Flew from Denver to Frankfurt via Lufthansa - roomier seats, better food, predinner drink/ 2 glasses wine with dinner/ after dinner drink for only fifty bucks more, plus hot towels to freshen up. And your own TV, choice of a dozen movies/ dozen channels/ live gps.

However: allow three hours to change planes in the Frankfurt airport, since the plane will land somewhere in the outlying regions of the airport, then you go through customs a couple of times (once while transferring concourses. More if you don't know about the tunnel between concourses b & a. If you have extra time, try Herman's Sausages, a cart somewhere around A28.

Stayed overnight at the Best Western near the airport ($118 on Expedia). OK motel to sleep in, clean. 4 star restaurant (Belvedere) upstairs - great Italian food for dinner, good breakfast included. 10 dollar taxi from the airport. Read more