Best Car Rental Dresden Airport

Dresden Airport (DRS) is located at Klotzsche, some 9 kilometres or 5.6 miles from the centre of Dresden. Beginning in 2008 it became known as Dresden Internationaland it services just under 2 million passengers a year. Non-stop flights to some European capitals like London, Vienna, Moscow and Zurich operate out of the airport and most of the major airlines have flights to and from Dresden International, among them Aeroflot, Lufthansa, Cirrus and Tunisair. The airport boasts of excellent children?s play areas on the Departures level as well as mother-and-baby facilities in public and non-public areas of the Departures and Arrivals levels.

Dresden Airport Car Hire Advice

The airport is well serviced in terms of transport to and from the city of Dresden and beyond. The airport railway station is just under the main Terminal building and is served by trains off line S-2 of the Dresden S-Bahn. Half-hourly departures to Dresden-Neustadt (a journey that takes 13 minutes) and to the Hauptbahnhof station in central Dresden (23 minutes) leave from here, and on weekends the trains continue to the towns of Pirna and Heidenau. Besides the trains you could use the bus service, which operates on bus route 77 to link up with the tram service on tram route 7. From here you also have links to the district of Hellerau and the towns of Boxdorf and Radebeul along regional bus route 425. The airport is in the same tariff zone as the centre of Dresden and a single ticket that costs 2 euros can be used on the trains, trams and buses.

In case you decide to rent a car the parking facilities are excellent. A multi-storey car park has space for 1,500 parking slots. The airport is served by a junction to the A4 Autobahn that links to Aachen on the Dutch border and Gorlitz on the Polish border. Other junctions in the area connect the A4 to the A13 for Berlin, and the A17 to the Czech border and beyond that to Prague.

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Car Hire at Dresden Airport

A number of reputable car hire companies have offices within the airport. These include ADAC, Avis, Europcar, Hertz and Sixt . You can find their desks at the Arrivals level in the main Terminal building. The rental cars are picked and returned on level 0 of the multi-storey car park. Before you decide which company to use you want to use, visit Tripindicator.com to compare prices and find out which cars will come with any special requirements you may have, such as child seats or satellite navigation facilities, etc. You also get to book the car in advance so you know it will be available when you arrive.

The Airport information desk can be contacted by phone at +49 (0)351 881-3360 between the hours of 07:00 and 23:00