By bus
Bus services to and from Goslar are relatively frequent and efficient. The regional bus operator Brunswick Regional Transport RBB (http://rbb-bus.de/index.p...) runs a website (http://www.weser-ems-bus....), which assists you with finding the relevant connection. In Goslar, their hub is in front of the central railway station. Here you also find a small travel centre, where staff can provide you with further advise. Essentially, the most frequent routes are between Goslar, Seesen, Harzburg-Spa, Salzgitter and Clausthal-Zellerfeld, with less frequent services to other destinations in the Upper Harz lines 440, 450, 462, 831, 838, 841, 842, 850, 861, 879. The RegioBus lines are the express ones--the others are slow. The handy thing is that the RBB forms a partnership (http://www.vrb-online.de/) with other regional public transport operators (http://www.zgb.de), so that you only have to buy a single transferable ticket. Thus, there is no need to purchase a new one every time you change your train or bus.
Regionalbus Braunschweig GmbH
(http://www.vrb-online.de) - Office Goslar, Hildesheimer St. 53. T: +49 5321 34310, F: +49 5321 343160, E: [email protected].
By plane
If you own a plane, a helicopter or even a flying saucer then you might wish to land at the club airport Salzgitter-Drütte (http://www.mfc-salzgitter.de) in the immediate vicinity 24 miles of Goslar or the Brunswick-Wolfsburg Airport. Maybe try the disused military airfield at Goslar itself, but don't get yourselves into troubles over this.
However, as a lesser mortal you need to take a plane into either
Hanover International Airport HAJ (http://www.hannover-airpo...) 65 miles
Magdeburg-Cochstedt International Airport CSO (http://www.airport-cochst...) 60 miles
Leipzig/Halle Airport LEJ (http://www.leipzig-halle-...) 103 miles
Frankfurt International Airport FRA (http://www.frankfurt-airp...) 195 miles
and make your way to Goslar by car or by train.
By road
From Paris/London/Brussels/Cologne you take the autobahn A44/E331 to Kassel and take the A7/E45 in the direction Hamburg at the Kassel intersection. For further directions see below.
From Madrid/Rome/Vienna/Zurich/Munich/Frankfurt take the A7/E45 and leave it at either the interesection Seesen. Take the landstrasse L248 and then the bundesstrasse B82 to Goslar. If you wish to take the route via the Harz mountains, exit the A7/E45 at Northeim and take the landstrasse L241 via Osterode, Clausthal-Zellerfeld to Goslar.
Coming from Moscow/Warsaw/Prague/Berlin, take the A2/E39 to the intersection Brunswick and head via the A395 in the direction of Harzburg-Spa. At Vienenburg you leave the A395 and take the landstrasse L241 to Goslar.
Arriving from Amsterdam/Düsseldorf/Ruhr Basin take the A2/E39 to Hanover and at the Intersection Hanover leave the A2/E39 and take the A7/E45. For further directions, see below.
Coming from Copenhagen/Stockholm/Oslo/Hamburg/Bremen/Hanover you take the A7/E45 in the direction Frankfurt. You exit the autobahn at Holle-Salzgitter and take the bundesstrasse B6 mostly two-lane to Goslar.
N.B. Goslar is a popular destination for bikers who enjoy riding their bikes through the Harz mountains.
By train
Goslar can best be accessed by regional trains from Hanover or Brunswick. In Hanover, Hildesheim and Göttingen there is access to Germany's ICE Inter City Express network. Getting to other cities might require changes along the way, often in Hildesheim, Salzgitter or Kreiensen.