- Best of Munich from Frommers
Random Observation/Comment #144: Oktoberfest is such a wonderful holiday. I’m glad the Germans don’t hide the fact that it’s devoted to alcohol. There’s no shyt about family time and gifts, or some religious story (or at least I don’t think so) – it’s just an entire month of celebration. I think every European country should choose a month of pure drinking, so Europe can be a continuously drunk mess – not that it isn’t already.
General Research:
- Currency: EUR = approx 1.29 USD (2/8/2009)
- Transportation
- Tram
- S-Bahn
- U-Bahn
- 10 EUR Gesamtnetz whole-network day pass since the four-zone journey from airport is 9.20 EUR – probably can use Eurail pass for this
- Main Attractions
- Museums, Galleries, Memorials
- Deutsches Museum – Haidhausen – hands-on science-y stuff
- Pinakothek de Moderne – paintings and modern art
- Statue of Bavaria – Theresienhöhe 16 (U4 or U5 toTheresienwiese), +49-89-290671
- National Bavarian Museum
- Lenbach House – expressionist art gallery
- BMW Museum – Must see
- Haus der Kunst – national socialist architecture
- Parks
- Englischer Garten – in Schwabing (funny name) – beer garden with naked chicks
- Riemer Park – for summer – U2 to Messestadt West
- Hirschgarten – Neuhausen – drinking among deer
- Tierpark Hellabrunn (Munich Zoo) in Thalkirchen
- Palaces and Castles
- Schloss Nymphenburg – in Neuhausen & Nymphenburg
- Residenz – in city center
- SchlossSchleißheim – S1-Bahn to Oberschleibheim
- Museums, Galleries, Memorials
- Shopping Areas
- Maximillianstrasse
- Hohenschwangau
- Marienplatz
- Viktualienmarkt
- Must Eats
- Weibwurst – breakfast sausage
- Schweinsbraten – roast pork
- Schweinshaxe – roast pig knuckle
- Leberkässemmeln – cheap sausage-y food
- Budget living
- Wombat’s Hostel – Senefelderstraße 1, Munich, 80336
- US Embassy
- Munich (NIV Issuing Post) U.S. Consulate General Koeniginstrasse 5 80539 Muenchen Munich, Federal Republic of Germany
- Telephone: (89) 23011
- Mailing Address: Unit 24718, APO AE 09108
- Emergency numbers
- 112 – medical aid and fire department
- 110 – police department
- U.S. Dept. of State Travel Advisory (tel. 202/647-5225, manned 24 hr.)
- U.S. Passport Agency (tel. 202/647-0518)
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control International Traveler’s Hot Line (tel. 404/332-4559)
- Tourist information center
- Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in the central area (tel. 089/97-50-00)
- Munich Tourist Office, Fremdenverkehrsamt, at the Hauptbahnhof, Bahnhofplatz 2 (tel. 089/2-33-03-00; www.muenchen-tourist.de)
Optimized Days:
- Day 1
- U-Bahn to Marienplatz
- Marienplatz in old town
- Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall)
- Peterskirche
- Church
- south of the Neues Rathaus
- Viktualienmarkt
- At rear of church
- Open-air market
- cut north from the market, heading along Dienerstrasse until you come to Residenzstrasse. Cut east along
- Maximilianstrasse
- “fifth ave of Munich”
- Alte Pinakothek
- Great museum really takes 4 hours – art gallery
- Rembrandt, Rubens, and Raphael
- Lunch
- Deutsches Museum
- Island in the Isar River
- Masterpieces in Science and Technology
- Englischer Garten
- Nudity!
- Beer gardens
- Hofbräuhaus am Platzl – night life
- Day 2
- U-Bahn Rotkreuzplatz
- Schloss Nymphenburg
- Lunch
- U-Bahn to Lethel
- Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
- Museum for Bavarian culture
- U-Bahn to Odeonsplatz
- Pinakothek der Moderne
- Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst (Gallery of Modern Art)
- Nightlife: Kulturzentrum Gasteig
- theaters
- Day 3 – south to Bavaria for castles
- Morning
- Neuschwanstein
- Afternoon
- Hohenschwangau
- Morning
- Day 4
- Biking tour – [http://www.mikesbiketours.com/]
- Day 5
- National Theatre-Opera House
- the Residence Museum
- Frauenkirche
- BWM Museum
Resources:
~See Lemons go to Munich
