A beer hall city with a fairytale castle two hours south.
Which castle trip actually gets you inside Neuschwanstein. What an evening of beer halls and Bavarian plates costs. Whether the Eagle’s Nest or Salzburg deserves your one spare day. Reviews of the tours you can book from Munich, with prices.
A castle, the Altstadt, a beer hall table, a mountain road.
Four bookings most first trips to Munich are built around, with what each costs and what the people who went say.
01The castle dayNeuschwanstein Castle Full-Day TripTrain or coach to Füssen with a guide on King Ludwig II, then the Neuschwanstein viewpoints. The interior tour is an optional extra on the day.
02The first morningMunich Old Town Walking TourFrauenkirche, Marienplatz, the Viktualienmarkt stalls and a look inside the Hofbräuhaus. Two hours that make the rest of the map make sense.
03The first eveningBeer and Food Tour with Dinner & Oktoberfest MuseumThree and a half hours of local beer, a historic beer hall, the Beer and Oktoberfest Museum and a proper Bavarian dinner to finish.
04The mountain dayBerchtesgaden and Eagle’s Nest Day Trip from MunichUp to the Eagle’s Nest above Berchtesgaden, with the Obersalzberg Documentation Center and the mountain shuttle arranged by your guide.
Neuschwanstein alone, with Linderhof, or Ludwig’s island palace on the Chiemsee.
Three ways to spend the royal-castle day out of Munich, what each one costs to book, and how far each one drives you.
Neuschwanstein daysThe swan castle, the Marienbrücke view and Füssen for lunch.
With LinderhofThe small palace and its grotto, folded into the same long day.
HerrenchiemseeA copy of Versailles on an island, reached by boat from Prien.
Further outSalzburg, the Romantic Road, the Eagle’s Nest and the Zugspitze.
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1★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Castle Full-Day Trip
Munich first, then the towns the trains run out to.
The Altstadt and its beer halls, the castle country around Füssen, Garmisch under the Zugspitze, Renaissance Augsburg, the lakes at Berchtesgaden and Salzburg over the Austrian border.
Munich’s old town fits inside one ring road. Walk it.
From the Glockenspiel on the Neues Rathaus to the Feldherrnhalle, the Hofgarten and the brewery halls behind them, most of what you came to see is inside a single square mile. A guide turns it from a list of churches into a story of kings, beer laws and the twentieth century.
Beer halls, a market at the Viktualienmarkt, a litre at the long tables.
Munich’s breweries have been pouring under the same purity law since 1516, and the food was built to go with it: pretzels, white sausage before noon, pork knuckle after. These are the beer and food tours people book most.
The most popular tours from Munich.
All our Munich reviews →The castle coaches, the history walks and the beer evenings that more travellers book than anything else here, and what earns each one its place.
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Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Castle Full-Day Trip
Ride from central Munich to Linderhof Palace and Neuschwanstein Castle, with a stop near Hohenschwangau for lunch and free time. Choose castle tickets in advance or buy them on the coach. Guides such as Ursula, Courtney and Faizan have led the route, which also passes through Oberammergau when conditions allow.
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Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Castle-Fairytale Day Tour from Munich
from $95
3
Third Reich & WWII Walking Tour
from $31
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Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site Tour from Munich by Train
from $64
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Neuschwanstein Castle Tour from Munich
from $95
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Third Reich Walking Tour Munich
from $45
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Munich Hop-On Hop-Off Tour: 1-Day or 2-Day Ticket
from $27
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Dachau Memorial Site Day Tour
from $49
Four Bavarian bookings that run on a calendar, not on you.
Most of Munich can be arranged the night before over a Helles. These four cannot: timed entries, a mountain road that only opens in summer, and two festivals with fixed dates.
- 01Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Castle Full-Day TripThe castle interior is seen only on a guided tour at a timed slot, and summer slots sell out days ahead.
- 02Berchtesgaden and Eagle’s Nest Day Tour from MunichThe Kehlsteinhaus opens roughly mid-May to late October. The last stretch of road is closed to cars, so the special bus is the only way up.
- 03Munich City Walk and Oktoberfest Tour With Beer Tent ReservationThe Wiesn runs about two weeks, ending on the first Sunday of October. Tent tables are reserved months in advance.
- 04Original Munich Christmas Market Tour with Festive Wine and FoodThe Christkindlmarkt on Marienplatz opens in late November and closes on Christmas Eve.
What a Munich day out costs, from a walk to a castle.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. The walking tours of the Altstadt are among the cheapest things you can book here, and among the best.
Old Town and history walks, beer hall evenings, bike tours and the hop-on hop-off bus.
The full-day coaches: Neuschwanstein, Salzburg, the Eagle’s Nest and the Zugspitze by van.
Private guides, VIP castle days with tickets included and the Oktoberfest table packages.
Three things you will only find south of Munich.
Every European capital has an old town and a cathedral. Not every one has a beer festival on a royal wedding meadow, a tea house on a mountain summit and a glacier on the Austrian border.
The Oktoberfest
It began as horse races for a royal wedding, and the meadow still carries the bride’s name: the Theresienwiese. Only Munich’s own breweries may pour, beer comes by the Maß, a one-litre stein, and the big tents seat thousands at long tables that fill by lunchtime on a weekend.
- 1Beer and Food Tour with Dinner & Oktoberfest Museum★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 1,086 reviews
- 2Munich City Walk and Oktoberfest Tour With Beer Tent Reservation★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 275 reviews
- 3Oktoberfest Experience and Lunch in Tent★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 120 reviews
The Eagle’s Nest
The Kehlsteinhaus sits at 1,834 metres on the Kehlstein, built in 1938. A bus climbs the last stretch of road, then a brass-lined lift rises through the rock to the summit. On a clear day you look across the Königssee and into Austria; on a cloudy one you see nothing at all.
- 1Berchtesgaden and Eagle’s Nest Day Tour from Munich★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 1,077 reviews
- 2Berchtesgaden and Eagle’s Nest Day Trip from Munich★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 797 reviews
- 3Berchtesgaden Foothills and Obersalzberg★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 419 reviews
The Zugspitze
At 2,962 metres the summit is the top of the country, with the Austrian border running across the viewing platform. You go up by cogwheel train from Garmisch or by cable car from the Eibsee, a lake the colour of glass at the foot of the mountain.
- 1Zugspitze Mountain Van Tour with Garmisch Town★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 653 reviews
- 2Tour of Germany’s Highest Peak Zugspitze★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 214 reviews
- 3Private Tour to Zugspitze with Cable Car-Tix, Lake Eibsee & Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 26 reviews
When cloud sits on the Zugspitze, stay in Munich.
Alpine weather turns fast. A summit day in cloud means a long drive to stand in fog, and the Eagle’s Nest closes when the road is unsafe. Keep a city day in reserve: the Residenz, the museums, a concert in a court chapel and a beer hall that never needed the sun.
Three days in Munich, then out to the castles, the mountains and Salzburg.
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