Of the 684 motorway service areas tested by the Auto Club Europa (ACE) only one met the highest standards, reveals the the auto club's latest study.
As part of this year’s ACE Club initiative under the motto “Your Germany, your rest areas”, around 700 volunteers in the ACE took a close look at unattended rest areas throughout Germany over the past six months.
A similar test was carried out by the ADAC auto club during the summer, and both inspections arrived at the same result;the toilets at many rest areas are not clean enough.
Large discrepancies between facilities with and without toilet As large differences arose and for better comparison, the auto club made a distinction during the evaluation between rest areas with and without toilets. While 11% of the rest areas with toilets were rated “excellent”, not a single facility without toilets came close to doing as well.
Only 7% of the facilities with a toilet failed, but a quarter of the rest areas without a toilet did fail.
There were also major differences when looking at the individual criteria; three-quarters of all facilities with toilets were classified as safe for the public by the ACE, while only 34% of rest areas without toilets could be classified as safe.
According to the findings, the discrepancy is even more obvious when it comes to accessibility: 87% of all toilet rest areas were found to be accessible in the test, while only 6% achieved this in the case of facilities without a toilet.
Most beautiful rest area in Germany boasts view of the Baltic Sea One rest area in Schleswig-Holstein was particularly impressive across all federal states; the “Ostseeblick” facility on the A1 was the only one in Germany to get maximum points.
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Published by: Peter Maďoran
