The Elbe fronts on Hookerstrasse
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 1/6/06
Talk about local color...addicts shooting up on either side, "ho's" negotiating with customers at the doorstep, the Elbe is opposite two of the biggest low-end strip joints in Frankfurt. The rooms are mostly tiny, mostly clean but the breakfast room is scary...subterranean and smoke-filled...an accident waiting to happen. Better to go to the pastry shop on the corner of the Kaiserstrasse. Nevertheless, you can walk easily to MesseFrankfurt from here. There's no other reason to stay...during show times, it goes to almost $200 per day! A shocking phenomenon, quite typical of Frankfurt, which stacks the deck against the business visitor at all times.