We just decided it might work for us to go to Neuschwanstein after visiting Insbruck. The tickets are all sold out at the official ticket website. Has anyone taken a tour through a secondary tour company? We would be driving in with our own car to the parking lots so we wouldn’t need transportation,
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It looks better from the outside anyway. Go to the bridge by public transport and enjoy the view.
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Lakewood, Colorado
19466 posts
This is the only viable route for a direct drive from Innsbruck
to the castle.
Google Maps shows two routes that avoid tolls from Innsbruck to Neuschwanstein. One route goes through Austria (Reutte); it takes 1:55, according to Google. The other route goes through Germany (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Oberammergau) and takes 2:01, only six minutes longer. I'm not cognizant of differences in traffic, but it looks otherwise like the route through Germany is a viable route.
BTW, the only tours of the castle are those conducted by the castle administration itself. "Secondary tour companies", if their are any, do not (cannot) run their own tours, They use the castle administrations own tours, so if those tours are sold out, it is unlikely that any secondary companies have any either.
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Niagara, Ontario
1842 posts
The Garmisch-Partenkirchen route does not go through Reutte, it more or less follows the same road as the 9606 bus. However, it will add about 30 minutes to a drive from Innsbruck to Fussen.