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Communications
will inform the appropriate on Saturday. Banks operate
emergency services. This shorter hours: 9am–3:30pm As everywhere in Europe, the
number is free on all telephones, Monday–Friday, with a introduction of cell phones has
including mobiles. If you lose lunchbreak between noon and brought about a revolution in
your passport, you should go 1pm. They usually stay open later telephone usage. Visitors wishing
to your consulate. one evening a week until 6pm. to use their cell phone in
Some new shopping malls are Germany should contact their
open on Sundays. In smaller service provider for information.
Tourist Information towns, not much tends to The number of payphones taking
A well-developed network of open before 10am, and many coins is constantly dwindling, and
tourist information centers exists businesses close from 1–2pm for a telephone card gives better
in Germany. These are usually lunch, on Saturday afternoons, value for money. They can be
run by the city or regional Sundays and public holidays. bought at post offices and most
tourist authorities, Verkehrsamt. newsagents. Other phones are
They provide advice on operated by credit card only.
accommodations, addresses, Disabled Travelers These phones have their own
and opening hours of There are ramps or lifts for phone number, so you can
monuments, museums, tours, people confined to wheelchairs arrange to be called back.
and excursions, as well as at large museums and major Post offices are usually open
brochures covering the most historical sites. Banks are also from 6am–8pm on weekdays
important tourist attractions. accessible by wheelchair and and from 8am–noon on
They may also be able to find there are lifts at railroad stations Saturdays. Stamps can be
and book you a hotel room. and larger underground bought at post offices as
stations. Some public transport well as stamp machines,
is adapted to take wheelchairs. and are sometimes sold along
Opening Hours
Most higher grade hotels have with postcards.
The opening hours of stores, suitably equipped bedrooms.
offices, and most other Public restroom facilities in Banking and Currency
businesses depend to a great parking lots, train stations,
extent on the size of the town. and airports usually have Germany has used the euro
In larger cities, office hours are suitable cubicles. For since 2002 (see p23). Foreign
usually from 9am until 6pm, and information contact currency can be changed at
larger shops are open from 9am Bundesverband Selbsthilfe banks, most hotels, or bureau
to 8pm weekdays, and until 6pm Körperbehinderter (BSK). de change (Wechselstube).
DIRECTORY
Tourist Stuttgart UK Ambulance
Information Königstraße 1a, Wilhelmstraße 70, Tel 112.
70173 Stuttgart. 10117 Berlin.
German National Tel 0711-222 82 53. Tel 030-20 45 70. Disabled
Tourist Office ∑ stuttgart-tourist.de ∑ britischebotschaft.de Travelers
Tel 069-97 46 40. Mobility
∑ www.germany.travel Embassies US International
Clayallee 170, 14195
Berlin Australia Berlin. Tel 030-83050. North America.
Pariser Platz, Südliches Wallstraße 76–79, 10179 ∑ usembassy.de Tel 541-343 1284.
Torhaus, 10117 Berlin. Berlin. Tel 030-880 08 80. Bundesverband
Tel 030-25 00 25. ∑ australian-embassy. Consulates Selbsthilfe Körper-
∑ visitberlin.de de UK behinderter (BSK)
Canada Postfach 20, 74238
Frankfurt am Main Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Neuer Jungfernstieg 20, Krautheim.
Hauptbahnhof Berlin. Tel 030-20 31 20. 20354 Hamburg. Tel 06294-42810.
Empfangshalle, ∑ kanada-info.de Tel 040-44 80 32 36. ∑ bsk-ev.org
60329 Frankfurt US
am Main. New Zealand Königinstraße 5, 80539
Tel 069-21 23 88 00. Friedrichstraße 60, 10117 Munich.
Berlin. Tel 030-20 62 10.
∑ frankfurt-tourismus. ∑ nzembassy.com/ Tel 089-288 80.
de
germany
Munich South Africa Emergency
Numbers
Marienplatz, Rathaus, Tiergartenstraße 18,
80331 Munich. 12683 Berlin. Police and Fire
Tel 089-2339 6500. Tel 030-22 07 30. services
∑ muenchen-tourist.de ∑ suedafrika.org Tel 110 or 112.

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