I am signed up for the RS Adriatic Tour. Our flight changed and we now have a long layover in Munich. We arrive at 9:00am and depart at 6:00pm. We would like to hire a taxi and take a tour to Dachau. Can anyone recommend a good taxi service that can accommodate 6 ppl? We will have our luggage checked through to Lubjliana. Would be great to have enough time to tour Dachau on our own and have lunch before heading back to airport. Thanks.
Posted by
Ontario, Canada
5317 posts
You will need somewhere to store your carry on luggage at the airport, and allow time for Passport Control. There is no way to guarantee a pick up time for a private driver, given the incertainty of possible delays in arrival or time required for entry checks. There are taxis available outside Arrivals. Howeveryou can likely expect to spend around €100 each way. The drive should take around half an hour. English language tours are only a couple of times daily. Check their website for times, but I think they are around 11 and 1. You will need to be back at the airport by 4 at the latest.
If any of your group are children, then I would not recommend doing this.
Posted by
Green Bay
20893 posts
You can also visit via train and bus from Munich airport. Takes about 1 hour each way with a train to Oberschliessheim, then two connecting busses to KZ-Gedenkstsette (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial). Departures every 20 minutes.
With 6 adults, cost would be for one Group Day Ticket for 20.30 EUR (covers up to 5 people) and one Single Day Ticket for 11.50 EUR.
Zone 3-6 tickets.
Posted by
Chicago
576 posts
If you have lounge access, you may be able to store carry-on bags there, or use the
left luggage facilities in either terminal.
I would also recommend the S-Bahn to get at least to Oberschleissheim. It's not all
that far from there to the memorial and if you can get a taxi from there, you will reduce
traffic risk and save $.
A possible plan B to make use of the time if you can't get to Dachau is the aircraft branch
of the Deutsches Museum, which is walkable from the Oberschleissheim S-Bahn stop.
The Airbrau beergarden in Munich Airport is a nice place for beer + lunch if you want to
get back to the airport and still relax before your connecting flight
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19227 posts
You will need somewhere to store your carry on luggage at the airport
The OP says they have luggage checked through to Lubjliana. How much hand luggage does the OPs group have. I know that there are no lockers at the Memorial. Do they allow people to have backpacks in the Memorial? I don't know; the Memorial doesn't say. Does anyone know?
When I went to Dachau in 2011 (I think), I had finished staying in Poing, an eastern suburb of Munich, and I was going to Freising for the last night before flying home to the US. I stored my luggage at the Hbf, went to Dachau hands free, and stop at the Hbf afterward to get my bag before going to Freising.
If they can't get find a place at the airport, maybe they can get the taxi driver to stop at Dachau Bahnhof where there are over 300 lockers to store their any hand luggage.
But my concern is not so much the trip to Dachau from the airport as it is the trip back. Can they depend on a taxi driver to be there to take them back to the airport in time? If he messes up and doesn't pick them up in time, or gets caught in traffic, the consequences are not good.
I think that to get back to the airport, I would depend on public transportation (buses and S-Bahn). There is a bus leaving the Memorial at 2:46, going to the Dachau Bahnhof. It gets to Dachau Bahnhof at 2:57. You have 9 minutes, plenty of time to get up to the platform and catch the S2 into town at 3:09. It gets to the Laim station at 3:22. At Laim, you have a cross platform change to the S1 to the airport at 3:29. It gets to the airport at 4:08, just under 2 hours before your flight time.
If your flight is on time and you can find a taxi to get you to the Memorial before 11am, the tour takes 2½ hrs, so you should get out at 2:30, enough time to get out to the bus stop at 2:46.
But, personally, if I were doing this, I would just take the next S-Bahn into Marienplatz (about 40 minutes), visit Frauenkirche, watch the Klockenspiel, have lunch at the Hofbräuhaus, maybe visit the Munich city museum. Less travel time, more time to visit. One no stop trip back to the airport. Far less stress.
Posted by
Huntington Beach CA
1149 posts
Check out the website ToursbyLocals. You may be able to contact a guide for a private tour who will pick you up at the airport. Then you won’t have to worry about where to stash your carry ons because you will be picked up by a private vehicle. There’s also another website called Daytrip.com that may have something similar. It will be expensive but split between 6 people, it should be more manageable. Also try WelcomePickups.