Colmar is a beautiful little city with a beautiful little train station. We spent about an hour…read morethere before a train ride to Strasbourg, and while I would not recommend arriving that early with small children (we were walking from our hotel and didn't want to get caught in the rain), it was an attractive place to pass some time. The exterior was storybook lovely, with a long red brick facade and a prominent clocktower with a green shingled roof. There were a lot of trees fronting the entrance that were decorated for Christmas. My three-year-old and I took a walk around the promenade out front, and it was pretty scenic. There's nothing to do inside the station but wait, so plan to get in and get out if possible. The walk to or from old town is only about fifteen minutes. It makes sense to take the train to Colmar, and worth admiring the train station while you're there.

We arrived here by (slow) train from Basel for two days of exploring Colmar. This is definitely not…read morea large station compared to Basel (massive) or Strasbourg (large) but it's bigger than some of the stations we stopped at on the way here. Easy to navigate with good signage, lifts, escalator. There is a bus stop outside and a taxi stand. We walked the three blocks to our AirBNB. Colmar has one of the larger Marchés de Noël (aka Christmas markets) complete with a massive Ferris wheel. There are plenty of other things to see in this lovely town in one of France's many wine regions. [Review 21168 overall - 88 in France - 131 of 2024.]

From the owner: Parvis de la gare Cette place est à voir pour la gare. En effet, la gare de Metz est un immense…read morebâtiment de style néo-roman abondamment décoré de bas-reliefs et de vitraux. Mais cette place est également aujourd'hui célèbre pour ses lampadaires contemporains que l'on doit au célèbre designer Philippe Starck.

Sure, it does look like a 60's building, but I guess that is fairly typical of their railway…read morestations. Mind you, it isn't as if they don't have nice railway stations in German, they certainly do, but sadly Saarbrucken really isn't one of them. However, while the station may not be all that great, the trains certainly are, unless you happen to be crossing over into France they you will actually discover that Europe isn't all flashy highspeed rail (though I do remember they did run a high speed train through here to Paris). Mind you, as I mentioned, the trains are fairly frequent, and the station isn't all that bad either, it's just not too fancy.