Holiday Inn Express Hotel Frankfurt Airport Moerfelden

Our favorite flight home from Frankfurt-Chicago on United Airlines leaves at 8:10a, making it almost impossible to connect to or from somewhere that early; requiring...an overnight near the Frankfurt Airport. I try to choose the least expensive hotel rate that includes breakfast, has a shuttle bus, and the Holiday Inn Express Frankfurt Airport Moerfelden fills the bill.

The Holiday Inn Express Frankfurt Airport offers free Wi-Fi in lobby only, adequate rooms and large buffet breakfast which begins  at 5:45a. However, it does not have an on-site restaurant. Guests can walk a few minutes away to a German or Italian Restaurant for dinner.

Steve and I sat down at the German Restaurant but when staff refused to serve ordinary tap water, we walked out and into Ristorante Tommasi to ask if they would serve tap water. Refusing to serve potable tap water when available happens to be our particular "red flag" and this was not the first restaurant we've walked out of. We once stayed at a 3-star hotel in Bellagio, Italy who shall remain nameless, and drank the hotel's potable tap water daily. But their expensive dinner restaurant refused to serve tap water when asked and said, "Senor, the water isn't safe to drink." Huh? After Hotel Reception said the water we had been drinking for 7 days was was drinkable?

[DansJets]

Hi Sheila, beautiful video, the food looked great at Tommasi for dinner, and the breakfast at the Holiday Inn Express looked wonderful. Cannot beat that before flight time and those rolls, wow. I love FRA, one of our favorite airports, the views from the terminals of the jets is fantastic. Love the shopping too, always looking for electronics. Look forward to your up-coming reviews, take good care, tell Steve hello.

[sfflyer]

Good report, Sheila, and good for you for walking out of that restuarant! These water charges are ridiculous. I was at a restaurant in Vienna, and it was 8 euro for a bottle of water. Ridiculous! Talk about gouge! You were right to demand ordinary tap water!

[SheilaSimkin]

It was so good and so rich, that I felt ill for the remainder of the night. Try it if you ever go through FRA airport and have to overnight.

[SheilaSimkin]

Best regards to you. Hope all is well and I agree with your comments about Frankfurt Airport. It is so huge! And hi back from Steve. :)

[SheilaSimkin]

That has always been one of our red flags. The nerve of a restaurant to charge for tap water when a diner is ordering wine and a full meal! A plague on them...

[lh]

Did you ever try the Holiday inn Frankfurt airport North ?

[RFM-]

Just a little word of the wise Western Europe doesn't DO TAP WATER !!!
Its always funny how Yanks blame the Host country.
By the way I have eaten in this restaurant and will again this summer 2019.
Please people when you go to another country TRY, YES try to fit in a little.
Don't bring your customs to THEIR country.