Other names include motorway service area (UK), services (UK), travel plaza, rest stop, oasis (US), service area, rest and service area ( RSA), resto, service plaza, lay-by, and service centre (Canada). Autohöfe, just like rest areas, provide travellers a place to refuel, as well as eat, and rest.Ī rest area is a public facility located next to a large thoroughfare such as a motorway, expressway, or highway, at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel without exiting onto secondary roads.
Fuel dispensers at an autohof near a German autobahn in Lower Saxony. For the form of installment purchase, see Layaway.
For other uses, see Rest stop (disambiguation) and Resto (disambiguation). 'Rest stop', 'Resto', and 'Lay-by' redirect here.
