Lodgings in Munich during Oktoberfest without spending an arm and a leg?

June 21, 2007 8:04 AM

My parents decided they want to visit Munich during the Oktoberfest. Every hotel or B&B near the town center seems to be booked or prohibitively expensive during this time. Can anybody recommend lodgings or other areas in which to look for lodgings that are not directly in the town center?

My American parents are going on a German Rhine cruise in Sept-Oct and they decided that when they are done they want to swing by Munich for a few days to check out the sights and possible swing by the Oktoberfest. Naturally, decent rooms near the town center are hard to find because almost everything is booked out a year in advance. Although I live in Germany, I am not familiar with Munich or the surrounding areas and neither are my German friends. Can anybody recommend..

• nice areas in which to look that are not in the town center but are still accessible by S-Bahn or a short taxi ride?
• Lodgings in said areas?

We will be 4 adults (girlfriend is coming with) and are looking for either 2 double rooms, a family suite or something similar in a B&B/Pension type of thing. My girlfriend and I would have no problem with a hostel but for my parents that might be too much.

Vielen Dank im Voraus!

posted by chillmost to travel & transportation (4 comments total)

Although I haven't been to these places directly, they look like nice typical german suburban towns and are located on the S1 line (which comes in from the airport and stops at the Hauptbahnhof and Marienplatz). You might try finding hotels associated with them: Neufarhn, Eching, Lohhof, Untershleissheim, Obershleissheim, Feldmoching (note, these are stop names and not necessarily town names). All of these are North-West of Munich.
posted by furtive at 9:24 AM on June 21, 2007

I went last year while living in Berlin. We parked the rental car at Garching on the U6 and stayed at a hotel right next to the train station. We booked our hotel the day-of and it was still only about 75 euro and a totally adequate room.
posted by atomly at 12:44 PM on June 21, 2007

Those are both great and obvious answers. I used Google Earth to look for the S-bahn lines leading out of Munich and turned on the option to view lodgings. I actually picked a nice place in Starnberg. Thanks.
posted by chillmost at 4:24 AM on June 25, 2007

Great, let us know how it works, I was in Munich last August and would like to go back for Oktoberfest some day.
posted by furtive at 9:05 PM on June 28, 2007