Tours

Tours

For the cheapest sightseeing tour of the city center on wheels, board Streetcar 19 outside the Hauptbahnhof on Bahnhofplatz and make the 15-minute journey to Max Weber Platz. Explore the streets around the square, part of the old bohemian residential area of Haidhausen (with some of the city's best bars and restaurants, many on the village-like Kirchenstrasse), and then return by a different route on Streetcar 18 to Karlsplatz.

A novel way of seeing the city is to hop on one of the bike-rickshaws. The bike-powered two-seater cabs operate between Marienplatz and the Chinesischer Turm in the Englischer Garten. Just hail one; the cost is EUR 37 per hour.

The tourist office offers individual guided tours for fees ranging between EUR 100 and EUR 250. Bookings must be made at least 10 days in advance. Taxi tours with specially trained drivers are offered by IsarFunk Taxizentrale GmbH. These are a good alternative for groups of up to four people. Cost is EUR 68 per trip for the first hour and EUR 18 for each subsequent half hour.

Bus Tours

Panorama Tours also has one-hour tours of Munich highlights that depart every 20 minutes and cost EUR 13. Other options include a trip to Bavaria Film Studios, Munich by Night, and an FC Bayern Munich soccer team tour.

Yellow Cab Stadtrundfahrten has a fleet of yellow double-decker buses, in which tours are offered simultaneously in eight languages. They leave hourly between 10 AM and 4 PM from the front of the Elisenhof shopping complex on Bahnhofplatz. Tours cost EUR 9.

Walking Tours

Two-hour tours of the Old City center are given daily in summer (March-October) and on Friday and Saturday in winter (November-February). Tours organized by the visitor center start at 10:30 and 1 in the center of Marienplatz. The cost is EUR 8. The theme walks of Radius Tours & Bikes include Munich highlights, Third Reich Munich, Jewish Munich, and the Dachau concentration camp. The cost is EUR 10 (EUR 19 for the Dachau tour). Tours depart daily from the Hauptbahnhof, outside the EurAide office by Track 11, and also meet 15 minutes later at the New Town Hall's glockenspiel on Marienplatz.

Visitor Information

The Hauptbahnhof tourist office is open Monday-Saturday 9-8 (in winter 10-6) and Sunday 10-6; the Info-Service in the Rathaus is open weekdays 10-8 and Saturday 10-4.

For information on the Bavarian mountain region south of Munich, contact the Tourismusverband München-Oberbayern.

Essentials

Airport Information

Flughafen München (089/97500. www.munich-airport.de).

Bus Information

Touring Eurolines (Administrative offices, Hirtenstr. 14, Leopoldvorstadt. 089/8898-9513. www.touring.de).

Taxi Information

Taxi (089/21610 or 089/19410).

Tour Information

IsarFunk Taxizentrale GmbH (089/450-540). Munich Tourist Office (089/2333-0234). Radius Tours & Bikes (089/5502-9374. www.radiusmunich.com). Sightseeing Tours (Schützenstr. 9, Leopoldvorstadt. 089/5490-7560).

Visitor Information

Hauptbahnhof (Bahnhofpl. 2, Leopoldvorstadt. www.munich-tourist.de). Info-Service (Marienpl., City Center. 089/2332-8242). Tourismusverband München-Oberbayern (Upper Bavarian Regional Tourist Office, Radolfzeller 15, Pasing, D-81243. 089/829-2180).