My husband and I are contemplating a trip to Munich the last few days of August into early September or Labor Day week. If we do this it will really depend on the cost of airfare which weekend we leave. Are either of those two weeks extremely busy/crowded? I know people will be coming in for Oktoberfest on the 18th but I figure if we leave around September 12th we should be fine. We have only traveled to Germany in the off season so I wasn't sure how much more crowded it would be during that time. I think I'm correct in thinking the kids will either be back in school or on their way back.
Posted by
Lawrenceville, Georgia
693 posts
I checked the events calendar for Munich for August and September - there seems to be no major convention going on, so it shouldn't be any more crowded than usual. I was amazed at all the cultural happenings, from classical music to an ABBA night and lots of theater and all kinds of other stuff, including going up to the Olympia Tower and an exhibition chronicling the Oktoberfest. The web site can be pulled up in several languages but for me the events kept popping up in German only (I'm fluent, so that's ok.) In the first half of September there is an Isar Insel Fest - an island festival, like a street fair, and a few days later an actual street fair and in Mid-September U2 is in town.
http://www.muenchen.de/home/60093/Homepage.html
Hope you get a good airfare. To my amazement, a friend paid Euro 450.00 for a return ticket on Air France (operated by Delta) in Mid-May this year, purchasing it only three weeks before his trip (he flew Duesseldorf to Atlanta, direct.) The cheapest I could find on Lufthansa's advertised special was $1300 for late summer. The summer vacation for schools in Bavaria in 2010 is from August 2 until September 13, by the way.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19410 posts
I was in Munich for four days, Aug. 31 to Sept. 3 last year, and it didn't seem particularly crowded. Restaurants were not full. I went to the Deutsches Museum and Dachau and didn't encounter any particular lines. The day before is was in Füssen and the lines for the castle were not long at all.
Here is a list of accommodations often recommended on this site:
Blauer Bock
Viktualienmarkt
Royal
Uhland
Seibel
Münchner Kindl
Posted by
OP
Atlanta, GA
380 posts
Thanks for information, now I just have to get my husband to make a decision. I knew there would be more people than when we typically go in March but wanted to make sure it wasn't going to be so crowded you couldn't enjoy anything.
So far I can get us direct flights on Delta for either $792 or $812, which I thought was a pretty good deal for it being a month and a half away and in summer.
Thanks again!