Oktoberfest, Munich > Reviews

Advantages: too many to mention here!
Disadvantages: often overcrowded, but if you know how to escape it it's not that bad

...200 carnie businesses at the Oktoberfest, more than 80 of them fun rides. I will, however, only describe some of them as of course I couldn't give them all a try. Modern rides: Top Spin Fresh My favourite ride - it consists of a passenger platform that is suspended between two arms which are turned by motors so that the platform will rotate. If you don't want to get completely wet you should try to get a seat in the second row, as there you ... Read review

Advantages: Beer, Food, Fun Fairs, Beer
Disadvantages: Very very Crowded, Hard to get a seat

I'd always quite fancied a trip to Munich during September to experience the event known around the world as Oktoberfest. I'd pretty much ruled it out for this year what with moving house and was aiming to go next year till my Dad suggested I go with them this year. So on the 15th September we set off for Munich to visit the most famous and probably biggest beer festival in the world. From the moment you get on the plane you know it's going to be ... Read review

Advantages: Beer, beer, beer
Disadvantages: Very crowded, not cheap

...plan to go to the Oktoberfest, and come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons for not heading down to Munich – the train journey, the cost, the fact that it is almost impossible to get a seat inside a tent after 11am. And then I get a phone call from a couple of mates in England who tell me that they are booking a cheap flight to Frankfurt, and that I really ought to get cracking and organise a trip to the Oktoberfest. Yes, I really am that ... Read review

Advantages: Biggest beer event in the world, great social event, amazing, just go there
Disadvantages: getting a table thurs-sun is hard, prices of everything go up at this time of the year, too many people

Taking place in the second half of September and early Oktober, the Oktoberfest is world famous for thousands upon thousands of people getting legless in huge beer tents. The "fest" has been going on for well over 150 years and lasts for 2 and a half weeks, whereupon about 5 million litres of bier are drunk and it ain't half potent stuff! My trip there was in September 99 and is an experience that I'll never forget. We arrived on the last Thursday ... Read review

Advantages: Good Beer, Socializing
Disadvantages: Overcrowded on weekends

Hi Ciao Community, today I want to write a short essay about my 'recent' (2007) experience on the Oktoberfest ("Wiesn") in Munich, Germany. Unfortunately, I have forgotten a lot of that day since the beer they serve is fairly strong:-) But here's my view on the following key points: - Access to tents - Prices - Attractions 1) Access to tents Actually, and especially on a Saturday when I tried my luck, it is virtually impossible to enter ... Read review