Hi all
Its been 9 years since I last ventured abroad doing mainly eastern bloc and I used to regularly use Geiselwind truckstop. Im off to Kosovo on weds and was wondering if the truckstop is still going and if so whats it like these days. I know it used to be free to park over night but I have heard that alot of German truckstops are now charging a fee then you get that off your meal so as to stop the eastern bloc motors parking there then cooking in the cab, do you know if thats the case there and if so whats the charge.
Cheers Paul
Geiselwind have always charged for parking, but they never enforced it with the Brits or Dutch because of copious amounts of alcohol consumed. It is certainly still going and still run by the same family, Strohofer although I dont know wheter Toni is still around.
Most Autohofs do charge 5 Euros now but as you say you just use the ticket as a discount voucher off your meal or beer.
UK Truckstops & Services take note, they have a rather quaint idea in Europe. If the food is crap or too expensive, the customers stop visiting and you go bust 
Was there last weekend. Its 7 euro’s a night which is nothing and it was easy to park cos the easties have gone elsewhere!
Best of luck on wed ,hope it all goes well for you all.
regards bilko
Am led to believe that Toni’s son (or some relation) has opened an Autohof at the next exit (south). I Am told that the food is even better than Geiselwind. It always looks busy anyway.
I have never been but am going to Vienna Friday so if I get chance will try it out (for research purposes)and report back.
Don’t think it can be that bad as there are very few poor eateries in Germany.
There are three in a line there now.
Heading East from Frankfurt
First, one junction before Geiselwind, is the Lomo Autohof at Weisentheid. This is popular with Turkish and Eastern Europeans because the restaurant specialises in Turkish style dishes. It also has the traditional German dishes too, and is well up to the standard you expect from an Autohof…
Next is Geiselwind, What can you say about this place, that hasn’t been said a hundred times before?
It’s been a truckstop since the 70s, if not earlier. They have got it off to a T.
One or two junctions after Geiselwind is Schlusselfeld. This is a fairly new place, with limited parking so it fills up early. Another good one and one of the Kempers chain. Good traditional German dishes and a fair selection of other styles. Clean, friendly, another fairly standard German Autohof.
If you have a really bad run across, there’s a Maxi Autohof at Junc’ 66 Wertheim. The next one is Biebelried, at the A3 - A 7 cross. I think you miss a junction and the next one is Weissentheid.
You should be able to reach one of these in a shift. If you can’t, you may as well turn round n head back home again. Because at that rate of progress, it’s going to take you a month to get to Kosovo 
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paul.
i hope your trip went well.
what do you think about the maut toll system?
you wont have a prob as you are going border to border.
you need to try a groupage run to germany.
its pure hardship,unless you have an ato z of every city and village in germany.
i apologise,this is slightly off topic,but for someone who hasnt been out in 9 years.i would be interested to hear what paul thinks.
greg50:
paul.
i hope your trip went well.
what do you think about the maut toll system?
you wont have a prob as you are going border to border.
you need to try a groupage run to germany.
its pure hardship,unless you have an ato z of every city and village in germany.
i apologise,this is slightly off topic,but for someone who hasnt been out in 9 years.i would be interested to hear what paul thinks.
You seem to be getting your wires crossed about MAUT Greg.
Unless you’ve got absolutely no idea what your doing next, then it’s fairly straight forward. You look at your notes and decide roughly what you can do today. You then sort your MAUT out to cover your route, including detours off the direct route, from your start and end point, so you can do todays drops.
MAUT is only for motorways and a few Bundes Strassen (A roads), so you don’t need any A to Z’s really. You do need a MAUT atlas, to show you where the machines are though. They now give you plenty of time to cover the distance too.
I’ve had a MAUT card start at the border at Goch, end at Triptis the day after with a few drops in between and still have three hours left on the card, if I’d needed them. This was a fairly regular occurance.
what i mean simon is.
if you get a delivery for a street in a large city,presuming you dont know the city well,and have no idea which exit you need to take off the autobahn.
you have aproblem if you need to go to an other exit further down the road and havent paid the maut for the extra few ks.
its not that easy simon unless you are on repeat work.i know i have done it,made the mistakes,luckily i never got caught.
its a ridiculous system.
I have made minor mistakes such as going one exit too far, and taking the wrong route in the busier parts like the Ruhr Valley, going out through the wrong Aachen etc but I think they discount these minor infringements, otherwise, being an ANPR-based system, the VAG would have stopped me on a later visit, as they will if you try driving without a MAUT
oh happy memorries of Geiselwind truckstop we used to do slovakia and the out coming truck would leave the green austria points book forgot what it was called now, just glad the austrians didnt read it fully
and having liver and onions for dinner there
no maut then just the old vinvette and for austira just tick the day and date boxes and 2 x 20 shilling coins glued together would work in the dover wheelhouse vending machines as pound coins while waiting to clear customs
youll never go to heaven malcolm.
playing with the 5 pence pieces.
its a wonder theres a telephone system in germany now.
they should have been bust years ago.
I stopped at Geiselwind truckstop many times on my way to rumo, those where the days. 24 hours on the boarder ect. onto the Bucharest ring road dodging sheep , and holes dug in the road by workmen, not to mention the horse and carts great stuff.