Hotels in Sohren

Sohren is a small Hunsrück village in Rhineland-Palatinate, and almost everyone who books a bed here does so for one reason: Frankfurt-Hahn Airport sits just up the road. The airport began as a US Air Force base, and the Cold War American presence once shaped this corner of the upland plateau. Today it is a quiet, practical place of rolling farmland, wind turbines and forest, useful mainly as a base for early departures and late arrivals on budget flights.

There is little to do in Sohren itself, and despite the airport's name, Frankfurt is far away, well over an hour's drive. Its real advantage is position. The Moselle valley's vineyard towns are within reasonable driving distance, so a car turns an airport stopover into a cheap jumping-off point for wine country and Hunsrück hiking. Stay as close to the Hahn side of town as you can if you're flying, since shaving minutes off an early-morning airport run matters far more here than atmosphere.