MUNICH SIGHTSEEING TOURS
The Bavarian Beer City by Bus, Foot, Bicycle
Munich
is hands down one of the best large cities in Europe for seeing the sights
on foot. Between the well organized public transportation
system of U-Bahn (Subway)
and S-Bahn (Street Tram) and the layout of the town center with many
major city sights and areas easily reachable by stroll. A week or two
in Munich is guaranteed to reduce a few pounds in spite of the beer,
pork and dumplings you’ll undoubtedly ingest at the traditional
beer halls restaurants. Wander around on your own with a good city map,
which will show the landmarks (see Marienplatz
Munich Walk).
Guided
walking tours of the 
city are available from the Munich Tourism Office
which is located
just south of the Viktualianmarkt on Sendlinger Str. 089 -23330-234.
Themed foot tours are also available from Munich
Walk Tours. The tours all meet at a specified start time under the
Glockenspiel (the famous one with the dancing figures) in Marienplatz.
No appointments
necessary. Themed walking tours offered include a basic
city walk covering the major sites, the Third Reich Tour (see Hitler
Walking Tours),
Dachau Memorial 
Tour including transportation to the Dachau Concentration
Camp (see Dachau
Holocaust Memorial),
a Beer and Brewery Tour (in the evening) and a tour of the Royal Palaces
(see Emperors
Residence and Crown Jewels). Check the Munich Walk Tours
website for start times and seasons. The same company Radius Tours also
provides themed tours
to
Dachau, Hitlers
and the Third Reich as well as tours to Neuschwanstein (see King
Ludwig II
Fantasy Castle) and to Salzburg. Radius tours meet at the
Hauptbahnhof main railway station. There will be other vendors hawking
tours around the Marienplatz central square. Check to see which one
it is and what they offer.
Munich Bicycles
Munich is also a great city to get around by bicycle. Radius Tours offers
bike tours as well as rentals across from Track 32 at the Hauptbahnhof. Mike’s
Bike Tours offers
a tour by bicycle which meets also at Marienplatz under the Town Hall
Tower, with
no reservations necessary. A Non-strenuous bicycle tour to Neuschwanstein
(no you don’t have to ride all the way there) starts at 8:45 May
to August from their Discover Bavaria shop on the corner of Hochbrucken
and Brauhaus Streets, around the corner from the famous Hofbrau house
a short walk from Marienplatz. You can simply rent bicycles for the day
or hour as well. They will have maps of various bike routes. The DB (Deutschebahn)
rail company also has a bicycle rental program - the DB
Call-a-Bike where you register and you can grab a DB bike on the
street where it’s
been left call in the number on your cell phone (you need one for this),
ride it where you need to go and leave it for someone else.
Munich and Bavaria Bus Sightseeing Tours
Grayline,
the well known bus tour company operates a number of bus tours around
Munich and Bavaria. Two standard Stadtrundfahrt bus routes (means
literally “travel around the town”). These are double-decker
on-off sightseeing busses. They originate across from the main train
station in front of the Hertie/Karstadt department store. The short route
which costs €13 for adult runs around the old city center and past
the Pinokotek Museums in Max Vorstadt. The long Grand Circle route at €18
also heads out through Schwabing to the BMW Museum and Olympia Park and
to the
Nymphenburg
Palace.
For seeing
the sights outside of Munich in Bavaria and elsewhere Grayline offers
a number of tour options to the Ludwig II castles (see Mad
Ludwig's Linderhof),
Berchtesgaden in the Obersalzburg Alps (see Hitler’s
Eagles Nest), the
Zugspitz, the Romantic Road, Innsbruck Austria and Salzburg. Grayline
has Soccer
football
tours
to the Allianz
Stadium and to the Bavaria Film Studio tour, but these can be reached
by public transport. For soccer fans other guided tours are offered by
the city tourism office and Stattreisen
Munich.
The
German bus company Deutsche
Touring offers
bus
tours along the Romantic Road to Rothenburg (see Romantic
Road City Rothenburg) and on to Frankfurt and Hamburg
or switch to the Castle Road route (See Germany's
Castle Road). Deutsche
Touring
tickets can be bought at the DB ticket windows at the train station,
or on the bus from the driver. It’s not a tour, but the easiest
way to get to the airport (see Stop-over
Munich International Airport)
is on the Lufthansa Airport Bus leaving every 20 minutes from the train
station direct to the terminals. Tours information can be gotten from
the Tourist offices at the train station, at the Rathaus town hall at
Marienplatz and the Schrannenhalle, a former brewery turned into a food
court just across from the Viktualien Market. © Bargain
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See Also:
MUNICH KING LUDWIG & BLUR RIDER TOURS
ENGLISCHER
GARTEN - MUNICH'S CENTRAL PARK
MUNICH'S
OKTOBERFEST - THE BIGGEST BEER PARTY
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
KING TUTANKAHAMUN TOMB AND TREAURES IN MUNICH
