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Impact of Oberammergau Passion Play on tourism

My husband and I are in the planning stage for a trip to Europe in April-May 2022. Our tentative plan is to visit Budapest and northern Romania and then fly to Munich on May 5 for 3 days and then traveling to the Berchtesgaden area and the Tyrol area of Austria. We would fly home from Munich around May 15. I recently realized that the Passion Play starts on May 14. What impact will attendance at the play have on the areas we wish to visit? Will accommodations be tight? Our time in Germany and Austria, two countries we have visited several times, is for relaxation and mountain viewing before returning home . Maybe we should fly somewhere else from Romania?

Ellen

Posted by
5652 posts

If you aren't visiting or staying in O'gau or the nearby towns, then there will be no impact at all.

Posted by
2488 posts

It has no impact beyond the neighboring towns of Ettal and Murnau.

Posted by
10715 posts

The above comments echo our experience. We were there in 2010 and didn’t see any impact on that part of Bavaria. It was a Sunday and very quiet in the neighboring towns.

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Excellent! We can continue with our original plans. Many thanks!