Originally Posted by
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...Been to FRA several times before, but in February I have 5 hours between flights.
I'm traveling with someone who's not used to travel, so maybe a trip to the city would be a bit too much with 5 hours? Is there anything you can actually do at the airport - besides sitting in the lounge and drink beer - if you are not a keen shopper?
Is there anything worth experiencing? Or maybe somewhere to sleep - besides a chair at the aforementioned lounge - before our long flight to the US?
US bound flights require check-in up to 3 hours prior to departure time (depending on the airline), and the security lines can be quite bad (over an hour is not unusual). So you really cannot leave the airport. There is a lot of somewhat interesting shopping at FRA (it is more like a town for shopping than an airport, for example there is a supermarket by the train station). Lots of other stores that most airports don't have, everything from a casino to x-rated movies. Lounges are generally poor quality though no matter which airline you are flying (except for the LH F terminal, but obviously you aren't using that as you wouldn't be asking here if you were). Some of the lounges are landside, so you have to allow a lot of time to clear security for the US-bound flights (even the F security line often takes 15 minutes at peak times!). The problem is that many US flights leave within a few minutes of each other in the morning (less bad in the afternoon).