between the two lanes. The cars have to drive slowly because there are some hurdles for the customs. They have enough space to pull over and see you while they're waiting for the cars in front of them to be checked. First wave not good, went to the gasstation in the meantime, then went back for the second wave (every 30 min) where I got picked up. The Danish guards are friendlier than the German ones!


country: DK
nickname: Bipkip
datetime: 2015-07-19 21:27:42.000000
comment:
You can talk to people on the ferry, stand just before the Stop'n Sleep (cars will have to slow down because of the hurdles, and there they also have space to pull over), stand at the entry/exit of the gas station or ask people at the gas station.


country: DE
nickname: Timsen
datetime: 2013-03-05 10:42:18.000000
comment:
The spot is not too bad as people can stop in the entrance to the street turning right. However, you need to climb up from the bike path to the street.


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2013-06-07 23:25:52.000000
comment:
Don't stand at the lights, walk up a bit to where the road goes left to the highway and right to the parking. Cars don't go that fast yet, see you perfectly and have plenty of space.


country: DE
datetime: 2017-09-14 16:37:12.000000
comment:
Tried to catch  a car here without any result.But you can still try it because cars stop here on traffic lights or a bit further on the turn to the parking. Instead of doing this we went to the bus stop down the road (it's on A25 just before roundabout) and found a lift here to Fehmarn.


country: RO
datetime: 2011-08-21 12:55:21.000000
comment:
It was middle of nowhere (but near touristic attraction of lake Snagov) - in 3 people we where waiting around 5 minutes for a ride - basically the 3rd car took us directly do Bucuresti.
 


country: DE
datetime: 2011-01-02 12:14:41.000000
comment:
Great to get in westward direction (Aachen). For a lift onto the A3 you have to wait a while. Make clear if you want to hitch north- or southward!


country: DE
nickname: DerZyklop
datetime: 2012-10-20 21:42:41.000000
comment:
This was so bad, because the people were to fast to stop before they get to the autobahn. And the next gas-station around the corner hat very little traffic. So i decided to take the tram to Frechen


country: DE
nickname: Ebrithil
datetime: 2013-05-15 15:07:34.000000
comment:
The bad point about this spot is that the most of the people on this road are heading towards Hürth or Brühl so only a few people are going on the highway


country: RU
nickname: Ruan.bsb
datetime: 2014-04-15 15:50:12.000000
comment:
For me this was not a good hitchhiking spot because I think nobody there was going to Helsinki. For example I didnt see any car with one european registration plate. I guess people normally dont go to helsinki by that way. I had to take a bus. 


country: FR
nickname: Nostalgique
datetime: 2012-07-25 23:38:29.000000
comment:
If you want to go to Italy put "St Jean de Maurienne" on your sign, can otherwise be difficult (I waited for like 2 1/2 hours)
Good place for Grenoble though + friendly staff


country: FR
nickname: Usmcballs
datetime: 2014-02-02 20:37:54.000000
comment:
had to wait less than 30min to lyon. very good spot just waited on the left side before the toll booth 


country: FR
nickname: Nostalgique
datetime: 2012-07-20 11:40:02.000000
comment:
A lot of cars, especially in the afternoon, early evening, but not a lot of place to stop
Should be perfect to go to Grenoble but only got a ride to the next shopping centre, so bit more out of town


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-27 19:24:55.000000
comment:
i waited a bit longer because i was actually hitching towards germany, meaning Nancy Metz Luxemburg, or Strasburg, and it seems to be the lesser travelled road... but it's fun to see new hitchers show up every 5 minutes...


country: FR
datetime: 2011-05-22 15:40:13.000000
comment:
Parfait pour Dijon aussi, moins de 10 min d'attente à 3 (en 2 voitures)
Pour s'y rendre depuis Lyon, prendre le bus 161 ou 164 à la Gare de Vaise, ensuite il y a une dizaine de minutes de marche depuis la gare de Villefranche.


country: FR
nickname: Rotofil
datetime: 2012-02-15 21:51:30.000000
comment:
I regularly use this spot to go to Paris, never had to wait for long! It's a great spot in my opinion. To get there from Lyon, I usually hitch-hike first in Perrache (pont Kitchener-Marchand).


country: FR
nickname: Haho15
datetime: 2013-05-05 22:30:19.000000
comment:
Used it to get to Montpellier, waited AFTER the peage direction M'pellier, got a Marseille going truck that left me before Orange. Good enough


country: FR
nickname: Mikan
datetime: 2013-09-29 21:04:59.000000
comment:
i thought it would be a nice spot to wait for a direct ride to grenoble (i didn't want to go into lyon) and we waited like 4 hours before we decided to get to valence and then to grenoble from there. lots of people stopped and were going to lyon, or further south (even to spain).


country: FR
nickname: Azh
datetime: 2013-11-13 07:15:40.000000
comment:
I waited a bit because I was trying to get to Bordeaux while already having gone North from Lyon.  I asked for Clermont-Ferrand and was lucky enough to find a great ride there (through Dignon and beautiful rural roads.)


country: FR
nickname: Mikan
datetime: 2015-02-25 18:40:50.000000
comment:
got a ride direct to paris in 10 minutes. i usually sit on the platform in between the roads with a sign, it's perfect when it does not rain.


country: FR
datetime: 2017-02-19 10:14:04.000000
comment:
From Lyon, go to Lyon perrache train station and hitch hike with a sign "Peage Villefranche". Works even better in the morning when people working in Villefranche and leaving in Lyon are going to work. Once you're there, show a sign with wherever you're going, north or south. It works perfectly! did it a hundred times


country: FR
nickname: Edithv
datetime: 2015-02-07 14:10:22.000000
comment:
Assez facile à atteindre quoi qu'un peu long, mais une fois dans la station attente estimée 5 minutes !


country: FR
nickname: Tishead78
datetime: 2016-07-29 14:36:54.000000
comment:
epuis la banlieue parisienne, c'est un peu la misere d'arriver jusqu'a la gare de Villabé. Mais une fois là, j'ai fait du stop de la gare a la station autoroute (1minute!!) et j'ai ete prise jusqu'a Lyon en moins de 15 minutes. Super spot pour partir de Paris.


country: PL
nickname: N0id
datetime: 2012-10-21 22:47:08.000000
comment:
I tried to hitch here for half an hour, but then decided to walk to the gas station.The 2nd time I started to walk to the gas station directly.  


country: PL
nickname: Prosektor
datetime: 2013-07-30 17:14:43.000000
comment:
Just go for a 3min walk and you will find a bus stop (bus nr 10, and bus nr 19 is also quite close - stops before roundabout). The best place to hitchhikke to Lithuania. Trust me, I'm from Suwałki :) 


country: PL
datetime: 2014-02-16 19:21:45.000000
comment:
Better to go a little further, since there's not a lot of place to stop just outside of city. There's a bus stop a little further. Here I spent almost half an hour but got a lift to Kaunas.


country: NL
nickname: Nemrah
datetime: 2014-08-23 10:17:56.000000
comment:
I found this a good place to hitchhike. It is easy to get a ride to the the first gasstation (hazeldonk) on the A16 in the direction of france


country: NL
datetime: 2012-07-29 16:57:54.000000
comment:
a off-duty busdriver took us and another dude waiting with us (no charge), said he does this regularly. As we could use the 'spits-strook' we skipped all the traffic jam :)


country: NL
nickname: East cackalacky
datetime: 2014-06-25 23:41:41.000000
comment:
Direction: DE ... It was a holiday and the only ride we got was from the cops. No ticket, but wouldn't return. Still, they did give us a 20 minute ride out of town :) Thanks officers!


country: SK
datetime: 2012-09-25 23:16:13.000000
comment:
cars can stop here near the cementery, i was here at monday evening (cca 17:00), most cars in my direction (banska bystrica) from centre, not from bratislava direction


country: EE
nickname: Hattivat
datetime: 2014-09-13 15:00:22.000000
comment:
Too much local traffic, too many locals walking around. Stayed here for about half an hour before deciding to walk further down the road, where we were more successful.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-12-25 09:40:49.000000
comment:
got a ride in 15 mins to the petrol station 15 km south of town... however, from there, it took us another 2 hours to get picked up. This spot is good, though.


country: FR
datetime: 2013-07-16 11:30:23.000000
comment:
Tried here for ages with diffrent signs; Paris, Sud (South) and my thumb. There is a place to stop but it's not obvious for the driver. Had a van beep me but then had to go as it was blocking all the traffic on the ramp


country: FR
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2015-10-10 01:29:08.000000
comment:
Not the very best, we tried signs for Paris and A1 Sud. After an hour decided to catch the train to Phalempin (1,60 euro) and hitch from the nearby gas station (around 2 km walk).


country: IT
nickname: Chucker
datetime: 2013-07-20 21:13:12.000000
comment:
We moved here from the second gas station on this road, the one closer to the autostrada. This place was a bit better maybe, cars had to stop on traffic lights, a car stopped in about 2 hours. A young guy took us halfway to Pisa and bought us train tickets to Pisa feeling sorry that he cannot take us there by himself! Real miracle after standing on that road for 4 hours ;)


country: SK
nickname: Davidhovanec
datetime: 2015-03-01 00:50:42.000000
comment:
Great place for hitchike to North, I got a lift in 10 minutes in early morning directly to the northermost town in SK


country: SK
datetime: 2011-01-16 13:34:45.000000
comment:
This place has a quite good location (on main road to Polland). There is space big enough to stop but in fact nobody stopped when i was hitchhiking there. I was there for more than one hour.


country: SK
nickname: Gatdim6
datetime: 2015-09-06 11:23:38.000000
comment:
Me and a friend didn't like this spot, so we walked a little down the road, over the railway bridge, and right after it there was some space on the side of the road. Got a ride to Žilina in a few minutes.


country: PL
datetime: 2011-03-06 23:49:24.000000
comment:
well first thing a bit confusing was to get there: you just can buy ticket in tram.
you need a 30-minutes ticket of lodz (you can buy everywhere in Lodz: 2,40Zloty) and 2 other zones 1,80Zloty each... you can buy at tram driver the 1,80 tickets...
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and now experience about the spot:
i put berlin and poznan on my sign, no much trafic, but after 15minutes a car for poznan stop.


country: PL
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2011-12-14 19:59:29.000000
comment:
Works very well if you just ask the drivers the moment they're stopping at the toll booth (if I am recalling the right place).


country: FR
nickname: JB
datetime: 2012-02-29 11:42:23.000000
comment:
L'endroit serait praticable mais personne ne s'arrête, ou seulement pour embarquer une prostituée. Le trafic est dense mais certainement inadapté aux directions Marseille ou Saint-Etienne.


country: FR
nickname: GregGM
datetime: 2013-06-01 13:39:26.000000
comment:
Really doesn't make much difference where you stand. For all the places around here - people don't stop easily.


country: FR
datetime: 2011-03-18 11:43:03.000000
comment:
Many company cars heading for Toulouse that could not take passengers but only 10 minutes to get a lift.


country: FR
nickname: White Fox
datetime: 2014-09-29 00:13:45.000000
comment:
Really often I come from Bordeaux to Perpignan (and return)! I go out the petrol station, cross the tunnel in the south (400m) and go to the other side! And all the time, it work really good (better than try to find a car Perpignan->Toulouse and vice versa)


country: FR
nickname: Remiphilius
datetime: 2016-11-18 02:10:54.000000
comment:
We had to wait for one hour to go to Toulouse. People were not as friendly as usual. However, a few people could have taken us to Barcelona.


country: FR
nickname: White Fox
datetime: 2014-09-29 00:12:28.000000
comment:
Really often I come from Bordeaux to Perpignan (and return)!
I go out the petrol station, cross the tunnel in the south (400m) and go to the other side!
And all the time, it work really go (better than try to find a car Perpignan->Toulouse and vice versa)


country: FR
nickname: Edithv
datetime: 2015-02-07 14:01:52.000000
comment:
I gave up after 2 hours standing at the traffic lights, and saw another hitchhiker also trying with no luck. But I know a friend who manages to get lifts from the petrol station


country: RU
nickname: Efrolov
datetime: 2011-04-21 11:29:06.000000
comment:
i got a truck from here who was waiting across road. good for direction Finnland. you can reach this place this marshrutka from subway station Ozerki


country: IE
nickname: Bmcc123
datetime: 2011-11-01 23:39:38.000000
comment:
hitch from here on numerous occasions, just on the bend accross from the garda station. locals are quick to stop. never have more than ten minutes max


country: DE
nickname: Chirimuyu
datetime: 2013-07-11 19:29:10.000000
comment:
I walked from the central station heading for the highway and it took me 1 hour walking out of the city trying to get a ride. Then somebody picked me up more or less at the marked spot and brought me to the gas station direction to Ulm.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-05-29 13:16:36.000000
comment:
Got offered a ride to cologne after 10 minutes when i wasn't even asking. a couple saw my sign laying beneath my stuff and asked me whether they could get me anywhere.. :) 


country: DE
datetime: 2011-12-04 18:43:22.000000
comment:
Good spot for both directions.

To get here from Ulm take the train to Kellmünz (free for Ding-semester-ticket holders), walk over the track and river and take road "Sägeweg" before the Autobahn. 


country: DE
datetime: 2012-02-28 10:20:28.000000
comment:
On winter weekends, the Raststätte on direction north sees thousands of Dutch&Belgian families returning from the Alps. Fewer cars than I expected were going all the way north on A7. 


country: DE
datetime: 2015-06-22 23:10:42.000000
comment:
If someone ever is there with no place to sleep, i live only a few minutes away and i always have place in my hone


country: DE
datetime: 2018-04-03 17:23:13.000000
comment:
It seems a bit more difficult to get from here towards Bodensee. Most cars went down the A7.
In the end I got a ride nearly all the way through Switzerland with a guy going to Northern Italy.


country: CH
nickname: Simonkfr
datetime: 2013-06-17 16:52:02.000000
comment:
got a ride to Milano in 10 minutes. This station has the perfect size in my opinion. Lot of traffic but small enough to stay in the centre of attention so people kind of have to think about giving you a ride. 


country: IT
datetime: 2013-09-30 17:25:34.000000
comment:
There's a lot of german drivers returning in Germany from the lake during summer, it's not difficult to go to Trento or in the north, but it's quite impossible to go to Verona


country: IT
nickname: Arbuuzs
datetime: 2015-06-15 22:38:02.000000
comment:
On Monday at 6 pm not a lot of traffic here but one American family picked us up after a half an hour waiting. To get here from train station, you have to climb over 4 fences, be careful!!!


country: FI
datetime: 2014-05-19 06:08:18.000000
comment:
Ppl were so shocked that they started to make pictures with me and they forgot what I was asking... This was on petrol station, near it is bus stop... nothing better just stupid behaviour, after 10 hours I started to say please to every car and one stopped...


country: FR
datetime: 2018-09-03 14:38:04.000000
comment:
Great spot, slow moving traffic and place to pull over. Some 1 euro biscuits from the store to stave off hunger haha, expensive store otherwise!


country: IE
datetime: 2013-05-06 13:06:22.000000
comment:
NOT CORRECT!!!!!!!! M4 is to the west. Naas is by the M7 which is to the south west Limerick, Cork, Kerry, and branches off to M9 Kilkenny, Waterford 


country: DE
nickname: Yooks
datetime: 2014-10-22 11:04:20.000000
comment:
It's a large gas station with a restaurant and a parking lot. A very good place to hitchhike as you have the parking lot and the station to talk with drivers.

Directions: From Nuremberg take the S2 (mostly not controlled) train to Schwabach. Go through the Laubenhaid forest/park and towards the highway, follow the paths. 


country: DE
nickname: Achi
datetime: 2013-09-01 14:38:10.000000
comment:
Doesn't work for going North or East (Frankfurt, Nuremberg..), don't waste your time standing there..


country: DE
datetime: 2015-01-04 02:11:36.000000
comment:
waited for a long time in direction to frankfurt. went then to the south entry of the central train station and asked people for a ride 


country: PL
nickname: Eldrazor
datetime: 2013-07-11 22:09:32.000000
comment:
Pretty good hitching location, got a ride within 30 minutes towards Gdansk. Do not expect to get there in one go, unless you are hitchhiking in the weekends, as many people don't travel that far during weekdays. However, hitchhiking along the road towards Gdansk is very doable.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-10-13 01:35:47.000000
comment:
asking people in front of burger king following the number plates works well. three people asked, third took us.


country: DE
nickname: Najuste
datetime: 2012-07-09 17:05:34.000000
comment:
it really helps standing at the bus stop (just in front of the entrance to the gas st.), as then drivers can turn in the gas station and stop comfortably to pic you up!


country: DE
nickname: Pawel.wita
datetime: 2014-02-26 00:46:39.000000
comment:
I think it place is actually better for going north and south than the official at the webpage (I mean these in Roxel)


country: DE
datetime: 2015-09-22 14:48:41.000000
comment:
Gtreat spot! I just got there and had no time to even raise my sign and the man offered a lift to Dusseldorf himself. I was heading north, so I turned the offer down.Next  lift in less than 15 min!


country: DE
datetime: 2017-08-08 21:08:13.000000
comment:
It took me about an hour to get a ride but that's probably because I had "Enschede" on my sign. When I changed it to "Steinfurt" I got a ride within 10 minutes. I would still say this is a good spot.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-09-03 23:25:46.000000
comment:
It is a little, normaally frequented place. The people here are nice and usually go direction Dresden, you don't have to ask often. Once I had a good experience here


country: PL
datetime: 2015-07-26 21:49:06.000000
comment:
I believe it used to be a good place for hitchhiking, but for now, most of the people are using by-pass when going for longer trips. I personally don't recommend this spot (although I made it after an hour).


country: PL
nickname: Emanuele19956
datetime: 2015-11-30 13:44:32.000000
comment:
Most cars driving south are locals. We waited for over an hour but no one stopped. Apparently cars intending to hit the A1 highway are bypassing this road.


country: PL
nickname: Az-alcmar
datetime: 2016-06-04 07:28:45.000000
comment:
It is not good place. nobody stoped. It is better to get out from gdansk by local train to small village near the national road 1.


country: PL
nickname: Brovka
datetime: 2016-08-15 12:33:12.000000
comment:
We waited (boy & girl) 1 hour and 10 minutes, after that we go through  after crossroad. and after 15min car pick up us


country: PL
datetime: 2011-07-08 17:11:53.000000
comment:
in theory a good spot for cars to stop, however not a single car stopped even for a solo female hitchhiker. I gave up after 1hr and took the train to Szczecin...


country: PL
datetime: 2013-09-10 13:25:50.000000
comment:
Was waiting there for over an hour but 95% of all cars were citizens of Wejherowo and nobody was on their way to the west. 


country: DE
nickname: Timsen
datetime: 2013-03-05 10:50:10.000000
comment:
Very good spot to get in the direction of Berlin/Leipzig...however, many people drive only till Münchberg/Hof. Go to Münchberg or Frankenhöhe then...


country: DE
nickname: RoteHosentreger
datetime: 2013-07-09 10:05:03.000000
comment:
My standard spot. There is enough space on the right side to stop. Furthermore the road to the motorway has 2 lanes so cars are not blocking the traffic


country: PL
datetime: 2011-06-08 02:23:08.000000
comment:
it's a bad spot. Cars are driving very fast cause it's the begining to the highway and they are getting crazy 


country: PL
nickname: Radu122
datetime: 2014-09-03 00:09:12.000000
comment:
Quite a good spot, cars aren't that fast after the roundabout, but it took 1h and 1/2 to get a car to Warsaw.


country: PL
nickname: Hattivat
datetime: 2014-09-13 13:01:54.000000
comment:
We hitchhiked on the abandoned bus stop slightly (about 200 m) further down the road. Took horrendously long to get a ride just to a gas station before Konin. A bad start to an otherwise successful trip.


country: PL
datetime: 2015-01-09 14:04:21.000000
comment:
Bad spot I failed to get to Wroclaw or Katowice from here instead I used another spot in Szreniawa [Blog Post](http://www.hobospirit.com/hitchhiking-from-poznan-to-wroclaw/)


country: PL
datetime: 2011-04-23 00:21:35.000000
comment:
UPDATE: a new ringroad has been built (unfortunately it still hasn't been put on Google Maps, switch to Open Street map to see it). So, if you want to catch the traffic that goes through Wrocław from the south, you need to find another spot 300-400 metres north from this one. 


country: PL
datetime: 2012-08-27 08:18:45.000000
comment:
I tried to get a lift to Czech r. on Sunday, but nobody took me. I dont recommend hitch-hiking on Sunday in Krakow.


country: PL
datetime: 2013-04-17 00:25:05.000000
comment:
It's good to add that this spot is very close to the police station, but waiting time is so short, that they probably wouldn't notice you


country: PL
nickname: Pietari
datetime: 2013-08-09 13:14:03.000000
comment:
We had a Katowice sign but we got a ride straight to near Wroclaw maybe in two minutes. A walk from the airport was a bit exhausting because the temperature was about 35°C 


country: PL
datetime: 2014-05-02 00:54:29.000000
comment:
waited on regular tuesday morning at 7AM 20...30minutes to catch a ride somewhere next to Oppole, we had a sign saying "Wroclaw Dresden". we were 2guys, so seems to be a good place. i guess police won't make problems, because cars can stop legal (parking area) and it's noit dangerous to stop there. so maybe police got better things to do than bother hitch hiker with stupid things


country: PL
nickname: M&amp;m
datetime: 2014-05-11 00:20:26.000000
comment:
Not a best place to hitchhike in the middle of the night (2 AM). Still got a car to Krakow (center-ish).


country: PL
nickname: Senyum
datetime: 2014-06-04 12:00:18.000000
comment:
2 minutes and we were hiking to Hradec Kralove through Wroclaw. And 5 hours after we were in Prague (:


country: PL
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2014-12-19 17:54:45.000000
comment:
- Août 2014. A deux, une dizaine ou quinzaine de minutes d'attente, sans carton. Nos avons été pris pour les environs de Katowice.
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August 2014. We was two people and we wait only 10 or 15 minutes before to be pick-up to near Katowice.

- 26 octobre 2014, à deux, une dizaine de minutes d'attente également. Cette fois-ci, nous avions un carton KATOWICE. Nous y avons d'ailleurs été déposés.
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October 26th of 2014. We wait again arround 10 minutes, this time, with sign KATOWICE. Someone pick-up us until near Katowice.


country: PL
nickname: Szymon
datetime: 2015-10-10 14:25:36.000000
comment:
Used http://krakow.jakdojade.pl/ to find a bus from Kraków city to stop BALICE - INSTYTUT and there is entry to toll gates through gate, guards didn't bother me. Be alert while riding a bus because you need to press a button for bus to stop and in my bus there was no info about the current stop!


country: PL
nickname: Yensn
datetime: 2016-08-14 19:58:41.000000
comment:
Perfect spot, many cars, we (2men) declined offers to katowice and got a lift to Graz in Austria after 30 min.


country: PT
datetime: 2017-06-11 10:45:54.000000
comment:
we were 4 (3 boys, one girl) heading to direction to Cabo da Roca without sign. Got a ride in ten minutes.


country: GB
nickname: Junkiee
datetime: 2015-07-20 12:01:53.000000
comment:
Good place for direction Brighton, theres a pub across the road, so on friday after 6PM, bit problem, cause drunk people are trying to help you :D You can just walk direction south with a sign. There suppose to be a gas station after big roundabout.. not sure, get car before.


country: FR
datetime: 2012-11-05 16:37:07.000000
comment:
I've hitched several times in the direction of Nimes from the on-ramp, standing at the end of the bridge. Despite the lack of space, I was picked up quickly each time and taken to the service station on the highway. I tried once in the other direction but that didn't work well. I've never tried from the roundabout itself. Also, this spot is now accessible by tram line 4, the stop called Garcia Lorca.


country: FR
datetime: 2012-11-09 13:42:58.000000
comment:
Tried to beziers. On the ramp its really dangerous, cars driving fast and no space to stop. After 20 minutes we moved to THE avenue argelliers, but not many people heading to beziers. After 30 minutes we called out friends in beziers because we had to be there right away. Only then we discovered the spot ON the roundabout, where à girl was standing to go to Lyon. There is à sort of parking place ON the roundabout and you can stand on the divisor. Anyway it s à quite dangerous place, the guy who picked her up had nearly an accident. 


country: FR
nickname: Haho15
datetime: 2013-05-05 22:54:07.000000
comment:
Looks like a great place, but actually nobody stoped at all! Not anybody was going direction Bezier/Barca/Perpignan...but I got saved by a guy who saw me waiting for 2 hours. He left me at peage further on and that was great!


country: FR
nickname: Truffula
datetime: 2014-04-03 22:07:12.000000
comment:
Wasted 3-4 hours trying to get a lift to Toulouse, waiting in various spots on the median and talking to people at the petrol station across the road. One offer going east but none going west. Much better to go to the roundabout at tram stop at Saint-Jean Le Sec.


country: FR
nickname: Mik013
datetime: 2016-06-23 22:45:24.000000
comment:
boy & girl with backpacks, Wednesday evening, very sunny, sign to Nîmes. No place to stop, after 20min we movet to Quick fastfood parkingplace and one man took us to the other side of highway! Great.


country: DE
nickname: Binbash
datetime: 2014-06-22 09:49:38.000000
comment:
the second person we asked took us with him. could wave at the people that took us with them before... good to get to hamburg


country: DE
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-29 23:44:10.000000
comment:
September 2014. As a group of 3, we camped there. The staff wasn't that friendly. We had to part ways here. We stumbled upon 3 other hitchhikers on that gas station (2 of them from Hitchgathering, going to Turkey). We were the last ones to get a ride after quite a long waiting time.


country: MK
nickname: ZephJavier
datetime: 2014-07-20 01:32:38.000000
comment:
Great spot just after the traffic light, a lot of space to stop and high visibility as cars and trucks stop at the traffic light or at least slow down. We waited there 5 minutes.


country: MK
nickname: Ulrik
datetime: 2015-03-18 12:58:51.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Tetavu after 15min. Had a sign. Not too much space for cars to stop and after the bend they´re going quite fast...


country: PL
datetime: 2015-08-22 00:33:47.000000
comment:
Difficult to find rides to Krakow as most of the cars are already on the highway itself heading there. Advantage, its easy to talk to people there. You might try the next turn with the Shell/kfs as well.


country: PL
nickname: Vinainar
datetime: 2015-10-26 09:47:30.000000
comment:
An employee of petrol station told me that this is terrible spot - she stated that people stand here for the whole day and nobody takes them. In spite of that i tried and got a ride to Krakow in less than 30 minutes.


country: PL
nickname: ZulZul
datetime: 2011-08-26 10:37:09.000000
comment:
A lot of cars that were staying in the area. After an hour of asking around for a car to Wrocław I found a car that brought me directly to my destination in Germany.


country: PL
nickname: Wolak
datetime: 2012-07-17 01:32:53.000000
comment:
As said above, lots of local traffic but after about 30mins we managed to find a car to Wrocław. But if you want to catch a ride west from Silesia the best option are gas stations on the highway (A4) in Gliwice. I waited about 5 mins in Gliwice (to Wrocław).


country: PL
nickname: Longhaul
datetime: 2013-06-12 20:07:44.000000
comment:
Most of the traffic stopping at this British Petrolium tankstelle (wi-fi not available here, but You might find it at the McDonald's attached to it) is made of local drivers returning to Katowice. If You are headed towards Opole or Wrocław be ready to wait quite long. If You have questions please use the "Contact Me" section on my website www.claudioadrianodobre.com to get in touch with me. Hit the road hard ;)


country: PL
nickname: Grzesiek.1993
datetime: 2015-01-28 23:09:56.000000
comment:
almost everybode drives around a area, but we were lucky to take a ride with bus driver, for free. good think there is McDonald's there.


country: PL
nickname: ZaTa
datetime: 2015-06-09 20:40:22.000000
comment:
I waited 1 second. It was Sunday and there was a lot of cars. I just asked someone if he goes to Wroclaw and he took me. I was lucky but I think it's very easy ;)


country: PL
nickname: Wiola
datetime: 2016-08-16 12:44:07.000000
comment:
I was picked up there on my way from Krakow to Dresden, and even if tehre's a lot of cars (passengers mostly), lots of local traffic (because of McDonalds) I waited for an hour for anybody who could take me to the next, much bigger, gas station along A4. I was alone, at start with a sign with my destination, but quickly i started to ask personally. Probably the problem was that I was there on saturday during one a long weekends (with added national holiday) on Monday, and most cars were totally full (passengers and their baggage).


country: PL
nickname: Autostopik.pl
datetime: 2013-04-08 15:22:02.000000
comment:
There is a lot of place to stop about 100 m after lights. Cars are slow, and you can easily get a ride to Łódź, Warszawa. It takes me less than 5 min. You can even try to get a ride to Toruń and Gdańsk. Hitchhiking with a sign is much better :) You can also ask on a 2 petrol stations. 


country: PL
nickname: Batlicka
datetime: 2016-07-15 23:40:05.000000
comment:
There are everywere new sign of no stopping. So we tried HH at exit from KFC we cought driver to Lodž after 10 minutes


country: FR
datetime: 2011-03-15 00:03:17.000000
comment:
On Monday mornig it took me 20 min to get a ride to gas station desriped in the article. Good place, enough traffic and there is a place to stop for a car and you are visible from a distance.


country: FR
nickname: RomanSmoll
datetime: 2015-08-18 10:23:48.000000
comment:
refreshing the info. was hitching (m/f) right under the road sign "Metz Nancy"..our sing said Nancy which prolly was a mitake..try to get to Metz first as no one turns to Nancy straight after that.place is safe and seen from far but monday morning took 1.5 hrs


country: FR
datetime: 2017-10-28 12:50:08.000000
comment:
I was standing there for 1 hour or more, but nobody took me. This is because cars don't have place to stop and drivers go too fast to read your sign (you probably need one). When I crossed the road it took 10 minutes to got a ride to the next gas station. So I recommend other place on the left side


country: FR
nickname: Mdsmendes
datetime: 2011-01-05 04:53:31.000000
comment:
Although it's a very good spot to leave from it takes a looooong time to get there. Took me 2 hours to get there from Cité Universitaire...


country: FR
datetime: 2012-10-05 14:07:12.000000
comment:
A good spot to get out of Paris, but a long way. With the RER from Chatlet, then get of Bussy-Saint-Georges. From there through the industrial area. I d recommend to write down street names first to know where to cross the highway. There s a small bridge not far from the petrol station. After crossing it, one has to either cross the fence of the highway and walk along it till the petrol station or cross fields and afterwards the fence of the petrol station. When i went, it was easy since they were reparing the stop and there where wholes in the fence of the petrol station. Otherwise it s probably hard to climb it.

Takes about an h to walk from Bussy St Georges but a good spot


country: FR
nickname: Ewan gweznou
datetime: 2013-11-16 17:57:19.000000
comment:
Forget about the walk, you can easily go to the petrol station from the center. Simply prepare a board with station à 2km and hitch from the roundabouts close to the RER station ;)  Anyway, I hitched there three times and didn't found this spot excellent...


country: FR
nickname: Schworze
datetime: 2014-01-07 09:52:00.000000
comment:
not so easy to reach but once you are there you got a ride to the east for sure. i had to climb over the fence of the petrol station, but it was already used many more times and so it was just a big step over it that gave me a gramp:D


country: FR
datetime: 2014-08-24 13:39:04.000000
comment:
Somewhat long (45 min.) but very nice walk to the gas station. 2 people waiting for 5 minutes to get a ride to near Kaiserslautern (intended destination was Stuttgart or Karlsruhe).


country: FR
datetime: 2014-12-21 20:18:53.000000
comment:
I got a ride to Forbach (german border) after waiting for 45 minutes. The french driver even spoke fluent german. ;)


country: FR
datetime: 2022-06-09 22:20:54.000000
comment:
Good place, but a lot of local cars, took me an hour during sunday afternoon to get at least to the next rastplatz. Still probably best spot for continuing east. 
Prepare for harsh road! walking through the bush next to the bridge, then across the field and after that you have to climb the fence. I arrived to the station with my shoes totally soaked. 


country: GB
nickname: LaZubi
datetime: 2017-04-13 21:39:56.000000
comment:
Got dropped off here begin of April. Got a ride at 5pm within 10min with my sign saying "M6 North". Waited after the petrol station. Since there is no service but just the petrol station its not that busy.


country: IT
nickname: Sam iam
datetime: 2011-10-04 03:01:25.000000
comment:
I've gotten some pretty good rides into the A22 from that petrol station. Lots of space for the drivers to stop and many of them aren't coming very fast.


country: IT
datetime: 2013-05-05 23:54:15.000000
comment:
Spot has very few traffic. The small 'petrol station' got about 1 car in 15 minutes on a sunday late morning. !Bring a sign to show to passing traffic!) There was a small booth but on sunday it was only self service.


country: IT
nickname: Kkmm
datetime: 2014-08-15 14:59:49.000000
comment:
It's not yet a motorway, the guys from the office won't and don't care.
I stood there something like 25 minutes


country: FR
nickname: Angrybanana
datetime: 2012-05-01 01:30:18.000000
comment:
You might have to try doing little hops to head west from here, it is very slow here with trucks unless you are going in another direction.


country: FR
nickname: Rdoc101
datetime: 2012-09-18 20:00:01.000000
comment:
I waited here for about 2.5 hours. Best place was down the on ramp where there is a wide space for cars to pull over, had a sign Belfort... Also you can stealth camp in the trees over the other side of the road...


country: FR
datetime: 2016-08-14 16:43:55.000000
comment:
After 1 or 2 hours, we decided to go to trucks parking place (gas station), which is nearby, and we asked truck drivers - successfully.


country: PL
nickname: Msierak
datetime: 2012-05-11 09:47:53.000000
comment:
Not a good place, since 2km further the bypass is ending and merging the old DK8, where all transit is going, not here. I would suggest taking any bus from here to Długołęka


country: FR
datetime: 2012-02-26 03:53:05.000000
comment:
Leave from a city is everytime difficult. Accept the first driver who can bring you to any gazstation. I wait 20 minutes. Courage !


country: BE
datetime: 2013-04-06 14:51:00.000000
comment:
I stood there for 30 minutes (just using thumb) and noone would stop. Also theres the problem that cars go from there to all directions


country: CH
datetime: 2011-07-11 16:16:44.000000
comment:
I preferred to wait just before the border, by the speed bump, as cars are forced to REALLY slow down there, an dthere is room for them to stop.


country: DE
nickname: N0id
datetime: 2012-02-03 16:03:22.000000
comment:
Got my second direct lift to Magdeburg in a row, despite a longer waiting time. Directly before the Schönefelder Kreuz is a parking space where you can get off if your driver is continuing in the wrong direction for you. 


country: DE
nickname: Mileagainst
datetime: 2012-07-01 21:28:54.000000
comment:
I stood at the exit of Shell petrol station but already on the road and I got a ride by car waiting at the the traffic light, so i recommend standing on that piece of road just to collect all the traffic (from gas station and from the street coming from town)


country: DE
datetime: 2013-10-26 17:59:28.000000
comment:
It is not true! I´ve been hitch-hicking for many many years. And it happened very seldom what you were saying.It was just a lucky day. An angel just crossed your path.


country: CZ
nickname: Propek
datetime: 2015-09-04 12:08:33.000000
comment:
This place is useless to go somewhere far in Czech Republic, all you can get is to go to Harrachov. Standing there with sign "Praha" is senseless. Traffic is really small for the border, I've tried this place only once, but I stood there several hours, sometimes it was 10 cars per hour on the way to Czech. No cars have to stop here anymore, I was really frustrated when I was hitchhiking there, so please listen to my advice and don't waste your time there, if you are going to Prague, better take a walk to the green point highlighted in Harrachov (it's something like 3km), traffic there is much bigger. On the other hand, this border is great to go to Jelenia Góra, you will get your ride really fast.
To sum up - to go to Jelenia Góra I stood there less than 5 minutes, to go to Praha I stood there 6 hours and gave up.


country: DE
nickname: Achi
datetime: 2013-09-15 16:22:01.000000
comment:
The truck stop Rosenhof which used to be there is closed (and has been closed for years, judging by the vegetation overgrowing the former parking lot), therefore most cars passing aren't going on the Autobahn..


country: DE
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2014-12-19 17:43:38.000000
comment:
Août 2014. Seul, je n'ai jamais été pris après plus de 4 heures d'attente, pluie et froid au rendez-vous. Je me suis tristement résolu à prendre le train.

J'ai essayé avec un carton indiquant CHEMNITZ. Puis j'ai essayé sans carton. J'ai testé les deux bretelles d'accès (il y avait beaucoup de place pour s'arrêter sur cette autre bretelle mais presque pas de trafic)... Rien à faire. A croire que les gens ne comprenaient pas ce que je faisais là (d'après les signes qu'ils me faisaient en tout cas).
_________________________

August 2014. Alone, never pick-up and stay here for 4 hours with rain and cold. I took the train after this long time of wait.

I tried with CHEMNITZ sign. And after I try without sign. I tried the other entry (with more place to stop) but not possible. Nobody pick-up me. I felt I was like an alien who people look with interrogations.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-09-12 15:13:05.000000
comment:
allways used this spot to escape - and it worked within 30 minutes in every direction - west, east, north, south


country: DE
datetime: 2014-08-27 15:18:27.000000
comment:
waited here for a lift to nuremberg twice - one time on a holiday at 10 am (45 mins wait) and another time without much luck (saturday 3 pm - gave up after 2 hours). it still is a good spot though; especially leipzig and berlin are suposedly really easy.


country: DE
nickname: Gangrelito
datetime: 2015-09-17 19:33:45.000000
comment:
I was waiting for only 20 min, direction: Berlin, August, Sunday afternoon. You can catche drives from petrol station, but also from the road, on the same spot. I was picked up by Porsche driver, 270 km/h in one moment. Best drive ever. :)


country: DE
datetime: 2019-05-22 08:28:50.000000
comment:
Awesome for direction Leipzig. But shouldn't be hard to find someone heading further either. 

In my opinion eg. for going to Leipzig: don't bother with the petrol station and just thumb next to the road. ~Lukas


country: DE
nickname: Meinhard
datetime: 2011-05-20 09:50:57.000000
comment:
It might be wise to either walk to the A14 or take bus number 6 or 6A and get off at Raben-Steinfeld and walk the rest.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-05-20 09:37:29.000000
comment:
actually it's not entirely impossible to get a lift to schwerin from here.. ;) either try right at the exit or walk to the petrol station 100 m down the road. i did it a few times, but i suppose being local helped a lot. :)


country: DE
datetime: 2013-05-14 18:01:16.000000
comment:
i came from Hamburg on the way to Lenzen (Elbe) - behind Ludwigslust.
At the exit 12 is a petrol station where you can get a lift but its good if you have a sign.


country: FR
nickname: JB
datetime: 2013-06-23 23:45:00.000000
comment:
Descendu ici pour continuer vers Limoges mais peu de trafic, mieux vaut descendre au péage juste avant l'échangeur, un peu plus loin. On s'en sort en abordant les conducteurs.


country: GB
datetime: 2016-05-10 04:34:42.000000
comment:
Can either a pleasant or bad experience, depending on when you arrive here. If you get here late afternoon, my advice would be to find somewhere to throw your lean to for the night, away from the service station, there are a couple of places you can hide behind.  Cook some food and get a hot drink, this place at night even in the summer can get really very cold, wrap up warm at night. It's highly unlikely you will be disturbed overnight while you sleep. Get some breakfast and a hot drink, after pack up, and head into the services, get cleaned up, and get out and ready to hitch. Signs are important here. 


country: GB
nickname: Tmoon
datetime: 2013-07-17 02:11:42.000000
comment:
Not always good for Manchester here - we tried once with sign 'MANCHESTER' for 2 hours without success. Walking to J19 and hitching from there got much better results.


country: GB
datetime: 2013-08-02 23:59:56.000000
comment:
Once got stuck here with a friend for 27 hours, most other times it's been 2-5 hours, not good for going north.
Avoid at all costs!


country: GB
nickname: Colinc
datetime: 2013-11-05 03:43:37.000000
comment:
3   bad  experiences   so far in 2013  going  south ....no cars . expect  to wait 90 minutes  and then   be  offered  a lift   to Hilton Park Services  , Wolverhampton  , which is  also  a 90 minute wait. Avoid Kuntsford and Hilton Pk . The rest of M6  is ok


country: GB
nickname: River
datetime: 2016-09-10 01:34:39.000000
comment:
Going to Scotland. Tried here at night, very little traffic, noone stopping. 

Got a lift in the morning after a couple of hours on the road before the petrol station, but only because someone got stuck behind a truck and had time to think about it for a while.


country: GB
nickname: Uncle sam01
datetime: 2016-12-13 03:13:07.000000
comment:
How do you get stuck for 27 hours? Anyway, I got a ride in about 5 minutes going around, asking drivers in the dark. The guy asked me to show him my ID, but took me almost home in Manchester.


country: GB
nickname: Kekslala
datetime: 2012-12-20 12:39:30.000000
comment:
Very scenic route and you're better off taking that way instead of the motorway - people going are very likely to stop.


country: BE
datetime: 2011-07-24 17:48:10.000000
comment:
We were on our last leg to Gent - car stopped within 5minutes. We were dropped here by the couple that picked 3 of us up in Bruges.


country: GB
datetime: 2013-02-25 01:51:48.000000
comment:
I waited to get onto the M32 for 3 hours on a nice summers day and not a soul stopped. Ended up walking to the train station. But great spot physically, maybe i was just unlucky


country: GB
nickname: NeedLives4TheMaster
datetime: 2016-09-11 01:48:44.000000
comment:
The hard shoulder before it joins the M-way, is actually short, and narrow, and curves severely to the right. The traffic is fairly fast-moving and closely-packed, and despite plenty of sympathetic gestures from drivers, I think that this is a pretty unattractive stopping place for them. Would not use it next time. (The police passed me 3-4 times without comment, thus the terrain seems secure.)


country: GB
nickname: LaZubi
datetime: 2017-04-13 21:04:05.000000
comment:
Hitched here end of March 1pm. Sunny day. Waited in the short shoulder for 30 min with sign saying: "Cardiff". Got a lift.
Traffic is very busy. U need luck and a smile :)


country: IT
datetime: 2011-08-23 12:18:27.000000
comment:
walked while hitchhiking, no car stopped, walked all the way to slovenia and crossed the borders, then 2 hours of hitching at a gas station until someone finally took us to ljub


country: PL
datetime: 2018-07-19 13:16:17.000000
comment:
Great spot with plenty of room to stop. Got a direct ride to the A2 nearby Poznan within 10 minutes.


country: PL
datetime: 2015-01-09 14:02:32.000000
comment:
Used this spot for Wroclaw direction and found it average enough, mostly local traffic but it's good to take any lift going in the right direction. I travelled from Poznan to Wrocalw then onto Budapest. [Blog Post](http://www.hobospirit.com/hitchhiking-from-poznan-to-wroclaw/)


country: PL
nickname: Tomasmarc
datetime: 2015-10-28 16:38:55.000000
comment:
There were 4 of us (a guy and three girls) and got a ride to Leszno (although we were going to Prague) by the first car.


country: PL
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2015-10-21 23:15:05.000000
comment:
I've used this spot many times and never had to wait too much. 
Since getting here requires taking a bus which doesn't pass very close to the center,if you're getting here with a transfer along the way, get an hour ticket (4,20 PLN regular/2,10 PLN with a discount) instead of purchasing 2 separate tickets.


country: GB
datetime: 2012-03-07 02:06:01.000000
comment:
Nasty, nasty place. Had people drive around the roundabout specifically to come back and give me the finger for a second time.


country: GB
datetime: 2017-07-03 10:21:00.000000
comment:
may aswell call it Lymm-bo. Stuck here for hours til I decided just to go St Helens and get the train. Worst place I've hitched (or tried to)


country: GB
nickname: Haggismn
datetime: 2012-12-30 23:17:56.000000
comment:
I got a ride to here from Heston Services. 2 minutes after getting out, at 3am on a December morning, I got a ride up to Glasgow. Try standing just before where the lorries exit, it is safe and easy for them to stop here.


country: GB
nickname: Mrben
datetime: 2013-04-05 11:14:59.000000
comment:
Not good for the M6 North. Most people travel along the M56. I wait at the service station exit. 
Good 24 hour services - they didn't mind me dozing in the cafe.
A sign is recommended.


country: GB
nickname: Erth Walker
datetime: 2015-11-27 21:28:34.000000
comment:
Loads of Trucks! I was heading to Ireland, I just talked to every truck driver chilling at the parking place. Most of them were going Far south. (London even Dover) Eventually an Irish trucker took me all the way to Dublin, He even payed the boat ticket for me.


country: GB
nickname: LaZubi
datetime: 2017-04-13 21:24:21.000000
comment:
Got dropped off here begin of April. Got another ride at 2pm within 30min with my sign saying "M6 North". Waited after the petrol station. But you can even ask people at parking area.


country: DE
nickname: Santa klaus
datetime: 2014-10-14 13:11:30.000000
comment:
Often difficult to find somebody to Halle, Leipzig or Dresden since most people go to Berlin. Probably the best place around, though.


country: FI
nickname: MustacheHitcher
datetime: 2013-11-18 17:01:55.000000
comment:
As far as I remember, not very convenient place for cars to stop, so better follow the advice upwards.


country: UA
datetime: 2013-02-20 17:46:36.000000
comment:
i was told not to stay on the border toll and to ask cars at the gaz pump or restaurant 200m before. Got a lift easily to Budapest


country: ES
datetime: 2011-02-04 23:44:53.000000
comment:
If you want to hitchhike out of Bilbao you have to use the other motorways. The main exits of the city no one will stop for you. Too dangerous. 
source: It's my home town and have hitchhiked out of Bilbao plenty of times.


country: ES
datetime: 2011-09-14 19:49:43.000000
comment:
can´t remember where i was exactly but the enterance is in the city. waited for around 15mins to santander.


country: ES
datetime: 2014-07-18 21:01:20.000000
comment:
Good spot to go west. Santander and Laredo are super easy from here. Only complication is staying out of the road and making yourself visible to all three lanes coming.


country: ES
nickname: Mrm1985
datetime: 2015-06-05 02:16:11.000000
comment:
It's not too bad, but actually you will have to walk onto the road towards vitoria - there's a huge area to stop and it's less dangerous than at the roundabout. minus: it's not really legal...but still your best bet that a driver stops earlier than the police. 


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-09 16:12:37.000000
comment:
near roundabout it's not good place for parking. we tryed before the roundabout and occasionaly succed ^_^ people were going to Carcassone, droped us out in Toulouse


country: CZ
datetime: 2011-06-08 16:29:05.000000
comment:
I stand here with sign to Bratislava. 15 minutes later I was talking with great musician in his car on highway.


country: CZ
datetime: 2011-06-09 21:49:04.000000
comment:
I waited there for almost an hour, but ok it was almost 8 in the evening... Anyway spot is fine but 9/10 cars are just going back to Brno or nearby villages which can be frustrating


country: CZ
datetime: 2012-03-12 20:15:14.000000
comment:
If going to Bratislava you better ask Slovakian plates and trucks at the gas station because it's hard to safely pull-off on the runabout and most people go back to Brno or the surroundings because they were here shopping.


country: CZ
nickname: Asdam
datetime: 2013-09-27 01:42:48.000000
comment:
I was going to Budapest and despite the lots of local cars I got picked up almost until the border :) 


country: CZ
nickname: Drumroots
datetime: 2013-11-22 20:42:08.000000
comment:
Definitely a good idea to have a sign here. Traffic using this slip-road are not going back to Brno (they use the other slip-road), but most are from the local area south of Brno. However, it is definitely possible to get a long lift to at least Bratislava...  and there is enough place for cars to pull over safely. 


country: CZ
nickname: Alcanlo
datetime: 2013-12-19 20:23:53.000000
comment:
I tried different places in this shopping park. I stood next to the Bratislava sing. Here its a bit difficult cause there is no space enough to stop the car without being an obstacle for the traffic. I didn´t see many slovak plates. I gave up soon and went to ask in the gas station and the parking.


country: CZ
nickname: Hatizsakkal
datetime: 2016-07-08 13:42:47.000000
comment:
20 min waiting. we went towards Slovakia. so funny that all the drivers started to talk with us in czech. :-)


country: CZ
datetime: 2016-08-15 13:49:30.000000
comment:
Good spot, place to pull over, driver are going slowly. 10-15mins until cool guys picked us up to Bratislava :))


country: SK
datetime: 2012-02-28 11:54:33.000000
comment:
Cars diden't stopped. But ask Truck Drivers. The Only Problem with this place is to really long and hard to get there from the center of Bratislava.  


country: SK
datetime: 2012-05-02 13:42:15.000000
comment:
I think, this is the only place to get a ride to Wiena or Budapest. There is a lot of locals on this place :-/
It took me 45 minutes to get a ride in direction of Budapest.


country: SK
nickname: Kralx15
datetime: 2012-09-20 17:47:24.000000
comment:
 It's quite good petrol station for leaving from Bratislava. But the only proble is that it is really difficult to reach there. One way, take bus 93 and go 
Lúky V. It so close to highway D2 (E75,E65, E58). walk close to highway and you will see the petrol station. There is one crossing point in order to cross fences behind of the Petrol station. Even you can walk on railway. You must definately check your route on google map before you go there. Because when you reach there you will see how is complicaed. Good luck!


country: SK
nickname: Gillikin
datetime: 2013-07-08 16:38:36.000000
comment:
The best way after getting off Bus 93 (in case the wheat is high in the field): Walk in the direction the bus was heading. Go towards the field next to the road where you’ll see a path towards the bridge in front of you. Go under the bridge and up a small hill on the left, then straight and down the other side of the hill. Follow the road that goes straight then curves to the right until you come to a road on the right that has a stop sign and goes over railroad tracks. Follow this and on the other side of the bridge, turn and go down the left side (pick up a stick to make some noise and hit the grass with because there might be snakes). There will be stairs in a few feet that lead down to the highway. From here, walk the short distance to the service station. The walk should take about thirty minutes total. 


country: SK
nickname: Ada.pernik
datetime: 2013-07-21 11:13:50.000000
comment:
I dont think it is hard to get it. Get off the bus 93 at bus stop Luky V. Cross the field and go towards the railway, when railway goes away from highway continue towards the highway. About 50m before the petrol station, it is possible to come through the fence and you must cross the highway and you are here. We were waiting here about 20min to Wien.


country: SK
nickname: VerK
datetime: 2013-07-24 12:31:17.000000
comment:
Most of the cars go to vienna not to budapest, but finally we got a car which brought us directly to the adress in Budapest. We gut to the gas station by taxi because it is really hard to get there.


country: SK
nickname: Monnichqueh
datetime: 2013-07-25 23:08:23.000000
comment:
I disagree with the description. I got a ride to Serbia through Hungary in 20 seconds and there were a lot of hungarian cars around.


country: SK
nickname: Tomocici
datetime: 2013-09-11 22:15:14.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Maribor in 30 mins. However two guys had been waiting for their ride to Budapest for two hours already when I came. This was maybe week before the end of holiday (august).


country: SK
nickname: Alcanlo
datetime: 2013-11-25 22:11:39.000000
comment:
If it´s rainy, your shoes will get dirty because of the mudd in the way to the petrol station. Take with you something to clean them, noone wants a hitchiker full of mudd in his car xD


country: SK
nickname: Jakubkollar
datetime: 2014-03-13 13:02:53.000000
comment:
We were hitching to Budapest. Cars did not stopped but we asked truck drivers and after an hour a Romanian driver took us directly to Budapest outskirts. Most of the cars were heading to Vienna.


country: SK
nickname: Lopotour
datetime: 2014-03-27 12:34:27.000000
comment:
Almost everyone is going to Vienna here, at least that is what their hand signs told me. You might as well start asking truck drivers straight away if you want to go to Budapest (like me). Took me just under 2 hours hitching with a sign to find a ride to Budapest, Vienna would have been easier I guess.


country: SK
datetime: 2014-06-19 02:50:25.000000
comment:
There is really a bringe if you want to we on the other side of the highway. Gillikin's instruction is pretty ok (i lost myself but finally found a good way). I dont know what is main destinaion for car drivers, i got a ride with truckman. There is a lots of tracks from all europe and they are going to germany, but also itally etc. If you will be really fucked up you can ask a driver at the petrol station if they can pick  you up at least 10km in direction budapest or go by foot- for 10km is rajka- is a station where every truck have to stop to buy vinniete. 


country: SK
nickname: Tintalinta
datetime: 2015-08-16 08:55:35.000000
comment:
it is a great spot, only problem is to get there. you have to walk for about 2 km by foot from Petrzalka. but, once you get there, you are the winner, you get a car immediately :)


country: HR
nickname: Zimmer hans
datetime: 2013-10-28 19:27:02.000000
comment:
Croatian citizens seems to be distanced, not willing to help, as we stayed there and in closeby point for more than 2 hours and even we were just trying to get to Lucko Tool Boths, no one stops and no one was willing to help. After all we convinced one driver to help us in emergency way.


country: HR
nickname: Adzi
datetime: 2015-05-08 09:39:27.000000
comment:
not so easy- i hitchhiked from there few times and every time i spent there many hours in full sun waiting for a  ride. but be sure that it's worth to wait to see some more of Croatia! : )


country: HR
nickname: Divljouki
datetime: 2015-05-28 21:59:57.000000
comment:
I found ride in a few seconds here. I was going on Lućko to Zadar. Most of people that stops there are going on highway so i think it's easy to find a ride. My friednd also find a ride very quickly. ;)


country: HR
datetime: 2015-10-01 18:50:56.000000
comment:
I travelled here in begin of october. Just waited 30 minutes and got cought from a crazy, funny guy. Take tram number 4 to last station, than walk for an half hour to the station. Got quickly to Split. 


country: HR
nickname: DontWorryBeHippie
datetime: 2016-05-12 13:30:18.000000
comment:
Waited 1,5h on tuesday at 8.30 am. Then walk to Lucko pay tolls and get a ride in 2 min. So if you have the choice, my advice is to catch a bus from Zagred to Lucko directly.


country: HR
datetime: 2018-03-31 22:04:57.000000
comment:
Not the easiest spot but probably the most reasonable to take if you want to leave zagreb. take tram line no 7 till arena and walk 20 min to the station. For highway towards rijeka better ask for "Lusko" - the name of the tollstation, all locals know that as well. 


country: ES
nickname: Kobjak
datetime: 2015-01-25 20:41:36.000000
comment:
Stood there for  half an hour before I was brought to the other sport nearby by a girl who said it wasn't any good. According to her people take other ramps to get on the highway to Bilbao


country: PT
nickname: Demogirl06
datetime: 2013-06-23 18:21:50.000000
comment:
Don't let anyone convince you this is a good spot.  Cars will have to cross a lane of traffic to pull over, and then cross a land of traffic again to head southbound.  This makes drivers feel uneasy and is inconvenient.  While it is POSSIBLE to get a lift from any location, statistical probability is not on your side here.  Don't do it.    Go to the petrol station past Gaia.


country: FR
nickname: Mattfi
datetime: 2014-03-10 16:27:09.000000
comment:
At 12am, like 20 cars before to have one lift to the perfect place i wanted! (Saint Jean d'Aulps closed to Morzine)


country: DE
nickname: Prochy
datetime: 2012-07-11 17:48:51.000000
comment:
I got here around midnight on Saturday so I had to wait for a long time. A taekwondo team going to Nuremberg agreed to take me.


country: DE
nickname: Adamiksen
datetime: 2014-07-02 19:18:21.000000
comment:
according to my experience there is quite little traffic on this motorway saturday evening. was very lucky to get a ride to Karlsruhe in 10 min, though there were ca. 10-12 cars resting at the same time, not a lot...


country: DE
nickname: AndyKay
datetime: 2016-09-04 17:22:54.000000
comment:
we were lucky and at daytime a lot of people stopped there... there was traffic jam so they could leave the rest stop as quick as usually and we could get a ride after 5 minutes trying.


country: DE
nickname: Flasher702
datetime: 2013-04-18 21:47:57.000000
comment:
I think this marker is obsolete as they have changed all the roads at the airport. A little further earlier on the road, right by the departure (upper level) or arrival (lower level) gates works fine.


country: SE
nickname: Mila.77
datetime: 2014-08-01 00:44:26.000000
comment:
hi. please put your point more acuraltey. it looks as if you tried to hitch from in the middle of the forrest which explains the red spot.


country: DE
nickname: Trt
datetime: 2011-06-18 15:49:35.000000
comment:
Almost all cars were heading west. Took 30 min of asking until someone drove us to a rest stop north. Took 5 min from the rest stop to get a ride


country: DE
datetime: 2012-08-23 21:16:48.000000
comment:
There's a gas station where you can ask. No recommendation if you're heading north. Took me 3 hours.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-09-24 22:46:56.000000
comment:
Indeed not recommended for going north on the A3. Lots of local rides and some to Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, München etc.


country: SI
datetime: 2011-07-06 23:56:23.000000
comment:
was waiting 5 hours before was picked. 85% italians, their mentality doesn't let them to pick hitchhikers, even tough im italian as well and was with a girl. the place is perfect, but difficult to get a ride, and the border officers were quite unfriendly 


country: AT
nickname: Az-alcmar
datetime: 2016-06-20 20:48:25.000000
comment:
To have villach, to have klagenfurt, that means to have problems with hitchhiking. 5-6 hours - nobody stoped in a few spots to west direction


country: DE
datetime: 2012-08-16 10:04:02.000000
comment:
at least it seems like a great spot but I was waiting for a horrible 3 hours to get to Munich, another hitchhiker wanted to get to Nürnberg after 3 hours as well he was taken just a few kilometres away. It was August and nearby any car was completely full (holidays)


country: DE
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2013-06-30 14:49:34.000000
comment:
Mixed opinions I guess, but we also had a horrible experience here, waiting 3 hours for a lift towards Munich.


country: AT
nickname: Masanfe
datetime: 2015-06-09 21:05:25.000000
comment:
Passed through here already in a car, and didn't see any controls. They told me they only look for the vignette some times so there are not always slow or stopping cars.


country: AT
datetime: 2011-04-23 00:07:26.000000
comment:
I wouldn't advise choosing this spot for hitching south. A new motorway has been built (S2), practically ALL traffic going through the city concentrates on that motorway.


country: GB
nickname: Smellymoo
datetime: 2013-03-19 22:01:34.000000
comment:
Great for N.Devon (A361) > M5 North. if heading south use a sign.

Great for M5 North or South to N.Devon (A361). Remember to stop at J27, and walk to the pull in, which is close.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-04-06 18:56:51.000000
comment:
Many people going south to Strasbourg and Switzerland but no one continuing on the A8 towards Stuttgart or Pforzheim.


country: DE
datetime: 2014-08-24 13:46:41.000000
comment:
Saturday evening, we were 2 people going to Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Very low traffic (approx. 5 cars parked), nevertheless got a ride directly to our places in 10 minutes.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-05-26 12:20:17.000000
comment:
I was lucky I think. I arrived around 10 am and it was very very calm although the station was quite big. Fortunately there was a car heading to Köln/Cologne which could took me a long end in my direction.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-03-31 22:19:32.000000
comment:
you can easily get to the raststätte sindelfinger wald from stuttgart büsnau or sindelfingen via landstraße. just cross the street and around the corner, no fences and no long distance 


country: DE
nickname: Tommy90
datetime: 2012-08-08 22:10:52.000000
comment:
got a lift directly to Munich. Had been dropped of by a car, and the second car driver I asked gave me that lift to Munich. 


country: DE
nickname: WholeKogan
datetime: 2012-08-14 12:39:50.000000
comment:
No Use for a sign here! Just ask the Drivers at the Gas station. You should be picked up within 40 minutes, rather less!


country: DE
nickname: Chenga
datetime: 2014-07-10 19:21:36.000000
comment:
Very nice place. Waited max 5min in the rain until someone offered me a direct lift to Ulm. Perfect!


country: DE
datetime: 2012-08-16 10:12:15.000000
comment:
tried to get to Munich but people were rather just driving a few kilometres...For going further north it might be good but for going into the direction of Munich, prefer Sindelfinger Wald


country: SE
nickname: Pletter
datetime: 2014-08-07 22:40:15.000000
comment:
Got a ride to Norrköping before we even stopped and finished writing the sign. Seemed to be a nice on ramp with medium traffic. 


country: SE
nickname: Marsop
datetime: 2012-07-16 18:18:11.000000
comment:
This should be a nice spot, but most cars are heading towards Stockholm, so it's hard to use it for Jönköping


country: SE
datetime: 2012-09-22 14:40:45.000000
comment:
Spot looks nice with a big right shoulder but cars accelerate to 90 km/h here. Make sure you have a big sign and people see you early.
I waited for 10 minutes till the police came and told me to go away. Seems they dont have anything better to do than ruining hitch-hiking trips.
I had to move to the other spot near the IKEA.
Still not <3 police ...


country: AT
nickname: Koendev
datetime: 2013-06-30 14:46:44.000000
comment:
Full cars, Dutch caravans or grumpy Austrians... Still one of the only options going north I guess, because it's quite crowded.


country: AT
nickname: Olivier08
datetime: 2013-07-29 07:52:06.000000
comment:
Relatively good traffic, mostly families with full cars though. There is also a nice spot in the back, if you have to spend the night there. Go behind the restaurant, in one of the corners of the parking you'll see a little path going up behind the trees.  Right there you go up a little bit and you'll see a fence, there you can put up your tent without being seen. And the view is beautiful!


country: AT
nickname: Olivier08
datetime: 2013-07-29 08:03:40.000000
comment:
I noticed the marker on the map is on the ramp to the highway. This is not the best spot since cars dont have a very safe place to pull over. The best is always to go talk to the persons as they are tanking. Otherwise, you can also show your sign at the entrance of the station.


country: AT
nickname: Fred57
datetime: 2014-08-28 10:20:48.000000
comment:
Mostly families or full cars, many going north. Found a couple who took us directly to Ljubljana (weekday, 10am, mid of august)


country: CH
nickname: Cardinal
datetime: 2016-04-06 21:19:25.000000
comment:
After 15 min of waiting I got picked up on my trip to BERN.
Police cars drove by and didnt care.

The spot is quite save and there´s space to pull over.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-08-19 11:06:31.000000
comment:
after a lot of construction work, this spot is pretty good in direction of the A81. there's a pretty long interweaving lane, where cars can stop without problems. 


country: IT
datetime: 2011-01-07 21:57:29.000000
comment:
i was there, stayed for like one hour but the traffic is promissing, and there are loads of people smiling at you even though they dont go where you want to go , so its good


country: IT
datetime: 2011-02-06 18:53:44.000000
comment:
The spot is good but not one stopped. It is right before the highway next to a shell gas station. There is plenty of room for the cars to pull over on the left side. There is also shelter underneath a building that crosses the on ramp. One thing that made me nervous was the police station but they didn't give me any problems. I have found Italy very hard to hitch in.


country: IT
datetime: 2011-04-11 23:19:31.000000
comment:
same, the spot is really good and the police scary.
a sign with the number of the "autostrade" we wanted to get to was handy. Long wait but finally good luck!


country: IT
nickname: Phidias81
datetime: 2012-06-20 12:07:28.000000
comment:
It's a good place, We had to wait a little to get a ride toward FRance, it looks like most of the cars go to Milano


country: IT
datetime: 2013-07-10 23:57:19.000000
comment:
For me this was a good spot to go to France as there was a lot of traffic (we've been waiting for 30 minutes). But you're still in Italy, so make sure that the city on your sign isn't that far (Imperia or Savona). It's a good spot to get on the highway and as you'll know, once you're their the sky is the limit. 


country: IT
nickname: Bcalado
datetime: 2013-08-04 15:56:27.000000
comment:
This is very good! You have a petrol station where you can ask the  people fr a ride and you have direct access to the entrance to the highway, where there's a lot of cars entering very slowly and with a lot of space to stop


country: IT
nickname: Whateversclaver
datetime: 2013-10-30 08:38:54.000000
comment:
good place!
first car i asked in the station (french) got me a ride all the way to Nice!
also, good directions from the description!


country: IT
nickname: Sitko
datetime: 2015-04-30 15:33:14.000000
comment:
it's a perfect spot unless there is polizia stradale controlling traffic. in that case it's hopeless, since people fear it a lot. and bastards robed me of 7 hours waiting there. when they were gone i got a ride to imperia with a sign saying "sv" (savona) in 15 minutes.


country: IT
nickname: Brunolimaam
datetime: 2015-12-16 23:43:23.000000
comment:
stood at the exit from the gas station where it converges with the entrace to the highway so i could face drives from both directions. I had a sign TORINO i got a ride in 30 seconds straight to torino. I got lucky i guess. the traffic was kind of slow.


country: IT
datetime: 2018-06-13 05:21:41.000000
comment:
Good spot to go to France, but step by step and not directly.
I asked to people who stopped at the gas station if they went to Savona or Imperia, I just had to wait 15 minutes.
I was then taken to a gas station inside the highway and immediately found a car to Marseille.


country: IT
nickname: Irazall
datetime: 2011-09-28 23:07:11.000000
comment:
In fact in Italy it is forbidden to hitchhike at a toll station. So better not get caught by the police :)


country: IT
nickname: Whateversclaver
datetime: 2013-10-30 08:33:12.000000
comment:
agreed
But I was lucky enought to get a ride from a person willing to get out of thir way to get me to the next gas station. Quite far away!
I cant find it, but there I got a ride with the first car i asked (Romanian gypsy's) all the way to Genova.


country: BE
nickname: Corto
datetime: 2011-11-27 20:26:57.000000
comment:
Actually a lot of cars, but no place for them to stop, you can just enter the car when it's waiting at the red light. Next time i'll try the gas station in Stalle. 


country: BE
datetime: 2011-12-25 09:49:41.000000
comment:
A decent spot. I found the red-light WAY too short for drivers to consider letting you in their car, so we walked to the ramp and had better luck with traffic coming from the west, as there is enough space for the to stop and still have cars go around. In about 10 minutes, got a ride all the way to Lille, Fr


country: BE
nickname: Dante
datetime: 2012-01-29 00:48:58.000000
comment:
I tried this spot at the red light, on the small pavement under the bridge several times. It is possible, after eye contact, to talk to a driver, and if they say they go your direction or agree putting you off at a next petrol station, my experience is that they wait even if the light goes green, and other cars can still bypass them.


country: BE
nickname: Briedis
datetime: 2013-09-23 09:23:33.000000
comment:
Waiting on the up-ramp with a destination sign and "next gas station symbol" took us 5 minutes. (2 people).


country: BE
nickname: Tishead78
datetime: 2015-03-29 18:42:22.000000
comment:
bad spotbecause car don't have time to stop if they want to take you (red light time is too short) and not very confortable under the bridge (noises..).
But if you walk 15 meters away, at the entrance of the ring, it is a very good spot, cars can stop and see you in advance :)


country: BE
nickname: Flexi
datetime: 2015-05-14 21:28:36.000000
comment:
the first time i hitchhiked there, i got a lift in five minutes to Concarneau ! Perfect :) but it surely does not happen every day :)   


country: BE
nickname: Guaka
datetime: 2012-07-12 07:15:44.000000
comment:
I hitchhiked many times from this spot. The left side is the best side. Right after, or before, the first traffic light. It seems there's no space to pull over, but Belgian people actually can. All the time.


country: BE
nickname: Charmine
datetime: 2013-06-13 11:46:40.000000
comment:
I was standing a bit closer to the tunnel on the left side and was picked up after 2 minutes and got a direct lift to Antwerp.
Before I waited on the right side at a traffic light for half an hour and no one stopped.


country: BE
datetime: 2013-07-29 15:15:32.000000
comment:
A slghtly dangerous place, crowded, there's extremely little space for cars to safely stop and they are going quite fast...On the other hand there are many of them going to the East. Your call...


country: BE
nickname: Couleurmate
datetime: 2014-08-29 18:12:54.000000
comment:
I tried that spot for like 3 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. I was standing just next to the Total petrolstation. The first car to stop was going next to Leuven. 30 seconds later, another stopped and took me till Liège, on the last petrolstation before Germany.


country: BE
datetime: 2014-11-29 14:22:05.000000
comment:
Perfect spot for going east in the week-end! A little less croweded, so a little bit easier for cars to stop. 

I got a ride to Leuven after 1 minute on a Saturday morning. 

You can push the button to cross the street on the pedestrian lane, to create a red light situation for the cars that are going in the tunnel. It might help :) 


country: BE
datetime: 2020-01-16 11:32:34.000000
comment:
Waited less than 5 minutes to go to Liege. I was standing at the Total petrol station and dropped me next to Liege on his way to Germany. 


country: GB
datetime: 2018-06-07 22:08:57.000000
comment:
Got offered 2 lifts to Newport within 25 minutes, bit of space by the junction for cars to pull in. 


country: RU
nickname: Siberian explorer
datetime: 2012-07-15 20:34:00.000000
comment:
also take local train from main station to "Aeroflot" station. position is couple hundreds meters to the north


country: SK
nickname: Trewge
datetime: 2011-01-10 05:27:30.000000
comment:
Easy to get to, but you may have to wait for a little while.  Mostly local traffic and not many trucks stop here, but eventually I got a ride all the way to Budapest.


country: SK
nickname: Pite
datetime: 2011-10-12 20:41:45.000000
comment:
best place to leave the car if it's going only till bratislava but you'd like to go further south/east. some long-distance travellers stop here. asking helps quite a lot.


country: SK
nickname: Morfcake
datetime: 2011-12-17 18:30:44.000000
comment:
Get out here if your ride goes into Bratislava and you want to continue. 

Small place with not much traffic, but I got a ride to Budapest at 3 o'clock in the night.


country: SK
nickname: Amines
datetime: 2012-07-28 23:45:08.000000
comment:
we were here 27.7.2012 at around 19:15 me and my friend, when we got here there were 2 hitchhikers, they went strait to serbia, after that two more hitchhikers came here, they also got a ride, this time to komarom. After that we got a ride to budapest.

quite a usefull gas station :)


country: SK
nickname: Dpatrickst170
datetime: 2013-04-06 03:29:29.000000
comment:
easy to get a ride to BP or to Austria, also it is not possible to get to any other bigger cities f.e.: DS, NZ, and not impossible to get to Nitra, I managed to do that after 1h 10min.


country: SK
nickname: Asdam
datetime: 2013-04-21 18:27:47.000000
comment:
Good spot before Bratislava I got a ride up untill to Budapest at 22:00 at night so the traffic is good :) 


country: SK
nickname: Burrito
datetime: 2013-08-12 12:15:57.000000
comment:
We found a ride to Vienna after more than one hour of waiting and asking drivers. Most of cars were heading Bratislava, very few were going to Vienna.


country: SK
nickname: Dynamo
datetime: 2013-11-02 15:55:41.000000
comment:
The most traffic are locals (maybe 90%). I got a ride at 6pm to Budapest but I think I was a little bit lucky. A romanian guy saw me asking people and invited me to join him.


country: SK
nickname: Ausfahrt
datetime: 2015-09-01 23:25:28.000000
comment:
We (me+GF) tried to get a ride to Vienna. We stood with a sign for 2 hours with no success so we decided to ask drivers and  managed to get a ride pretty fast (it´s probably the best way). 
Very little traffic and most of it was local. 
A hard place to hitch from but at least there´s a free toilet+drinking water, shade and a really cheap and huge supermarket (Kaufland) nearby if you have to spend the night.


country: HU
datetime: 2011-07-24 21:42:26.000000
comment:
You can get there by bus no. 44. You have to get off right after turn. There is also Aldi supermarket


country: GR
nickname: Harry666t
datetime: 2011-07-26 17:22:52.000000
comment:
Got a lift by a truck, straight to Patra. Was standing on a nearby gas station (can't recall its exact position). A sign helped a lot, I guess.


country: NO
datetime: 2018-01-28 11:50:36.000000
comment:
indeed a good spot to hitchhike not that far from oslo (took the bus from the central station to nordstrand and waited for 12min not more) 22/01/2018


country: FR
datetime: 2016-02-27 13:10:35.000000
comment:
We got a ride to Avranches. The problem with Avranches is that there is not a very good place to begin hitchh
iking


country: LT
nickname: Avocette
datetime: 2012-05-11 20:57:08.000000
comment:
On a summer afternoon, waited here for over two hours, people driving slowly, quite some traffic, good visibility but no-one would stop. I don't know what happened here.


country: DE
nickname: Sam iam
datetime: 2011-10-24 16:46:25.000000
comment:
If you're going to Italy, I guess it's an option (but won't take you much further than Rosenheim if going to Munich). 


country: DE
datetime: 2011-05-16 00:42:47.000000
comment:
Good place to get out of Stuttgart to the north. It’s best to ask people at the gas station if they’re going up north on the A81 (look for license plates LB (Ludwigsburg) and HN (Heilbronn)).


country: FR
nickname: Fatbus3000
datetime: 2016-05-03 21:04:14.000000
comment:
One would think it's a perfect spot because there the cars are slow, there are many of them and there is place to stop and pick you up. However nobody picked me up for one hour to Narbonne, so I decided to take only a lift to Montpellier.


country: FR
datetime: 2015-01-21 11:44:24.000000
comment:
Great spot! Thank you! I guess it was not easy to find it...
I have been waiting 1h (between 8am and 9am) to get a ride, but this place has potential. Easy for cars to stop, a lot of traffic, and cars going slowly. Use a cartoon "Cannes - A8" to get the big gas station just before Cannes exit. If people stop before I suggest to stay here waiting for the right car.
Some precisions: dont be afraid to get on the highway by foot. Try to walk on the other side of the safety barrier, not so easy at the beginning. 
Also it takes faster by train from "Nice-ville" (main station) to "L'Ariane-la-Trinité" (it is 7min). schedules on this website: http://www.ter.sncf.com/paca/. Cross the bridge in front of the train station and go left to the entrance of the highway: you can see the viaduct (10min walking)


country: FR
nickname: Amede74
datetime: 2015-01-21 11:45:34.000000
comment:
Great spot! Thank you! I guess it was not easy to find it... I have been waiting 1h (between 8am and 9am) to get a ride, but this place has potential. Easy for cars to stop, a lot of traffic, and cars going slowly. Use a cartoon "Cannes - A8" to get the big gas station just before Cannes exit. If people stop before I suggest to stay here waiting for the right car. Some precisions: dont be afraid to get on the highway by foot. Try to walk on the other side of the safety barrier, not so easy at the beginning. Also it takes faster by train from "Nice-ville" (main station) to "L'Ariane-la-Trinité" (it is 7min). schedules on this website: http://www.ter.sncf.com/paca/. Cross the bridge in front of the train station and go left to the entrance of the highway: you can see the viaduct (10min walking)


country: FR
datetime: 2015-03-12 18:33:47.000000
comment:
Very good place to get a ride to the West. I have waited 20min and got a ride to the 1st petrol station just before Cannes (broad a sign "Cannes"). If there is no train (http://www.ter.sncf.com/paca/), take the tramway to Vauban station, then behind the tram stop take the bus n°6 to "Bon Voyage" station. Then find the highway


country: BE
datetime: 2011-08-26 18:00:43.000000
comment:
This is a good petrol station heading to Dunkerque or Calais. Not exactly sure of the location either, as it's not on satellite.


country: DE
nickname: Khorporative
datetime: 2011-05-19 22:13:41.000000
comment:
I was standing at the ramp for about 4 hours with a sign with big DD letters trying to catch a ride to Dresden. No luck, but the place did not seem very good either.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-07-15 20:15:44.000000
comment:
going to prague alter
30 minutes waiting time 
but before us there were two hitchers for two hours without succes you just have to dance or something do a performance
booom!


country: DE
datetime: 2011-09-16 14:59:20.000000
comment:
stood there for 2,5 hours on a very busy day. no cars going to dresden though - another hitchhiker came much earlier than me and wasnt lucky either. i would choose another spot


country: DE
datetime: 2011-10-16 13:47:32.000000
comment:
I tried this place for a lift to Dresden. It took 2 1/2 hours to get one. Cars cant stop here. I usually use the place at "Altglienicke" to Dresden, it isn't really good but works much better!


country: DE
datetime: 2013-09-23 14:26:28.000000
comment:
I was standing not exactly on the ramp but 20-30 meters before. There was plenty of space for cars to hold, and got a ride all the way to Dresden within five min. 


country: DE
nickname: Choubidoowap
datetime: 2015-03-08 20:21:20.000000
comment:
I was standing here for 4h hours, then the police came to say that i won't have any ride here. And the rain arrived, i left to take a bus to Praha.


country: CZ
nickname: Two&amp;dog
datetime: 2012-08-31 23:04:49.000000
comment:
We was waiting here with sign "Graz" for 3 hours. After this time we decided change the place. We went by bus (there is bus stop) to Mikulov, closer to Austria.


country: BE
nickname: Schworze
datetime: 2011-10-20 14:46:32.000000
comment:
you can get to this service station by using the public transport and walking the last two kilometres by foot


country: DE
nickname: Xkomczax
datetime: 2011-11-06 13:33:51.000000
comment:
Good spot in the north direction - there are driving trough people going from south (Stuttgart, Switzerland, ...) and east (Heilbronn, Nürnberg, Czech republic, ...) to the north (Köln, Aachen, Netherlands).


country: DE
nickname: RedFox
datetime: 2014-06-19 10:14:19.000000
comment:
NIGHTMARE!!! Towards Netherlands, as of april 2014, there are construction cones before the entrance, nobody stops here. We have seen less than 10 cars an hour.


country: DE
nickname: Reggae-girl
datetime: 2015-05-22 17:35:49.000000
comment:
Lot's of cars going to Frankfurt or the Netherlands. Just a few cars to Kaiserslautern or Saarbrücken. 


country: ES
nickname: Julieta
datetime: 2012-09-10 17:51:09.000000
comment:
Arrived at 23h with a Portuguese trucker from Coimbra and went out for drinks until his 6h departure. Friendly crowd- very helpful to speak Portuguese & Spanish !!


country: ES
nickname: Joaoguilhermeln
datetime: 2014-07-31 20:59:46.000000
comment:
Very easy if you talk with the truck drivers. At night is more complicted because most of them sleep there, but in the morning they are all back on the road!


country: ES
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2014-12-26 20:35:59.000000
comment:
We met a couple standing there for 13 hours. Fortunately they managed to get a ride soon after our arrival. The two of us had luck though and after talking with the drivers we got a ride across the French border with a truck driver. 


country: DE
datetime: 2011-05-23 16:37:00.000000
comment:
asked people at the petrol station with no result, after 15 minutes the staff send me away. waited about an hour more with hamburg sign near the street and go a lift to stolpe a111 petrol station..


country: RU
nickname: Stadas
datetime: 2017-01-11 12:15:36.000000
comment:
Hiched here for several hours, then got ride ~10 km down the road. After that got ride to Cheliabinsk in 20min.


country: GB
nickname: Colinc
datetime: 2014-06-04 22:50:01.000000
comment:
J 16   and  17  are   just  about  ok  , and  better than  central  Bristol , though   AVOID 18 , Avonmouth  at all costs 


country: GB
nickname: Tmoon
datetime: 2013-07-17 02:08:40.000000
comment:
Have used this place multiple times and never got a ride in less than 45mins. On one occasion it took over 3 hours. However, I've always got a ride, and there's not many other options in Manchester. If you do decide to try this spot, any ride going vaguely in the direction you need will probably result in you finding a better spot than this one, so it's often worth taking the chance on any ride offer from here. Getting to M6 J19, or M6 Knutsford Services from here is definitely worth it.


country: GB
nickname: Colinc
datetime: 2013-11-05 03:52:10.000000
comment:
waited 3  hours  and  then   walked  2 km south west  to the  next slip road  which was  quiet and  much better , after   a  kind  driver   told  me  to give  up   at that  point  at the  fuel station 


country: BG
nickname: Frederic Henry
datetime: 2012-05-08 10:42:23.000000
comment:
There is a bus station on the right side of the street. You can hitchhike from there if you want to go outside the city (and reach the highway)


country: SK
nickname: Tomocici
datetime: 2011-08-31 15:40:27.000000
comment:
More locals drivers there since there is a highway. But still possible to get in every main direction in Slovakia.


country: SK
nickname: Nikola123
datetime: 2012-07-27 11:54:09.000000
comment:
There was 2 of us, girl and boy. Good spot. Lots of cars and place for tham to stop. We had a big sign.


country: SK
nickname: Wootoshi
datetime: 2013-11-06 10:34:40.000000
comment:
This is a great place to hitch, primarily becase of the signalized intersection facing you, thus the drivers have good deal of time to mediate upon the idea that taking a hitchhiker might be an interesting idea. 


country: SK
datetime: 2012-03-12 20:16:22.000000
comment:
May be the best spot towards Wien, but cars still go fairly fast and it's hard to find a place where they can safely pull-off.


country: SK
datetime: 2012-05-02 13:50:17.000000
comment:
The nearest bus/tramstops are: Kúpalisko Matador or Laranconi (on the other side of the river Dunaj)
more info www.imhd.sk/ba


country: SK
nickname: Bobek
datetime: 2014-11-09 12:50:12.000000
comment:
I would say bus stop Kremnická (88 and 80)
but we had a problem to get a car on saturday morning and the traffic was busy.


country: SK
datetime: 2015-07-29 21:14:21.000000
comment:
We (2 man) were hitchhikin´ there just about 10 minutes. Good place, a lot of place for the car to stop.


country: BG
nickname: Stalinko
datetime: 2013-08-11 11:00:24.000000
comment:
There are no cafes in that village. But you can find a nice little shop where Vojnishko Vastanije and Pernishko Shose crose. Very nice cafeowner :)


country: BG
nickname: Prochy
datetime: 2013-08-18 13:36:56.000000
comment:
waited 45 mins then went by bus..there were other 5 people hitchhiking and that maybe confused drivers.


country: BG
nickname: Libertad Viajera
datetime: 2014-06-08 14:39:35.000000
comment:
I'm not am expert but this place is really good. We jump of the bus 59 after 6-8 min and wait just 10 min. :-)


country: BG
nickname: Delilah
datetime: 2014-05-05 22:39:06.000000
comment:
I was lucky and got a car in 10 or 15 mins. But it's really uncomfortable place for drivers to stop.


country: BE
datetime: 2012-02-18 18:26:04.000000
comment:
I waited in this spot at the entrance to the Shell since it was visible both to the highway for people to pull over, and for customers at both the Shell and Lukoil stations.


country: BE
nickname: LukasR
datetime: 2014-06-15 10:28:47.000000
comment:
I directly asked the customers at the Lukoil station and got a ride going to Gent from the third one I asked. There were quite a lot of people stopping to get gas.


country: BE
datetime: 2017-03-01 10:58:39.000000
comment:
I stood infant of the entrance to the petrol station. A truck stopped me on the road and took me closer to Gent. I reached London the same day.


country: GR
nickname: Kino no Tabi
datetime: 2011-06-15 18:57:00.000000
comment:
I was living in Chania for one year, so I have tried this spot several times and it always worked! 
(but hey- I'm a lady traveling alone)

once I did it with two friends (one man, one woman) and we managed to find a ride in less than an hour.

So, I don't think it's that bad. I'd say, average...


country: DK
datetime: 2018-09-12 16:39:14.000000
comment:
After checking the 2 parking lots and the gas station for 2 h we got a ride for 2 people going all the way to Hamburg through the night. (car picking up gas).
Btw The Rødby ferry price is not dependent on the number of passengers, so it was free.
1 L beer at gas station costs 20 DKK.


country: SE
datetime: 2012-09-22 14:36:58.000000
comment:
Asked people at the gasstations and found a nice couple that brought me to the ferry in Malmö.
Probably luck though. 


country: SE
nickname: Quispiam
datetime: 2013-10-17 18:19:08.000000
comment:
Got here in rainy October looking for place south for three. Found one heading for Malmö in just 30 minutes just by asking people coming to get gas.


country: SE
nickname: Pletter
datetime: 2014-06-23 17:40:21.000000
comment:
Got a ride in 15 min to Halmstad with sign saying "E6 south". No taxis blocking pullover space, but it was in the morning at 10 am, before Liseberg opens.  


country: GB
datetime: 2012-06-13 17:33:59.000000
comment:
Hitched out twice here very easily. Both times going long distances (Worchester and Stoke-on-trent).


country: GB
datetime: 2013-06-26 22:23:49.000000
comment:
took ~2 hours to get a lift. Still it is probably the best place to catch a car going south from Edi


country: FR
nickname: Besnik19
datetime: 2014-09-17 12:26:35.000000
comment:
The place looks fine at the first glance, you can see cardboard pieces dropped on the ground that gives you confidence. However, the traffic is big and rapid, who's not driving on the left lane won't be able to pull off at all. If people even see you they won't have the time and space enough for stopping. Rather outside of town...


country: DE
datetime: 2011-01-20 14:49:36.000000
comment:
I find the spot after the crossroads, the entrance of the autobahn, much more successful than the actual bus stop. I'm not sure why, but waiting times there are around ten minutes, while at the bus stop i've waited for ages/hours.


country: DE
nickname: Seeker126
datetime: 2011-08-21 19:36:58.000000
comment:
Really good spot to get onto the Autobahn. There is plenty of traffic at the crossroad and enuogh space on the side of the road for cars to stop.


country: DE
nickname: Falko
datetime: 2013-03-26 15:04:34.000000
comment:
Absolutely no luck there after dark. The bus stop should be better than the crossing though, as it is the only opportunity for drivers to stop next to the street. Only cars from a little village have to pass the crossing in order to enter the Autobahn, drivers from Kassel already enter the Autobahn on-ramp  before.

Also the name of bus stop is BIRKENKOPF, and is reached via line 52.


country: DE
datetime: 2013-04-28 18:15:51.000000
comment:
A lot of local traffic going north. Ask the people at the Burger King parking lot or the gas station, that's where most of the people from the A8 go to in my experience. If you need any infos about the busses etc. go to the reception of the hotel. The two receptionists were pretty friendly and helpful and seemed to be used to the sight of hitchhikers.


country: NL
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2013-05-04 00:01:08.000000
comment:
Sorry, you are not much of a hitchhiker, if your result is what is written above. Too bad for you, but the spot is not worse than your average on ramp.


country: SE
nickname: Fverhart
datetime: 2015-06-15 04:00:22.000000
comment:
200 meter before the ramp is a sidestreet (next to the Statoil petrol station) where drivers stop. Not too busy, but enough for a ride to the service station on the E20 southbound. Not a great spot nonetheless.


country: SE
nickname: Mikef
datetime: 2013-05-17 10:05:18.000000
comment:
Not the best spot! The cars are driving very fast here because they're the highway. And that place where cars is supposed to be able to pull in, isn't very good - though it is possible. I ended up giving it up after 2 hours


country: SE
nickname: Amarant
datetime: 2014-11-30 22:35:27.000000
comment:
Make a sign and hold it up! It is important to write "Kungsbacka" on it, as well as your final destination. As described in the other review's description - there is a great resting place along the highway a few miles before Kungsbacka that you wanna go to. The name is "Rastplats Sandsjöbacka väster" just so you know. But "Kungsbacka" is better on a sign since more people are familiar with that. Got a ride in ten minutes at noon a sunny day in november. Cars can stop easily, the road is definitely broad enough. I'd stand here again! 


country: NO
datetime: 2017-10-19 00:02:17.000000
comment:
Senseless. Barely cars go this direction. Not many grounds for car to pull by as well cuz it's just an entrance to the highway. Stay here back and forth for 3 hours try to get a ride down south but no luck. Take a bus instead to Gothenburg with €5.

Try to avoid it if you get a ride to Sarpsborg get off to gas station before driving up to the exit, it will help


country: NO
nickname: Isskaa
datetime: 2015-11-20 09:45:14.000000
comment:
Good spot as cars are slowing down. 15 minutes to get a ride to Gothenburg with a guy going to Malmo!


country: ME
nickname: Nix831
datetime: 2016-04-25 23:32:43.000000
comment:
I got picked up in this spot within seconds by an adorable couple. It's a safe idea to head to the wonderful islands in the bay and then continue on to where you want to go. Plus a neat irish pub in perast too.


country: FR
nickname: Wther
datetime: 2012-09-10 08:59:09.000000
comment:
When we arrived there were already hitchhikers going to Le Mans, who told us that somebody going to Paris had already stopped there in the previous hour. We got a hitch fast, the funny thing was that an other hitchhiker arrived with a sign "Caen", so we had every possible direction layed out.


country: FR
datetime: 2010-12-29 13:14:18.000000
comment:
i tried 2+1/2 hours with a sign on the entrance to the A7 North near the 'marche des puces' market and gave up


country: FR
datetime: 2011-04-22 01:07:59.000000
comment:
but me and my friend were taken here to some roadstop near fos sur mer we wanted to go to montpellier and arrived same day

bonne chance


country: FR
nickname: Viliusdidit
datetime: 2012-06-07 17:09:27.000000
comment:
toward Avignon the speed a bit high but we had a decent eye contact with drivers. 15min wait around 7.30pm, plenty of traffic, a lot of it was local.


country: FR
datetime: 2013-09-30 17:40:38.000000
comment:
As said it's not a bad spot the only thing is that car are a little bit fast. there's a very cool spot if you want to catch people going towards montpellier


country: FR
datetime: 2014-08-19 16:14:20.000000
comment:
Good place to hike to north/west. You can camp a bit more south in "Indian forest sud", a ropes cours near Chemin du Viaduc. Try to leave before 9am.


country: FR
nickname: Cuch
datetime: 2016-08-02 14:53:20.000000
comment:
Good for going in the Montpellier direction, cars going fast though. Nice roadwall with hichhikers comments, so take your tagger with you!


country: FR
nickname: Hendrik
datetime: 2015-10-20 17:51:07.000000
comment:
I waited 1 min to Calenzana to start the GR 20. Many locals passing by know that hikers want to start their GR 20 at Calenzana and are kind and helpful! There is a nice place to stop cars just 100 m behind the roundabound.


country: DE
datetime: 2018-04-04 18:54:12.000000
comment:
Not many cars, most are locals. It is possible to get to the Netherlands but I was told the on northern motorway entry it's easier since many Dutch people go there for shopping (not on Sunday though).


country: DE
datetime: 2012-09-09 23:39:27.000000
comment:
a bus station a little bit after the junction and red light. but it took a lot time to get a lift.  


country: DE
nickname: Poebbels
datetime: 2012-02-08 23:20:44.000000
comment:
Going north is as easy as going south, stand on the on-ramp for the highway. But how do you go to Freiburg? I found that hard!


country: DE
nickname: Rconnard
datetime: 2011-09-07 21:20:25.000000
comment:
Practically no space for cars to stop. We got picked up around 9PM, after a 30 minute wait but didn't make it to Prague in one ride. 


country: DE
datetime: 2012-04-24 12:29:19.000000
comment:
Tried directly to Prague with sign "Praha", didnt work for 1 hour: 99,9% of cars go only to Pirna. Then took ride to the resting place 500 meters further on the highway and after 10 seconds got a ride straight to Prague from there...
So I would suggest going to the P/resting place and you''ll be sure to leave straight to Prague from there


country: DE
nickname: Feo
datetime: 2012-07-24 18:22:55.000000
comment:
Very good for getting to Pirna. Waited for 1,5-2 hours with no luck using a Prague sign. Changed it to Pirna and within 10 minutes a car stopped and brought me to a gasstation nearby.


country: DE
nickname: Davidkuski
datetime: 2012-09-05 19:46:56.000000
comment:
If you are going to Praha i think try first go to Pirna. Everybody going there. Or try with CZ table.


country: DE
nickname: Kralx15
datetime: 2012-09-20 17:07:29.000000
comment:
It's perfect spot in order to leave Dresden towards east. It's quite possible to find a car directly to Prague as well as to Pirna. We (two) wanted to go to Prague and waited just 3 mins with a Pirna sign. then, we left the car at the servis station just 1200 meters away from the spot. My suggestion is that firstly try to hitch Prague cars at least one hour. unless u hitch, show your Pirna sign and take a lift in 5 mins. It worths to try. It was 10th of August, 2012. Good luck ;)


country: DE
datetime: 2013-12-28 16:38:43.000000
comment:
got a ride to the czech republic in 30 mins or so. the traffic is dense and there is a lot of space - an overall good spot. didn't get a direct ride to prague though


country: DE
datetime: 2014-05-25 11:29:15.000000
comment:
I have to admit that I didn't read all this stuff beforehand. However, I had a extremely bad experience with just using a "Prague" sign. I waited for 3 hours on a monday afternoon with temperatures around -10°C and just one car stopped during the entire time (and was just driving a few kilometres, didn't know there will be a resting place in a few more meters)...so, next time I would also do it with the Pirna sign.


country: DE
datetime: 2019-02-14 12:32:57.000000
comment:
I can't choose option "bad" for this stop. So I will just describe by myself here. I had really bad expierence on this spot. I waited there more than 1 hour and nothing. was good traffic, but drivers don't stop. I yhink they can stop there. but it a little bit uncomfortable. In the end i diceded to change spot. 


country: NL
nickname: Guussjaak
datetime: 2013-07-30 16:41:38.000000
comment:
Decent croweded gasstation. Standing at the end of the parkway, waited ~7 minutes for Gent. 
Perfect for Antwerpen, Brussels, Gent and probably further like Paris


country: NL
datetime: 2015-06-25 13:30:03.000000
comment:
Not very crowded on a monday morning at 9. Asked around for an hour (~25 cars) until we found someone taking us all the way to Strassbourg. 


country: GB
nickname: Fossilhitchhiker
datetime: 2014-08-23 21:24:28.000000
comment:
stood here in 2003
in the bar in the back of the hotel their works the three titted lady
got a ride after some beers their
stood there for hours


country: UA
datetime: 2011-07-16 13:31:09.000000
comment:
We were waiting 3 hours for a ride to Kiev or Rivne, but no cars stopped. Maybe a better place to hitchhike is further down the road where the M-06 continues.


country: UA
nickname: Radi
datetime: 2013-05-26 19:40:14.000000
comment:
we were also waiting there for quite some time but eventually got picked up by policeman who drove us little further to the petrol station with more traffic and plenty of space to stop, we got a truck ride there further on...there were some other people going north, got picked up pretty fast, plenty of space to stop...good luck:)


country: CZ
nickname: Feo
datetime: 2012-07-24 18:33:15.000000
comment:
People were friendly enough, though not a lot were going south as I was. Mostly not out of the city at all. As said above however it's quite possible to get a ride to the next gasstation.


country: HR
nickname: Burrito
datetime: 2013-08-12 13:11:43.000000
comment:
We've waited here for about an hour when a minibus driver took us all the way to Dubrovnik. Even though we succeeded I think we were lucky. There were very few cars going to Dubrovnik during that time (not counting fully filled tourists).


country: BG
datetime: 2011-09-20 13:13:27.000000
comment:
Two pretty fast lanes, with mainly regional traffic on the right one. Should really consider going to Golden Sands and start from there.


country: DE
datetime: 2015-08-22 18:34:13.000000
comment:
Very good spot to hitchhike to Scandinavia. Just take a look cars, which has Danish, Norwegian or Swedish registration plate and try ur luck. Heaps of cars stop this spot for rest and fill a tank. Got a ride after 1 hour waiting.

But it is very hard to reach this spot. First u have to take S21 from Hamburg citycenter to  Eidelstedt (to direction of Elbgaustraße),then take a train A1 to Quickborn sud (to direction of Kaltenkirchen) and finally walk 3-4 km in forest.


country: DE
nickname: Santa klaus
datetime: 2012-08-31 18:14:07.000000
comment:
Not easy to find a ride beyond Hamburg. But its worth the struggle, next station (Holmmoor) is worse.


country: PT
nickname: Despdfr
datetime: 2011-04-10 12:17:34.000000
comment:
i arrived here in the summer of 2010 with a friend and trying to go to Lisbon. whee stud there 12 hours with no luck. in the morning we go to another gas station on a44 and stud there for another 4 hours and not one car stopped. after i went to the train.


country: PT
nickname: Poebbels
datetime: 2012-02-08 21:35:36.000000
comment:
@Despdfr: Wherever you've been, this is highway gas station, it's easy to get a ride from here, took as 10 minutes!


country: PT
nickname: Ratodoporao
datetime: 2012-06-14 03:14:12.000000
comment:
It's the best place i know to leave Porto towards south! many drivers are not following to the A1 motorway, so you have to ask many people and waiting time can vary a lot. 


country: PT
nickname: Dario.drz
datetime: 2013-10-30 22:41:23.000000
comment:
October 2013 update:
This spot is awesome. The D line now has its final stop at "Santo Ovidio". You get down there and walk to the back of the gas station on the way described above (20min). It can be tricky to jump the fence to the gas station, but don't give up! Put a sign and talk to drivers.


country: PT
nickname: Kidp3
datetime: 2014-01-15 12:13:23.000000
comment:
I think I got really lucky. I used just my thumb and the 2nd vehicle stopped for me. Took me about 30km from Lisbon and bought me lunch. But ya, he avoided the A1 as much as possible, criss crossing around and taking the side highways. Added an extra hour or so to get to Lisbon.


country: PT
nickname: Besnik19
datetime: 2014-09-17 13:57:00.000000
comment:
Heading to the south with a friend, we thumbed here about 1 hour until a family (driving in a convoy) stopped and took us until a service station near Coimbra. There wasn't a big traffic, and most people I asked were heading to some villages/smalltowns nearby. Still, best option to leave Porto.


country: PT
datetime: 2014-09-25 16:18:45.000000
comment:
perfect place, just take a metro and the walk towards gas station, there is an abandoned building site you have to cross which is not fenced, to go to the station. ask people around in gas station, drivers who stop and they will take you. waited 5-10 min. really perfect place


country: PT
nickname: Hitchhiking princess
datetime: 2014-12-30 00:12:27.000000
comment:
This good spot I think, but at this time (winter 2014) part of the highway around the gas station is being renovated so some cars don't stop maybe because the station is less visible. Fence is not so big, you can easily jump through. Direct drive to Lisboa in 1,5 hours waiting, but refusing some not direct cars earlier.


country: PT
nickname: Ewelinalucy
datetime: 2015-01-17 00:26:35.000000
comment:
We tried this spot for the first time in March 2014. After 2 h of standing with the sign only we had to give up hitchhiking and take a train to Lisbon, since we were in hurry. A few days ago we tried this spot again, this time not wasting our time and speaking with people directly. The very first driver we approached gave us a ride to the next gas station, around 40 km. The roadworks are still around that point, but it´s easy to walk above the fence and move your backpack to the other side too.


country: PT
nickname: Avocadocity
datetime: 2015-07-21 13:27:01.000000
comment:
My friend (male) and I (female) waited for 50 minutes with a sign "Lisbon por favor :)" and got picked up by a soft toy factory van with old cartoons painted all over it. He took us all the way to Lisbon and even bought us a snack at a rest stop! Great spot with shade.


country: PT
nickname: M.chwedczuk
datetime: 2015-08-06 22:44:30.000000
comment:
Because of the works at the motorway traffic is weary small. Only locals go there. After 4:30 h of asking all drivers picked a car to next station and their after 5 minutes picked directly to Lisbon. Try to escape Asaph to any other station. 


country: PT
nickname: Nostalgique
datetime: 2015-09-03 18:38:38.000000
comment:
I absolutely agree to what M.chwedczuk says - there's almost only local traffic ("vou sair na próxima"). We (hetero couple) would have had a ride after 5 min but only to Aveiro, so we declined. Then 4 hours - nothing. When we wanted to give up we found another car going to Aveiro and went to Lisbon from there.  Maybe it's a bit different in the weekend but definitely avoid it during the week!


country: PT
datetime: 2015-09-10 01:36:09.000000
comment:
Arrived to the spot at 09.09.2015 - oil station and road was closed for repair works! Was a frustration. But right next to, before turning to the oil station there is a narrow road and after half an hour i was picked up with Italian tourists car. Though overall it was quite a bad spot.


country: PT
datetime: 2017-12-18 18:47:43.000000
comment:
Arrived here 15.12.2017. Fences are quite okay they fixed the hole where with a hitchhiking sticker on. Agree with all the above there were only local traffic, and some language barrier sometimes.
Asked around people a while and eventually gave up and stood with the sign. 1 hour later got an offer from a German lady to Coimbra and from there got a direct ride to Lisbon easily. 

It's not the best nor the worst spot, average, and does worth a try. Once you got out this spot it should be better in my opinion. Low traffic on a Friday afternoon as well.


country: BG
nickname: Dario.drz
datetime: 2011-06-02 11:58:40.000000
comment:
can you please give me some details how to get to this spot? I want to HH from Plovdiv to istanbul, I have 2 days fo time. You think it will work?
I'm dario.drz in couchsurfing


country: BG
nickname: Teeshirt
datetime: 2011-10-20 17:25:13.000000
comment:
From downtown Plovdiv you can get on bus 66 (make sure you take it eastwards) and get off at Tsarigradsko Shose, before the bus turns into the Trakia district: http://www.masov-gt.com/googleMaps.php?table=66_1D1M0p&Den=1&VidTrans=1&description=%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%20%E2%84%96%2066%20(%D0%BA%D0%B2.%20%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%20-%20%D0%B6.%D0%BA.%20%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%8F%20%D0%9012)
Then you can walk over the bridge  and find a good spot to hitch (at the bistro).


country: BG
nickname: Teeshirt
datetime: 2011-10-20 17:31:53.000000
comment:
We were very lucky to the border, but after the border traffic was very slow. Most people seem to be going to Edirne from the border. Also, beware of people asking for (a lot of) money, thinking you actually need a taxi.


country: BG
nickname: Dersoeren
datetime: 2012-09-18 01:42:20.000000
comment:
not soo many trucks going to turkey but you can find a lift to get out of plovdiv. we were lucky and get a lift to the border


country: BG
nickname: Artpasnet
datetime: 2014-06-25 22:59:25.000000
comment:
is it a safe route ? i will arrive late at night and i need to reach istanbul, would it be possible to arrive in the morning ?


country: BG
nickname: HolyDrinker
datetime: 2016-07-07 01:21:30.000000
comment:
When going to Turkey, don't bother using a sign here. There won't be any direct traffic because that will take the (practically unhitchable) highway, so just put out your thumb, get a ride to the next (sizable) town (Haskovo in this case) and repeat from there until you get to the border.


country: ME
datetime: 2011-10-09 12:43:03.000000
comment:
mid august 2011 ; was expecting better ; after waiting over 2 hours, a guy that looked like robert de niro stopped and asked 5 €, i said hell yeah as i wanted to reach albania


country: ME
nickname: Degoiabeira
datetime: 2012-04-08 21:41:52.000000
comment:
Apparently, I met the same Robert De Niro but I refused, as it was all dark, I went to Shkodër by bus, but unfortunately the fee was 5 EUR as well.


country: ME
nickname: Hobbes
datetime: 2012-12-10 14:39:28.000000
comment:
We had a free ride from here to Shkoder. We didn't make a sign, but I had a pretty girl with me :). Waited for around 1h and rejected some propositions for a paid ride.


country: ME
nickname: Mrw.witteveen
datetime: 2014-07-22 12:44:47.000000
comment:
we took a "taxi" here after 45 mins, (which was also 5e), as we didn't expect to find an easy ride here: in summer, people know how to get money out of travellers ;) 


country: ME
nickname: Palihitcher
datetime: 2014-09-06 17:56:51.000000
comment:
It was incredibly hard to leave this place without paying five euros. All the Albanian cars who stopped asked for a fee, it took us more than two hours to find an international car which went to Albania and took us for free.


country: BE
datetime: 2010-12-13 15:46:41.000000
comment:
I waited here for a ride with a sign to Antwerp (Belgium) and Eindhoven (Netherlands) for 15 minutes with my thumb out. It`s an excellent place to hitch from. Walk here from the bus station 10 minutes away. 


country: FR
datetime: 2017-05-09 02:25:33.000000
comment:
Maybe not the best place, but with a gas station in 2km. If you have a sign with "station-service" you will properly get a ride in 5 min.


country: ES
nickname: Benital
datetime: 2012-08-30 13:34:02.000000
comment:
Just after a roundabout which drive in the highway towars Valladolid : people can see you, can stop but they don't... whatever you'll have to be patient ... very patient. I stayed there 2 hours before someone took me.


country: ES
nickname: Joaoguilhermeln
datetime: 2014-07-31 21:05:05.000000
comment:
Is a very visible place and cars have time and space to see you and stop.. we were lucky and just waited 30min, but maybe you'll have to wait a bit more...


country: ES
nickname: Railway
datetime: 2015-03-22 11:29:46.000000
comment:
With sigh VALLADOLID, with my girlfriend, we wait here 45 minutes during te night arrive a saturday.

Is case of night, there are light here.


country: ES
datetime: 2018-07-14 12:39:06.000000
comment:
Was dropped here once on my way to Portugal. This spot is useless if you want to go to Portugal, if you look on the map you will see why.


country: DK
datetime: 2016-12-30 15:08:29.000000
comment:
hitchhiking straight from the airport wasn't possible, but standing right here (there is a small spot where cars can stop) left me waiting for 3 minutes and I got a ride north towards Give and from there further to Herning.


country: GB
nickname: Junkiee
datetime: 2015-06-22 20:27:01.000000
comment:
hhiked saturday 5PM, 20th june 2015, very easy to get to heston services, from where its also supereasy.


country: FR
nickname: GregGM
datetime: 2013-06-01 13:36:37.000000
comment:
The spot looks good with lots of traffic, just after a junction so not too fast, good visibility, and enough time and space for drivers to really consider you before stopping. 

However no one will stop! We (2 ppl) had a sign asking to go only to the next service station down the A7, and we waited for 5 hours without any success. Maybe it's because this is a spot for prostitutes... There was also another hitchhiker up at the gas station who waited for looong.


country: FR
datetime: 2014-08-19 16:01:13.000000
comment:
Took me around one hour to get a ride to the next petrol station on A7. Most of the people are here already on the highway. Try to hike before or after.


country: FR
datetime: 2017-11-21 23:04:30.000000
comment:
Though it looks like a good spot, it seems it is not. I waited for two hours, which is pretty unusual for my standards (I don't look like a hippie...). I think its good to have a sign indicating the distance like ("A7 12km")


country: DE
datetime: 2014-09-09 20:16:30.000000
comment:
spring 2014; wanted to go from Berlin to Vienna; I waited 2,5 hours but no one to Prague/Czech or Austria. Very good for Poland but not going down south through Czech. Took finally a ride into Dresden to organize myself by bus....


country: DE
nickname: AdrianB
datetime: 2015-02-13 13:50:01.000000
comment:
we were standing here for 1 hour (boy+girl) and a Bulgarian truck driver took us to Prague, which was our final destination for that day. Hitch at the very and of this place! :]


country: DE
datetime: 2011-05-20 02:59:27.000000
comment:
Waited few houndred meters from the petrol station, the place seemed to be good, but there were two of us and the day was Easter Sunday, probably thats why it took us so long.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-17 20:29:27.000000
comment:
my fav in dd (i live around the corner)! i hitchhiked very often to berlin from here. i waited from 1 minute (sunny weather) til 30 minute (heavy snowing). i often stand before the shell petrol station, but asking the drivers direcly at the petrol station is also a good idea. it's also a good starting point for going to leipzig, chemnitz and further west and south (bavaria, austria, italy, france, spain). you should ask for the raststätte dresdner tor near wilsdruff. there you can change the car easily.


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-17 20:33:59.000000
comment:
part 2: a link to the above mentioned raststätte dresdner tor/wilsdruff (to change for leipzig and chemnitz): http://hitchwiki.org/maps/?zoom=12&lat=51.062496853856&lon=13.575142621994


country: DE
datetime: 2011-06-17 20:35:40.000000
comment:
part 2: a link to the above mentioned raststätte dresdner tor/wilsdruff (to change for leipzig and chemnitz): <map lat="51.061383479751" lng="13.581996000365" zoom="16" view="0" float="right" />


country: DE
datetime: 2012-06-02 17:53:35.000000
comment:
Perfect to go north Berlin or Hamburg via Berlin. If you want to go west direction Chemnitz it's sometimes better to go to the access 78 "Dresden Altstadt".


country: DE
nickname: Alice d25
datetime: 2012-07-24 03:37:29.000000
comment:
in winter 2012 i waited also one hour or more - surprising. one day it was about 15 degrees celsius under zero (maybe people didn't want to open the door because of the cold). the other day was the day after a huge antifascist demonstration but only local elderly people were around. maybe the berlin antifascists didn't start early enough for my plans (2 or 3 pm)


country: DE
datetime: 2013-04-10 12:26:20.000000
comment:
well after waiting some weeks ago 10minutes on sunday... i made a not that good experience yesterday (tuesday) 1:30PM... waited for 2,5hours... my impression: there is much more traffic on working days... i saw also many cars with berlin licence plates... but every car on the wrong lane never had the chance to stop... met some guys who went to petrol station to HH 1h our after me and they already got their ride to berlin before i got my ride with the sign on that spot....


country: DE
datetime: 2013-07-19 11:13:38.000000
comment:
Friday morning starting 9.30 took me 30 minutes. One week later 7.30. I gave up after 2 hours. Way to little traffic going to Berlin in the morning. Try afternoon!


country: DE
nickname: Pietari
datetime: 2013-08-09 13:27:10.000000
comment:
We didn't get a ride at night time from here (two man) but in the morning about 7 o clock some german engineer took us to Berlin. Also we saw two other hitchikers there so it might be good to come early if u want the best spot ;)


country: DE
datetime: 2014-06-27 16:02:02.000000
comment:
Great spot, but can get a bit crowded. I waited endlessly behind a scruffy looking character, but he finally gave up and I had a ride in 20 minutes


country: DE
nickname: Jussuf
datetime: 2014-12-18 21:40:21.000000
comment:
Waited about 20 minutes direction Leipzig. Not the best place to start I suppose, to me it seems I just had luck not to wait longer.


country: DE
nickname: RazorSK
datetime: 2015-06-14 23:59:26.000000
comment:
2 guys, Friday morning, 25 minutes, to Berlin

Found 2 cardboards with Berlin sign on them, very popular and great spot.


country: DE
nickname: Kriechstrom
datetime: 2016-07-18 07:47:49.000000
comment:
The standard hitchhiking spot towards Berlin. There are construction works at the moment but its still easy to get a ride. Waited 15 minutes once (one guy) and 15 seconds another time (couple).


country: DE
datetime: 2018-07-01 10:22:12.000000
comment:
Direction to Berlin, waited 30+minutes then I moved a bit behind the gastation and on my move a car stopped and asked me where i want to go and driver took me right in front of my hostel in Berlin :) good old pap


country: AT
nickname: Kubegus
datetime: 2013-11-06 18:06:41.000000
comment:
To Salzburg 15 min. Great places. There is a Petrol Station. I tried after the PS, but a policeman told me is not allowed, so I tried before the PS and I waited 15 min. 


country: AT
datetime: 2011-07-04 22:28:49.000000
comment:
waited 30 minutes for a car in the direction of Bregenz 
 good spot a few metres in front of the bus stop 


country: AT
nickname: Cluster9000
datetime: 2013-11-22 20:29:55.000000
comment:
Waited for 2 hours 30 minutes with board with name Bregenz and second one with Liechtenstein. Hardly caught a car to Bregenz. Just in front of the bus stop. 


country: AT
datetime: 2010-12-17 21:07:44.000000
comment:
I hitched here to St. Anton, got a ride to rasthof down the road, spent 2 hours before I finally got a ride headed to bregenz. Take someone who is going all the way if you can, the Rasthof sucks.


country: AT
datetime: 2011-07-21 12:10:32.000000
comment:
Difficult to find a good place for cars to stop, but so many cars passing by that it doesn´t really matter


country: AT
datetime: 2011-10-22 17:05:20.000000
comment:
For Austria it's better to walk to the border where many cars have to stop to buy a wignette. For direction north this is okay, but unfortunately there's not a lot of place to stop. Bring a sign!


country: AT
datetime: 2012-04-07 19:29:36.000000
comment:
april 2012 - not a lot of space for cars to stop, but a good spot with trees to protect from the sun


country: AT
nickname: Kidp3
datetime: 2013-10-15 13:36:21.000000
comment:
Was headed to Munich, but got here at night. There's a streelight that should provide enough light to make you and your sign visible. Took an hour to get a ride, after a few people stopped/slowed down to see where I was heading.

Lots of cars headed north avoid using the highway in Austria, since they have to pay for a vignette. This is where they rejoin on the German side.


country: AT
nickname: Slodo
datetime: 2013-11-15 15:11:44.000000
comment:
Hitchhiked twice from this spot at night direction Munich. I waited just in front of the roundabout and used a sign. I would recommend it


country: AT
nickname: Cha
datetime: 2014-10-31 02:25:11.000000
comment:
Spot to get to Munich and Bregenz - right in front of the tree next to the exit of the roundabout. Cars go slow because of the roundabout, good visibility. Worked very well twice, far better than the gas station. 


country: AT
nickname: Cha
datetime: 2015-03-11 01:48:33.000000
comment:
This spot works very well for me to get to Munich as well as  Friedrichshafen! Very short waiting times. 


country: FR
datetime: 2015-03-02 23:09:35.000000
comment:
advice to all who take this route to go to Calais/London, it took me about 4 hours to find a ride to Gatswick, most people passing through here go to paris or Rouen


country: ES
nickname: Astala27
datetime: 2012-07-26 14:03:06.000000
comment:
We have tried for an hour but no traffic out of gas station, finally I have jumped on the road and stop a van. Don't write anything just stop them and say por favor, this way :) 


country: ES
datetime: 2013-05-02 11:15:52.000000
comment:
Best to wait on the white striped median where the carpool lane begins. that way you'll call the attention of many more drivers because petrol station is not that busy. Waited 45 minutes, got ride to Murcia from trick driver who pulled over into emerging carpool lane.


country: ES
nickname: Marek.cavojsky8338
datetime: 2015-04-27 09:15:24.000000
comment:
 To get here is possible to take local train to aranjuez and walk 2 km to highway. Though gasstation is wery empty. Try to with somebody to next one in ten km. thats very good spot. 


country: ES
nickname: Kralx15
datetime: 2012-09-27 22:02:10.000000
comment:
Such a bad place to wait car. There are a lot of gasoline on the way so petrol station is almost empty.

Good luck!


country: ES
nickname: Laura13
datetime: 2015-06-01 19:41:35.000000
comment:
Yes, there are not many people in the gas station, but there are some people around the restaurant and Burger King. And a far amount of people does go on longer distance rides, not so much local traffic anymore. In my experience the best service station in southern madrid (hitched this route 3 times now)


country: ES
nickname: Danielo
datetime: 2011-02-14 09:54:09.000000
comment:
You can get to this petrol station (repsol) by public transport+on foot. Get a cercanías (metropolitan train) from Atocha or a metro (around 2 euros), jump of at El Casar. Walk to the east for about 20 minutes. 

January 2011 they were building a new neigbourhood, but it was easy to jump the fence and cross without anybody saying anything.


country: ES
nickname: Kralx15
datetime: 2012-09-27 21:55:37.000000
comment:
Getafe Industrial perfect station to reach this gasoline. From station to there you need 15-20 mins walk. don't be late because there is not much traffic. And cars usually don't drive long distance.
Good luck!


country: ES
nickname: Bschramm27
datetime: 2014-03-09 13:29:49.000000
comment:
Tried this spot last january, the only ride i got after a few hours of asking people was to the next gas station! Not recommended...but worth a shot if you have time, esp in the summer. good luck!


country: RO
nickname: Playschool
datetime: 2012-06-11 10:10:35.000000
comment:
Can be crowded with locals, but many cars or vans stop, even choosing the hitchers depending on their destination, specially for long distances


country: RO
nickname: Morteaux
datetime: 2015-10-14 19:52:15.000000
comment:
It's usual for cars to stop here and take people for some money to different directions. Cars were stopping every few miuntes. You don't even have to make thumbs up. Be sure to be in good place for car to stop, otherwise other people will jump in :P


country: HU
nickname: Besnik19
datetime: 2014-09-17 15:11:18.000000
comment:
I used this spot many times to hitch a ride to my hometown (Kecskemét), about 90 kilometers to the South of Budapest. I never had to wait more than 20 minutes. Once I got a lift from the very first car that came. I think it all depends on the sign you use. Beware that when the bus comes, the drivers won't (can't) stop!


country: DE
nickname: Jmichele44
datetime: 2014-05-08 20:11:39.000000
comment:
I was trying to get onto the A7 going north, waited here for 30 mins had no luck. walk east and try from the 'B199'


country: DE
nickname: Grinsolt
datetime: 2015-10-05 21:48:46.000000
comment:
If you go a hunder mether further and turn right, there will be the junktion to the speedway, with a green ditch and some grass so people can stop. This is a better place to hitch.


country: ES
nickname: Danielo
datetime: 2011-02-25 19:11:16.000000
comment:
To get here from the center is about 40 minutes on foot, or bus number 6 (aucorsa is the company), almost until the end and then 10 minutes on foot.


country: DE
nickname: Mistersunfield
datetime: 2015-07-29 09:51:08.000000
comment:
This is a great place to go South (any direction!). I waited for fifteen minutes to get a ride home (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). Took the advice to stop here instead of later on, worked out great!


country: DE
nickname: Grinsolt
datetime: 2015-10-05 22:05:24.000000
comment:
Average rest area, you never wait long. Remember that there is no gas station on the other side of the highway, so dont plan with it when youre going north.


country: DE
nickname: Grgrrp
datetime: 2015-09-04 20:53:43.000000
comment:
Stood right at the entry (where trucks and cars split) with a sign and quickly found a car to go with - even more offers when my girlfriend was standing there alone. Mostly nice people.


country: DE
datetime: 2018-01-15 13:13:25.000000
comment:
Sunday afternoon:
Nearly everybody was going south here, but only a few people had 2 free seats for us. After 20 minutes we found a couple that gave us a lift to Göttingen.


country: DE
datetime: 2012-01-06 21:53:47.000000
comment:
Don't agree with the description, the petrol station here is pretty crowded. The disadvantage is that cars spread all over the place because of the restaurant 250m away. 


country: PL
datetime: 2011-08-11 23:50:34.000000
comment:
We've waited quite long but it was because we've arrived there at 7:30a.m. which was too early. But spot (the bus stop) is great.


country: PL
datetime: 2012-08-22 15:18:13.000000
comment:
Watch out now, since route 8 is under construction so less and less drivers use it to get to Wrocław (most tak A4 to Łódź and then take the turn to Kalisz). We waited there looong hours. Better check before how is the road.


country: PL
nickname: Mateo
datetime: 2012-09-15 17:26:26.000000
comment:
I wrote sensless to double warn people about construction in this road going to Warcalw. Took us about 6 hours of driving and there are many traffic jams and criss-cross on the road. If you aren't lucky to get a direct ride to Warclaw, it's certain you better pick a different road until construction is over. 


country: PL
nickname: Kasiahobbit
datetime: 2013-03-17 12:42:05.000000
comment:
very good spot, once we catch one car in 5 people! we appear on the bus stop and start waving and in the same time car stops;) the fastest catching in my life ;p

but another time it was longer.. ;p but big traffic, for sure someone will stop:D


country: PL
nickname: Makusq
datetime: 2015-03-22 22:25:36.000000
comment:
It took us 3 minutes to catch a lorry directly to Wrocław (thursday 7.30am) It seems very good place for hhiking (bus stop "Janki Małe").


country: HR
nickname: Ostkreuz
datetime: 2011-07-18 23:42:14.000000
comment:
Direction Zadar, Plitvice NP:

Cars are going pretty fast, but there is enough space for stopping. They will see you from far away.
We had a sign with 'Senj'


