Going Over the Top in a Paternoster Elevator at the Flemings Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany

Jurgen grew up not far from Frankfurt and used to hang around the city constantly as a teenager, so staying two nights at the Flemings felt like revisiting old territory. The real draw of the hotel is its paternoster – a continuously moving, doorless elevator made up of open compartments you have to step into and out of while it is still in motion. We had read about these old lifts before, but riding one in person, including the slightly nerve-wracking trip over the very top, was something else entirely.